Middle schoolers examine fair use. In this character education instructional activity, students discover copyright and fair use laws regarding media. Middle schoolers discuss the ethics of movie and music sharing.

Young scholars explore how copyright and trademark laws impact art. After researching cases on the topic, students use and existing postcard as the basis for a new piece of art.

Students examine the copyright lines in the books they use in class. They discover how to complete and send in their own copyright request to Washington D.C. They work on their composition as well.

Here is another in this fabulous series of art lessons I've been reviewing! Artists of all ages design a wearable piece of artwork using special buttons that have a clear, removable top to them. All sorts of creative ideas are presented...

Students read 10 sentences and fill in each blank in each sentence with an appropriate vocabulary word from the word pool. This language arts worksheet provides good practice for students to use words in their proper context.

Students discuss heroes, choose hero of their choice, write short biographies, and create drawings of heroes.

Students select organic object and transform it to an inorganic object in five or six steps, and complete value rendered drawings.

Students create a painting based on an artist from a chosen period in history. They research a modern artist and write a critique.

This site contains links to five articles about storytelling by Heather Forest. Articles include the following: "Crafting Personal Vision in Telling Folktales," "The Voice as an Instrument," "Copyright and Fair Use of Published...