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Creating and Designing a Database of Class Library Books
Students are shown how to create their own database using different field types. They are taugt how to design their own layout-chaning font or size and color of text, adding background color and clipart. Students interrogate their...
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Seaweed
For this painting technique worksheet, 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...
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Enchanted Views
Students will create a garden with specific fabrics to a set grid (p 73) to fit the pull-out pattern of the gate. This pattern will be transferred onto the foreground which in turn will be basted onto the garden. A hand needle-turn...
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Creating Space
Students use simple lines and shapes to draw objects, figures, or animals.They explore the process of printmaking and making multiples, use repetition of simple shapes to create complex images, and inquire about a contemporary artist's...
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Flag Day
Ninth graders design a flag for any flag day of their choice. They may select an existing group but need to redesign the logo or make one up of their own, limiting their colors to a maximum of three or four to keep costs down. They make...
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Platypus Coloring Page
In this animal coloring learning exercise, students will color a picture of a cartoon platypus. Students can draw and color a background.
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Whale World Coloring Sheet
In this coloring learning exercise, learners decorate a ship that illustrates a whaling ship similar to those that can be found at the Whale World historic whaling station in the state of Washington.
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Charlie's Extremely Silly Hat
In this drawing worksheet, learners add a feather to Charlie's hat. They color the picture. Students are encouraged to make Charlie's hat very silly.
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Lost Sheep Worksheet 2
In this picture clues worksheet, 2nd graders observe an illustration and answer 3 questions about the picture. Students must also draw a picture of their own family and label names.
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Rainbow Spinner
In this rainbow spinner learning exercise, students participate in making a rainbow spinner in order to investigate the splitting and mixing of light. Students study the theory of persistence of vision.
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A Sense of Community
Learners brainstorm characteristics they associate with a community. In groups, they discover the role of a town square and create their own model. They also identify the various roles in keeping the community going and role play their...
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Weather or Not!
Students are introduced to the different climate regions of Canada. In groups, they discuss ways in which people are affected by the weather and how it limits their outdoor activities. They use artwork by Robert Harris to predict what...
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Body and Mindscapes
Third graders view artwork by Robert Harris of landscapes and mountains. Using a map, they locate and identify the physical features of the Canadian province they live in. In groups, they use one of his paintings and add music to...
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Technology as Change: The Atlantic Canada Fishery
Ninth graders use the internet to research the history of the Atlantic Canada Fishery and how it was different from today. Using this information, they write a research paper and share it with their classmates. In groups, they...
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Signal Flags
Students examine the use of signal flags on vessels. They use measurements and symmetry to create their very own signal flag. Students work together and as individuals to solve problems and express their ideas.