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Panning for Gold and Magnetite

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students pan for minerals in a stream and discover why magnets attract magenitite but not nonmagnetic grains. They participate in the actual panning process and bag samples to be examined in class. Students recognize minerals by color...
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Habitats and Adaptations

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Learners research and describe the habitat and adaptations of a reef animal. After the student is assigned a habitat, they design and draw a cresture adapted to eat each food and to live in each habitat.
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Zany Wire Sculpture

For Teachers K - 8th
Young artists create a freestanding 3-dimensional sculpture using wire and modeled "clay" pieces. This immensely creative and engaging lesson plan should get your kids excited, because the medium is unusual to work with. Everything you...
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Around the Bend

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Learners examine the art elements of the Inca "Large Jug." For this visual art lesson, students identify the colors, pattern, and shape of the Inca "Large Jug." Learners then draw a design on a flat and curved surface and discuss the...
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Wandering Ink Drawings

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Kids explore how they can go with the flow and be flexible when they encounter "happy accidents." They use ink and watercolor to create flowing and unplanned art pieces. 
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Work Patterned on Mondrian

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students study and describe aesthetic properties in art. They use criteria to participate in critiques.
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Imagining the Environment: Introduction

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Learners examine the importance of the environment including the setting, lights, sound, costumes, and props for a play or story. They visualize the appropriate environments and practice applying the techniques.
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Drawing of Animal Of Student's Choice

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students create a drawing of an animal, real or imagined. They develop their artistic skills and work to develop exhibition quality art. After observing magazine pictures, students choose what they will draw. They create a background for...
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Canvas Dinnerware

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Take recycling to a new height. Learners use china or plastic dinnerware from thrift stores to create great works of art.  They discuss great works of art, talk about techniques, and design their own piece.
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Photo Boxes

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
In this artistic worksheet, learners experience decorating a shoe box with old magazines, calendars and glue to keep their photos in or to make as a gift for someone else.
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"Kookie Kitties" - Paul Klee: Finger Puppets

For Teachers K - 4th
Learners examine and discuss the painting, Cat and Bird, by Paul Klee. They identify the various types of lines, shapes, and colors in the painting, and design and create finger puppet versions of the animals from the painting.
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Comparing Sizes And Shapes

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners compare, resize, and check various shapes by size using a comparison mat from the MathKeys program. Working in pairs, they place three similar shapes on the screen and state which is the largest and smallest in area. They also...
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Color and Composition for the Creative Quilter

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students explore free-motion machine quilting through three exercises. They enhance patterns, make their own patterns and stitch a realistic quilted drawing. Students create a color wheel and develop a variety of methods that enable them...
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Naturally Nubby Numerals

For Teachers K - 6th
Pupils create numbers with personality. They discuss how people communicate using number, works of art, and words formed with letters. Students find examples of how personality can be reflected through shapes, colors, textures, and...
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The Shape of Things

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this family activity worksheet, students work with family members to discover the various shapes of objects around them. Students complete the presented activity and respond to 2 short answer questions about what they have discovered...
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Collage/Assemblage

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify different shapes and patterns. They locate France on a world map and examine the works of artist, Henri Matisse. They discover shapes that are related to Math.
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Apulian Oinochoe

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Learners analyze Greek vase painting and create their own vase art. In this vase painting lesson, students analyze the design element shape and the relationship between figure and ground. Learners design a figure/ground relationship...
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Clouds

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students read books, cut out shapes, and more to learn about clouds. For this clouds lesson plan, students go outside and look at cloud shapes and voice what they see.
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Mondrian, Math, and Amazing Colors

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students study geometric shapes, lines, and the primary colors as they create Mondrian-like art prints.
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Colors and Mural Painting

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders identify shape styled by color and hue techniques, and individually design a variation of color mixtures once positioned on paper.
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Space Shapes

For Teachers 1st
In this Geometry worksheet, 1st graders are challenged to color and identify different shapes using the theme of outer space and a rocket ship.
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Design Motifs and Eggs

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students create an Easter egg that displays at least one secondary color, one primary color, and one motif of design.
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The Different Shape

For Students Pre-K - K
In this geometry worksheet, students identify and color the shape that is different in each row. There are ten different shapes shown on the sheet.
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Shape Hide and Seek

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify different shapes. They participate in a game of hide and seek to find different shapes. They categorize the shapes as well.

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