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Tie Snakes

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders make snakes out of ties. The students sew the bottom of the ties shut and stuff them with shredded plastic bags, the kind from a grocery store. They then sew them shut at the top. The students then sew on button eyes and a...
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Landscape

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine works of landscape artists and create their own artwork.
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General Knowledge Quiz

For Students 5th - 6th
In this general knowledge worksheet, students attempt to answer 30 trivia questions on subjects ranging from art, geography, films, books and popular culture. The directions say to listen and answer. It is unclear how this is to be used;...
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Painting/technology "and You Were There!"

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders study Impressionism through the works of Claude Monet. They do a self portrait in the Impressionist style.
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Books for Teaching About Colors

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students explore colors through books. In this lesson students read books about colors. The lesson is divided by color and within each color there is a list of books about that color. Moreover each color section also includes an activity...
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Whose Shoes?

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students explore the meaning of objects. Students conduct research on the history of shoes, and write an imaginary story about a pair of shoes. They host a group presentation to share their stories.
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Artist in Schools Program

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore the medium of watercolor paints. They observe basic watercolor painting techniques (such as wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry and dry-on-dry). Then students experiment with these techniques on small squares of watercolor paper.
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Women With a Pink

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students observe the portrait Woman with a Pink by Rembrandt. They determine how the artist uses symbols to portray his character. They write poems using symbols.
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Storytelling Electronically

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the features of Microsoft PowerPoint. They use the advanced features to develop an electronic storybook. Students use a flatbed scanner and the Internet to develop their storybooks.
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Landscape

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Learners create a landscape or cityscape.  In this landscape lesson, students discover the definition of a landscape and describe various examples.  Learners choose three images and write "postcards" from each of the three landscape...
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Lines: Invisible Journeys

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students create visual roadmaps and follow them with gesture to create lines. They draw lines with a white crayon on paper and then paint to create a crayon resist.
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Lesson Plan for Scheherazade by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners study the music of Russian composer, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. They compare the sounds individual instruments make. They listen to and study the story of "Scheherazade" and compare it to other pieces that also portray a story or...
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Rob & Steal

For Students 7th - 9th
In this action verb instructional activity, students choose the appropriate action verb in ten sentences to make each one grammatically correct.
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Money Sentences

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this money worksheet, students fill in the blanks to sentences about money. Students complete 10 multiple choice questions about money.
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Sixth Graders Express Themselves

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders demonstrate an understanding of expressionism by creating a portrait of a friend who inspires a mood or feeling.
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Impressionists and Post Impressionists

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders will explore the use of clay and create ceramic artwork that is influenced by the study of impressionism. The assessment is given according to creativity when working with clay and ceramics.
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Table Murals

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students define what a mural is. They make their own murals on paper. Students vote on the following subjects: Recess, Disney Movies, Alien Planet, Cafeteria, and Big City. They draw murals in the teacher's preferred medium, students...
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Impressionist PowerPoint

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students research an artist's life and create an artistic, attractive, organized PowerPoint presentation about him/her.
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Painting Music

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students convey the concept that music expresses different moods. Using paint, students draw various artistic elements that convey the mood of a piece of music they hear in class. They complete an analysis of classical paintings and how...
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Enlarged Pastel Portraits

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students select a person whom they admired and get a picture of that person. Then they go through a lesson on creating and using grids. They learned how to properly use a grid to increase the scale when they create a drawing.
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A Look at Judith Leyster

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students consider the question, "How do I want people to see me?" as they examine the self-portrait of Judith Leyster. They develop and refine characterization of a subject through poetry writing
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North Carolina Textured Landscape

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore the artistic ideas of landscape, foreground, middle ground, and background through a creative painting project. While this is written for North Carolina, teacher may adapt for any state/region.
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Emotion Commotion

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners discuss and identify the different types of emotions. Using various colors, they explain the emotional impact of them. They draw four faces on a piece of construction paper showing more of the emotion they have chosen. They...
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Growing Learners: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Investigating Plants and Flowers

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Engage young scientists in these inquiry-based lesson ideas to spring into learning about nature.

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