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What's Below the Earth's Surface?

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students identify the geological layers of the Earth. They graphically depict each layer's characteristics. Students label and develop a color key for their exhibit. They create a down-to-Earth 3-D display with Erasable Markers.
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Cracking the Mirror of the Past

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Young scholars compare and contrast two pieces of artwork in regards to their nastalgic elements. Using the internet, they research local religious institutions in their area and note their function in society. They also compare and...
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Modern Mosaics (Grades 9-12)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore the elements of contrast, emphasis, pattern, and color schemes by identifying how the artist manipulated tesserae in the mosaic. They create original mosaics by manipulating torn paper to depict different textures...
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Imaginative Power - Exploring Superheroes

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders identify super human powers and their uses found in comic and cartoon characters, identify use of visual elements such as line, shape, and color, and create drawings of an original super character with at least two extra...
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Christmas Coloring Activity

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this coloring worksheet, students draw and color ornaments on a Christmas tree: 3 red, blue, and purple and 1 star. Worksheet references a web site for additional activities.
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Arts have Emotional Impact

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Young scholars explore how various artists use color, line and composition to create a mood. In comparison, students explore various elements of specific art forms that affect the viewer's emotions in dance, theater music and the...
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The Color of Money

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the success of members of racial and ethnic minorities in the business world through discussing a related New York Times article. They interview successful people in various professions who would be considered minority.
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Borders, Bindings, & Edges: The Art of Finishing Your Quilt

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Learners explore a variety of methods used to finish quilts. They explore selection, planning, and the design process, color, proportion and scale when finishing a quilt. Students create corner triangle borders, narrow borders, pieced...
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Blurry to Sharp Art

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore shading different levels of tone and value using Painter 7 or Painter Classic. Students blur a selected, scanned image twice and draw the blurriest image using shades of gray and black. They draw the other blurred image...
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Tone Color

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders recognize instruments by name and put them in to families as well as start to develop an ear for hearing individual instruments. They react and interact with the different games played during the class. They raise their...
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Rooster's Night Out

For Teachers K
Mitch Weiss and Martha Hamilton's Rooster's Night Out, a retelling of a classic Cuba folktale, launches a cross-curricular study of Cuban cultural traditions. Class members draw the characters from the book, participate in math and...
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Discovering Fall

For Teachers K - 5th
Young scholars explore the American landscape during fall. After viewing paintings of fall, learners imagine themselves there and what it would be like. They then build an understanding of the painter's use of detail and color...
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Holiday Paper Projects for Kids

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
No matter what time of year it is, there's a holiday craft to make! Kindergartners construct several holiday craft projects in a series of holiday art lesson. They complete several paper projects such as 4th of July flags,...
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See What I Hear

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students 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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Crossing the Delaware River Coloring Sheet

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this Crossing the Delaware coloring worksheet, students read a passage about the crossing, then color a picture of the scene.
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Visual Art: Primary Colors

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify primary colors and consider their use in works by Henri Mattise and Mary Cassatt. They conduct an experiment with food coloring and then draw a color tree differentiating between warm and cool colors.
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Who Invented Crayons?

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Pupils use a specified website to study the history of Crayola crayons. In groups, they discover who invented the colors, their cost, and who thought of the name. Students create a timeline of Crayola colors and choose one project from...
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Santa Countdown Calendar

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Learners draw Santa's face on white paper, add color construction paper for his hat, and use the beard section for a "countdown calender" until the end of the month in this creative December activity. Each day another cotton ball is...
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Word Recognition: X, Y, Z

For Teachers K - 2nd
In this letter X, Y, Z activity worksheet, students examine 12 pictures of various objects and identify the pictures of the items that begin with the letters. A word bank is provided.
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I Dig Your Art, Man (or Woman)

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders write a thesis regarding a modern artist of their choice for a 15-20 multi-media presentation. For this lesson students create a Power Point, video, or some other visual representation studying an artist or modern...
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A.T.C. (Artist Trading Cards)

For Teachers K - 12th
Trade 'em, flip 'em, save 'em. Yes, it's trading cards! Kids design their own artist trading cards, complete with images and stats.
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An Electronic Self-Portrait Lesson Plan - A Unit for Middle School

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Using a photo of themselves for inspiration, learners create a multi-media self-portrait. A digital image of each child is taken, it is uploaded into the computer where is can be experimented with in a digital format. Young artists then...
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Peace Windows

For Teachers K - 12th
Peace, love, tolerance, faith. Marc Chagall's Peace Window in the United Nations World Headquarters serves as a model for young artists as they create their own peace-themed transparent paintings. A great activity for both SPED and...
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Learning from the past: Ancient Mosaics

For Teachers 10th
Budding artists study the history and significance behind ancient mosaics and mosaic murals. They study multiple examples of ancient mosaics, sketch a design, and use clay tiles to create thoughtful mosaics of their own. 

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