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A First Look at the Garden

For Teachers Pre-K - K
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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California Poppy Postcards

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
What a great lesson! Learners discuss California history, including the state flower, the poppy, and then engage in an art activity. For the activity, they learn about value, shading, layering, blending etc. to produce a realistic...
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Balance in Visual Art

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine works of art to develop an understanding of the importance of visual balance in works of art and nature. Students research artists and their artwork for examples of visual balance. Students create works of art showing...
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Clay Tile: Art Deco Style

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students analyze and classify sets of pictures using a mathematical classification system and create original works of Art Deco tiles using this new knowledge and four types of symmetry.
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Creating a Pollinator Garden

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students build a pollination garden. In this pollination lesson, students read directions and build a pollinator garden that will produce flowering plants for pollinator organisms to use in pollination of other plants.
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Plants 'n' Bugs

For Teachers 2nd
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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Instructors Lesson Plan for Cats in Quilts

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students make quilts using a simplified applique technique. The lesson includes directions for beginner as well as intermediate levels. Each class lasts from between two and three hours.
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How Shocking

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students describe the characteristics of polymers and rubbers and how they improve human lives.  In this shock lesson students build a shock absorbing structure using different polymer materials. 
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Focus on Batiks

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discover the characteristics of batik fabrics. Using the fabric, they create a tulip garden wall hanging. They review warm and cool colors and use various stitching techniques for the stems and leaves. They share their...
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Matching Flowers With Their Pollinators

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students match flowers to pollinators and construct models of flowers to demonstrate why different kinds of flowers need different kinds of pollinators. They use their flower models and the "Scientific Method Format" included in the...
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Eat Your Plants

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore fruits and vegetables. In this fruits and vegetables lesson, students work in small groups investigating plant parts. Students discover that fruits and vegetables originate from different parts of plants.
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The Art of the Matter

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
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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Japanese Lacquerware Art Lesson

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are introduced to the traditional form of lacquerware painting in Japan. Students imitate Japanese lacquerware techniques using paper plates, gesso and tempera paints.
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Instructors Lesson Plan for Impressionist Palette

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Young scholars examine the goal of the Impressionist Landscape quilter to interpret nature with fabric rather than paint. Students discover how to blend hundreds of small squares in a luminous "fabric painting." There is no appliqué, no...
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Floral Design Institute

For Students 9th - 10th
Home page of the Floral Design Institute in Portland, OR. Provides links to more information about the floral design courses available at the school. Also good for people curious about floral design in general.
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Eternal Egypt: Iron Arrows With Floral Designs

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
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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