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Mixing Primary Colors

For Teachers K - 1st
Students demonstrate ways to mix primary colors. In this visual arts lesson, students use gelatin and food coloring to create various color mixtures. Students also use tempra paint to mix colors together.
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Observing Reactions

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Learners use the scientific method to complete to experiments that have visible reactions. In this visible reaction lesson, students participate in an experiment with melting ice and one with inflating a balloon. Learners record their...
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Pine Cone Owls

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students create pine cone owls. In this visual arts activity, students use a pine cone, acorns, glue, and feathers to create an owl pine cone. Students may use paint to decorate their project.
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How To KidPix II

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice using KidPix to create illustrations. In this visual arts lesson, students define key vocabulary words, such as "palette" and "toolbar" to familiarize themselves with the KidPix program. Students create...
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Claycrete Calaveras - Dia de los Muertos

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students create skeletons to celebrate the Day of the Dead. In this visual arts instructional activity, students explore the importance of the Day of the Dead celebrations in the Mexican culture. They create skeletons and decorate them...
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Painting Techniques- Impressionism

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students investigate impressionist painting techniques. In this visual arts lesson, students view paintings by Monet and practice the dot and stroke technique. Students use shades of green and gentle brush strokes to create grass in...
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Landscape Painting

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders paint a landscape that demonstrates the illusion of space.  In this visual arts lesson, 3rd graders paint a creek with reflections as the focus and include images showing foreground, middle ground, and background...
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Garden in a Jar

For Teachers K - 5th
Students construct a simulated garden. In this visual arts lesson, students use a baby food jar and place a small amount of green dough inside of it. Students then poke silk flowers through the dough. Students may decorate the jar using...
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Talk About Art

For Students 4th - 8th
In this visual arts learning exercise, students view two examples of Christian Art and complete the five short answer questions by comparing the two art pieces.
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Exploring Pottery Techniques

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine Native American pottery. In this visual arts lesson plan, students analyze burnished and glazed clay pots. Students study how to create pots from online sources and respond to questions about the process. Extension...
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Implicit Setting

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students draw the setting of a story.  In this setting and context clues lesson plan, students learn how to use textual clues to determine and visualize the setting of stories.  Students discuss the context clues they use to...
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The Farmer Cares for the Land

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore farming by creating visual demonstrations. In this agriculture lesson, students read assigned text about a farmer's duty and identify the events that have taken place in the history of agriculture. Students collaborate...
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T.V. Smarts

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students research visual messages by completing a media quiz. In this television programming lesson, students identify the many programs and commercials which use sexual imagery to sell their program or product. Students discuss methods...
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Julie Chen: Thinking Outside the Book

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Young scholars create an original art book after studying nontraditional boomaking. In this visual arts lesson, students watch a video on the work of Julie Chen and discuss the concept of books as three-dimensional art. Then young...
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Homer's Civil War Veteran: Battlefield to Wheat Field

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine Civil War-themed artwork. In this visual arts lesson, students compare and contrast paintings by Winslow Homer and Timothy O'Sullivan. Students analyze the symbolism in the artwork representing Civil War...
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Still Life

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students investigate still-life drawings. In this visual arts lesson plan, students draw each other pretending to be frozen making sure that they do not simply see the object as the object, but seeing the...
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Mixing Mixed Numbers Art/Creating Fractions

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore number values by participating in class math activities. In this fractions lesson, 3rd graders collaborate with classmates to discuss the technique of adding mix numbers while utilizing paper plates to help...
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The Digestive System

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders simulate how the digestive system works. In this hands-on simulation, 4th graders complete six group activities that help students visualize how our body breaks down food into nutrients.
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Abstract Animals

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students look at several photographs of animals. They compare and contrast their forms by visually breaking the images into simple geometric shapes. Students draw the simple geometric shapes that comprise the animal. They fill in the...
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Awesome Allegories

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Studenets are told that Peter Paul Rubens was born on June 28, 1577, in Siegen, Germany. They create their own allegorical painting, think of a favorite story. Students write a summary of one scene in that story, using Crayola Erasable...
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Phonics Monster Game Suggestion: Change It

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Students play the game "Change It" and practice making words from phonic monster cards. In this "Change It" lesson, students read words and phrases that are used as functional print with visual cues. Students respond to icons, pictures,...
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Addition and Subtraction Word Problems Guided Lesson

For Students 1st - 3rd
Using visuals helps young mathematicians grasp concepts such as addition and subtraction. Here, they use just that to solve three scenarios. In the first scenario, three turtles leave a group of five, and learners determine how many...
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African Masks And Their Impact On Western Art

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Explore the influence of African-style masks on Western art. Learners create individual masks using construction paper. They discuss and explore the techniques used to create these types of masks. The resource includes links to...
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What Is Art?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners discuss the definition of "Art" and are introduced to the richness and complexity of the visual arts in this Art or Art appreciation instructional activity for grades 7 through 12. The instructional activity can be adapted for...

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