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How Big? How Heavy? - Cross Out Puzzle Five
In this ESL vocabulary learning exercise, students cross out the measurement words in the diagram by following the 10 directions. Students read the leftover words that creates a proverb.
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Alphabody's ABC of Giving
Students brainstorm words about giving/kindness that begin with each letter of the alphabet. In this alphabet giving lesson, students bend into the shape of the letters and act out their giving words. Suggested words are included in the...
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Same, Similar and Different: Quiz
In this same, similar and different worksheet, students complete sentences about given shapes, comparing them using the above phrases. Students then complete sentences using either like or alike.
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Focus on Figurative Language in Prose and Poetry
Students place emphasis on the use of figurative language when analyzing prose and poetry. In this figurative language lesson, students explore the tone of a story and its imagery. Students read and discuss how the author uses imagery in...
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Reflections
Students investigate image and pre-image. In this geometry lesson, students identify the reflection and rotation of different shape on a coordinate plane. They identify similarities and differences of image and pre-image of a reflection.
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Foil Action Figures
Students create a foil sculpture representative of a human figure and a landscape drawing as a backdrop for their figure.
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Cows on Parade
Students use assorted drawing materials and sheets from a cow shaped pad to create a unique, bright, colorful cows.
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Rainsticks
Students create a rainstick decorated with repeated patterns of shape and color, out of paper towel tubes.
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Carbondale: The Biography of a Coal Town
Students use a brief history of the growth and decline of the anthracite region in the state to create a photograph and map "peak shaped" time line. They practice map and photo analysis strategies to "read" photographs and maps.
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Leaf Stencil Design
Learners design a pattern from a single shape and use overlapping to create color blends. They experiment with the effects of using a stencil.
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Multi-Media Still Life
Learners create a multi-media collage still life that reinforces basic skills taught in art class. They use watercolor, markers, gluing and cutting skills.
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Youth Art Month Pins
Students design and create pins advertising Youth Art Month and incorporating mini versions of famous prints.
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Paper Mache Egyptian Hippos
Students learn the history behind hippos in Egyptian culture and create their own paper mache hippos.
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SEASHELLS - PENCIL DRAWINGS
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...
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Miniature Stained Glass Designs
Third graders view examples of previous miniature stain glass designs. After making their own frame out of craft sticks, they create their own design using colored paper. They outline each piece with a black marker and share them with...
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Suffering and Sunset: An African American Artist's Impression of World War I
Students study paintings by a Pennsylvania artist, Horace Pippin, to explore African-American contributions in World War I. They create presentations based on their impressions of the artwork.
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Dominic's egg
Students visit the Art Discovery museum for four consecutive weeks. Each session includes a tour of the galleries and a hands-on studio component. During the four sessions students work on both individual and collaborative projects. ...
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African Mask Design
Fifth graders design and create an African mask using black paper and oil pastels.
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Homes Inside and Out
Fifth graders create a dollhouse-like drawing of a house, as it would look if the front walls were folded out.
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Three-Dimensional Figures
Sixth graders explore three-dimensional objects. In groups, they create and decorate their own polyhedron design. After identifying the faces, vertices, and edges of the polyhedron, 6th graders determine a relationship between the...
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Sandpaper Drawings
Students examine images of sand art from different cultures. They create their own version of a sand art picture.
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Ink Blot Designs
Students create an ink blot and examine it to find a shape that inspires a picture. They illustrate their picture with details and background design and color it in.
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Perspective Writing
Third graders discuss how shapes look differently close up and far away. As a class, they examine how artists make three-dimensional space in a two-dimensional painting. They create their own three-dimensional drawing to end the lesson.
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Translation
Tenth graders identify and interpret vocabulary terms as they relate to vectors. Students practice translations by creating several tessellations. Students determine the direction and distance using vectors. Students use grid paper to...