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Dad's Night
Students have a "Dad's Night". In this art lesson students bring an important male figure in their life to school for the evening. The pair plays musical chairs, makes a craft, and plays other games. The object is to provide special time...
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Geometry House!
Fourth graders use computer drawing tools to create a house of geometric shapes.
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Graphs and Ellipses
Students explore linear graphs, the parabola and the rectangular hyperbola.
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Multimedia Stained Glass Window Design
Students construct and display a stained glass gothic window box made from cardboard boxes, color tissue or colored plastic sheets of mylar, and glue.
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Three Chicago Painters: Self-Portraits
Students examine self-portraits on a Website. They create self-portraits which reveal something about themselves. They include objects which give clues to Students' personalities. The portraits are displayed in the school.
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Race Track
Students, in groups, are spaced evenly around the gymnasium. Each group is under a basketball basket. Each team runs one lap around the race track. when he/she gets home, hand the ring to the next person who runs.
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The Cinquain
Young scholars explore writing a cinquain. Students engage in a pantomime experience. They observe and describe bubbles. Young scholars compose a cinquain and illustrate their work with bubble art.
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Jumping Frogs
Students create a jumping frog out of construction paper, close pins and pipe cleaners. They predict how far they think their frog jump and then test it out to see how close or far away they were from their prediction.
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A "State of the Arts" Coin K-3
Pupils recognize the U.S. penny, nickel, dime, and quarter by design, size, and denomination and that the portraits and other images depicted on the coins were designed by artists. They study common Texas symbols and choose one to draw...
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Miniature Stained Glass Designs
Third graders view examples of previous miniature stain glass designs. After making their own frame out of craft sticks, they create their own design using colored paper. They outline each piece with a black marker and share them with...
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Picture Cards
In this alphabet awareness worksheet, students match twenty seven picture cards to twenty seven word cards for mastery of memory retention.
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Word Choice: Whose and Who's
In these word choice worksheets, students read the sentences and select the correct option to complete the sentence from the words whose or who's.
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AMACO Gloss Decorating Colors... "Majolica GDC's"
Students use different techniques to apply a decorating gloss. In this informative handout, students are introduced to various techniques for applying Gloss Decorating Colors for Bisque and Majolica.
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Study Guide for the 2009 Doris Conant Lecturer on Women and Culture: Barbara Ehrenreich
Students analyze the teachings of Barbara Ehrenreich about women and culture. In this women and culture lesson, students define "joy" and "collective joy." Students do field research on these topics and write a field report and a letter...
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Somthing's Fishy
Students, using drawing tools on the computer, or with paper and pencil, diagram and label a fish.
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A Letter to Armadillo
Third graders compose a postcard that includes a short letter, name, address, and postcard design.
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Drawing -Scratchboard
Students choose subject of composition and do sketches in computer lab of flora and fauna contained within their environment.
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Parts of a Plant
Students record observations about parts of plants including leaves, roots, stems, and flowers. They use Kid Pix to draw a picture of a plant and to label the parts of the plant.
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Mixing Up Magic
Students explore the relationship between art and science through experimenting with color, design and recycled materials and creating their own art work.
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Introduction to Keith Haring
Students experience a dance club-like environment one would find in Haring's 1980's. They dress in 80's clothes and learn break dancing moves. They relate the experience to Haring's artwork and explain his influences.
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Figure Cut-Outs
Students create large-scale 3 dimensional forms out of 2-dimensional material. They draw figures in various positions on lightweight poster board. Then they cut them out and fit them together and stapled or taped them into place on a base.
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Banners with a Message II
Students study the work of Keith Haring to explore how art can make social statements. They use a phrase with a positive theme and create an image that depicts the theme, in the Keith Haring style. They work collaboratively to create the...
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Geo Jammin' By DeSign - Day 2, Lesson 10: Wanna Trade?
Students listen to a book that facilitates a discussion of trade and things that people need. They determine what things might be traded.