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Interpreting Language Arts, Health, and Visual Art

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders draw a magic mask with special powers based on one aspect of health. They write 1-2 paragraphs descibing the mask's special powers. Then they scan the images using a computer software program and write a new paragraph on...
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Book Illustrations and Their Illustrators as Artists-4-6

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students construct relationships between written narratives and book illustrations, and between the narratives in formal visual art and the subject of the visual art. The use of picture book literature provide a context for the lesson.
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Looking at a National Treasure: George Washington

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Learners explain the definition of a portrait. They identify the visual clues that Gilbert Stuart included in his portrait of George Washington. They compare the reproduction to other images of Washington. They discuss the importance of...
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Fantasy Book Report

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders choose a fantasy genre to research and summarize information on in text. They utilize a variety of communication techniques, including oral, visual as well as written/multimedia reports and then present information...
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Inventing and Presenting Unit 3: Persuasive Speaking and Invention Promotion

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars write a proposal for a speech. Students prepare appropriate visuals for use in the proposed speech. Young scholars produce one or more graphs that summarize the results from the experimentation. Students deliver an...
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Evaluating Web Sites

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Young scholars determine how to critically evaluate visual and medias aspects of web sites. They examine the purpose of assigned web sites.
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Payment Parliament

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students investigate how the economy works by role playing in their class.  In this money management lesson, students read parts from a script for use in a role playing lesson simulating the Federal Reserve and their payment...
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Pictures and Print: What's the Difference?

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Pupils watch a PowerPoint presentation. In this early literacy lesson plan, students watch a PowerPoint presentation describing print from pictures and the difference between the two.
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Rain Orchestra

For Teachers 1st
First graders mix secondary colors from primary colors and simulate a rainstorm by using body percussion.
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Creating Student Advertising

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore common advertising strategies used by the media. In this advertising instructional activity, students identify persuasive language in advertisements and construct their own persuasive ad.
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"Reading" Political Cartoons"

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students recognize visual sterotyping in political cartoons and to analyze its use. They speculate as to why political cartoons are so effective. The teacher explains that cartoonists often make use of stereotypes as visual symbols or...
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The Way Editorial Cartoons Work

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders interpret visual language found in political cartoons.
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I'll Take One!

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders collectively create a product, slogan, and advertisements for different types of media. They define different types of appeals such as bandwagon, emotional, glittering generalities, snob appeal, plain-folks appeal,...
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The Real Me!

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine and explain who they are and communicate that person to the viewer through the use of the visual arts. They think about themselves and try to find five things that represent who they are and what they feel is...
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The Mystique of the Artist

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students use mixed media to create personal expression on canvas art supplies bag, design three-dimensional model of their ideal studio space, write character sketch of Robert Harris using images of him, letter he wrote, and his art work...
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"Fall"owing Changes in the Season

For Teachers K
Students create a whole class A-B-"C"eason Book. Each student is responsible for creating a "letter" page relating to changes, adaptations, or other fall concepts. After hard copies of the class ABC books are created, the teachers using...
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Turn of the Century: Songs and Events from 1900 to 1920

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers research songs and events from the time period 1900 to 1920. They work in groups to create visual displays of the songs and historical references. At the conclusion of the unit, a concert will be held to perform the...
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Immigration and Oral History

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine immigration. In this oral and social histories lesson, students analyze primary sources to research immigration history in their community. In this year-long research project, students participate in visual and...
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Creating Scrolls Based on the illustrated TALE OF GENJI

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students identify formal elements that characterize the scroll, work in a variety of media, from traditional to digital, to create their own scrolls, work into digital printout with at least two media, and engage in meaningful critiques...
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Mosaics

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore history of mosaics, and create their own.
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REACTION TIME 2: ZAP!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore how skills can improve through practice and awareness, using a reaction-time activity that focuses on both visual and auditory responsiveness.
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The Magic Box

For Teachers K - 8th
Students use their visual-spatial intelligence to describe imagined boxes. A complete sequence of opening the imagined box and visualizing its contents is performed. Students write a summary of what they "saw" in their imagination.
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Learning to Spend, Learning to Give

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create a monthly budget. In this finances lesson, students learn the terms budget, income and expenses. Students create a monthly spending plan and keep track of what they make and spend for the next 30 days. When complete,...
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Word Play

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the work of Xu Bing. In this visual arts lesson plan, students examine the art piece "Monkeys Grasp for the Moon" and compare it to the Buddhist folktale on which it is based. Students create animated flip books based on...

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