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Kente Straw Weavings
Fourth graders explore world culture by creating an arts and crafts project in class. In this weaving instructional activity, 4th graders identify the Kente culture and their uses for straw and other natural elements in their...
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Camels and Pyramids
Students examine and create artwork. In this visual arts lesson plan, students examine the motif present in "Camels and Pyramids." Students design their own motifs that they incorporate into a painted and stenciled piece.
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Tin Relief
Students create a sun tin relief sculpture. In this Mexican art lesson, students incorporate line and form into a relief sculpture that they create of the sun.
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If These Walls Could Talk
Young scholars explore Enlightenment and Neoclassical art. In this visual arts instructional activity, students compare and contrast images of architecture from both styles. Young scholars create visual art designs that feature the...
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Palette Knife Painting Inspired by the Works of Brian Rutenburg
Students explore the works of Brian Rutenburg. For this art lesson, students create a work of art using acrylic paint and palette knives inspired by the works of Rutenburg. Students write about their artwork.
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If These Walls Could Talk
Students investigate the influence of the Enlightenment on American society and government. For this Enlightenment lesson, students work cooperatively in groups to define the principles of the Enlightenment, American democracy, and...
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My Pet Rock
Students learn about and create a pet rock. In this creative expression lesson plan, students pick a rock to make into their "pet". Students use various art materials to create their pets and write a personal profile which includes...
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Mondrian: Rectangles, Squares, & Balance, Oh My!
Students discover through guided, online research the life and works of Piet Mondrian in this technology-based Art lesson for the 2nd and 3rd grades. Emphasis is placed on the student creation of "Mondrian"-like drawings using Appleworks 6.
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Elements of Design
Students define basic design vocabulary. They examine fabrics and sort into similar piles, design a picture of a beautiful room and label each art element in the design. They read an article from an interior design magazine and summarize...
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Multisensory Sight-word Strategies
Learners engage in a instructional activity that uses sight word strategies in order to increase reading comprehension. The skills are applicable to rote skill, math facts, formulas, etc... The instructional activity includes sample...
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Value Study Marker -- Using Chuck Close as a Catalyst
Sixth graders examine the work of artist Chuck Close. They create their own image using markers that show a range of values. They develop a grid to replicate those values.
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Value Study Pencil -- Using Chuck Close as a Catalyst
Seventh graders examine the life of artist Chuck Close. They use markers to create an image to show a range of values. They develop a grid to represent these values.
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Line: a Geometric Exercise
Students study the different types of lines and create a drawing demonstrating what they learned.
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Backyard Blitz
Young scholars create a landscape design using shapes, colors and textures. A key is created with hyperlinks to information reports pertaining to the plants, trees and shrubs used in the design. Explore design principal utilizing a...
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Pocket Full of Posies: Ceramics
After studying the plant or flower life cycle, have the class create a basket of flowers out of clay. They hone their ceramics skills while they push, pull, then paint clay to look like flowers they've seen in nature. There are several...
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American Residential Architecture
The young scholars are introduced to the architecture of the metropolitan Richmond, Va. area. We look at and discuss quoins, architraves, fan lights, and many other aspects of architecture and their origins. The students design a house...
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Sea Turtles Underwater
Students discuss different types of sea turtles. They talk a about the characteristics of sea turtle anatomy. Students pretend to look over the edge of a boat in the ocean. They pretend to see a sea turtle. Students create their artwork...
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Clay Magic Pots
Fifth graders create clay artwork that resembles African and Egyptian monolithic sculptures. For this visual arts lesson, 5th graders are shown examples of monolithic and figural sculpture from Egyptian and African cultures, then they...
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Paper Sculpture Headdress
Learners examine African masks and headdresses, and create their own.
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Jose Posada - Calaveras Drawings - Line
Students examine and discuss work of Mexican printmaker Jose Posada, and create drawings in the style of Posada that use current subject matter and symbols.
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Poster Design For Peace
Students examine the elements and principles of design. They design and create posters to promote world peace.
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See What I Hear
Middle schoolers investigate the link between music and visual art by applying principles of design to convey the emotions/expressions in different types of music.
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Artsy Insects
Students identify and describe the elements of art and principles of design by creating several different butterfly pictures that represent color, shape, texture, pattern or symmetry.