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Art Attraction: Researching the Great Masters and their Works

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students fill out worksheets where they analyze and provide information about different artists, visual art, art techniques, design, and more. For this art lesson plan, students complete 8 worksheets.
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Oglebay Institute

Post-Impressionism: Mosaic Still-life

For Teachers 2nd - 10th
A still life with tissue paper? Why not! Using Paul Cézanne's art as inspiration, learners create their own still life pictures by gluing various colors of tissue paper onto a paper or pattern.
Lab Resource
Central Bucks School District

Igneous Rocks Lab

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Searching for a simple igneous rocks experiment to assist pupils with rock classification based on texture and composition? In the activity, pupils view multiple rocks in various ways to determine texture and composition. They then...
Activity
Scholastic

Identifying a Target Audience

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
How do advertisers try to speak to you? Learners review a variety of advertisements and identify how they attempt to reach a particular targeted audience, as well as consider what type of audiences they might belong to as young...
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Curated OER

Seed Growth

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students develop an independent procedure to investigate the germination of two types of seeds. Students must construct data tables or charts to record observations and results, graph the data, and analyze the data.
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Curated OER

Classifying Dog Breeds

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students research different dog breeds. In this classifying lesson plan, students gather information about dogs and classify them into different groups. Students will classify the dogs into small, medium and large breed groups. Students...
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Curated OER

Still-Life Painting: Arranging Nature Lesson 3

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners identify and analyze the characteristics of European still-life paintings. They paint still-life arrangements using various opaque medium techniques.
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Curated OER

Berry Basket Painting

For Teachers All
Students use plastic berry baskets to make different print designs with paint.
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Curated OER

Celebrate the Arts

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the responsibilities of people working in advertising. They create a campaign to support the arts including advertisements in several different media. Length of unit depends on number of projects completed.
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Curated OER

Global Art: A Sense of Caring

For Teachers K - 12th
Students participate in a global art project in which students from around the world share their art. They explore different cultures and languages as they view different types of art.
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Curated OER

Who am I? Bookmaking

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Pupils explore the process of bookmaking that has its origins from many different international cultures. The multicultural symbolism represented by the medium is utilized by students to expres their identity.
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Wallpaper Pattern

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify, explain and use the basic elements of design. They find examples of the four different types of patterns by using wallpaper as their medium. They identify the four different types of pattern and find correct...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

CULTURING PLANTS FROM EMBRYONIC PLANT TISSUE

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers use this laboratory exercise as a growth medium that contains the macronutrient and micronutrient needs of plants. They observe the effects of different hormones on tissue cultures and must use variations of the basic...
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Curated OER

Recycling Relay

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners improve their locomotor skills and their knowledge of recycling. They participate in a relay as they recycle different objects into their proper containers.
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Curated OER

Music: Rhythm Patterns

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders describe and play various tempos as part of this beginning instrumental activity. They recite tongue twisters to a medium, largo, and allegro tempos. As an extension, 4th graders use software as an accompaniment to other...
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Curated OER

When You're Hot, You're Hot...

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students use the medium of visual arts to demonstrate how colors can evoke different ideas and feelings.
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Curated OER

Sizing Up Sound

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders are introduced to the concepts of sound waves and frequency. As a class, they listen to the differences between different types of instruments. To end the activity, they practice identifying low and high pitches and playing...
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Curated OER

Mail Bonding

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars explore different forms of communication via the Internet and the effects these electronic mediums have on social relationships. They compose e-mail messages and predict the gender of authors of anonymous e-mail messages...
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Snow Man

For Teachers K
Students sit in a circle and practice rolling balls of various sizes to classmates. They construct a paper snowman using various sized circles and then name and label different body parts.
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Curated OER

Turkey Trot

For Teachers K - 1st
Students work in small teams to find laminated feathers to bring back to their turkey. They use different locomotor skill each time they hunt for hidden feathers.
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he Media and Social Justice Around the World

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students will activate literacy skills in internet medium, and will use reading, critical thinking and writing skills as they work with their groups to collect and organize information. The follow up activity will allow them to augment...
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What is Money? Learn the Role of Money in a Free Market System

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers view a seashell and listen as the teacher explains that these were sometimes used as money. They listen as the teacher lectures on medium of exchange, barter, and commodity. Students determine the number of chickens it...
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Curated OER

Math Hook Up

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students practice moving different ways with different locomotor skills. They practice addition and subtraction problems.
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Cell Division: The Cell Cycle and Mitosis

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students will be able to identify the different stages of the eukaryotic cell cycle as well as the different stages of mitosis in the proper order. Students will also be able to recognize what organelles of the cell are integral to...