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Constructing a Wardrobe
Sixth graders compare and contrast storage spaces of the past and present. They examine how furniture tells us how people lived, and work in pairs to design and construct a contemporary wardrobe that fits their personal needs.
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Personal Body Types
High schoolers are introduced to the four main body types.  Individually, they label their own body type and disover which styles would be most flattering to their figure.  To end the lesson, they design an outfit for themselves and...
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Relief Sculpture in Two Parts
Students discuss relief sculptures and examine many examples of Roman urns with relief sculptures. They consider the information these urns give us about Roman culture and then use drywall to design and create their own relief sculpture...
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Assessing the Labour Behind the Label
Twelfth graders examine the labor conditions in different companies and corporations.  In groups, they use the internet to locate the conditions of the companies of the clothes they are wearing.  They share their information with the...
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Upcycled Garment or Art Work
High schoolers explain the importance of recycling waste products. In this art lesson, students research different upcycled fashion designs and accessories. They design their own product and present it in class.
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Performance Standards/Competencies
Learners research how children dressed during Colonial times. Students design and create life-sized likenesses of themselves, dressing the paper dolls in colonial dress.
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Garden Guard
Students design and create scarecrows. They write descriptively about the scarecrow for a classroom scarecrow show.
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Yin Yang
Learners  apply yin and yang characteristics in sketches of clothing.  They observe a PowerPoint presentation, discuss the characteristics of yin and yang and then apply their knowledge of the content to fashion sketches.  They rate...
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Accessories
Learners are introduced to the types of accessories available in fashion. In groups, they are given a piece of clothing and are to accessorize it properly.  As a class, they use this same reasoning and apply it to an interior room.  To...
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Many Chairs, One Table
Students examine artwork and sculpture by Keith Haring. They decorate a chair with their own symbols and designs.
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Flight Home Lesson Plan 3
Students examine photographs of twentieth-century aircraft from the National Air and Space Museum. They compare aircraft wings, fuselages, and engines to investigate different approaches to aircraft design.
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Create Your Own Family Crest
Learners develop a design for their own family crest. Students make a large model crest for their family.
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Visual Arts Lesson -Wardrobe
Students define the term neoclassism and locate examples of it in furniture design. They research and explain the role of the wardrobe in viceregal Mexico. Pupils compare and contrast the use of wardrobes as storage in the earlier...
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Measuring Up!
Students practice measuring the human body for the proper fit of clothing.  After watching a demo, they measure their partner making sure to double check their measurements.  They make the piece of clothing for their partner altering the...
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A Catering Idea
Students plan meals, create a shopping list, determine the cost of the meal, including incidentals such as labor and electricity used. In addition, they consider the cost of plates, table cloths, napkins, etc. Students prepare a meal and...
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Solving Problems with Decimal Notation
For this math worksheet, students find the solutions to the word problems that use the decimal notation with the designated operations.
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Picture This: Telling Our Tales with Self-Portraits
Students view a number of self portraits to determine the importance of pose, setting, clothing, and props in a piece of artwork. They design a self-portrait emphasizing the use of contour lines.
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Wheel & Axle Tractor
Students design and build a tractor using LEGO materials. They write and draw their designs.
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Cracking Catlins's Code
Students create a chart comparing visual clues with artistic meaning. This lesson plan is designed to introduce students to the ways in which consistent patterns of gesture and pose chosen by an artist (specifically George Catlin)...
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Our Kindergarten Classmates
Students design pictures of themselves and type their names on the pictures using the "Moopies" portion of the Kid Pix Deluxe program. They publish their pictures and create a bulleting board display.
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Houses and the People They Shelter
Students examine different homes and shelters across cultures and time periods. In this Houses and the People They Shelter lesson, students draw conclusions about society and culture according to the features of their dwellings. Students...
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Understanding Fair Trade: Fair Trade Mural
Students discuss murals painted by Diego Rivera and other political muralists and work in a small group to create a mural showing the benefit of Fair Trade relationships to chocolate farmers. Students decide what they want to...
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Funky Food Farm
Students research about ways to keep food from spoiling. In this health science lesson, students design an experiment to keep the ice cubes from melting. They present their designs and results in class.
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Exploring Nations
Students, in groups, research countries in East and Southeast Asia. The group designs an oral presentation and PowerPoint slideshow to showcase research on landforms, political and economic issues, global interaction and special-purpose...