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Shadows & Light, Science & Puppetry

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Lights, shadows, action, and inquiry await your artistic scientists. They explore the way light travels, absorbs, reflects, and transmits through shadow play. They create folktale-inspired shadow puppets, explore the science of light,...
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National Gallery of Canada

Shadow Chasers!

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Experiment with light and shadow with a photography lesson. Learners first view several artistic photographs. They then play with different levels of light and various objects, eventually putting together compositions and taking pictures...
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Light and Dark

For Students 4th - 5th
In this light sources worksheet, students study the pictures of the objects that give out light. Students cut out the pictures and order them according to the brightest light source.
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Huntington Library

Light in Painting

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
How do painters use and manipulate light in their artwork to give emphasis and establish mood and emotion? Pupils will analyze a few examples of landscape and portrait painting in order to explore the how light is used in art,...
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Light at Night

For Teachers K - 6th
Portraying accurate light in a chalk drawing can be difficult. This useful PowerPoint provides fantastic guidelines to achieve good lighting perspective in a drawing. Three photo examples are provides on slides six, eight, and ten, to...
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Light and Shadow

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students compare and draw items with shading based on where a light source is in relation to the object.
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Inventions 1: Edison And The Light Bulb

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners examine the realm and power of inventions, and recognize their impact on people and society. Small groups pretend to have been hired by Edison to make special posters that advertise the uses and benefits of the light bulb.
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Wavelengths of Light

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Explore physical science by participating in a visual spectrum experiments. Budding scientists identify the colors in the color spectrum and view the colors in class by utilizing cellophane, flash lights, and other arts and crafts...
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Using Light and Shadow to Create a Sense of Character

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners heighten awareness and mastery of the subtle factors of drawing technique. Activities focus solely on the human figure, particularly the face. students list 5 of elements of light and shadow which affect portrayal of character...
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Letter from Leonardo da Vinci to Sforza

For Students 9th - 12th
Expose your class to words directly from Leonardo da Vinci with this primary source document. Learners analyze the document, a letter from Leonardo da Vinci to Ludovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan, and respond to 3 short answer questions....
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Diversity of Colors

For Teachers K - 5th
Learners investigate color diversity by experimenting with jelly beans.  In this color spectrum lesson, students observe colored jelly beans through different filters and light sources to change the existing look of the bean....
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Two-Point Perspective

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders will learn to create the illusion of depth on a two dimensional surface using the technique of perspective.Analyze famous works of art and photographs of local architecture and identify how each is using perspective....
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Make a Switch: Let There Be Light

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students research a notable painter and use his or her work as inspiration to create a functional light switch plate.  In this art lesson plan, students find an artist whose work is appealing to them to research and critique. ...
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Science--Learning About Light and Shadows

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this light and shadows worksheet, students find 5 transparent items and 5 opaque items from the classroom and categorize them underneath their appropriate headings. Students look at 4 boxes with shadows and draw a little sun to show...
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Elements of Art

For Teachers 3rd
Students explore three topics of elements of art in this seven lessons unit. An overview of light, space, figure, ground, pattern, balance and symmetry are presented in this unit.
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Lights! Cameras! Action!: Creating a Drama About the Lyme Art Colony

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Discuss the lives of artists in the Lyme Art Colony in the 1900s with this resource. Young historians write and perform a short scene depicting individuals who lived in the Griswold boardinghouse, used by the colony artists. They use the...
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Creating Stage Designs that Reflect

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify and research cultural, historical, and symbolic clues in dramatic texts. They demonstrate knowledge of research sources.
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Imagining the Environment: Introduction

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students examine the importance of the environment including the setting, lights, sound, costumes, and props for a play or story. They visualize the appropriate environments and practice applying the techniques.
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My Shadow Pictures

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students capture shadows for a shadow dance! They experiment with shadows created by people or items blocking light sources (sun, bright lamp) to draw their shadow pictures. Afterward, they cut out the shadows and arrange them on a large...
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Silhouette Outlines

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students create a silhouette by directing light at a person. They change the light, distance from the person and angle to make the shadows different. They are to describe the relationship between the light source and the object.
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The Science of Shadow Puppets

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Young scholars explore the art of shadow puppetry. For this performing arts lesson, students study the functions of lighting in the puppet theater as they examine the transmission, absorption, and reflection of light. As a culminating...
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Lighting

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students participate in a lecture in which they are introduced to the different types of lighting and lighting fixtures. Individually, they are given a floor plan of a house and create a lighting plan for it by placing symbols for each...
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Light-Capturing Cut Paper Designs

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create an alternating and repetitive design using at least two original designs. The cut paper design be exposed to a direct source of light (spotlight) in order to form an overall pattern with structural and tonal counterchanges.
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Seein' Double, Seein' Double

For Teachers K - 2nd
By using the Internet, hands-on activities, video, and cooperative learning, pupils look into the conditions in which light casts shadows on objects. The lesson includes fabulous hands-on activities, art projects, worksheets, and reource...

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