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I Am Me and More! Assemblages and Pepon Osorio
Students discuss their role and importance of being a part of a community. After listening to a story, discuss how an artist's memories affected his pieces. Using the internet, they research the different roles of community members.
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Celebrate With Silhouettes
Students explore history of silhouettes, and help create keepsake silhouettes, frame them, or use them to make a special Mother's Day card.
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Let's Go Exploring!
Use a Courbet painting of a cave or tunnel opening to reinforce the importance of descriptive writing. Writers of all ages use sensory details to describe what the scene depicts as they pretend to be in the painting. Then they imagine...
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Dia de los Muertos: Celebrating and Remembering
Help scholars understand the history, geography, traditions, and art of Dia de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead. Find background information for your reference as well as a detailed cross-curricular lesson plan. Learners compare...
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A Day in the Life
Pupils create a movie or slide show depicting a typical day at school through the eyes of a student. Students will use knowledge and experience to tell about events. Pupils will use multimedia to tell about events.
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Where are the Dinosaurs?
Young scholars construct their own diorama based on the life of a dinosaur. In this dinosaur lesson, students create models of dinosaurs and dinosaurs' eggs to explore the life cycle of this extinct species.
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Sensory Details
Students observe their environment and write detailed, sensory-specific sentences about that environment. This lesson can be extended to include the creation of a personalized story or movie of the experience (student examples are...
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Making Big Cats' Web Pages
Students investigate the lives of big cats by creating a website. In this web design lesson plan, students examine web authoring software in pairs as they read books on big cats. Students share their web page creations with the class...
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Create a Word Graveyard to Teach Synonyms
Students explore descriptive writing by creating headstones. In this memorial lesson, students utilize an 11" x 17" piece of paper to create a cemetery headstone memorializing a word rather than a person. Students decorate their...
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Turkey Feather Writing
Students create a Thanksgiving writing piece. In this holiday lesson plan, students use a turkey picture to write a short story about the things they are thankful for.
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Clothespin Magnets
Students decorate letter, clothespin magnets using basic art supplies in this Art lesson plan for the elementary classroom. Teacher preparation should include cutting out letter shapes for each student and connecting clothespins prior...
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Anty-Bodies
Students compare and contrast likenesses and differences to others by creating a life-size picture of themselves. In this character building lesson, students dictate a sentence about comments on sharing and display them with their...
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Introduce Vocabulary: The Great Kapok Tree
Students explore language arts by reading a children's book in class. In this tier two vocabulary lesson, students read the book The Great Kapok Tree and identify the use of vocabulary terms. Students define the selected vocab words and...
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Cardinal Directions
Young scholars discover cardinal directions through the use of digital cameras, compasses, and file folders in this technology-based lesson for early elementary students. Emphasis is placed on student practice and inquiry.
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Seminole Beadwork
Students name an animal they identify with, spell the name of an animal in Miccosukee (a Native American language), and make beaded bracelets or necklaces from seed and alphabet beads.
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Marketing
Students view a "Marketing" a painting by Robert Gwathmey. Using the painting, they explain the use of symbols and the placement of shapes. In older grades, they identify the relationship between the elements of art and the principles of...
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Graduation
Students learn to recite poems and songs that they will recite and sing at their graduation for kindergarten. In this graduation instructional activity, students memorize and practice 5 poems and songs.
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Cinderella - Digital Storytelling
Students analyze four versions of the Cinderella story. In this fairy tale analysis lesson, students read four versions of Cinderella and work in groups to identify the plot for each. Students illustrate the stories and use Movie Maker...
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Giving Cheer
Students explore kind behavior. In this values development and literacy lesson plan, students listen to The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein, then generate a class list of ways the tree helped the boy and ways in which the boy helped the...
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Stella the Swan
Students study the similarities and differences between ducks, geese, and swans. They tell the story about how water fowl adapt to life in water using props.
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Looking and Learning in the Art Museum
Students explore art at an art museum. For this lesson about art, students travel to a museum and explore the art. Students practice drawing, search for certain kinds of art, and learn about reproducing art by someone else. Students will...
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Looking and Learning in the Art Museum - Lesson 1
Explore the artistic elements in artworks with an original and reproduction instructional activity. As learners recognize the difference between an original and a reproduction, they discuss the artist elements used in the reproduction.
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Water Music
Students explore music about water. They listen to various pieces of music, play instruments, and plan and create a piece of art that includes a water motif.
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I Am Special, You Are Special Too #2
After being read a story, the students attempt to identify one individual difference, and one thing about themselves that is similar to other students in the class and one thing that makes them special. For the art lesson, students...
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