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Principles of Design
How to use the many design elements such as color harmony, percentage of size combinations, and lines of design are described. Composition of an attractive arrangement with a focal point is addressed. Also included, many...
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Repeat Design Project
Young scholars design an individual rubber stamp and use this design to create a simple repeat pattern. This Art lesson is for the high school level and includes a possible lesson extension.
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Metric Measuring
Students design their dream gardens and work together to build a class model. They use software to create a virtual model. They only use metric measurements.
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Puebla Patterned Pots
Sixth graders examine and discuss the characteristics of tin glazed earthenware pottery of Colonial Mexico. They design and create their own Talavera-style plate by applying the concept of radial symmetry.
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The Art of the Matter
Students understand that elements of art are important aspects of certain jobs. In this art/careers lesson plan, students discuss art related careers, listen to guest speakers with art related careers and do internet research art related...
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A First Look at the Garden
For any teacher who is planning a field trip to Missouri's Botanical Garden, this lesson packet is a must-have! In it, young learners engage in pre-visit activities so they will be prepared to get the most out of their trip. There are...
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Plants 'n' Bugs
Second graders experiment to find if pollinators have color preferences. In this plant and bug lesson, 2nd graders gather information about how flowers pollinate. Students participate in a pollination experiment using the...
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Eternal Egypt: Iron Arrows With Floral Designs
These arrows with pointed iron heads and wooden shafts are decorated with floral designs.
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Eternal Egypt: Oil Lamp With Floral Designs
This primitively made clay oil lamp has a body decorated with foliage in the form of several embossed branches.
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Eternal Egypt: Tombstone With Floral Designs
This part of a square tombstone is made of limestone. The two pillars that flank the main part of the tombstone are carved in high relief.
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Eternal Egypt: Glass Panel With Floral Designs
The glass panel, showing a bouquet of flowers, was manufactured by inserting glass sticks one beside the other in a heated mass of blue opaque glass.
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Eternal Egypt: Board With Nine Panels
A board divided into nine panels and decorated with geometrical designs interlaced with floral designs. Some of the panels are adorned with swastika within lozenge. Other panels are decorated with five-pointed stars encompassing...
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Eternal Egypt: Plate With Cup Blazon
A brass plate decorated with a circle that contain floral Mamluk Thuluth inscriptions surrounded by interlaced floral designs. In the center of the circle plate there is a blazon with a cup, which symbolizes the occupation of the...
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Eternal Egypt: Rug From Asia Minor
The design of the rug is a mihrab (prayer direction niche) with a triple arch. On top of the arch, there are several narrow horizontal bands of stylized geometrical and floral designs. Archaeologists refer this particular rug to the city...
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Eternal Egypt: Scent Bottle
This scent bottle, used for perfume, is made of silver and is decorated with geometrical, floral designs, and assembled borders.
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Eternal Egypt: Silver Censer
A silver censer, the chains of which are missing. The censer is supported on a round base and the body is divided into lobed units, which are decorated with floral designs. The rim of the censer is adorned with an inscription in Arabic...
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Eternal Egypt: Ardebil Small Basin
The Ardebil small basin is made of brass with some areas decorated with geometric and floral designs.
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Eternal Egypt: Piece of Wool Textile
This rectangular piece of wool is decorated with stylized ducks and rabbits and Kufic inscription with foliage and floral designs.
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Eternal Egypt: Piece of Band Textile
This small piece of textile consists of a decorative band with floral designs in the form of flowers and small rosettes. This piece of textile is in the Kapati style, for which the Egyptian Copts were famous throughout the ages.
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Eternal Egypt: Gold Ring With Red Ruby
This gold ring has a red ruby stone fixed within an oval frame. The gold edges of the base are decorated on both sides, with a protruding picture of a running hare. The background is decorated with floral designs.
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Eternal Egypt: Marble Plaque in Two Pieces
A marble plaque that consists of two pieces, each of which has a circular medallion at the edge. There are interlaced floral designs inside the medallions. Between the two medallions there is an embossed inscription in Mamluk Naskh...
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Eternal Egypt: Iron Knife With a Gilded Handle
A household utensil long used in Egypt, this knife is made of iron. Its handle and blade have gilded oval-shaped decorations with interwoven and distorted black floral designs.
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Eternal Egypt: Qur'an Stand
A Qur'an stand made of wood and inlaid with mother-of-pearl. The stand consists of the support for the Qur'an and a base. The main decoration on both sides of the support starts at the edges with indented designs of geometrical and...