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Art Lesson Plans

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Students participate in art projects based on their teacher's ideas. In this art lesson plan, students and teachers choose from a variety of art projects including collages, dioramas, masks, and more.
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Here's My Family

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Family traditions help to instill personal values, social norms, and the warmest of childhood memories. Elementary and secondary learners share their favorite family traditions with a fun diorama project. Using modeling clay, they create...
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Amish Quilters

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students research information about the Amish way of life and discuss how quilting is a necessity as well as a way for women to socialize within the Amish community. They create a diorama showing scenes related to quilting.
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Deep Inside a Cavern

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students describe how different types of caves and their physical features were formed. They distinguish between stalactites and stalagmites (stalactites grow down from the roof of a cave and stalagmites grow up from the floor)....
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What Causes Big Waves?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students use the internet to research how waves are formed. Using construction paper, they create a diorama in which they can see how waves are formed and end. To end the lesson, they also discuss the causes and effects of earthquakes...
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Art--"Paper Pasting"--Doing Collage

For Students 4th - 6th
In this art worksheet, students read a 1 page article on the history or art, prepare their background to making a collage, gather basic shapes, create their collage and then add in the finishing touches to them.
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Peek-Inside Egg

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students research information about Easter celebrations in several cultures and identify symbols of the holiday. They find out about famous egg-decorating eggs from countries that have a tradition of egg artistry. Studnets create theri...
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Where Are the Dinosaurs?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners explore the concept of extinction by studying dinosaurs. In this extinction lesson, students watch dinosaur video clips or complete a puppet finger play about dinosaurs. Learners may then complete a dinosaur diorama or a...
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Matisse and Picasso

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Discover Modernism through the eyes of artists. Over the course of six well-thought-out lessons, learners examine works by Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse while completing a range of collaborative and hands-on activities. A great resource!
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Giant Pandas

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students discover facts about the Giant Panda. In this Giant Panda instructional activity, students discuss where Pandas live and their habitat requirements. Students make a chart using the information they acquire. Students make Giant...
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Children in the Fields

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders research Hispanic child labor in California's agricultural period. They create dioramas reflecting the lives of migrant farm workers and political cartoons as produce crate labels, They illustrate farm scenes and hold a...
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Where are the Dinosaurs?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars construct their own diorama based on the life of a dinosaur. In this dinosaur lesson, students create models of dinosaurs and dinosaurs' eggs to explore the life cycle of this extinct species.
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Hernando De Soto's Trip Through South Carolina

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders become familiar with the explorations of Hernando DeSoto. In this DeSoto instructional activity, 4th graders recognize the routes and territories of DeSoto's explorations. Students use primary and secondary sources and...
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Hands on Biome-Building: Build a Forest

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explore Earth science by identifying environmental factors. In this biome lesson, students discuss the importance of a functioning ecology and design a biome diorama. Students utilize images of trees and plants which represent a...
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Sanctuary: Quail Island Banks

For Teachers 4th - 10th
Students explore visual arts by examining a diorama in class. In this geography lesson, students examine an island off the coast of New Zealand and identify the physical attributes of the land. Students answer study questions regarding...
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Understanding Climate

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders create two dioramas out of household materials to compare the influence of various factors that impact climate. Each group discuss how the change in factors influenced the climate, flora, and fauna of their area.
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Colonial Homes

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars tour colonial homes in Connecticut and compare their features.  For this colonial homes lesson, students create a diorama after returning from a field trip to homes. Young scholars use their observations and comparisons to...
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Edward Burtynsky's Ship Breaking

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders view Edward Burtynsky's artwork that represents ship breaking. They view images of recycling, the water cycle, rusted metal, and ships to determine factors that threaten the existence of a particular habitat of an...
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Where Are the Dinosaurs?

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students study dinosaurs by completing two activities and group discussion. For this dinosaur lesson, students discuss dinosaurs and extinction as a class. Students make dinosaur dioramas, a hatchable dinosaur egg after watching a video...
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Dinosaurs 1: Where are the Dinosaurs?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students study dinosaurs and explore the concept of extinction.  In this dinosaur lesson students create dinosaur eggs and view dinosaur dioramas.
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Petite People

For Teachers K - Higher Ed
Young scholars design a toothpick/clothespin doll by following given instructions. They use toothpicks and embroidery floss (or clothespins and yarn) to create a little people pins to be worn or displayed in student created dioramas.
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Riparian: The Guardian of the Waterways

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars become educated on what a riparian is, the need for riparian, and how a riparian corridor (forest, habitat) can protect waterways. Students construct dioramas depicting riparian habitats.
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Impact of Exotic Species in an Environment

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Pupils explain the impact of exotic species  in an environment. In this non-native species lesson students construct posters and dioramas showing environments before and after the invasion by an exotic(s).
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The Stuff of Stories: Using Museums to Inspire Student Writing

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Middle schoolers write descriptions, narratives, and dialogues based on objects of art and time periods in a museum. They base several writing assignments on art objects and paintings, including a literal description and an emotional...

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