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Activities Using Music From Saint-Saens & Moussorgsky

For Teachers K - 3rd
Student create a fish and listen to music while imagining their fish are swimming.  In this music activity, students identify instruments played and move their fish to the movement.  Students work with kangaroos and elephants...
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Dancing to New Heights

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Pupils identify proper body alignment through experiencing proper sitting, standing or prone positions. They identify and demonstrate different types of movements.
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MUSICAL MYSTERIES

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners examine how music can influence our feelings, describe things, and create special effects.
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Surrealism

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders research several surrealist artists, e.g. Dali, Magritte, etc., and analyze and compare their styles. They apply their knowledge to their own drawings in pastel of flowers and plants.
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Keyboard and the Grand Staff

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the treble and bass staffs, naming the lines, spaces, and locating middle C. Individually, students complete a word game and then compare their answers with a partner. They sight-read the grand staff and explore ways...
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The Adoration of Shepherds

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Learners create bas-relief sculptures of themselves after studying the principles of bas-relief sculpture.
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Creating a Bas-Relief Sculpture

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students create a small bas-relief sculpture of an animal in clay. They roll out a background, and build up the clay on the back ground to represent themselves and an animal. Pieces are dried and fired, then combined with others to...
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Fantasy Visualization

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Learners view and discuss a selection of paintings from Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, and other Surrealist artists. They play a game in which each person in a group writes a sentence and passes it on to the next person without letting...
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Movement Adventure

For Teachers K
Students discover movement and pantomime techniques in this adventurous story telling experience for kindergarten. Assessment is done through a short question and answer session and students drawing the "adventure".
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Edward Burtynsky's Ship Breaking

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders view Edward Burtynsky's artwork that represents ship breaking. They view images of recycling, the water cycle, rusted metal, and ships to determine factors that threaten the existence of a particular habitat of an...
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Happy Accidents with Watercolors

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Young scholars practice the basic characteristics of painting with watercolors. They learn basic color theory using the color wheel and will be able to identify primary and secondary colors.
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Readers Theatre using an Indonesian folktale

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners read a short play based on the Indonesian folktale Cicak and Kancil and complete related activities.
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Sound and Hearing

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students discover how sound is produced by objects and picked up and heard by humans. Using musical instruments, they identify how the quality can affect the loudness, pitch and tone of the sound. They develop their own instrument or a...
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Exploring the Jungles of Rousseau

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore the masterworks of Henri Rousseau and accurately interpret masterworks of Rousseau. Students effectively demonstrate visually and orally an understanding of the content of masterworks of Rousseau and thoughtfully reflect...
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Patterns

For Students K
In this patterning worksheet, students study shape patterns and decide which shape will come next in the given sequence. Students complete 5 questions, circling the correct shape for each.
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Cut Outs: Shapes and Symbols

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students create collages based on Juan Quick-to-See Smith's "Ode to Chief Seattle." For this shapes, symbols and Native American lesson, students examine the "Ode to Chief Seattle" and Henri Matisse's cutout work. Students design their...
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Drawing Straight Lines

For Students Pre-K - 1st
For this pre-printing practice worksheet, learners use straight lines to connect a set of dots, then color the resulting picture. Page has multiple links to additional resources.
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Crafts: Dioramas

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students use the Internet to explore how to make dioramas using a shoebox. They are to create their own and show to the class.
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Mi Casa es Tu Casa

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students make animated houses using slab-built clay ceramic techniques. They treat the surface of the house with a technique known as majolica.
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Seal Drawing

For Students K - 1st
In this coloring learning exercise, learners examine a black line drawing of a cartoon-style seal character. Students color the picture.
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Moles Maze

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this maze instructional activity, students figure out the most efficient way to help a mole find its way through a tunnel through a maze.
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Examining Artwork by Ford Madox Brown (1821-'93) Work 1863

For Students 5th - 7th
In this painting examination instructional activity, students look at a painting by Ford Madox Brown before answering questions about the work. They color a picture on the page using the given directions which helps they interpret the...
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Do You Live On A Farm?

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this do you live on a farm worksheet, students describe can detail all the activities happening in the detailed picture that is associated with being on a farm. Underneath the image of the farm the words, "Do you live on a Farm?" are...
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Be an Artist: Spotted Hyena

For Teachers 3rd
In this science worksheet, 3rd graders will use visual clues in a grid to complete an exact image replica. Following the original line segments in each box, students will create the image of a spotted hyena.