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An Indian Village: Tepees
Students examine tipis. In this Native American culture lesson, students discuss tipis and their construction as they make them out of cardboard.
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Western Sunsets
Pupils observe and paint sunsets. In this sunsets lesson plan, students look outside and at pictures of sunsets, paint sunsets using water color or tempura paint, and cut out silhouettes from black paper and insert them into the painting.
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KinderArt Painting for kids.
Students understand what complementary colors are. In this painting lesson, students review what happens when colors are mixed. Students recognize that the colors oppose each other on the color wheel are complementary. Students mix...
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Stained Glass Designs
Students, using white glue for lead and chalk pastel for glass, create stained glass designs.
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Yarn Painting
Students create their own yarn painting using glue and scraps of yarn and wool.
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Art and Sole
First graders discuss how culture can be transmitted from generation to generation. In groups, they create a bust of themselves after viewing various artists artwork. They also develop their own dance routine and perform it in front of...
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Exploring Local Architecture
Young scholars examine how to shade a picture of a building. In this sketching a local abbey, students compare an abbey to their Church to find the differences in the architecture. Young scholars practice techniques of shading their...
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Making Paper Figures
Students develop fine motor skills. In this paper folding instructional activity, students make a person out of paper. Students use different shapes of paper for the body and used curled paper for the hair.
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The Amazing and Beautiful Aurora
Students create an oil pastel painting. In this pastel painting lesson, students examine images of the aurora borealis. Students produce an original pastel painting of the aurora.
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It's A Jungle Out There -Tempera
Sixth graders explore master paintings by Rousseau. They explain how the artist creates depth by overlapping images. They design and create an "imaginary" tropical landscape for a tempera painting.
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Creating a Comic Strip
Students examine various comic strips for their elements of humour, plot, drawing style, and basic design; they then create their own comic strip.
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Olympic Sports Coloring Activity
In this Olympic sports worksheet, pupils color the spaces according to the color chart to learn the various summer Olympic sports. Students color 8 colors.
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ICT Activity 5 Modeling with Elmer
Students are introduced to the 'Elmer' stories. They take Elmer to different places through their story writing and painting. Students are shown how to use some painting tools. They experience a 'virtual' visit from Elmer the Elephant....
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Critters & Complementary Colors
Students discover how specific colors compliment each other. Students use paints and pictures of animals to create a picture with analogous color harmony. They explain the characteristics of analogous colors.
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Communicating Through Pictures
Students examine photographs, paintings and drawings convey meaning and mood. The ability to 'read' a picture is an important literary skill. This activity gives students the opportunity to tell a story through pictures by creating a...
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All Kinds of People - Myself
Students complete activities to study artists and self-portraits. In this self-portraits lesson, students make a collection of photographs of themselves from their lives and draw self-portraits using a mirror. Students draw portraits of...
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Monkey Mosaic
Students use tiles to create a mosaic of haring people based on Keith Haring. For this mosaic lesson plan, students first draw the design and then create the same design with tiles.
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Kumara From the Farmer's Field
Students discuss the essay, Kumara From the Farmer's Field and examine strategies for organizing facts for future reference. For this reading comprehension lesson, students pretend they are advertising executives who must create a...
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Designing a CD Cover
Tenth graders design a CD cover and compare and contrast traditional and drawing methods with the use of AppleWorks and Photoshop software. They create a professional design layout using AppleWorks, and present their design in the form...
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Making a Poster
Students make a poster using scrapbook materials. In this poster lesson plan, students use a paper-cutter, different paper backgrounds, stickers, and more.
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The Voice of the Individual
Students examine the role of the individual in society as a whole. Individually, they design and create their own calling card as used in the past. They put together an art kit in which they are able to use outdoors. To end the...
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An Artistic List of Ways to Make Flowers
Young scholars use cupcake holders, paint, then add green construction paper stems and leaves to make flowers.
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Ship-Fish or Fish-Ship
Young scholars read two books about fishing and ships. After viewing portraits, they identify and describe the various types of sailing vessels. They discuss how the artist showed water and detailed the areas around the ships. They...
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Group Portraits: Then and Now
Students use photographs to examine ship masters and shipyard workers. As a class, they explore other group portraits and discuss the information that can be found from the photos. As a group, they create their own group portrait mural.