Curated OER
Exploring Alaska Foilage In Russian
Seventh graders investigate the concepts of how plants are part of daily culture in Russia. The skills of naming different plants is practiced. Students take a survey of the nature that is found in the area in which they live. This is...
Curated OER
How Much Does a Bear Weigh?
Students estimate how many children in their class it would take to equal the mass of one adult bear. They then weigh and record their measurement on a chart to check their estimate.
Curated OER
Seeing Ancient Worlds
Students view the images from the Nature Images Photo Gallery and identify various elements of nature. They then group the elements into categories and discuss what these images tell about the worlds of ancient Native Americans.
Curated OER
Clock Faces
In this telling time worksheet, students will build an analog clock out of paper and practice telling time. A list of teaching ideas is on page 2.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Little People in Black by D. Lothrop and Company
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Little People in Black by D. Lothrop and Company (1886). It is a Christmas story using silhouettes.
TES Global
Tes: Ppt on Costume Design
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a PowerPoint presentation on Costume Design including its bases in text and vision, colors, and line and silhouette. A worksheet for students is also provided.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Shape and Space in Geometry: Plot Plans and Silhouettes
Challenge yourself to write a plot plan of a perspective drawing. This article begins with an example and then challenges you to do one on your own.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Picturing the Body
An online version of articles and activities from the Exploratorium Magazine, Vol. 23, No. 3. This issue looked at how we are able to examine the inside of the human body, what kinds of technology are used, and how each of them is used...
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Cornell Lab of Ornithology: How to Id Birds
This thorough site describes how you can identify birds by examining their silhouette, field marks, posture, size, flight pattern, and habitat.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Eighteenth Century European Dress
Explore fashion from the 1700's with the slideshow. Includes a discussion of popular styles, textiles and silhouettes.
Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Dinosaur Shadow Box
Create a series of shadow boxes to form a complete silhouette of a dinosaur with this challenge. To complete this challenge, students will use everyday materials and this site to document their process.
Curated OER
Snaith Primary School: Settings: Sunset
A painting of a sunset over silhouettes of trees and a large rock by Tony Newlin.
PBS
Art21: Kara Walker
This artist is best known for exploring the themes of race, gender, and sexuality through silhouetted figures created by light projection.
PBS
Idaho Public Television: Birds of Prey Facts
Dialogue for Kids, a program on Idaho Public Television, offers facts, information, and images of birds of prey. Learn what makes a bird a raptor, what raptors look like in the sky, threats that face these birds, and more! Classroom...
Other
Photography Tips and Techniques
Great tips from a professional photographer on dozens of different topics and issues related to taking the best possible pictures. How to use a flash, how to take an interview portrait, photographing silhouettes, how to photograph glass,...
Other
Council for Environmental Education: Flying Wild: The Birding Beat [Pdf]
Activity that teaches students how to identify birds. Some useful characteristics to watch for include silhouette, habitat, plumage, sounds, and behavior.
Arizona State University
Arts Work: Communicating Feelings Through Shape & Color
A lesson plan to help students understand the use of symbols and images to express their feelings through their artwork. A great lesson plan to boost students' self esteem. Has a link to a site with examples of Kandinsky's work.
Arizona State University
Arts Work: Communicating Feelings Through Shape & Color
A lesson plan to help students understand the use of symbols and images to express their feelings through their artwork. A great lesson plan to boost students' self esteem. Has a link to a site with examples of Kandinsky's work.
Library of Congress
Loc: Poetry 180: Hand Shadows
This one-stanza poem describes a father demonstrating hand shadows while camping in a tent.
Curated OER
The Silhouette of a Nomad Tent at Lake Nam Tso.
Lake Nam Tso in Tibet is presented in 30 quality images. A short description of the area is displayed at the top of the page.
EL Education
El Education: And Justice for All
Students in 11th grade at Tapestry Charter High School created this project during a trimester-long study of constitutional rights and social justice in American history. The learning expedition centered around the question of whether...
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: Kara Walker
Biographical information on Kara walker, an American installation artist who used intricate cut-paper silhouettes, together with collage, drawing, painting, performance, film, video, shadow puppetry, light projection, and animation, to...
ArtLex
Art Lex: Line
This online dictionary of art terms from Artlex is a valuable tool. Line is on the Li page. Just scroll down to Line and read a definition with links or look at a sample works of art by Rembrandt or Richard Long. There are quotes by...
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