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Painting with and Learning From Art History - Extend the Composition
Students create a painting based on an artist from a chosen period in history. They research a modern artist and write a critique.
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Thanksgiving Turkey Napkins
Students explore painting. In this Thanksgiving art activity, students trace their hands on 4 cloth napkins sent from home and use fabric paint to decorate them as hand print turkeys.
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Medieval Art
Sixth graders study Gothic architecture on the Internet and create a mug with a gargoyle figure on it.
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Making Inferences While Identifying Similes and Metaphors
Use this lesson to study similes and metaphors and the inferred meaning. In this language arts lesson, 5th graders write their own similes and metaphors. A worksheet is provided for extension work or to check understanding as homework.
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Cardboard Radial Weaving
Students explore cultural history by participating in an arts and crafts activity. In this weaving instructional activity, students identify the many cultures that used weaving methods and local plant life to create baskets and other...
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Making a Basic Clay Animal Sculpture In-The-Round
Students create a three dimensional animal sculpture. In this sculpting activity, students use white art clay, gloss glaze, brushes, and wooden tools to create an animal sculpture.
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WebQuest: Thrills and Spills- Pick Your Park!
Students participate in a WebQuest in which they must determine which amusement park is the "median priced" park. Students visit park websites to accumulate prices for parking, activities, restaurants, and gift shops.
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Art Nouveau
Art Nouveau lessons and activities can provide a way for students to compare and contrast different artistic styles.
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Recycling Blackout Worksheet
In this recycling vocabulary worksheet, learners read 15 clues that include both a definition and word puzzle. Students must decide what recycling word the definition and puzzle describes and write the word on the line provided.
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Simply Circuitry and Series Circuit
Young scholars investigate a series circuit. In this physical science instructional activity, students use a battery, switch, and light bulbs to build an electrical circuit. Young scholars identify the standard symbols being used in...
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Summer and subtractor op amp circuits
In this circuit worksheet students build their own circuit and complete several short answer questions on different amp circuits.
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And The Oscar Goes To?
Third graders complete a graphic organizer to determine what a good story looks and sounds like. Using various forms and conventions, they determine which style to use for different audiences and purposes. They write their own story and...
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Characters in the Chocolate Factory
Young scholars dress and act as selected characters from Roald Dahl's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory". They identify each other and make predictions about the upcoming chapters based on their observations about the characters.
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Paste Papers
Learners combine acrylics with School Smart Art Paste to paint paper and to explore color mixing.
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What's Up at the Rim?
Students are sent on a scavenger hunt to find as many plants as they can in nature.
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Recycling- Multiple Choice Words
In this recycling activity, students complete 10 multiple choice questions, choosing the correct recycling related word that fits a given description.
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A New Approach to Developing Images on Clay
Students create story telling plates based on David Stabley's technique. They incorporate art history and aesthetics with hands on activity.
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Recycling Vocabulary Maze
In this recycling vocabulary learning exercise, students find their way through a maze by using clues about recycling and spelling out words. A reference web site is included for additional activities.
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One Thing Leads to Another
Young scholars analyze the storytelling methods in wordless books. In this visual storytelling activity, students write a story that correspond to a specific wordless picture book. Young scholars create their own wordless...
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Making a Map
Learners are introduced to maps by examining the various types and practice using a key to find information. They each create their own map with a key and graph information. As a class, they read the story "Henny Penny" and share their...
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Japanese Noh Masks
Eighth graders create Noh masks. In this Japanese art lesson, 8th graders research Noh masks and their special connection to Chinese theater, and then make their own.
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Clay Sculpture: Relationships
Students explore art history by conducting an in-class activity. In this sculpting activity, students examine previously created art sculptures in a textbook. Students utilize clay, sculpting tools and grey paper to create their own...
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Logos and Commercial Arts
Students identify popular logos and discuss the purpose they serve in advertising. They take a familiar logo and redesign it based on their own experience with the company it represents.
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Independent Reading Responses
Learners participate in independent reading activities by reading a book at their independent reading level and selecting activities to complete after reading. Activities are broken up into C Level, B Level, and A Level activities.