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Still-Life Painting: Arranging Nature

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners examine and discuss still-life paintings and develop a definition for the genre. They paint their own still life paintings from direct observation.
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Theorem Painting

For Teachers K - 6th
Students examine the many types of folk art at a museum. They create their own theorem painting by following the steps given to them.
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Haring's Heroes

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students collaborate to create a painting in the style of Keith Haring. In this subway art lesson, learners study the distinct style of artist Keith Haring and design a large scale canvas on styrofoam. They study the details of Haring's...
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Painting a Landscape

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this landscape painting worksheet, learners follow the directions to create a picture of hills, a ploughed field, trees and hedges. There are no picture examples; students read the step by step instructions.
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Landscape Painting

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders paint a landscape that demonstrates the illusion of space.  In this visual arts instructional activity, 3rd graders paint a creek with reflections as the focus and include images showing foreground, middle ground, and...
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Take Your Pick of "Beary" Fun Activities.

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students complete an integrated unit on bears. They read numerous books about bears, create a bear puppet, act-out stories, create a polar bear painting, participate in a Teddy Bear Picnic, and conduct a Teddy Bear parade.
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Fruit And Veggie Prints

For Teachers K - 6th
Students discover the art of printmaking and practice painting skills in this Art instructional activity for the elementary classroom. Paints, brushes, sponges, paint trays, and fruits and vegetables are all required to produce the...
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Apple: Bare to Pick

For Teachers K - 4th
Students investigate the seasons of the apple tree. In tree seasons lesson, students use a sun model and a globe to study the tilt of the Earth to create the seasons. Students discuss the tilt and the seasons. Students discuss...
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Fermi Area

For Students 11th - 12th
Discover creative ways to use surface area formulas. In the assessment task, scholars apply estimation strategies to determine surface area in non-routine problems. They consider surface area of kitchen sponges, rock salt crystals, and...
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Let's Go Exploring!

For Teachers K - 12th Standards
Use a Courbet painting of a cave or tunnel opening to reinforce the importance of descriptive writing. Writers of all ages use sensory details to describe what the scene depicts as they pretend to be in the painting. Then they imagine...
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First-Day-of-School Activity: The Kissing Hand

For Teachers K - 2nd
Looking for an interactive back to school activity? Start by reading the book The Kissing Hand, and having your class discuss their feelings about the first day of school. They trace their hand onto paper, cut out the paper hand, paint a...
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How To Make a Clay Monoprint

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students create a clay monoprint. In this ceramics instructional activity, students use an image on a plaster slab and transfer it to clay. Students paint the details of the image.
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Phonics -- Alphabet Activities for Letters Aa and Ii

For Teachers K
Pupils practice saying the letters "a" and "i". They examine and identify objects that begin with those letters and sponge paint the letters. They practice with all the letters in the alphabet this way.
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Simon Edwards Watercolor Lesson Techniques Resource Pack

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore the art of watercolor while discovering specific techniques used to create color. In this watercolor techniques lesson, students examine a variety of sample watercolor arrangements, practice the steps involved in...
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My First Print

For Teachers K - 3rd
Practice printmaking with a fun lesson. After observing images, class members use the listed materials, such as stamps and sponges, create their own prints. They experiment with layering, pressure, and paint colors.
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Red and Blue

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young elementary learners listen to the story Red & Blue and participate in a collaborative project where they paint a picture using abstract shapes. Then they interpret classmates' abstract shapes and write or tell a story about...
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Mixed Media Ocean Art

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students design pictures of ocean environments. For this art lesson, students use mixed media art materials to develop a picture that depicts the ocean environment. They use paint, sand paper and various basic art materials.
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Seaweed

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this painting technique activity, students use paint to create pieces of seaweed. They mix primary colors to produce brown Students drag a sponge across the outline of a piece of seaweed. They use their fingers to create the effect of...
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Wrap It Up for Chanukah!

For Teachers K - 6th
Prepare gifts for the eight nights of Hanukkah with a fun and artistic lesson. Learners use various materials to make an array of unique gifts, including splatter paintings, decorated flowerpots, and stained glass designed with crayons.
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What is a Cloud?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students identify what clouds are made of. In this weather science lesson, students look at clouds outside the window and draw what they see in their journals. Students read the book It Looked Like Spilled Milk and identify what clouds...
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Layers of the Forest

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars explore rain forests.  In this rain forest ecosystems lesson, students identify and describe the layers of the rain forest. Young scholars paint and decorate a large rain forest mural. Students write riddles about animals...
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Pointillism Landscapes

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works of art, use watercolors to create effects of light, color, and shadow, consider what ideas are important and what ideas they want to visually communicate, and paint their own...
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Crayon Resist Fall Leaves

For Teachers K - 2nd
Pupils create examples of fall leaves using crayons, paints, and white paper in this fall Art lesson for the early-elementary classroom. Emphasis is placed upon a class lecture/discussion about why leaves change color prior to the lesson.
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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom ABC Prints

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students practice the alphabet. In this ABC lesson, students read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and identify the letters of the alphabet in the story. Students then make ABC prints using sponges.

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