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Visual Arts - Mexican Indian Yarn Painting

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Have you ever seen a Mexican yarn painting? They're beautiful! Create a Mexican yarn painting with your class using this activity. Start by discussing Mexico's culture and viewing different yarn paintings. After reading about important...
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Lesson Plan
National Gallery of Canada

Build a Neighbourhood

For Teachers K - 3rd
What's special about your neighborhood? Build one with your class to find out. Individuals create their dream homes that, when completed, will be placed together around a green space in order to create a neighborhood. Learners also...
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Lied Center of Kansas

The Ugly Duckling and The Tortoise and the Hare

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd Standards
Both The Ugly Duckling and The Tortoise and the Hare are great additions to an elementary language arts lesson. Young readers focus on the literary elements of each story, including characters and plot development, and apply counting and...
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PPT
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In Text Citations

For Teachers 7th - 12th
What is citation? Why cite? Researchers are introduced to the Modern Language Association (MLA) style guide for research writing. Examples are plentiful and color-coded to highlight specific aspects of the conventions.
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Knights in Armor

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Arm your social studies class with knowledge about the middle ages. After learners use the internet to view photographs of the Middle Ages, they research the various types of armor used by those who were fighting and how it was worn. To...
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Bainbridge Class

End of the Year Photo Writing Project

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Close out the school year with a look back at a specific event. You provide individuals with photos of themselves, and each pupil fills out the graphic organizer here to prepare for writing a paragraph about the memory depicted in the...
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Organizer
Stillwater Central School District

The Adventures… Of Alice in Wonderland

For Teachers 7th Standards
Go down the rabbit hole with a thorough novel unit for Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. With a cause and effect chart, K-W-L organizer, and reading comprehension questions, the resource is a great addition to your summer assignments...
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Using Color as a Pre-Writing Tool

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
To better understand how to compose a clear and well-organized paper, learners read short passages, write summaries, and make colored graphic organizers. This is a fully developed three-day lesson with suggested assessments.
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Color Your Destiny

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders read and discuss a variety of children's books that deal with feelings, self-concept and how they affect a person's perceptions of themselves as well as their world. They also tie in interrelationships of visual and...
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Patterns, Patterns, Patterns

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Create geometric art in your classroom. Learners use a ruler to mark lines on their paper, they then trace a lid to create a series of circles. They color in each circle using two tones or colors to create an interesting visual pattern. 
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The Color Yellow

For Teachers Pre-K - K
In this color recognition worksheet, students color picture of things that can be yellow. Pictures are: banana, sunflower, sun and a lemon.
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The Color Green

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this color recognition worksheet, students color picture of things that can be green. Pictures are: pear, frog, apple, turtle and a tree.
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The Color Red

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this color recognition worksheet, students color picture of things that can be red. Pictures are: fire engine, red crayon, flower, apple and a strawberry.
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The Color Blue

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
For this color recognition worksheet, learners color pictures of things that can be blue. Pictures are: an award ribbon, fish, pigeon and blueberries.
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San Diego Museum of Art

Atmospheric Perspective Watercolor Painting

For Teachers 6th - 10th
How do artists create the illusion of depth and distance on a flat surface? Young landscape painters explore techniques like color saturation and detail placement that create atmospheric perspective.
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Lesson Plan
Richland County School District One

Falling Into Geometry Through Paper Art

For Teachers K Standards
New-to-school learners create a fall quilt consisting of three different paper geometric quilt squares. They use various geometric shapes that when assembled will form a scarecrow, pumpkin, and a crow. Assembly will require sorting...
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Exploring Color Vocabulary

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore color terms and related meanings and metaphors in cultural and literary contexts. They use the main colors to explore synonymous color terms and related metaphorical meanings of color words. Students recognize the...
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Printables
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Color Lotto

For Teachers Pre-K - K
In this color word lotto worksheet, students use markers or crayons to color the 10 crayons. Students cut out the color words and match them to the correct crayon. The directions suggest laminating these game parts. Note: The color words...
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Worksheet
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Learning the Color Yellow

For Students K
In this color worksheet, students draw a picture of an item that is the color yellow. They trace dotted lines to print the word, yellow. They write the word independently on the next line.
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Worksheet
Worksheet World

The Color Brown

For Students Pre-K - K
In this color activity, learners will color a bear brown and practice tracing and printing the word "brown" three times.
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Worksheet
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Recognize the Color Brown

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this color recognition instructional activity, students examine the p pictures on the sheet and identify those that are the color brown.
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Worksheet
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Learning the Color Orange

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this color word worksheet, students learn to recognize the color orange and print the word. Students draw something orange in the box. Students then trace a dotted example of the word "orange" before practicing on their own.
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Interactive
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Customized Handwriting: My Favorite Color

For Students 1st
In this customized handwriting:  my favorite color learning exercise, 1st graders change the style, font and text, then print the learning exercise to write their favorite color and color the picture.
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Worksheet
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Learning the Color Yellow

For Students Pre-K - K
In this color yellow worksheet, students learn to recognize and print the word "yellow". Students draw a picture of something yellow. Students trace the word and then practice printing "yellow" on the line.