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Static Electricity

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars engage in a lesson that is concerned with the concept of static electricity. They conduct an experiment with balloons and make observations of how it works. The data is collected and written down and they define positive,...
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The Sharp Adaptations of Porcupines

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this porcupine worksheet, students learn about how porcupines adapt to their lives in the woods and how they use their quills. After reading a short text and analyzing the labeled pictures, students answer 3 short answer questions.
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Ideal Objects

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students make connections between two design objects intended for different purposes and analyze the social and political meaning in the designs. For this design analysis lesson, students complete image based discuss activities. Students...
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Conceptual Art

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students explore the different ways language is used in conceptual art. For this conceptual art lesson, students analyze artworks that emphasize ideas over form and the methods used in conceptual art. Students work in pairs to read and...
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The House on a Waterfall

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students analyze Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater house. in this architecture analysis lesson, students analyze the pictures of the home and discuss Wright's style. Students research the similarities and differences in Wright's work and...
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First Aid Gives Pets a Second Chance

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Young scholars demonstrate basic animal first-aid techniques. Students practice these skills on stuffed animals, responding to their injuries promptly. Young scholars work together in groups to practice these new found skills. Students...
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How Animals Prepare for the Winter

For Teachers K
Students study animals. In this hibernation lesson, students are read Stranger in the Woods and they discuss what various animals do in their habitat during the winter. They work as a class to create their own hibernation environment...
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Machinery In Society

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars explore technology by completing a worksheet in class. In this common machinery lesson, students define the different designs that make simple machines work such as wheels, pulleys and gears. Young scholars utilize verbs...
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Development of a Nutritional Snack

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students develop a new line of nutritional snacks. They work in teams to submit a proposal for a snack that not only tastes good, but is nutritional as well. Their end-product consists of four parts: background information, developing...
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Linear Sculpture

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students discuss how artists communicate visually in their work using the elements of design. The elements of design should be used as the building blocks of the structure you are trying to create. The elements of design are form, space,...
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American Chestnut

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers discuss importance of American Chestnut tree, explore its value and uses, examine how it has almost become extinct, and identify ways certain groups are working to help regain American Chestnut tree population through...
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Symbolism in Sculpture

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students use criteria developed in class to evaluate which of their own sketches would make the best symbolic sculpture. In this sculpture symbolism lesson, students work in pairs to create a sculpture and define its symbolic meaning....
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Neighborhood Mini-Mural

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Learners study the work of Keith Haring. In this art instructional activity, students create chalk drawing similar to the works of Keith Haring. Learners create a mural using the chalk drawings.
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Land Art

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students use natural materials outside to create a work of art. In this land art lesson plan, students plan their sculpture inside in one day and create it outside over a period of 2 days.
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Simple Machines, Survivor-Style

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students apply the principles of simple machines to create events in a wacky obstacle course. They work with a partner to prepare a visual presentation and an expository description of the obstacle course. Each group sequentially...
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Circuits and Conductors

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate the concepts of circuits and conductors. In this circuits and conductors lesson set, 4th graders watch demonstrations of circuits and look at images to identify whether they are complete circuits. They test...
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Dream Bed

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners view and discuss two beds in the Getty collection and design and write descriptions of imaginary beds. For this imagery beds lesson plan students have to describe and compare/contrast works of art, orally and in writing. They...
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The Great Art of Henri Matisse

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students discover the artistic works of Henri Matisse, and examine what his work means. In this art lesson plan, students observe the different paintings/collages of Henri Matisse, eventually creating works of their own based on his style.
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Revealing Process

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students investigate the method of collage in art in part of a study of Dada and Surrealist art. In this art analysis lesson plan, students explore how artists incorporated materials from everyday life into their art works. Students...
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Performance into Art

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students explore two works of art of performance art. In this performance art lesson, students analyze performance art in the examples of Yves Klein and Joseph Beuys. Students complete image based discussion activities. Students research...
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Tangram Discovery

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students develop an understanding and enjoyment of math concepts and cultural awareness by working with tangrams.
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Build A Birdhouse

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students work together to design and build a birdhouse. They research a bird of their choice and build the birdhouse that means that bird's specifications. They discover the importance of designing.
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Boat Building

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students design and contrast a boat made out of aluminum foil. They test the boats to see which boat floats the best using three different solutions and steel ball weights. Students work on their own to construct a boat of their own...
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Plant Life of the Rainforest

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students study pictures of tropical rainforests and discuss its stratified character. Students then work with a partner to make a scale drawing of the rainforest strata.

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