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Finger Painting and Feather Painting with Nature
Students explore finger painting and painting with feathers and recreate the look of objects in nature. They read the book, 'It Looked Like Spilt Milk,' create a shaving cream print, paint with feathers, and construct a mirror image on...
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Raindrops Keep Falling on my Art
Kids may be a little resistant to this rainy day idea, but it could produce some amazing art. They paint a watercolor picture of anything they like. When they are done, they take their paintings outside and let the rain work its magic!...
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Start at the Very Beginning
Students explore ocean ecosystems. In this cross curriculum art and oceans lesson, students create a collage featuring three-finger algae using sand paper, tissue paper, and construction paper.
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It Looked Like...
Second graders listen to a read aloud of Charles Shaw's, It Looked Like Spilt Milk. They complete an art activity in which they spill white paint on blue paper and fold it to make a design. They write about their design following the...
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Summer
Students discover different uses of water. They discuss what lives in water and what does not. They match numbers 1-5 with objects of correct amount and recognize 5 different colors. They pick from pictures of different ways water...
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2nd Grade - Act. 26: It Looked Like...
Second graders read book, It Looked Like Spilt Milk, and create page in class book.
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Fingerprinting
Students list and describe the three types of fingerprint patterns. They list and describe three layers of fingerprints that can be made. They explain why we leave fingerprints.
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Living And Non-living Things
Students identify what is living and non-living in the world around them. They also tell whether these things are natural or man-made
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Types of Legs
Students identify the characteristics of the legs of arthropods as well as how they are used. They compare and contrast the legs of various types of bugs in the arthropod family. A comparison worksheet is included in with this activity.
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Dirty Pictures
Students investigate how food, clothing and shelter come from soil after they examine soil from their own backyards. They map soils on the color wheel before making glue and soil pictures and tie-dying T-shirts in red soil.
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Dino Babies
Learners distinguish between dinosaurs and fossils. They escribe what paleontologists do and how they reconstruct the lives of dinosaurs from the fossil record. In addition, they state that dinosaurs hatched from eggs.