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Our Global Community

For Teachers 1st
First graders experience literature which shows how communities live around the world. In this global community lesson, 1st graders read books such as Whoever You Are, by Mem Fox and create a work of art based on their feelings about the...
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Investigating Impressionism

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Students explore Impressionism and artists like Monet and Renoir. In this Impressionism activity, students visit an Impressionism website and discuss the themes used in the art. Students select an Impressionist artist and research them....
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The Wonderful Pigs of Jillian Jiggs

For Teachers 1st
First graders read, The Wonderful Pigs of Jillian Jiggs, and create a pig with unique characteristics.  In this story book lesson, 1st graders write a description of their created pig after they have completed their art project. 
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Explore Elizabeth I: Using the Queen Elizabeth I "Ditchley Portrait"

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students explore the history of England by creating digital images. In this Queen Elizabeth lesson plan, students discuss the politics of Tudor times and the large differences between wealthy and poor. Students utilize image editing...
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Go Away, Big Green Monster! Activities

For Teachers K
Students participate in art, math, writing, and science activities to realize they have nothing to fear from monsters. They make masks, shape monsters, toast monsters and monster cookies. They complete monster math problems and make...
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Life Shields

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create shields representing what they value most. In this art lesson, students observe shields in the book The Legend of the Bluebonnet and create their own shields depicting the four things they value most in life.
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That's Not Fair!

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students complete an art project with either great or mediocre supplies and discuss how fair it was that they got the supplies they got. In this fairness lesson plan, students are given supplies by their teacher and discuss how unfair it...
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A Chair For My Mother

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students create art inspired by literature. In this literature lesson plan, students read A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams and then design cards and draw gifts they would present to new neighbors.
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Granary Door Dogon, Mali

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Pupils explore a creation myth. In this visual arts lesson, students discuss the Dogon creation myth and the design and make refrigerator magnets in the style of Dogan granary doors. The design of the magnets should include linear and...
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Giving Directions

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore communication by participating in language description activities. In this directions lesson, students practice using communicative terms and prepositions of places to direct a classmate to an exact location. Students...
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Book of Little Things

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students inquire about visual arts by reading a children's book in class. In this Keith Haring lesson, students examine the book Nina's Book of Little Things and create their own drawings based on their personal life. Students emulate...
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Specializing in Space

For Teachers 4th - 7th
In this literature book review activity, learners read a nonfiction book about space or space exploration before choosing a topic to explore further. They choose from 7 activities such as designing a model, writing a letter, write about...
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My Pet Rock

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students learn about and create a pet rock.  In this creative expression lesson plan, students pick a rock to make into their "pet".  Students use various art materials to create their pets and write a personal profile which includes...
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Muggie Maggie: Lesson 8

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students predict a chapter from a book while learning new vocabulary words.  In this reading comprehension lesson, students read the book Muggie Maggie, and predict what will happen in the upcoming chapter.  Students read and discuss the...
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Aquarium Crayon Resist

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students create a crayon resist drawing as a literature response. In this literature response and art lesson, students listen to the book, Rainbow Fish, noting all of the colorful fish. They use wax crayons to draw a picture of a fish...
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What Does This Song Really Say?

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Young scholars investigate communication by analyzing lyrics from a song. In this music arts lesson, students discuss slavery, the Underground Railroad and African American traditions while listening to a song called "This Train." Young...
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Writing Like an Artist Paints Using "Chasing Vermeer"

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars use artistic words when writing about an object moving quickly past a character who is standing still. In this writing and art lesson plan, students read the passage Chasing Vermeer and base their writing off of it.
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Gender Equity in Fairy Tales

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore language arts by researching fairy tale stereotypes. For this gender roles lesson, students read the stories Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, and Snow White with their class. Students analyze the female...
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Character Book

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students discover the behavior that represents trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness and caring. For this character lesson, students make a collage of pictures demonstrating good behavior.
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A World of Taste--Louisiana Gumbo

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students discover the multicultural contributions to New Orleans gumbo through participation in cross curriculum activities. In this multicultural diversity and New Orleans history lesson plan, students shade regions of a map according...
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Readers Theatre: The Three Snow Bears

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students dramatize the story, Three Snow Bears by Jan Brett. In this readers theatre activity, students read the story and then dramatize the events during readers theatre. There is an included script.
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Discovering Peace

For Teachers K - 4th
Students explore vocabulary related to peace. For this peace lesson, students define the word "peace" and create a poem about peace. Students create a "peace quilt" as a follow-up activity.
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Creating Comic Strips

For Teachers K - 4th
Students create comic strips to communicate ideas that cannot be expressed through words alone.
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Architecture: Homes All Around

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students listen to a book, "This is My House" and sing a song to the tune of Home on the Range. They use the internet to view examples of Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture. Students take pictures of architectural details of their homes...

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