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I Am Special and You Are Special Too

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students discover how everyone is special in his or her own way. In this character traits instructional activity, students demonstrate how they are special by drawing a picture or writing. Students listen orally to the book We Are All...
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Recreating a Masterpiece

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students analyze and critique various artists and their work. They write research papers on artists and create reproductions of their works, reflecting their earlier critiques of the works.
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Develop Your Own Interpretation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers use pieces of Andy Warhol's art to write critiques. Using different points of view, they answer discussion questions and share them with the class. They also interpret the art from a historian and artist point of view. ...
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Sunflowers a la VanGogh

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders view two VanGogh Sunflower reproductions, analyze differences in color and background between two, identify parts of sunflower, including stem and petals, and paint their own sunflowers using tempera paint.
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Listen, Observe, And Read a Biography on Who Shaped America?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders research a person from American history who helped shape the nation. They investigate the person's life from childhood through their adult accomplishments and use the information to publish a book that includes research...
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Opera

For Students 5th - 9th
In this history of opera worksheet, students explore and research what an opera is and then answer four questions regarding the history of opera in complete sentences.
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Inspired by Muses, Graces and Fates

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Young scholars examine how artists express the Muses through the arts. In this art and history lesson, students work cooperatively to identify the Greek Muses, Graces and the Fates. Young scholars will identify the attributes of each,...
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Storymaking Through Pantomime

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners explore performing arts by participating in a role-play activity. In this storytelling lesson, students utilize their physical expressions to particpate in a pantomime performance. Learners evaluate performances in their class...
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The "Producing Edgar Allen Poe" Challenge

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students create and perform excerpts from their specific "productions" of Poe's classic Tell Tale Heart.
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Staff Kids

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Learners participate in a group game to help them identify notes on both staves by using words.
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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words - The Caldecott Award

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students engage in a variety of activities as they study illustrators, how illustrations enhance a studenT book, and the Caldecott Award. They write a report about their favorite illustrator.
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America in Film and Fiction

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers begin the instructional activity by reading a book on film study. After watching the movie "Citizen Kane", they work together to identify the issues concerning the United States before World War II. As a class, they...
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Paper Dragon Puppet

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students discuss the Chinese New Year and the importance of the dragon in Chinese culture. After examining pictures of dragon puppets, students create simple dragon puppets and have their own Chinese New Year parade.
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Piet Mondrian-Find art in the city

For Teachers 1st
First graders describe and replicate repeated patterns in nature, in the environment and in works of art. They pand and use variations in line, shape, form, color, and texture to communicate ideas or feelings in work of art. Pupils...
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An Apple Tree in Fall

For Teachers 1st
First graders discover the two color families and how artists use the colors to express mood or feeling. Students paint pictures using water colors of an apple tree and include background, middle ground, and foreground in their scene.
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Semiotics and Set: Year 9

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders explore semiotics and the meanings of stage sets.
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Violets, Daffodils, Roses and Thorn

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders complete a variety of exercises and activities surrounding the scientific and artistic properties of the parts and processes of a plant/flower.
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LA CENERENTOLA (Cinderella)

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students formulate how to make puppets and realize that puppetry, like opera, is another kind of theater. They gain deeper knowledge of the characters in Rossini's La Referentially. Students use this concept to make decisions about...

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