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Printmaking - Multi-plate Relief Prints

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create a print using multiple blocks, utilize elements and principles of design in creating a strong design, and demonstrate skill in carving the block and registration of colors. They show appreciation and awareness of the work...
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Symmetrical Geometry Paintings

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Here is a clever, cross-curricular lesson that combines art and geometry. Learners design a painting that uses geometrical shapes and is symmetrical. Sponge-shaped geometrical figures are used to design half a page and fold them to...
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Patterns Can Be Fun!

For Students K - 1st
In this shape patterns worksheet, learners study the patterns of shape and draw the shapes that finish the pattern. Students use a red or blue crayon to make a color pattern and explain how they knew what shape came next in the pattern.
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Max's Math Adventures

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In these shape activity worksheets, learners read the poem about shapes and then draw and write about one of the zoo animals from the zoo. Students use the given shapes to put their animal together. Learners add hair, eye color, and...
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Road Trip: Line, Pattern, and Movement

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students examine and explore various line, color, and movement elements in artwork. They view and discuss examples of abstract artwork, and create their own original abstract design that tells the story of a road trip.
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Where is Triangle?

For Teachers K
Students listen to songs to discover different shapes. They tape the shapes to their fingers and when they sing about that shape they are to show the shapes to each other.
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The Function Box

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students look around classroom and identify any patterns they see, describe patterns and explain why they are patterns, use pencil to demonstrate arithmetic patterns by tapping, practice predicting patterns by using Function Box, and...
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Teaching in the Shared Way of Ghandi and Montessori

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
In this differentiated lesson, pupils incorporate different subjects using the Ghandi and Montessori methods instead of the traditional method used in regular schools. In math they investigate shapes, colors and sizes. In writing they...
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Mapping the Unknown

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explain how early maps of the ocean bottom were made. They describe and execute a method for producing a low-resolution map of a surface that cannot be seen or touched. Students analyze the data from a mapping activity and...
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Timelines

For Teachers 1st
First graders examine what a timeline is and how it shows a sequence of events. They look at a timeline of the teacher's life before they design a timeline of their own based on major events in their lives. Finally, they right one event...
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Sorting and Classifying Concrete Objects by Varying Attributes

For Teachers 1st
First graders examine how to sort concrete objects by their attributes. In this sorting lesson, 1st graders listen to Gray Rabbit's Odd One Out by Alan Baker, and discuss the actions of the main character. They practice sorting objects...
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Pent-up Pentominoes

For Teachers 1st
Students explore pentominoes in this activity. They build shapes as directed and color the tiles on their grid sheet.
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Bubbles

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners observe the characteristics of bubbles. In this scientific inquiry lesson, students use a bubble solution and a wand to make bubbles and observe their characteristics. Learners identify the shape and the color of the bubbles.
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Autumn Word Leave- Templates and Word Leaves

For Students K - 2nd
For this autumn word vocabulary worksheet, learners work with autumn word templates and word leaves. They write their own words on six different shaped leaves. They work with word leaves, color vocabulary word leaves, grade one and two...
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Genetics with a Smile

For Students 8th - 10th
In this genetics worksheet, students are given two coins that they mark with a "F" and a "M" to represent parents. They flip the coins to determine the genotype and phenotype of the offspring for twelve traits. They also use the coin to...
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Create an Illuminated Alphabet Word Book

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars create a class alphabet book. In this letter recognition lesson, students use line and color to draw an object whose name begins with a specific letter. Young scholars use adjectives to create a sentence describing the...
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Bacteria and their viruses

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers listen and take lecture notes. They quietly watch a video on the bacteria and their viruses while taking notes on the video. They make 2 color drawings on blank paper, one showing a lytic virus and one showing a lysogenic...
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Toco Toucan - Oil Pastels

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students create a picture of a toucan from the continent of South America using a pencil, marker, and oil pastels. Students identify the continent of South America and discuss the Toco Toucan. They follow teacher directions to create...
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Geometrically Artistic/Artistically Geomtric

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Students identify the two-dimensional geometric shapes Lowrey utilized in the painting Untitled. Students compare the two-dimensional shapes in terms of equivalent fractions, congruency, symmetry and asymmetry. Students create their own...
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Beginning Fractions Equal Parts

For Students K - 2nd Standards
After looking at four examples of shapes divided into two exactly equal parts, junior geometers try their hand. One valuable thing about this worksheet is that the shapes are not only the standard circle, square, and triangle, but also...
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Butterfly Adventure

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students in second grade are paired with fifth grade computer research buddies. They observe the characteristics of caterpillars, and identify the four stages of the caterpillar to butterfly life cycle. They graph the number of...
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Bikini Bottom – Dihybrid Practice

For Students 9th - 10th
In this biology activity, students use the chart to identify the genotypes of each of the traits listed related to Sponge Bob. Then they identify the genotypes of each of the family members as given. Students also complete the Punnett...
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Maple Syrup

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore maple syrup. In this natural resources lesson, students identify a maple tree in their neighborhood and observe the sap. Students sample maple products and create a graph of the taste-testing results.
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Design Engineer Problem

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students design a flower-pot and saucer. For this math lesson, students incorporate the use of technology to correctly build and shape a flower pot. They calculate the necessary mass of the red clay used to make the pot.