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Shades of Blue

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students sharpen their visual literacy and color vocabulary by making and sharing collages that explore the different shades of colors.
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Paul Gauguin Art: Opposite Colour Masterpieces

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students discover new art techniques by examining the work of Paul Gauguin and his use of opposite colors.  In this art analysis lesson, students investigate the different perspectives and colors used in classic post impressionist...
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Wheels and Rainbows

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders produce 4 small works of art that be pasted or glued onto the back of the colored construction paper. They choose crayons, watercolor markers, watercolor paints, or colored pencils to produce their designs.
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Spicy Hot Colors

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders investigate the book Spicy Hot Colors. In this colors lesson, 2nd graders experiment mixing paint and creating different colors. Students make text to world connections and record their responses and draw pictures.
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Second Nature

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners design a system for creating a piece of art using a lazy susan, cardboard templates, ink. They create a set of instructions for ink application while the lazy susan is spinning. One student acts as the spinner while others apply...
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Self-Portraits

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders practice the techniques of color, face proportion, emotion through color, and how to integrate handheld applications in Art projects in this Art lesson plan for the 8th grade classroom. Self-Portraits are used and...
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Self Portrait on Paper

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are guided into creating their own self-portrait in steps using colored pastels. They also use their self-portraits as a springboard to write a personal narrative. This is a cool lesson!
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Tissue Collage with Oil Pastels

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students demonstrate how colors are mixed and how repetition, unity, and emphasis are used when creating a colorful collage.
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Shades of Blue

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners sharpen visual literacy and color vocabulary by making and sharing collages that explore the different shades of colors.
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Color Mixing

For Teachers 1st
First graders practice identifying primary and secondary colors by mixing paint.  In this colors lesson, 1st graders utilize primary colored paint to mix and experiment with in order to create secondary colors.  Students paint a rainbow...
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Sail Boat Painting - Watercolors

For Teachers 1st
First graders become familiar with the artist Winslow Homer. They create a seascape scene combining Homer images and their own imagination. They use warm and cool colors. # utilize the wet and dry method of painting
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Expressive Hands with Stippling Value Shading

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students create a larger than life modified contour drawing of hands in an expressive situation. Hands have linear value, contain a object, and have a patterned background.
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How Do Artists Get Their Ideas? Culture and Environment as Sources of Ideas

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students share the difficulties they have in determining what to write or draw for a project. In groups, they view examples from three different artists and discuss how their personal experiences affected their art. They brainstorm a...
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Colors: Primary and Secondary

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore primary and secondary colors. In this lesson on light and color, students complete four different activities which include mixing colors, creating secondary colors from primary colors and observing the colors in a bubble.
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Weather "Whys" Lesson 2 Seasons

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars explore seasons.  In this cross curriculum weather and seasons instructional activity, students identify characteristics of the four seasons and sequence related pictures. Young scholars listen to poems and stories about...
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Climate

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students study zoanthids. In this science and art lesson, students use line to create texture and how to use colors to create value. Students share their beautiful mat zoanthids with the rest of the class.
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Non-Objective Design from Fine Art

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create a rectangle from a section of selected fine art image.
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Haring In Motion Magnets

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students research visual arts by creating an art project for their homes. In this art analysis lesson, students identify the work of Keith Haring by researching the Internet and examining images. Students utilize tempera paints, poster...
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Palette Knife Painting Inspired by the Works of Brian Rutenburg

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students explore the works of Brian Rutenburg. In this art lesson, students create a work of art using acrylic paint and palette knives inspired by the works of Rutenburg. Students write about their artwork.
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Painting a Neighborhood

For Teachers K
Students explore the concept of neighborhoods and identify primary and secondary colors. In this colors and community lesson plan, students read the book Harold and the Purple Crayon and then discuss the concept of a neighborhood....
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Traditional Coil Vessels with Sgraffito Decoration

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine different types of coil vessels that show different cultures. They design and create their own coil vessel. They decorate the coil vessel using the sgraffito decorating technique.
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Visual Arts

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students create a finger painting which exhibits both the primary and secondary colors.
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Joseph Stella: Movement and Unity

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students explore line,shape,color and repetition,to create unity and movement. They discuss Joseph Stella's Battle of Lights, Coney Island and visuals of roller coasters. They use colored pencil techniques and create an artwork.
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SEASHELLS - PENCIL DRAWINGS

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students explore realism through drawing techniques to create 3D drawing on a 2D surface. They review steps of drawing and vocabulary and develop eye hand coordination while creating their own sketch. Upon completion of sketch students...