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Accenting the Negative Space in Ceramics
Fourth graders apply knowledge of the elements of design and hand building techniques in clay to illustrate the concept of negative space by cutting shapes out of the form to create an intricate pattern.
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Delta, Delta, Where is the Delta?
Students explore several images of Earth from space. They identify parts of deltas. They observe, label, and measure delta images, taken from space. They consider how deltas form and why they differ in shape.
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Friendship Quilt
Third graders name different kinds of shapes and then discuss what they know about them an what they would like to learn using a K-W-L chart whole group. They listen to the book, THE GREEDY TRIANGLE and then retell it to the class. They...
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Name That Cloud
Students explore the various categories of clouds and how they are formed. Through use of the Digital Atlas of Idaho, students research cloud types and formations. They use their information to answer questions on a worksheet. provided...
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Cleopatra
Students explore, analyze and study Abstraction through an ancient Greek sculpture and then create a self-portrait utilizing geometric shapes. They actively seek how to connect the past to the present through the medium of sculpture via...
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It's a Bug's Life - Crayon Resist
Students reate an original crayon resist painting of a bugs life. They Choose 1 or more bugs to draw in composition and simplify objects into simple shapes, forms, and patterns students draw objects with spontaneity and imagination.
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Personal Clay Box
Seventh graders discover how to assemble and finish a lidded box-like form from slabs of clay between soft and leather hard. They gain an appreciation for ceramic art.
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Saltdough Ladybug
Students make salt dough and then fashion it into the shape of a lady bug, shich they later paint after it has been baked.
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Investigating Nets and Polyhedra
Fifth graders create a net for a given polyhedron. They determine the corresponding polyhedron for a given net. Students investigate several polyhedra (cube, tetrahedron, and one of their choosing) and their corresponding nets. They...
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Marriage of Visual and Thematic Aspects of Herbert's Poetry
Eighth graders describe the relationship between the visual aspects of "Easter Wings" and the poem's subject, and theorize about the poet George Herbert's motivations in constructing the poem this way. They demonstrate their ability to...
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What's Your Angle
In this angle worksheet, students identify five shapes and then place them together to form a square. Afterward, they answer three questions regarding the number of right, acute and obtuse angles. This one-page worksheet contains a total...
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Estimation
Third graders gain an understanding of estimation as an educated guess. They explore measuring and how looking at various object size and shape can help form ones guess towards estimation. They use dinosaurs for an estimation activity.
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Body Words
Young scholars use their bodies to form the letters to spell each of the five words that they were given. They must spell the word correctly and the teacher must be able to read the word from left and right on their "baseline." The...
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Glaciers
In this glaciers worksheet, students complete 12 different questions related to glaciers. First, they complete the 2 tables that illustrate the similarities and differences between continental and valley glaciers. Then, students identify...
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The Surface Area of a Cylinder
Students measure the circumference of a cylinder. In this cylinder lesson plan, students use round container lids and flexible rectangles to measure the circumference of the cylinder. They put the shapes together to make their own...
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Egg-ceptional Poetry Writing
Students recognize that eggs have nutritional value. In this eggs lesson, students create poetry for a shape book on eggs. Students participate in additional games and activities about the egg.
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Meanings of everyday words and symbols
Students find the meanings of everyday words and symbols. In this symbol instructional activity, students are broken up into 3 groups: below, at and above grade level. They use cereal boxes, pizza boxes, and granola bar boxes in order to...
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Apulian Oinochoe
Students analyze Greek vase painting and create their own vase art. For this vase painting lesson, students analyze the design element shape and the relationship between figure and ground. Students design a figure/ground relationship...
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Blick Liquid Watercolor
Students explore the use of watercolors in the making of paintings that incorporate the use of shapes and overlapping them into new ones. The skills of using positive and negative space is strengthened as they are applied in these...
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Creative Body Movement
At the end of this lesson, students will perform a brief dance movement and will demonstrate the use of the three postures correctly, safely, and creatively. Students observe group dances and are asked to recall interesting shapes and...
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Spaces and Places
Students identify three-dimensional forms in various buildings and construct three-dimensional paper forms.
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Mapping Africa
Young scholars identify the location of parallel and meridian coordinates. They illustrate their understanding of the physical shape of the continent of Africa through a mapping activity, then explain the processes that have influenced...
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T H E P O W E R O F A R C H I T E C T U R E
Students arecognize the architecture of another culture, how the architecture of a people records their history, explore artistic elements, explore and use geometric concepts of shape, pattern, and symmetry.
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Fronts
Fourth graders define cold and warm fronts, explain how they are formed and they ways that they affect the weather.
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