Curated OER
Indiana Travel Guide
Fourth graders create a travel guide about the state of Indiana with 100% accuracy. They label the capital within the travel guide with 100% accuracy. Students label one major river in the right location with 100% accuracy. They circle...
Curated OER
Exploring Restoration Techniques
Young scholars, after taking a field trip to a museum, use paint to try to restore old objects.
Curated OER
Japanese Objects as Cultural Artifacts: A Model Lesson Using Textiles
Students complete a unit on the cultural significance of textiles in the Japanese culturre. They analyze cotton, line, silk, and wool fabrics, examine various fabric creation and decoration techniques, select an object and write a...
Curated OER
Create a World
Students combine imaginative powers with known map-making techniques to create a whole new world.
Curated OER
Teeshirt Printing
Students become responsible and involved citizens. In this t-shirt printing lesson students design and create a teeshirt with a message about citizenship and responsibility. Natural objects are used as stamps.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Not Everyone Lived in Castles During the Middle Ages
Forget the romantic view of the Middle Ages. What was it really like? Lesson plan focuses on exploring the lives of the peasants, craftsmen, and monks. Hyperlinks lead to great illustrations.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Medieval Art: A Resource for Educators
Find resources highlighting medieval art in the Museum's collection from Western Europe and Byzantium. This also provides strategies for teaching art of the Middle Ages.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 4: The Whipping Boy
This unit explores the history of the Middle Ages through the fictional tale of two unlikely friends, Price Brat and his whipping boy. The Middle Ages was defined by a strict class system in government and economy. The novel explores the...
Other
Dick Blick Art Materials Castles Lesson Plan
This illustrated lesson plan could easily fit into social studies or art unit on European castles. Students create a pop-up castle with construction paper and other art materials.
Library of Congress
Loc: Teachers: America at the Centennial
A lesson plan requiring student to analyze primary documents from the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876. Students interpret what these historical artifacts say "about the lives and values of Americans in 1876" among other things.
Incredible Art Department
Incredible Art: Eric Carle Collage
This lesson plan encourages children to use painted paper to make a collage using the style of Eric Carle as inspiration.
Goshen College
Goshen College: Clay Sculpture: Gargoyles
This resource provides an artistic lesson plan dealing with ceramics, sculpture, and gargoyles.