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Harriet Jabocs and Elizabeth Keckly: The Material and Emotional Realities of Childhood in Slavery
Learning how to make accurate inferences by putting together facts found in multiple sources is one of those skills all learners must develop, but one that can be a challenge to teach. This resource is a must-have for your curriculum...
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Looking at Decorative Arts Lesson 1: The Function of Furniture
Students identify different types of decorative arts objects and their functions. They investigate the difference between aesthetic uses and functional uses.
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Around the House 3
In this language arts worksheet, learners learn the names for household furnishings by cutting apart 16 full color Bingo cards and the 16 words that match. There are no directions but this appears to be a Bingo game.
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American Federal
Students review and apply architectural history and identify selected architectural features and styles of the Americal Federal time period. They write down the information on their outline from a PPT presentation included with activity....
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Storage Hunt
Students create visual examples of each type of storage that should be found incorporated throughout the home. They also visually identify the difference between built-in storage and furniture storage. Students then create two collages...
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Interdisciplinary Web Quest: Flower Symbolism
Students identify flowers and their symbolism in art, literature, and design as they appeared in Victorian times from 1850 to 1900, as exemplified in furniture, quilt, paperweight, embroidery, and other designs. They create a simplified...
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Designing the Toy Planet Store
Sixth graders create a grid of their fictitious store. In this measurement lesson, 6th graders use a computer to measure out the floor of their store and create furniture, doorways, windows, and more. This lesson includes directions for...
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House Plan
In this ESL worksheet, students will learn house related vocabulary and create sentences about how they would arrange furniture in a home. Sample lesson ideas are included.
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Sir Thomas Holte- Home Furnishings
In this Sir Thomas Holte home furnishings drawing worksheet, students draw pictures of 6 different pieces of furniture that would be found in this home. They tell which piece of furniture they like best and why.
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Tabletop Graffiti Mural
Students examine Keith Haring's artwork and learn new ways of making art such as refurbishing furniture.
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FAMOUS PAINTING
Pupils provide a brief history of Van Gogh and of the artists working at the same time. They use images of the furniture copied from the painting to review vocabulary items, color, size, etc. They draw and color a rendition of their...
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Mavericks and Measurement
Students study the measurement formulas for area and perimeter in real-life situations. For this area and perimeter lesson, students design a bed and arrange furniture in a hotel room using area and perimeter formulas for a 7 1/2 foot...
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Cardboard Structure: Pyramids
Students design a structure made of cardboard pyramids that will hold their weight. For this pyramid structure lesson, students determine a way to make a structure of interlocking pyramids that are sturdy enough to hold a student's...
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Where are Grandma's Teeth?
Students practice using prepositions and deductive reasoning. In this preposition game, students work in groups to determine where Grandma has lost her dentures. Students eliminate places as clues are revealed.
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Arrange the Classroom (Part 1 of 3)
Fifth graders arrange the classroom using all the moveable objects and through the exploration of area and perimeter. They determine the area of the classroom, create and label model pieces of furniture using graph paper, and create a...
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Do You Want Another? -- Full Color Copy
In this reading worksheet, students create a small book by stapling together 12 pages. Students read the story. The story depicts workers with their hands full of luggage, boxes, furniture, and cooking pots. On the last page, there is a...
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Fastest Way to a Full Belly
Students create a scale model of a cafeteria. For this scale lesson, groups improve their actual school cafeteria layout by taking measurements of the structure and redesigning furniture and food serving lines. They create a scale...
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ESL: Vocabulary Builder
In this ESL vocabulary building learning exercise, students use a drop down list to select the correct names for pictures, numbers, articles of clothing, buildings and furniture items.
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Construction: Make Your Own Bed
Learners explore the career of furniture construction. After observing Powerpoint presentations, they complete worksheets and match furniture pictures with cost estimates. Learning outcomes include ability to construct beds and to...
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Measurement, Scale and the Corn Dolly
Students read and discuss the story The Corn Dolly by Terry Jones. The teacher shows the class a corn dolly and they need to design and construct furniture that is appropriately scaled for that specific dolly.
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Interior Design, Lesson 4
Students choose furnishings and accessories based on color, line, pattern, texture, shape, and mood. They discuss how interiors are affected by furniture arrangements and traffic patterns and examine furniture and make a grouping of...
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Visual Arts Lesson -Wardrobe
Students define the term neoclassism and locate examples of it in furniture design. They research and explain the role of the wardrobe in viceregal Mexico. Pupils compare and contrast the use of wardrobes as storage in the earlier...
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Where We Put Ourselves
Students examine the form and function of furniture in New Spain, explore the origins of marquetry, and discover the influences of other countries on marquetry in Puebla, Mexico.
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Cross-Cultural Connections
Students investigate many of the relationships that contribute to the look and design of decorative arts objects.
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