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Pixel Drawings

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Middle and high schoolers re-create a magazine photo or other picture and make it into a drawing using pixels. This fun art project should be a hit with your charges! The materials needed to implement the lesson should be easy to get,...
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Creativity Exercise - Describe the Sky

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Scholars stretch their writing muscles with an exercise that asks them to describe the sky using similes and metaphors. 
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Line and Shading = Shape and Form

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Young scholars collect natural objects and draw these objects with and without shading.
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Light and Shadow

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students compare and draw items with shading based on where a light source is in relation to the object.
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Informed Drawing Through Observation

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students practice observation techniques to improve their drawing skills. In this drawing technique lesson, students assess drawing as an art media and discuss realism. Students view examples of animal drawings and practice drawing using...
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Wandering Ink Drawings

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Kids explore how they can go with the flow and be flexible when they encounter "happy accidents." They use ink and watercolor to create flowing and unplanned art pieces. 
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Painting a Color Wheel

For Students 2nd - 8th
You have to love the color wheel, it's just so colorful! Your kids will love it too, as they work through an introductory exercise which allows them the opportunity to draw and paint a color wheel of their own. This wheel focuses on...
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Contour Drawing

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create a contour drawing of a hand creating an illusion of depth. After a brief demonstration of contour drawing, students practice by creating pictures of various objects. The final project consists of creating a contour...
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Optical Illusion Vase

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students draw an optical illusion. In this optical illusion activity, students create the optical illusion vase. Students draw a profile and repeat the drawing in reverse creating the vase image.
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The Art of M.C. Escher

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Show your class one way in which art and math are related by teaching them about M.C. Escher. Class members read a brief passage and then respond to five related questions.
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Fraction Multiplication and Area

For Students 4th - 6th
In this finding the area in fractions learning exercise, students read information about area and the formula, view examples, and write multiplication sentences that match pictures. Students solve three problems.
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Panoramic Landscapes

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Combine landscape with collage to create unique art pieces. Class members examine works of art before creating their own pieces with photos of a special place. Learners create a panoramic image and add in figures.
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Halves

For Students 1st Standards
Is it half? There are three sections to this introductory fractions learning exercise focusing on halves. First graders begin by coloring half of five basic shapes, each of which already is divided into two parts. Next, they examine four...
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Counting the Slope: Rise Over Run

For Students 8th - 10th Standards
This worksheet works math masters though the concept of rise over run. They shade in the slope triangle that is created to help visualize the components. After a page of teaching the concept is a thoughtful exercise to give to your class...
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Lipstick Chromatography/Ink Chromatography

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Junior crime scene investigators are instructed in two different chromatography exercises. For female suspects, they separate and compare lipstick pigments. For male suspects, they separate and compare ink samples. A data sheet is...
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Drawing Emotions

For Teachers K - 12th
Pupils examine how artists have expressed emotion thru use of line, color and shapes. They communicate a variety of emotions using line, shape and values to create form.
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Introduction of Single and Multiple Linear Inequalities

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students solve linear inequalities. In this algebra lesson plan, students rewrite inequalities using one and two step equations. They graph their findings and identify the slope and solution of the line.
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What Goes Around Comes Around

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners investigate how the ocean plays a part in the water cycle. For this earth science lesson, students locate a puddle outside and mark it with chalk. Learners observe the changes in the water during the next two days.
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Shadow Pictures

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students explore light, shade and shadow.
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Events and Venn Diagrams

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Time for statistics and learning to overlap! Learners examine Venn Diagrams as a means to organize data. They then use the diagrams to calculate simple and compound probabilities.
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Understanding Percent

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this understanding percent worksheet, students use a computer program to complete 8 sections, then work off the computer and answer 7 questions with fraction strips, tables and grids.
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Magnetic Mapping

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students draw arrows to show the direction the compass needle is pointing when it is placed around different points of a penny and a bar magnet. Students must then answer questions about the activity on a provided worksheet.
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Area of Triangles

For Students 6th - 8th
In this math learning exercise, students draw two triangles and one pentagon. Then they use the correct formula to calculate the area for each.
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Seven Sets of Area Problems

For Students 10th - 11th
In this area worksheet, learners solve for the area of rectangles, parallelograms, triangles, trapezoids, kites, regular polygons, circles, and surface area.  The worksheets is divided into seven different sets of problems.