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Painting With Math

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students write numbers and create drawings that demonstrate the grouping of objects. They write the numbers 1-10 on their paper, list a different object next to each number, and create an illustration that demonstrates the correct number...
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Classroom Vocabulary

For Students 1st - 5th
In this classroom objects online interactive worksheet, students view 7 pictures of objects found within a classroom. Students choose the multiple choice answer that properly names each object. Students find the 8 classroom objects...
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Center for Northwestern Art: Featured Objects

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Each of the slides in this presentation provide learners with an image found at a northwestern art museum and a critical analysis of what can be seen in each piece. Learners can view this prior to a museum trip in order to build...
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Objects and Expressions in the Classroom!

For Students Pre-K - 3rd
In this online interactive school related instructional activity, students watch a video on all the supplies needed for school. Students fill in the blanks of a crossword puzzle that answers 9 questions pertaining to school...
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Allegory in Painting

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine how allegory is defined and used in the visual arts. They create a list of the arts, and list the objects, symbols, and figures that suggest each art category, analyze various paintings, and identify the allegorical...
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Importance of Estimation

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students discover the ability to estimate based on viewing photographs of objects.  For this number sense lesson, students view photographs of numerous objects in which they must train their eyes to create an educated guess of how...
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I See Lots of People

For Teachers 7th - 12th
A straightforward digital photography lesson that is a practice in cloning. Learners take a photograph of an individual and then a group of classmates. They insert the individual several times in the picture to make it look like several...
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Living and Nonliving Things

For Teachers Pre-K - 5th
Students photograph five objects from a bag and five objects from the outdoors. Students categorize things by living and non-living and by properties such as color, size, structure and needs. Students draw conclusions about the basic...
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Estimate Weight In Metric

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students brainstorm words that describe the weight of objects. They pick up objects and estimate the weight. Afterward, students find the exact weight and compare U.S. units of weight to metric units. In groups, students create a chart...
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Colorful Creative Writing Rebus

For Teachers K - 6th
Students read rebus samples from various sources. They write poems about colorful places, including detailed descriptions of people, scenery, and objects. Students create small, relevant illustrations to communicate meaning using symbols...
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Eyes That Talk

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students explore their personal strengths and characteristics and write a short description of themselves. Afterward, they create a dramatic self-portrait with an expression that identifies who they are. Students fill the areas around...
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Fossil Finds

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students study different animals and plants that have been fossilized, and the time involved. They recognize how scientific information is gathered and is always changing. Afterward, they make replicas of fossils with found-object...
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Greek Mythology Character Cubes

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students research Greek myths and identify characters from ancient Greece. After discussing the names, descriptions, scenes an objects in Greek mythology, they draw pictures on tiles and write descriptions. Students join the tiles...
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Happy Hippo

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students read about hippos and research information about hippo faces. They explore the effect of color and the perception of unrelated objects. Students create a hippo mask with accurate facial features and then paint their hippo mask...
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How Loud Is Loud?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars, after approaching the concept of sound, brainstorm a list of as many objects and creatures that they can think of that make sounds and draw and illustrate each one. They research information about decibels and how levels...
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Mosaic Masterpieces

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students use a map to locate Greece and discuss the art of the country today and in the past. Individually, they use a pencil to design their own mosaic. To end the lesson, they take the design and use clay and tile to make their own...
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My Favorite Colors Book

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students make decisions about their favorite color(s) and create personalized books about them using drawing skills and crayon resist art techniques. They write book titles and names of colors and objects, as well as their own names.
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Project-Saver Box

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students, after viewing a variety of three-dimensional objects, illustrate how to decorate a pizza box to store their completed art, homework and craft projects in. They extend their awareness of storage solutions and organizing skills...
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Shaping Up With Picasso

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Learners examine the artwork of Pablo Picasso and describe geometric shapes they observe. After observing geometric pictures and other objects, students create replicas of them using geometric shapes. Using a watercolor wash, learners...
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Splash & Splatter

For Teachers K - 12th
Students research the work of Jackson Pollock, a 20th century painter. They experiment with splatter-painting methods and discover the meaning of field or action painting, terms used to describe Pollock's abstract work. Students apply...
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Sunken Treasures

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students brainstorm what they believe can be found at the bottom of the ocean. Individually, they choose one of the four oceans to research the types of items found in them over time. To end the instructional activity, they make those...
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Take Off

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students draw perspectives from different points of view. After discussing the way objects look up close and from a distance, they choose a perspecitve to draw from, land or air. Students draw their landscape using paint and markers.
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Birds from Found Objects

For Teachers K - 8th
Students illustrate a knowledge of birds and their physical features and adaptations through the creation of a bird sculpture.
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Yes We Can! Students with Autism & Down-Syndrome on the Drums!

For Teachers 1st - 5th
To learn about various topics and improve their social skills, learners with special needs play along with music on drums and other sound objects. Teachers take digital pictures of the students participation and use them to make bulletin...