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Scale Drawings of Birds
Learners create their own copies of Phoenix Birds using a grid system.
Teach Engineering
Seeing All Sides: Orthographic Drawing
How can your draw three-dimensional figures on paper? The lesson shows pupils how to draw orthographic projections of three-dimensional figures composed of cubes. After viewing a PowerPoint presentation, they practice this skill with...
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Scale Drawings of Dinosaurs
Students, working in groups, make scale drawings of dinosaurs. The four groups then assemble their assigned parts into one composite drawing.
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Lesson 2: Ultimate Classroom - Web Model
Students create a scale drawing. In this ultimate classroom lesson, groups of students create a scale drawing of the ultimate classroom. They explore the and explain the constructed design.
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Rainbow Fish Drawing
First graders read the book, RAINBOW FISH and view a few pictures of different types of fish. They discuss putting certain shapes together make up objects and talk about and demonstrate straight and wavy lines, thick and thin lines....
American Institute of Architects
Architecture: It's Elementary!—First Grade
Build an interest and appreciation for architecture in your young learners with this fun 10-lesson art unit. Engaging children in using their five senses, the class first observes the environment around them, paying...
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Scaling Down Art
Students change the scale of a work of art using ratios, percentages, and proportions. While this is technically an art lesson, there is quite a bit of mathematics involved in converting to the correct scale.
Project Articulate
Textured Landscapes with Grant Wood
Explore the world of textured landscapes through the eyes of the famous artist, Grant Wood. Here is an elementary art lesson plan in which scholars learn about Grant Wood's life, view his work, draw their own textured landscape, and then...
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Music Composition
Students compose a simple melody using the notes of the D Major Scale. Criteria/Rubric for evaluation is provided with variations depending on skill level of students. A minimum of one forty-five minute class period is needed for this...
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6-8 Interior Design: Designing My Dream Room
Students analyze interior design as a profession. In this interior design lesson, students design their own dream bedroom and explore interior design as a profession. Students draw a scaled drawing using graph paper and appropriate...
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Macbethan Art
Learners review and reproduce an article of Elizabethan styled clothing as a part of an analysis of Shakespeare's Macbeth. For this Elizabethan art lesson, students discuss the fashion of the Elizabethan era and research it online....
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A Change of Scene
Students are challenged to create optical illusions using using cut-outs. The activity provokes thoughtful discussion about scale.
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Cartography
Students follow directions to draw a map of an island. They complete the island map adding their own details using symbols and a legend.
Canton Museum of Art
Personal Clay Box
High schoolers will love this geometrically exact ceramics project; they create a personalized clay box using the slab method and mathematical measurements. They utilize scoring and square construction and can decorate the boxes to...
Curated OER
"If you build it..."
Students utilize prior knowledge to erect and assemble a building from a drawing using spaghetti noodles and marshmallows. In this building lesson, students visualize a three dimensional structure from looking at a picture and converting...
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Designing My Dream House
Seventh graders design possible dream house layouts. In this architecture lesson, 7th graders use sketch paper and a ruler to develop several rough sketches of a dream house. Students discuss how to use a scale for the floor plan.
The New York Times
Perspective and Leonardo’s “Perspectograph”
Filippo Brunelleschi's invention of linear perspective during the Renaissance was further developed by his apprentice, a young artist named Leonardo da Vinci. Now modern artists can give da Vinci's famous perspectograph a try...
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Figure Cut-Outs
Students create large-scale 3 dimensional forms out of 2-dimensional material. They draw figures in various positions on lightweight poster board. Then they cut them out and fit them together and stapled or taped them into place on a base.
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STAINED GLASS PAPER SCREEN
Students observe the shapes and lines that make up a stained glass window, and create a small scale stained glass screen using paper.
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Building Bridges
Learners, in groups, design and test a scale bridge. They use the Internet to research three basic bridge designs -- beam, arch, and suspension -- and the forces that act upon them.
PBS
Home, Sweet, Home!
Students investigate the local history and architecture of their community. They draw maps, conduct Internet research, discuss varied architectural designs, take a walking tour of their town and work in teams to record their community's...
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Hooverville Diorama
Fifth graders explore life during the Great Depression. In this Great Depression lesson, 5th graders gain an understanding of what life was like during the Great Depression. Students draw conditions that families lived in and...
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Rainbow Fish
Students listen to a story about tropical fish and view photographs. Using a piece of construction paper, they draw a fish and add eyes, a mouth and fins. They also add colorful scales to make the fish their own and place it into the...
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The Great Wall of China
Students examine the Great Wall of China. In this world wonders lesson, students discover facts about the wall and its construction as they research the landmark. Students build their own replica of the wall in their classroom.