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Arcimboldo Style Self Portraits

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers view and discuss Renaissance art, including the work of Arcimboldo. They create their own self portraits through imagery and symbolism in the Arcimboldo style.
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CD-ROManticism and Computer Classicism

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students assess the many benefits and drawbacks of reproducing works of art, such as sculpture and paintings, on CD-ROMs and on the Internet, as well as explore art history via these computer technologies.
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Expressive Self Portrait Montage

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students create self portraits similar to the Andy Warhol Marilyn Monroe portraits using digital images.
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Spring Art Activities

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students complete a variety of art projects to celebrate the arrival of spring. They create symmetrical butterfly designs, paper mache eggs, and caterpillars, and complete a crayon resist and marble painting.
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Eric Clapton Crossroads Guitar Festival Chicago - Chicago Blues

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Watching Great Performances’ Eric Clapton Crossroads Guitar Festival Chicago launches an investigation into and discussion of how the electric guitar and guitarists have changed the sound of the blues over time. An engaging way to...
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Bicentennial Mural

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students create a permanent artwork in celebration of Worthington's and Ohio"s Bicentennials. The 7th and 8th grade art students and staff get to work on this special and unique project. Each student chooses a person, event or symbol...
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Pop Up Fables

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners read a fable and create a pop-up book of the fable. Students add the moral of the story to the back of the book.
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Wide Mouthed Frog Memory or Wide Mouthed Frog Sight Word Game

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd Standards
How appropriate is playing a game of memory to help children memorize their sight words! Offering fun frog-themed flash cards and instructions for playing two different sight word games, this would make a great addition to the resource...
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Author Study: Cynthia Rylant

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Explore the life's work of one of the great children's authors using this ten-lesson author study unit. After first performing some whole-group research into the life of Cynthia Rylant, the class goes on to read six different stories,...
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Jan Brett Author Study

For Teachers K - 3rd Standards
Expose young children to the wonderful works of author and illustrator Jan Brett using a few of her stories such as Armadillo Rodeo, The Mitten, or Daisy Comes Home through a unit study. 
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The Jungle Book

For Students 2nd - 6th Standards
Accompany a viewing of Disney's live-action feature film, The Jungle Book, with a packet equipped with several activities focused on story elements. Scholars discuss and complete diagrams and charts about the movie's characters, setting,...
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Popcorn PPPPopping P

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students are introduced to the most popular phonemes to help them with their reading. As a class, they listen to popcorn popping and identify the sound being heard. They practice saying different tongue twisters and drawing the letters...
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Little Pig, Little Pig

For Teachers 1st
First graders compare versions of the Three Little Pigs.  In this comparison lesson, 1st graders read several version of the Three Little Pigs and compare the situations, characters, settings, solutions, emotions and costumes.  Students...
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Once Upon a Genre

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine fractured fairy tales before responding by writing in many different genres including a persuasive essay, a personal narrative, a letter, an advertisement, and a resume'. They create a pop-up book with their written...
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Getting Inside The Outsiders Through Music

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students listen to popular music of the 50's and 60's to make literature connections to The Outsiders. In this popular culture lesson plan, students evaluate and analyze various songs and connect them with the themes in the literature...
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Popcorn Action

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students divide one side of paper into three columns: 1) What I see 2) What I smell 3) What I hear. On the other side, have them write two columns: 4) What I feel 5) What I taste. They fill in #1, 2,3 as the teacher pops popcorn.
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Off the Record

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Music reflects culture and culture is reflected in popular music. Reading an article on how hip-hop has affected the lives of two young men of different races launches an investigation of the development and influences of various musical...
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Rhyming Words A

For Students K - 1st
In this Language Arts worksheet, students write three words that rhyme with ten different words. The ten words include cat, pop, and sing.
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American Music Styles - Lesson 1

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners describe some of the distinguishing characteristics of rock, folk, blues, and country music. They identify two main musical roots of today's American popular music.
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Allen Ginsberg: Poetry and Politics

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the poetry of Allen Ginsberg. They read and analyze poems by Allen Ginsberg, conduct Internet research, collect examples of art of the 60s, and create a presentation.
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Virtual Figure Sculptures

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students identify visual arts by identifying famous artwork on-line. In this sculpture lesson, students utilize the web to research popular sculptors and to see a video interview with Keith Haring. Students utilize paper, cardboard,...
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Angling Your Way Through a Picture

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students look at the geometry in an artwork. In this art history/geometry instructional activity, students research the artist Charles Sheeler and look at his painting Stacks in Celebration. They find the different types of lines,...
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Pop, Pop, Popcorn

For Teachers K - 1st
Students examine the sound of the letter "P,p" and how to write it using a tongue twister. They examine how their mouths move when the make the letter sound before writing it on primary paper. While listening to a read aloud of William...
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Pop Pop And Grandpa

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students develop various skills needed to perform the best examples of reading comprehension for the purpose increasing literacy. They make cognitive connections to the sequence of events in the story and make comparisons as events occur.

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