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EASY (AND CHEAP) CRYSTAL GROWING

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students grow salt crystals by making a saturated solution of table salt and let the solution sit around and evaporate.
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Jin Soo Kim

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine and discuss a sculpture by the artist Jin Soo Kim. They explore and identify basic sculpture techniques, and create a sculpture using found objects, plaster, and cardboard.
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Natural Wonders of China And Japan

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students identify some of the attributes of China and Japan and compare and contrast the way Chinese, Japanese, and American artists represent nature in art. The lesson is for upper-elementary classrooms.
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Non-Objective Constructed Sculpture

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students begin their examination of non-objective artwork. Individually, they participate in activities in which they take designs within other images and use them for their focus in their art. They create a sculpture with the new...
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Camels and Pyramids

For Teachers Pre-K - 12th
Students examine and create artwork. In this visual arts lesson plan, students examine the motif present in "Camels and Pyramids." Students design their own motifs that they incorporate into a painted and stenciled piece.
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DNA: What Does It Mean?

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders explore DNA using online tutorial. They perform their own DNA extraction from a clove of garlic and identify the key components of DNA.
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Out and About-Creating Design

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students demonstrate the elements of design by creating a digital photography portfolio of photos taken in and arond the scool. The edit photos using Photoshope to emphasize the element of desing in each phot.
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Still-Life Painting: Arranging Nature

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine and paint still life paintings. In this still life painting lesson, students look at pictures of European still life paintings and determine the characteristics when using an opaque medium. They use an opaque medium to...
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Still Life Painting: Arranging Nature

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students choose meaningful objects for a still-life arrangement and paint it using watercolors and write an artist’s statement. In this still life art lesson, students identify and analyze the characteristics of a still-life painting and...
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Flat Earth Society

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore map distortion. In this geography lesson, students compare Mercator projection maps to globes in order to understand the strengths and weaknesses of projection maps.
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Perspective

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Learners create oil pastel landscape paintings in this middle-level Art lesson on perspective, horizons, foreground, background, and middle ground. The lesson includes resource links to books on teaching art and perspective.
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The Structure of the Galaxy

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Learners infer the galaxy shape.  In this structure of the galaxy instructional activity students observe the distribution of objects in the sky and answer questions.
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Matter

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students complete a unit of activities to learn about states of matter and how to measure matter. In this matter lesson, students complete 8 lessons to learn about matter, its states, and how to measure matter.
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Still-Life Painting: Arranging Nature Lesson 3

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify and analyze the characteristics of European still-life paintings. They paint still-life arrangements using various opaque medium techniques.
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Drawing On Gray Toned Paper

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners create an artwork that uses organizational principles and functions to solve a visual arts problem. The piece creates the illusion of transparency used to unify a work of art that demonstrates that light advances and darks recede.
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Personality Plus

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create "Personality Box" and present to classmates using specific speaking skills.
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Determination of Phosphates

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Learners engage in a laboratory lesson in order to increase understanding of the impact of phosphates at the chemical and ecological levels. The lab exercise is completed with the goal of getting them to predict the outcomes and future...