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Artist in Schools Program
Students explore the medium of watercolor paints. They observe basic watercolor painting techniques (such as wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry and dry-on-dry). Then students experiment with these techniques on small squares of watercolor paper.
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Looking at Illuminated Manuscripts: Exploring an Illuminated Manuscript Page
Learners compare a 13th-century illuminated manuscript page to other manuscript pages and modern printed books. They study the different elements of an illuminated manuscript page.
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Decades
Students work cooperatively to research the people, places, events, and things that represent their assigned decade. They creatively, write and present ten minute dramatizations of information about their assigned decade.
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Know Your Computer Hardware #103
Learners discover the different terms and parts of a computer's body. In this computer basics lesson, students become familiar with the parts of the computer, starting in kindergarten and increasing their knowledge through...
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Seasonal Notepad Gift
Young scholars use technology to create a notepad gift. They practice following directions and helping each other. They share their notepad with the class before giving it to a relative as a gift.
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On the First Day of Christmas, My Teacher Gave to Me...
Students listen to recording of "The Twelve Days of Christmas." They write, perform, and publish their own versions of the song.
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Hieroglyphics: It's Not Greek To Me! (It's Egyptian)
Young scholars identify different hieroglyphic characters. They spell their name and write a sentence using them. They use online hieroglyphic translators as well.
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Finding the Friendship Dolls, A True Story: How Children Can Create World Peace
Young scholars listen to the book Finding the Friendship Dolls, A True Story: How Children Can Help Create World Peace through Toys. In this world peace lesson, students choose events in the story to create a timeline of those events....
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"And That's The Way It Is..." Today in History
Students research an event in history from different perspectives. They discuss the characteristics of a nightly news broadcast and create their own based on the history event they researched. They work together to produce this...
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Planetary Mobile
Learners receive pre-cut templates of cardboard with appropriate diameters of each planet and the sun. They use multi-colored construction paper, scissors, yarn, and other art supplies to create their own models of planets. When students...
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Music: Individual and Group Practice
Third graders, in groups and individually, perform various musical pieces on their instruments. After demonstrating how to play steady beats, they also play counter melodies to songs such as "Peace Like a River." While some students...
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Listen to Music
Young scholars listen to, analyze, and describe music. They identify examples of music forms including such as motive phhrase, 4-bar phrase,
canon, and rondo. In addition, they perform a dance called a partner mixer and model the pattern...
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Matisse for Mother's Day
Pupils create a Mother's Day card with tissue paper flowers in the style of Henri Matisse.
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Picture Writing
Learners use pictures to help them communicate their ideas. They write personal books or journals using pictures. Students can create daily blogs usig the internet and create a weekly newsletter.
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Crayon Rubbing Flip Book
Students use their hands to bend and reshape a floral wire (line). They record this experience using crayon rubbings which become the frames for their flip book.
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Sunset Silhouette (primary colours)
Students draw and paint the sunset, learning about the primary colors while painting and mixing.
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The Star Spangled Banner
Young scholars perform Star Spangled Banner, and analyze purpose and meaning of patriotic songs.
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Music Styles
Young scholars identify many genres of music and connect styles of music with various cultures. They watch "The Greatest TV Moments: Sesame Street Music A to Z" and list music styles: folk, jazz, rock, etc.
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Rhythm
Third graders sing in 3/4 meter with an upbeat. They write a poem using descriptive words. Students move at different speeds to show quarter, half and eigth notes. They play a math game involving the number of beats a quarter, half and...
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Name Plaque
Students create name plaques that are decorated in colors and designs that reveal aspects of their individual personalities.
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Alligator
Pupils investigate the musical concept of rhythm through the use of creating a beat. The beat must have a specific and purposeful rhythm. Student can then define the term of rhythm easier after performing the activity.
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Dimensional Flower Garden
Students relate the colors in a garden to those in a rainbow by creating a multicolored three-dimensional garden portrait. They read, "Planting a Rainbow" by Lois Ehlert, then construct their garden with colored paper on white cardstock.
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Unscramble the Letters - Music Terms
Students receive a worksheet on music terms. As a class, they unscramble a couple before attempt them on their own. They then write the meaning of each to research the meaning of the musical terms.
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Same, But Different
Students compare and contrast specific characters in the book, "Old Henry." They discuss similarities and differences between people and define character traits. They assess one's own character traits and have a class discussion about...