How do careers in the arts contribute to America's gross domestic product? Use an informative infographic that details the economic details of careers in the core arts, including design services, performing arts, and arts education, to...

The Golden Ratio. The Divine Proportion. Yup. It's math and art blended into one colorful activity. Young artists combine colored tissue paper circles and parts of circles to create geometric patterns. As a bonus, kids get to figure out...

Build an interest and appreciation for architecture in your young learners with this fun 10-lesson art unit. Engaging children in using their five senses, the class first observes the environment around them, paying...

The house lights dim, the curtain parts, lights slowly come up, revealing the stage. Before the actors appear, before a word is spoken, the audience is drawn in by the lighting, by the colors, by lines of the set, by the props, and...

Color is the focus of this amazing resource packed with math, social studies, science, and language arts activities. Kids create a color word wall and post symbols, graph the number of objects they find of each color while on a...

Students explore various shapes in the world around them. For this kindergarten art lesson plan, students read books, identify shapes by sides and corners, and draw shapes in sand, sugar, or flour. Extension activities are included.

Third graders investigate world currency by creating their own coin art.  In this government lesson, 3rd graders examine the characteristics of different coins and create their own design for a new one.  Students discuss and...

Use texts and dances to teach inequalities and equations. A sixth-grade unit covers using variables in equations and inequalities to solve problems. Learners show what they know at the end of the unit using two performance tasks, one...

Students discover film making by participating in a music performance.  In this performance arts lesson, students perform music and physical acting to convey an already written script for their peers.  Students collaborate with...

How can art represent math? Use a activity on place value collages to illustrate the different meanings that numbers have in their designated places. Kids observe photographs and paintings that show place value, then work on their own.

Combine math, language arts, music, and dance with an activity focused on "America" from West Side Story. After listening to the song, learners compare the film to Romeo and Juliet, analyze the song's meter, design choreography, plan...

Watch scholars' understanding of fractions bloom. The resource presents a performance task where the fractions are equal parts from the same whole, and mathematicians must use them to solve problems about a grade level garden. Teachers...

Grouchy? Sad? Here's a great resource that shows kids how music can be used to lift their spirits. Kids collect and chart data on the effects of music on emotions. After analyzing the results of their experiment, they develop...

Order up a unit on rational numbers. A unit overview gives a basic outline of instruction and activities on rational numbers for the 7.NS domain. A performance task on profits at pizzerias assesses understanding of the concepts in the...

What fun! Kids cut out, fold, and assemble a party favor bag that even includes a lid.

Trick or treating can be even more fun when kids make their own goodie bags. A materials list, illustrations, templates, and complete directions are included in the resource

Have kids make their own treat or cookie bags using the directions available from this resource

Kids recycle paper towel and/or bath tissue cardboard into colorful trinket boxes that will hold all sorts of treasures. 

Kids create their own gift bags with the help of the directions and templates provided by this resource.

Here's a great collection of templates for collapsible boxes that not only can be used to create great gifts; but the activity can also be used as an exercise in following directions.

A bit complicated but fun. Kids follow step-by-step directions and create a series of five-sided boxes with tops. 

Although this box-making activity looks challenging, it is rated as an easy-to-do craft. The resource includes templates, directions, and illustrations

Kids recycle milk and juice cartons to craft all sorts of items, from boxes to buildings. They can use the provided patterns to decorate their creations or add their own.

Here's a Valentine's Day activity that kids will love. Using the templates provided by this resource, kids craft heart-shaped boxes for gifts or to hold small notes or presents