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Smithsonian Institution

Latino Expression

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
How much of your daily life is influenced by Latin American music? Take a listen—the answer may surprise you! High schoolers keep a journal to note any instances they see Latino culture represented, including the media, their school, and...
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North Carolina Consortium for Middle East Studies

Missing Pieces of the Puzzle: African Americans in Revolutionary Times

For Students 5th - 11th
What's missing from most studies of the American Revolutionary War is information about the role African Americans played in the conflict. To correct this oversight, middle schoolers research groups like the Black Loyalists and ...
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Curated OER

Pros and Cons: A Childcare Debate

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students research prevailing attitudes and Rousseau's position on child rearing in the 18th century. They consider attitudes toward motherhood and childcare in our own culture through interviews with peers and family members.
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Curated OER

Back-in-Time Travel Brochure

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Create Ancient Egypt travel brochures. Research the culture of Egypt through the Internet and create an artistic travel brochure of the civilization. The final product is published for dispersal.
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Curated OER

Behind Closed Doors

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore different types of doors from an artistic point of view. In this creative thinking lesson, students look at different types of architectural doors and doorways and analyze them. They create a project of a door as a...
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Curated OER

Israel

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
The class creates and performs a movement performance of the creation story found in the Jewish tradition. This lesson begins with the research of Israeli culture and culminates in a performance of the narrated creation story....
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Curated OER

Class Experience: African Masks

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students discover the many diverse artwork produced in Africa while focusing upon masks created in tribal groups. They conduct research using a variety of resources and then use the information as samples for inspiration to create their...
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Curated OER

Visual Arts - Mexican Indian Yarn Painting

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Have you ever seen a Mexican yarn painting? They're beautiful! Create a Mexican yarn painting with your class using this lesson. Start by discussing Mexico's culture and viewing different yarn paintings. After reading about important...
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Curated OER

THE OCCUPATION OF KOREA BY JAPANESE IMPERIALIST FORCES

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students read and respond to a history of Korea. For this occupation lesson, students work in groups to research the effects of Japanese occupation and create an illustrated timeline. Students listen to a lecture and write an acrostic....
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J. Paul Getty Trust

Shaping Ideas: Symbolism in Sculpture—Lesson 2

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Young artists create a series of sketches of ideas for a sculpture, and using the criteria develop in the previous class, critique their sketches. They then choose one of their ideas and create their work of art.
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Endangered Species Coalition

Endangered Species Day Art

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Albrecht Durer created a highly textured stamp or print of a rhinoceros. To better understand which animals are near extinction, upper graders create similar prints of endangered animals they've researched. The six-day lesson includes...
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Curated OER

A Leopard Doesn’t Change Its Spots

For Teachers K - 5th
First, introduce rank badges, which were used during the Qing Dynasty. Then, the class will work together to uncover the meaning of the images they see. They'll examine and research the meaning behind the symbols found on Leopard Rank...
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NOAA

Ocean Exploration

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Sea explorers and scientists have found that because of temperatures being two to three degrees Celsius at the bottom of the ocean, most animals are lethargic in order to conserve energy. In this web quest, pairs of learners read about...
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Curated OER

Impressionist PowerPoint

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Young scholars research an artist's life and create an artistic, attractive, organized PowerPoint presentation about him/her.
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Curated OER

Art, Art, Everywhere

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners create a PowerPoint presentation documenting the art of a chosen artist. After a brief presentation by the instructor, students use the internet to research and document the works and life of their chosen artist. They...
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Curated OER

Art Mystery

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars explore famous artists in order to write mystery stories incorporating their life and works. They write their own based on their research of a particular artist.
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Curated OER

Integrating Web Sites in the Advance Placement Studio Art Classroom

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders use the internet web sites, museum sites and libraries to research her/his favorite artist?s styles, techiniques and subject matter. Students go to different web sites, find and read about their favorite artist and brind...
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Curated OER

India: Where Remarkable Differences Are Ordinary

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students research India and Indian culture. In this Indian research lesson plan, students research and report on the lives of Indian children. The report will be in the form of a mock interview between a journalist and an Indian child....
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Curated OER

Rock Art Around the World

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze rock art. In this rock art lesson, students research cultures that created rock art, analyze their art pieces, and compose essays regarding their findings.
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Curated OER

Art History in a Bottle

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students study Haitian bottle art. They research a famous artist and create painted bottles that depict a specific work of that artist.
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Curated OER

History Close to Home: Creating Your Own Special Museum

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students create their own museum exhibit. In this museum creation lesson plan, students research their local history so they can decide on a theme for their exhibit and what objects they will use in order to design a museum exhibit. A...
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Curated OER

Painted Balsa-Foam Butterfly

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students research a butterfly and create butterfly art. For this visual arts lesson, students choose a specific butterfly to research and create a Balsa-Foam butterfly of the same species. Students use Balsa-Foam, modeling tools, and...
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Curated OER

Money Pit

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders make a list of aspects of our culture found on a penny, and then observe another object based on another culture. In this culture lesson plan, 6th graders take their new object and research that culture.
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Curated OER

Lesson #23: Ceramic Self-Portrait as a Famous Artist

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students sculpt a bust out of clay using naturalistic features.  In this sculpture instructional activity, students use themselves or classmates as models to ensure correct form and proportion of a hollow bust.  This...

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