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Character Diary Entry (3+)

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students better explain a character after examining their traits as well as trying to write a diary entry from their perspective.
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Perceptions

For Teachers K - 6th
Students gain a better understanding of perceptions and how different points of view about the same set of events leads to conflict.
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Playground Modeling

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students build a model of their school playground. They view models from the classroom (such as a globe, doll house, or cars). Students share observations about the models. They use a paper mat to represent the playground and use...
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Taking a Stand

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students make connections with cultures (their own and others'), their identity, heritage, traditions, and symbols and examine the richness that diversity brings to communities.
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When the Giant Came to Town....

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Pupils discuss various techniques artists have to show distance. They view examples, and discuss overlapping. Students create art work based on things in a city. Pupils tell about their artwork in casual style conversation while working....
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On the Surface of Things

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students create a Claris slide shows from pictures they have taken of items close-up in nature after studying the works of M.C. Escher and Georgia O'Keefe. Slide shows includes captions for clues to the identity of their nature picture.
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Looking through the Sands of Time: 80's Decade

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students view the comic "Time sliders" from the Celebrate the Stamp Unit from the 1980's. They discuss what the comic magazine contains. Students listen to a speaker from the post office discuss how stamps are selected. They use...
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TE Activity: Tears in Rain

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students examine photographs before writing captions for them. They develop visual literacy as they see how photographs are manipulated to show the effects of acid rain. They rewrite the photo captions after a class discussion.
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Sketching Perspectives

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students list perspective types, identify views, list uses for perspectives and correctly define terms associated with perspectives.
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Exploring Arrangements of 2, 3, 4, and 5 Cubes

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students construct models of various tricubes, tetracubes, and pentacubes that are possible, classify n-cubes into different groupings, and draw these figures on isometric dot paper giving true perspective to what they visualize.
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Perspectives

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders describe an event, a situation, etc. through the eyes of two people or two inanimate objects.
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Lesson 10: History of Illinois 1700's Dual Timeline

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create a journal that includes historic events that occurred in Illinois in the 1700's that features entries on the same topics from different perspectives.
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Do You See What I See?

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students observe and describe different objects seen under a microscope and compare the individual perspectives of what was seen.
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Exploring the Deep: Creating Space and Distance

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students explore perspective and color techniques to create the illusion of three-dimensional space in two-dimensional works. They create three-dimensional landscapes.
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Art Rageous

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders research and investigate the following topics: color, light, perspective, composition, and artists' styles and lives. A class discussion of the different topics follows.