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Crayon Scratch Designs
Students create crayon scratch designs. In this craft lesson, students use crayons to color a sheet of paper and then scratch their own designs using a paper clip.
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Leaf Stencil Design
Students design a pattern from a single shape and use overlapping to create color blends. They experiment with the effects of using a stencil.
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How Many?
In this book-making worksheet, students create a number and color book. Each page gives a picture of a group of items with a sentence. Students insert the correct number and trace the color word.
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Ladybug Leaf
Students employ a literary hook to promote number and color mastery through a hands-on craft experience. They participate in a mini-lesson on ladybugs. Students encounter what they are, what they look like and what do they eat.
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The Geologists' Dilemma
Students search in groups of five for colored beads that have been scattered over the classroom. They will search for one of our energy resources represented by one color bead to determine that resources are limited.
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It's Time to Get Organ-Wised
Students engage in a lesson which contains several ideas for a unit on the body and body organs. They solve riddles, color in shapes of organs, participate in games and read about the functions of the various organs. Worksheets are...
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Sun-Catcher Aquarium
Young scholars discuss which elements in the world would make the best sun-catchers. Using a worksheet, they cut out and color the plants and animals that could be placed in the aquarium. They use cellophane and place their aquarium...
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Blurry to Sharp Art
Learners 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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The Color of Money
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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COLORS ON THE FARM
Students follow directions regarding what colors farm objects should be
colored. They identify various items pictured on provided worksheet that can be found on a farm or are made from farm animals. Finally, they match each color crayon...
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Printmaking Design
First graders view examples of different print making designs. Using their paper, they fold it into eight rectangles and place the same shape on each rectangle. They must have a different color for each retangle and develop a pattern of...
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Write-on Shapes: Flower
In this online shape activity learning exercise, learners color the shapes online and print out the copy. Students may use the shapes for writing poems, word lists, reports, vocabulary words, and other activities.
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Which Colors Absorb the Most Energy?
Young scholars measure the temperatures over time of different colored envelopes in order to explore the different rates at which each color absorbs energy from a heat lamp. They record their data and graph their results.
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Match the words with pictures starting with F
In this letter F worksheet, students match pictures to words that start with the letter F. Students match 6 pictures to 6 letter F words. There is a color version of this as well.
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Halloween Circles and Rectangles
In this Halloween circles and rectangles learning exercise, students color all the circles they see on the page orange. Students color the rectangles black.
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Ceramic Tile Wall Murals
Students create multi-color lithographic posters, reinterpreting the technique of a famous artist or artistic style. They discuss art history, aesthetics, criticism, and personal expression. Students focus on the elements of design and...
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Prejudice and Discrimination
Middle schoolers are read-aloud an excerpt from The Friendship by Mildred Taylor. They pick strips of paper, white or brown, and sit according to color drawn. Students are given preferential treatment if their paper is white while the...
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Sand, Sand, Everywhere Sand
Students study the physical characteristics of four types of desert regions. In this desert regions instructional activity, students watch a video about deserts and discuss the deserts. Students compare the deserts and research the ways...
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Mathematicians and Scientists Treasure Hunt
Young scholars match a fact with a mathematician or scientist using the Internet. They read about a mathematician or scientist that happens to be female or a person of color.
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Blotter Bugs
Students work with primary colors. They choose two primary colors, then put two drops of each color they chose on a white square paper. They fold the white paper in half and rub the paint around.
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Food Pyramid
Second graders study nutrition and the food guide pyramid. They follow established procedures for use of programs :print in color only when directed, print only the number of copies directed by the teacher, select and use the programs...
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Numbers : 16, 18, 19 and 20.
In this number worksheet, learners color the outside edges of pictures of apples, then draw the correct number of apple seeds in each apple. Numbers appear beneath each apple.
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The Flag of South Africa
In this South African flag worksheet, students read a short passage about South Africa, then color the flag of the Republic the correct colors. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Leprechaun Rhyming Poem
In this St. Patrick's Day worksheet, 2nd graders read a rhyming poem about a leprechaun. They say the word that rhymes at the end of each couplet. They see and possibly color a black line picture of a leprechaun on the second page.