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The Eye and Color Images

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study the eye. In this biology lesson plan, students observe and experiment with visual images as they learn about the basic parts of the eye. Students also demonstrate how an image is projected upon the retinal network.
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Wrap It Up for Chanukah!

For Teachers K - 6th
Prepare gifts for the eight nights of Hanukkah with a fun and artistic lesson. Learners use various materials to make an array of unique gifts, including splatter paintings, decorated flowerpots, and stained glass designed with crayons.
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Idioms Quiz: Colours 2

For Students 6th - 8th
In this English idioms about colors worksheet, middle schoolers interpret sayings about colors and complete sentences using them correctly.
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Colored Shadows

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students examine how humans perceive color. In this refracted light lesson, students explore the different ways color is seen by the human eye. Students will use colored lights and colored paper and solid objects to make additive color...
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Geometry: Practical Applications of the Distance Formula

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students, working independently and in groups, apply the distance formula to practical situations. After solving various problems, students in pairs design coordinate planes from the school blue print to measure the distance from the...
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Tints, Tones, & Shades Painting

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students experiment with color mixing, using paints as the medium to discover tint, tone, shade, value and intensity.
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Warning signs

For Teachers K
Students sort and classify different attributes of warning signs, labels, and sounds. In this warning signs lesson plan, the teacher shows students different warning signs, labels, and sounds and tells students what each one means. ...
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What Color is Chlorophyll?

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Young scholars observe the interactions of chlorophyll and light. They develop and form their own testable hypotheses. Students predict the color of chlorophyll in various types of plants.
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STAINED GLASS IMPRESSIONISTIC LANDSCAPE GREETING CARD

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students research the history of stained glass and Mother's Day. They practice mixing colors related to the artistic style of impressionism.Students also research the concept of landscape and how the impressionist artists used them.
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Claude Monet Seasonal Painting

For Teachers K
Students discuss and examine paintings of Claude Monet. They examine the style he uses and then create their own painting based on the seasons. They also discuss the difference in the four seasons.
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Claude Monet Seasonal Painting

For Teachers K
Students are shown examples of Claude Monet's paintings. In groups, they are given one season to focus on and create their own reproduction of the same season in a painting. To end the lesson plan, they share their paintings with the...
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Cool Suits

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine the materials that are used to make space suits. They complete an experiment in which they test different materials in different colors to determine the best one for keeping astronauts comfortable. They analyze the data.
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The Flag of Argentina

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this Flag of Argentina worksheet, students color the Flag of Argentina after reading the directions to the colors and the history of the flag. Students color 1 flag.
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The Lost Flyer

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders, using Microsoft Word, create a notice of a lost pet flyer. They use a border, exaggerated fonts, colors and clip art.
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Looking into Surface Albedo

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students demonstrate how the color of materials on Earth affect the amount of solar energy that is absorbed.  In this solar energy lesson students complete a lab to explore how the color of materials on the Earth's surface impacts...
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Stone Figurines

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students discuss Keith Haring's style of art. In this drawing and painting lesson, students create a Haring-style drawing that will be later be turned into a placemat after it has been painted.
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Optical Illusions

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students view, identify, and construct four optical illusions. In this optical illusions lesson, students are introduced to four types of optical illusions. They construct their own illusions.
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Quick and Easy Tie-Dye

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Learners create their own tie-dye shirts. In this visual arts lesson, students take shirts and wrap a rubber band around a few small areas. They dot these areas with sharpies and then blend them together with rubbing alcohol. 
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Clouds

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students read books, cut out shapes, and more to learn about clouds. In this clouds lesson plan, students go outside and look at cloud shapes and voice what they see.
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Group Foraging

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore co-operation by researching ocean life. In this fish science lesson, students identify many vocabulary terms associated with oceanography and discuss what group foraging means among fish. Students utilize paints and...
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Introduction to Fractions Using Cuisenaire Rods

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders use Cuisenaire rods in order to discover how to represent fractions with real objects. For this lesson on fractions, 5th graders first examine and learn the colors, lengths, and numerical values of each rod; then, students...
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Sky and Cloud Windows

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Young scholars monitor the weather, clouds, and sky. In this weather lesson, students create a sky and cloud window to focus their sky observations. They write observations in a notebook and include the date, time, cloud cover, types of...
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Woodcut

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students carve out a design on a block of wood in order to make wood cut prints. They plan their cuts around the gray and black areas to be printed.
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Some Rocks are Heavier Than Others

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners observe several rocks and try to tell by looking and feeling, which rock is the heaviest, and which is the lightest. They take turns putting two rocks at a time in the balance scale to see which rock is the heaviest, then they...