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Haring Mural
Students create a class mural emphasizing color and lines. For this mural lesson plan, students first study the work of Keith Haring before they create their mural.
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Serial Dilution of CuSO4 and Changing the Value of Paint
Learners relate solution concentration and saturation to color and compare methods of changing value and color intensity with paint solutions.
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Apple Seeds
In this coloring math worksheet, students color around the edge of the apple and then use a black crayon to make the correct number of apple sees inside each apple.
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Chicken Feed Maze
In this sequence instructional activity, students draw a continuous line , helping the chick find the feed, from the top to the bottom avoiding obstacles that lead to dead ends completing the maze.
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The Cotillion or One Good Bull is Half the Herd, a Black Arts Movement novel by John O. Killens
Students study late twentieth-century African American satirical literature as well as its cultural antecedents. they analyze and discuss, within the contexts of race and gender, the social criticism of the middle classes presented by...
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We Are All Different in Many Ways!
Students discuss differences such as skin color, eye color, hair color, emotions, families, etc., to reinforce that it is okay to be different.
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Haring All Over
Students view a web site showing various artworks by Keith Haring. They discuss pattern and design through line and color. Then they create an original artwork using color, shape, line, and pattern.
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Value and Intensity Painting
Students create different values and intensities of color. They choose a hue and paint the complementary color circle. They create a tint and a shade from the original hue. They complete the Gradations of Intensity worksheet to...
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Figure Drawing
Second graders participate in a demonstration where the teacher chooses a student and uses the student in a figure drawing. They study the repetition of a color throughout the picture and how the color repetition makes the eye follow...
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A Little Kandinsky For All
Students create abstract compositions based on the later works of Wassily Kandinsky using the primary colors in this early elementary Art lesson. The lesson emphasizes the use of color, lines, and shapes to create the abstract works of...
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We Are All Different in Many Ways!
Students draw a picture with only one color crayon. As a class, they discuss how the world would be different if there were only one color crayon to use. After being read a book, they discuss how each person is important even though...
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Shoe Glyph
In this shoe glyph activity, learners color the shoe according to individual responses to the directions. This would also be a good following directions exercise.
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Andy Warhol Animals
Learners view and identify the colors on the color wheel. After viewing a PowerPoint, they discuss the reasons why animals become endangered. They examine the life and works of Andy Warhol and review contour drawing. To end the...
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Kindergarten Mural
Students trace their bodies, color them in, outline them in black, and hang them on the wall to create a mural. In this mural lesson plan, students base their mural on the work of Keith Haring.
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The Letter M: Magic Monster
In this letter m worksheet, students color every M they find in the Magic Monster picture yellow, and any other letters they see are colored black. Students count the M's and write the number they find, then practice writing the letter...
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Paramecium
In this paramecium worksheet, middle schoolers sharpen their science skills as they color the parts of a paramecium according to the instructions and then respond to 15 analysis questions.
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Dichotomous Key: Minerals
In this earth science worksheet, students identify various minerals as described in the fifteen questions. They identify the luster and hardness of a mineral. Then, students identify what color the mineral is and whether it has streaks...
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Kind Kangaroos: The Letter K
In this letter k worksheet, learners color k's in a picture brown, and all other letters black. Students count the k's and write the number, then practice writing the letter.
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Fruity Counters
Students use fruit counters. In this patterns activity, students identify different fruits, sort the fruits by color, shape and size, and make a pattern using the fruits.
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Crayon Resist Fall Leaves
Learners observe the different colors in fall leaves. They create a multi-color fall leaf in the crayon-resist technique.
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Do Different Colors Absorb Heat Better?
Learners work together to test how the color of a material affects how much heat it absorbs. They make predictions and take notes on their observations. They discover how engineers use this type of information.
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Star Wars Activity
Students investigate radiant energy by completing discrepant events and identify various temperature changes through absorption and how radiant energy can be used for solar panels. They experiment with different color fabrics in order...
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Colors and Geometric Shapes
In this color and geometric shapes worksheet, students examine a chart with 16 figures with their color words printed underneath each one. Students answer the 6 questions using the information on the chart.
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Internet Scavenger Hunt
Students practice colors. In this color lesson, students read several books that review the names of colors. They go on the computer to do an Internet scavenger hunt where they identify the colors of the online pictures.