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Fairbanks North Star Borough School District

Eric Carle Mural

For Students K - 2nd Standards
Inspire first grade artists to learn about abstract and realistic art while reading Eric Carle's Where are you Going? To See My Friend. Young artists design and make a mural collage by tearing shapes of paper while comparing English and...
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Dick Blick Art Materials

“Decalcomania” Glue Paint Symmetry Prints

For Teachers K - 12th
Who knew you could paint with glue? After first adding liquid water color paints to bottles of white Elmer's glue and applying them to paper, students of all ages are then challenged to use their imagination and...
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Curated OER

Discovering Art-Huntington Gallery Shape

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students study geometric, naturalistic, and abstract shapes. They discuss how various shapes are used in art. They study The Young Fortune Teller by Joshua Reynolds to find various shapes.
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Curated OER

Japanese Abstract Art And The Impressionist Movement

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study several examples of Japanese abstract art and how this style impacted the Impressionist movement of the 19th century. This lesson includes ideas for student-created sketchbooks.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Kinds of Nouns

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
With so many different kinds of nouns, it can be hard for young learners to keep them all straight. Help clarify this important part of speech for your class with this series of worksheets which clearly addresses the difference...
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Curated OER

Pablo Picasso Lessons

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore art history by creating their own abstract art pieces. In this Pablo Picasso lesson, students read assigned text discussing biographical information about the artist and examine several of his paintings. Students create...
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Curated OER

Modern Art Lesson Plans

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students explore the history and examples of Modern Art. In this Modern Art lesson, students read background information about Modern Art and a biography of Andy Warhol. Students complete a criticism and aesthetics, art creation...
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Curated OER

Robert Indiana Biography, Activities, and Lesson Plans

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Students analyze Pop art and the work of Robert Indiana. In this Pop art lesson plan, students read about the history of Pop art and a biography of Robert Indiana. Students complete a criticism and aesthetics activity, create their own...
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Hawaiʻi State Department of Education

Dimension Dances

For Teachers 4th
Use dance to help learners conceptualize line segments, rays, lines, and planes. They choreograph dances that show dimensional space. Dancers start by pondering space, point, and lines as the teacher draws them in the air. Each...
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Curated OER

Helen Frankenthaler Biography

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Learners examine the abstract art of Helen Frankenthaler. In this art analysis lesson, students complete a criticism of the aesthetics of the art, analyze the color use in the art, and research the history of abstract art.
Unit Plan
Curated OER

Not Your Grandma's Music: A Lesson in Music History

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students experience and discuss the different musical periods such as Baroque, Classical and Romantic. In this music lesson, students discover musical theory and apply it to the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic periods. Students will...
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Curated OER

Understanding Core Values Using the Frayer Model

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students complete the Frayer Model. In this literature instructional activity, students review the concept of theme in literature. Students identify major themes in books they've read. Students learn the attributes of the Frayer Model...
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Curated OER

Ilya Bolotowsky Biography

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Learners decipher the meaning of abstract art using Ilya Bolotwosky art examples. For this art analysis lesson, students complete activities to analyze abstraction art. Learners complete criticism and aesthetics activities, color and...
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Curated OER

The Abstraction Ladder (Using Examples in Essays)

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students examine and discuss most appropriate format for giving examples in the American discourse style.
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Tri-Valley Local Schools

Commonly Confused Words

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Who gave you grammar homework? Or is it whom? Clarify the meanings of several commonly confused words, including affect and effect, among and between, and then and than with a handout and grammar practice worksheet.
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Curated OER

Georgia O'Keeffe "Wake Up and Smell the Roses!"

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students produce watercolor paintings.  For this painter and painting lesson, students view and discuss paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe, understand abstract art and create their own watercolor paintings.
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Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District

Parts of Speech Nouns: Building Blocks of Grammar

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
An engaging PowerPoint presentation helps scholars learn the definition of a noun and provides examples of different types of nouns, such as person, place, abstract, and concrete nouns. Formative assessments within the resource check...
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Curated OER

Tempera Paint Lesson Ideas

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students create an abstract, non-objective paintings. Students use the various lesson plans to create abstract paintings that include an art with text lesson, a sand textured paint lesson, and a radiating design lesson.
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Curated OER

Library Skills Review

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers review library skills by rotating through teacher-created learning stations covering various topics. They discuss plagiarism, work on Almanac practice as a team, complete practice using indexes, and an abstracts handout...
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Curated OER

What's In a Noun: Grammar and Usage

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Nine lessons in a grammar and usage unit provide endless opportunities for drill and practice. Topics include the four types of sentences, subject and predicates, nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns, adverbs and prepositions, conjunctions...
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Curated OER

Flowers Galore

For Teachers K - 6th
Students create original works of art using their knowledge of Georgia O'Keeffe's artwork, flowers, pencils, crayons, and pastels in this K-6 Art lesson. The lesson includes Georgia O'Keeffe resource links and a recommended reading list.
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Curated OER

Moving With Your Roots

For Teachers 7th
Students dissect common words to study the origins of those words. In this language arts lesson, students study the Greek and Latin roots found in many words within English language. Students use dictionaries to fill out worksheets...
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Curated OER

Visualizing: Hill Fire

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students use visualization while reading Hill of Fire. For this language arts lesson, students read the story and draw a picture of what they see while listening to the story. Students use manipulatives to create the figures described.
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Curated OER

Angles in Art Lesson

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Learners examine the correlation between art and math. Using their computers, students construct and measure angles. Learners identify the properties of angles and polygons. They engage in the Angles program on their Palm and use the...