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Visual Arts: Art in Public Places
Students create 3 dimensional art. In this sculpture lesson, students collect objects that represent their community's values to include in a 3 dimensional sculpture. Students write a paragraph explaining the chosen theme of their...
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Lesson: Deities & Superheroes
Here's a twist on the old compare-and-contrast lesson plan. Budding art historians compare an Assyrian limestone relief to comic book superheroes. They discuss the similarities and differences in the three-dimensional relief to...
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Build Your Dream Science Lab
Would your ideal science lab be filled with bubbling beakers and zapping Tesla coils? Or would it contain state-of-the-art computer technology and data analysis? Dream big with an innovative lesson that connects math and language...
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To Canada with Love
Focus on line and color with a postcard project. Learners view various works of art and discuss line and color before moving on to creating their own work. Using nature as inspiration, pupils decorate postcards and mail them after...
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3D Paper-Edge Figure Sculptures
Students discover visual arts by creating sculptures in class. For this personal expression lesson, students research the Internet and examine different examples of modern sculptures and 3 dimensional art. Students utilize paper stock,...
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Vessel Based On Art History Research
Students create a functional ceramic vessel inspired by the work of another artist from art history. A number of art history resources be provided as well as the Internet. They research outside of class for the written report.
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Painted Chairs
Students evaluate visual arts by creating furniture designs. For this three dimensional art lesson, students utilize the web to examine different artist renderings of furniture, sculpture and architecture. Students utilize paint to...
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Collage to Writing
Practice expository and creative writing with your class. Pupils use magazines to find pictures, cut them out, and create a collage. This work of art is then used as a writing prompt. They describe the collage in either a creative or...
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4-H Line and Design: Intermediate Activity Page
In this 4-H line and design activity, students will complete a variety of design related activities. Students will use colored pencils to draw in the missing pieces of artistic photographs. Next, they will find and circle 6 art words in...
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Shaping Up!
Kindergartners are introduced to basic shapes. Learners spend 45 minutes a day in geometry centers carrying out the activities outlined in this ambitious plan. There are games, hands-on activities, interactive websites, art projects,...
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A Sculptor's Model
Students investigate visual arts by researching art on the Internet. In this expressionism lesson, students identify several famous artworks on-line based on self expression and discuss the techniques. Students examine steel sculptures...
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Pop Shop 2 - Etching and Woodcutting
Students study printmaking, using mirror images, and positive and negative images. They examine how and why print images and text are used. They use a linoleum blocks to make prints.
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Life Cycle Of Painted Lady Butterflies
The Very Hungry Caterpillar is the inspiration for this project-based learning activity. Kindergartners create a lifecycle chart for a butterfly with four sections: egg, caterpillar, pupa, and butterfly. It is a three-dimensional...
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Create a Flock of Birds One Pinch at a Time
Students create Mexican Pottery Clay project. In this natural history/art lesson students construct their own clay bird. Students make connections between visual arts and reading to follow directions. Students also reflect...
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Standing Snowmen
Students practice their arts and crafts by creating Christmas projects. In this holiday lesson, students utilize construction paper, glue and scissors to create a 2-D image of a snowman. Students create 2 more snowmen and...
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Tall Tales Folded Envelope Book
Learners create a book using art, problem solving and language skills. They illustrate and write a tall tale. They sculpt a character from their tall tale.
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Landscape Book
Students create a three-dimensional book about landscapes. They must show their understanding of shape, color and balance.
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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 instructional...
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Dream Bed
Students view and discuss two beds in the Getty collection and design and write descriptions of imaginary beds. In this imagery beds lesson plan students have to describe and compare/contrast works of art, orally and in writing. They...
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Designed to Scale
Seventh graders construct a three dimensional model of a constellation. In this constellation activity, 7th graders make a blueprint for a scale model of the constellation and create their models. They present their models to the class.
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Mythical Monsters
Students design mythical creatures and write poems about them. They take digital pictures of their artwork and create a digital picture book. They record their readings of the poetry to be added a class recording.
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Line and Design
With photography as the focus, students learn about line and design. Learners take pictures, and use the photos as a means to analyze artistic elements.
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Aesthetic Assessment Design
Students examine aesthetic concepts and reflect on them in their journals. They construct individual taste collages from an assortment of two and three-dimensionakl objects.
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Papier-Mache Mask
Students analyze mask visuals provided by the teacher. They experience a paper-mache hands on activity that produces a three dimensional product. Students produce/make a mask.