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Media Literacy Skills

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders watch a news story from three different networks in order to determine how the same story can be presented in three different ways. Next, working in small groups they create a newscast of a current event to share with the...
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Facial Tattoos or Face Painting

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students use a grid-like method to create a life-size self-portrait from a 3X5 black and white photo. They explore the different customs and rituals surrounding face painting from ancient through modern civilizations. Students create a...
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Face Study: Draw the Other Half

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Build fine motor, spatial, and drawing skills by having the class complete the other half of a portrait. They choose an image of a face from a magazine, then attempt to draw the other half of the face as accurately as they can. Two book...
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Pucker Up

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Learners create an expressive, decorative mask to show a strong emotion. They look at themselves making different faces in a mirror and notice how their facial features change. The write stories about what emotion your mask depicts.
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Paper Face

For Teachers K
Students examine the differences between each person's face and facial features. They draw a simple sketch of their face onto a paper plate. They investigate different 3-D textures and how to apply them as decoration.
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Ceramic Relief Portrait

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders use draped slab and slab method to create a relief sculpture, adding coil and slab decoration. They study facial features and form them in clay. They study symbolism in Renaissance relief terra cottas.
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Graphics Integrates Fun

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Young scholars take digital pictures of themselves before using a stylus pen on to trace their facial features on a graphic pad. Using an Internet gallery of body drawings they complete a caricature of themselves. In two other...
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The Wind Blew

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students look at a picture book and observe what the facial expressions show.  In this character's feelings lesson plan, students write what they think the character might be saying on each page and the punctuation they...
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Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse

For Teachers All
Dramatic activities promote enjoyment of literature, increase reading comprehension, and help develop oral expression. It is important for children to engage in activities which help to develop their creative potential. Drama allows...
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Say What? (A Murder Mystery)

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils practice their performance, expression, and logical thinking skills by asking questions and speaking in correct tones. They attempt to meet IEP requirements in these areas by presenting murder mystery clues using the appropriate...
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Faces of Emotion

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders investigate human emotion by analyzing photographs they have taken.  In this human face lesson plan, 5th graders collaborate in pairs to take pictures of another student while they are expressing different emotions....
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Historical Witness Social Messaging Beginning Level Activity

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Learners explore women in history. In this lesson about nineteenth century women, students analyze paintings looking at women and their clothing, expressions, body language, and the setting and color. Learners understand how paintings...
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The better to eat you, dear!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners practice various strategies for fluent, expressive reading. After reviewing sentence structure, students choose an appropriate leveled book to read with their partner. They are assessed on their reading fluency and reading...
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Storytellers: Dave Matthews Band

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners decide what the term "art" means to them. They identify artistic elements displayed by the Dave Matthews Band. They understand the relationship between music and other means of artistic expression.
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Greek Theatre Styles

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders are introduced to the different styles of Greek theatres. As a class they discuss the level of sophistication in different areas and the purpose of the theater. To end the lesson, they practice the techniques of the...
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Character Building from Inside Out

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students relate the facial muscle location with a person's expressions. In this visual arts lesson plan, students write a fictional story about a character. They use digital cameras and computer softwares to create an animation film...
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What Really Happened?

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders recreate scenes from the theories about the disappearance of Amelia Earhart. In this history and theatre lesson, 6th graders review the story of Earhart using a flip chart. Students work on one act plays to depict one of...
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Funny Face Self Portraits

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students gain appreciation for the drawings by Leonardo da Vinci. They show human emotion by drawing facial features in correct proportion - studying ratio of eye width to the rest of the facial features. They create values by varying...
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Cubist Self Portraits

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate how other artists have expressed their ideas in a visual way. They practice on how to use oil pastels. Students consider what ideas about them are important and what ideas they want to visually communicate about...
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Portraiture

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students analyze portraiture for their symbolic aspects. In this portraiture analysis lesson, students explore the conventions of portraiture such as costume, gesture, expression, pose, and background. Students analyze how symbols add...
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A Happy Time

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders listen to stories about feelings, identify their own feelings at specific times in their lives, and express their feelings in words and through writing.
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Visit to Ackland Art Museum (African Masks Exhibit)

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders observe and describe the similarities and differences in the African Mask exhibit at the Ackland Art Museum. They use describing words to express the feelings of the masks.
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Genetics

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars identify literary elements in each selection while learning about diversity and the struggle for equality in the United States. They use their knowledge to express the emotion and key literary elements in each piece...
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Crayola® Model Magic® Colored Courtly Characters

For Teachers 2nd - 12th
Young scholars create a "Noh"-style mask, based on Japanese Noh theatre masks. They experiment with different colors of modeling clay and explore ways to show facial character.

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