Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Calder's Balancing Acts

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Students learn the vocabulary of contemporary sculpture and distinguish between abstract and realistic sculpture, mobile and stabile, biomorphic and geometric. They write equations using Calder's mobiles
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Daruma-san

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students set, and attain a goal using a daruma, a Japanese folk toy.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Make a Dried Bouquet

For Teachers K - 8th
Students examine how drying flowers was a popular hobby for Colonial women during the Colonial era in America. They read and discuss an instruction sheet, and create dried-flower bouquets that are hung upside down and tied with a string.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Geometric Glossary

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders use drawing and paint tools to identify, draw and state several geometric terms.
Lesson Plan
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Mixing Primary Colors

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Primary elementary lesson plan about primary colors. One rainbow activity and one blending activity.