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\nCityscapes\n

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\nA perfect resource for an art teacher of any grade. First, click on the resource's second tab, entitled \"Activities,\" to find four unique grade-specific lesson all based on the theme of cityscapes.  Each activity utilizes the...\n
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\nLearning to Look, Looking to Learn - Sunday Morning\n

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\nJerome Myers' depiction of the urban landscape in \"Sunday Morning\" is the focus of a series of activities that asks viewers to examine how an artist uses the elements of a painting to tell a story. The resource packet includes an...\n
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\nLesson: Mathias Poledna: Crystal Palace\n

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\nFilm analysis takes critical thinking, connections, and context. Upper graders look at the film installation, Crystal Palace in terms of the film makers choices, presentation, and perspective of truth. After an analytical discussion...\n
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\nBorders and Community: Early 20th Century Chicago Neighborhoods and Ethnic Enclaves\n

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\nChicago is one city, four neighborhoods, and countless nationalities. The lesson explores the ethnic division of Chicago in the early twentieth century. Academics read primary sources, analyze maps, and tour an online exhibit to...\n
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\nWhat's Shaking? Three-Lesson Unit\n

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\nYour young architects use the Internet to research tall structures or sky scrapers to help in the design of their scale drawings. This is lesson one of three in which learners design, build, and test model skyscrapers for seismic safety....\n
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\nExploring Geometry in the Real World\n

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\nYoung scholars find real-world examples of a variety of geometric shapes. They conduct research, record observations, and write descriptions. They create a classroom cityscape and highlight the information they gathered. They present an...\n
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\n\"Quick-Sketch\n\n
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\nQuick-Sketch Artist Tips on Mind Mapping the Urban Landscape\n

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\nStudents interpret maps. They also create mental maps of regions in which they are studying. Students then explain the historical or cultural significance of map features orally or in written form. Students take a walking field trip...\n
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\nCritical Consumerism\n

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\nStudents identify the role of advertisements in their environment. For this advertisement lesson, students find advertisements in their classrooms and discuss them. Students write a definition for advertisements and identify related...\n
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\nBuild a City of the Future!\n

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\nTap into your pupils' imagination by asking them to design futuristic, ideal cities. They must discuss and take scale and size into account, looking at some model pieces of art for inspiration and analysis. The final product for each...\n
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\nPop Into My Community\n

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\nFirst graders distinguish cityscapes from seascapes and landscapes and explore the features of a community. Then, they create a pop-up paper city showing foreground, middle ground, and background.\n
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\n\"Landscape\n\n
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\nLandscape\n

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\nStudents create a landscape or cityscape.  In this landscape lesson, students discover the definition of a landscape and describe various examples.  Students choose three images and write \"postcards\" from each of the three...\n
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\nTall Tower Challenge\n

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\nA fun and challenging activity for nearly any age group, partners must work together to build the tallest structure possible using paper clips, straws, and pipe cleaners. In addition to being tall, the structure must also be able to...\n
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\nChanges in a City Over Time\n

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\nInvestigate the growth and development of New York City with the final lesson in this four-part series on skyscrapers. Learners first explore the concept of urban growth by looking closely at a series of three paintings made of Wall...\n
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\nAztec Millionaire\n

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\nGive those kids an opportunity to show what they know about the ancient Aztec culture. This \"Millionaire\" style game reviews basic facts about the Aztec empire. It includes thirteen complete questions, leaving three additional questions...\n
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\nHistorical Air Photo Interpretation\n

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\nLearners identify and analyze land use changes over time with historical aerial photographs. They classify different land use into categories.\n
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\nLesson: Lisa Signal: Altering Perspectives\n

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\nKids make big artistic gestures, just like the abstract artist, Lisa Signal. They use her work as inspiration for making simplistic, abstract, statements in an artistic way. They analyze her work, then walk through an unfamiliar...\n
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\nReading Comprehension 6 \n

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\nA great resource for advanced English language learners or native speakers working on reading comprehension. Before reading, discuss different reading strategies. Then, after they read the selection, have your class complete the multiple...\n
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\nRestoration\n

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\nThe tale of the restoration of California's Channel Islands begins with a video that details the devastation of Santa Cruz island by the introduction of species that are not native to the region. Additionally, the video discusses the...\n
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\nEcology Explorers: Historical Air Photo Interpretation\n

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\nStudents identify and analyze land use changes over time with historic aerial photographs, and classify different land use into categories.\n
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\nWater Pollution Lesson Plan: What's the Flow?\n

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\nStudents study urban runoff. They identify the urban runoff in a simulated area and determine peak flows using charted data. Finally, they discuss possible causes of the differences in flow rates.\n
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\nNewspaper Headlines and Opening Sentences\n

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\nIn this recognizing newspaper headlines and opening sentences learning exercise, students match the seven headlines with their opening sentences and then predict the what, where, when, and who the articles are about. Students answer 42...\n
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\nWild Where?\n

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\nStudents investigate why the urban environment is considered a hostile environment; define the concept of endangered species; describe and identify a Peregrine Falcon; describe and identify the eating habits of the Peregrine Falcon.\n
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\nShoes and the Backyard Landscape\n

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\nYour shoes get a lot of mileage in familiar places. Represent the places you have traveled the most with an art project based on a print of Indian People Wear Shoes and Socks by Juane Quick-to-See Smith. Kids trace their shoes and...\n
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\nHIDE/SEEK: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture\n

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\nVisual arts lessons don't always mean the children need to make art. Here, they will practice using their visual literacy skills to analyze four images through the compare and contrast method. The first two images deal with gender...\n
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