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My Favorite Things
Students create a body portraits to depict their favorite things. In this self-expression lesson, students use drawings, paintings, and magazine clippings to fill in their life-size body portraits with pictures representing their...
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Faces of the community (the): Art from the Heart
Students understand the selflessness of the artists Gauguin and Van Gogh. In this art lesson, students produce art work that reflects the diversity in the their school community. Students share their artwork to explain how they show...
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Haring's Heroes
Students collaborate to create a painting in the style of Keith Haring. In this subway art lesson, learners study the distinct style of artist Keith Haring and design a large scale canvas on styrofoam. They study the details of Haring's...
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Photoshop for Fifth Graders: the Basics
Students review the basic tools for Adobe Photoshop. In this Photoshop instructional activity, students choose a picture and discuss its properties. Students use tools to see how pictures are altered. Students use layers to...
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Making Paper Figures
Students develop fine motor skills. In this paper folding lesson, 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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Watercolor Painting- Pointillism with Fruit
Fifth graders explore pointillism painting techniques. In this pointillism painting activity, 5th graders paint fruit using shades and tints. Students use the pointillism techniques along with watercolors to create a layered look....
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All the Colors We Are
Young scholars make a hand print mural. In this painting lesson, students read the book All the Colors We Are and describe the color of their skin. Young scholars learn how to mix paints to create various skin tones, create their...
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Magazine Mosaics
Students create their own mosaic from magazine pieces and cut outs. In this art lesson, students discuss advertising inside of magazines and what ads are the most effective.
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Pieces of Peace
Students study the artwork of Keith Haring and create an original artwork in his style. In this symbiotics lesson, watch a video about the artwork of Keith Haring and create an artwork to deliver a message.
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I Dream in Pictures and Words (Day 1)
Students are introduced to the art of Rene Magrritte and Marc Chagall. Using the internet, they discover the characteristics of Surrealist artists and write a paper. They share their findings with the class and answer discussion questions.
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Note Names & Piano Games
Students identify the letter names of notes, demonstrate simple rhythms, and combine the two to play short melodic phrases using Bug Band. They create their own melodies and play them using Bug Band and various instruments.
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Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy
For decades Bloom's Taxonomy has helped to guide educators' approach to instruction, but as times change and students change, so too must the methods for teaching evolve. Introducing teachers to the new revised...
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Calligraphy: Symbols & Signs - Visual Arts
Students research the forms and significance of calligraphy in traditional and contemporary Chinese society. They design a mixed media scroll on paper, developing symbols for use as calligraphic images. Students describe how selected...
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Landscape Photography
Students photograph the school landscape and create photographic displays from the pictures they take. They discuss the visual characteristics of the school grounds. Working in pairs the role-play as camera and photographer and write...
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Dear Young Philanthropist
Students research the lives of philanthropists from history and role-play as them. They write letters to students explaining their motivations for helping others. They prepare visual presentations of their chosen philanthropists.
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Parts of Speech Museum
Students apply their knowledge of the basic parts of speech while studying them. They create display boards that show visual and written examples of the different parts of speech. The museum consists of project boards with pictures and...
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Oxidation and Combustion: Chemical Reactions in Fire
High schoolers investigate the art and science of pyrotechnics. In this chemistry and computer lesson, students learn about the chemical basis of fire and structure of fireworks. High schoolers then apply their...
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Window Mural
Students analyze visual arts by creating a presentation in their schoolyard. In this mural instructional activity, students identify the work of Keith Haring by researching the web. Students utilize construction paper, markers and...
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Signs of Withdrawal?
Students research Lebanon's recent history, from the 1975 civil war to the protest of occupying Syrian troops in 2005, and create a visual timeline for classroom display.
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Lewis and Clark and the Cottonwoods
Third graders pretend they are museum planners and have to display facts about Lewis and Clarks' Expedition. In this Lewis and Clark lesson plan, 3rd graders research the expedition and display their findings.
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What's Your Line?
Fifth graders collect temperature readings over a period of time, enter the information into a spreadsheet and choose the appropriate graph to display the results.
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Information at a Glance - Using Tables in Mathematics
Students create table to display GED Testing data located in paragraph provided by teacher, use information in table to create appropriate graph, and determine percentage difference between passing scores and failing scores.
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Do-deca-he-dron-It's Greek to Me!
Students create a dodecahedron shaped visual report of the literary elements of a short story.
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Gender Bias in Advertising
Students view different paintings and discuss different advertisements that display gender bias, and redesign an advertisement found in a magazine, removing at least five aspects of the gender bias they find.