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STAINED GLASS IMPRESSIONISTIC LANDSCAPE GREETING CARD
Pupils research the history of stained glass and Mother's Day. They practice mixing colors related to the artistic style of impressionism.Students also research the concept of landscape and how the impressionist artists used them.
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Sculptural Space
Students analyze the needs for outdoor sculpture and create their own example. For this sculpture lesson, students discuss the sculptural and architectural elements of site-specific sculpture. Students work in teams to select a...
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Igor Stravinsky Multiple Choice Worksheet
In this multiple choice music worksheet, students answer questions about Igor Stravinsky after participating in a classroom program. They can complete extra credit by copying musical articulations.
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Martin Puryear's Ladder for Booker T. Washington
Students examine the art of Martin Puryear. In this visual arts lesson, students analyze the sculpture "Ladder for Booker T. Washington". Students consider how the sculpture reflects the life and contributions of Booker T. Washington....
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Cataloguing the Past
Young scholars reflect on the Holocaust. In this Holocaust Memorial Day lesson plan, students visit selected Web sites to research the Holocaust and the establishment of a day of reflection regarding it.
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Che Guevara
In this famous person worksheet, students read a passage about Che Guevara and then complete a variety of in-class and homework activities to support comprehension, including partner interviews, spelling, cloze, synonym matches, and...
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Walt Disney
In this famous person worksheet, students read a passage about Walt Disney and then complete a variety of in-class and homework activities to support comprehension, including partner interviews, spelling, cloze, synonym...
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Immigration Push and Pull Factors
Eighth graders examine significant ideas, beliefs, and themes; organize patterns and events; and analyze how individuals and societies have changed over time in Maryland, the United States, and the world.
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Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Institute
Students view and discuss Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago. Students interpret works by Miro, Oldenberg, Cornell and de Vlaminck and discuss how they feel when viewing the pieces.
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The Significance of Labor Day
Labor Day provides a way to introduce students to the issues of the labor movement.
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From Book To The Big Screen
Students create a six-panel byobu (Japanese visual storytelling) based upon the book "To Kill A Mockingbird" in this instructional activity suitable for an early High School Language Arts or Social Studies classroom.
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Portfolio Reviews
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the steps needed to put together a teaching portfolio. They collect artifacts to accompany the portfolio and then present them as a part of a cumulative project grade. Some students may...
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Lesson 5- Robert Rauschenberg: Reinventing Art
Middle schoolers examine how Robert Rauschenberg influenced popular art and how art is influenced by politics, social and cultural messages. They design a new art movement and create art that is indicative of that movement.
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Listening to the Prairie
Students, in groups, visit an exhibit and for a prairie scavenger hunt to locate sunflowers and name products made from them. After sketching a prairie dog, they find nature cues farmers use when growing plants and raising animals. The...
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The Clarinet Family- Grades 4-5
In this music worksheet, students learn about the clarinet family of woodwind instruments by looking at the 3 types of clarinets in a picture and completing 5 questions. There is no information on the page.
Library of Congress
Loc: Change in Early 20th Century America: Doing the Decades
This unit provides a flexible investigative structure for the study of selected themes in U.S. history and culture using the American Memory collections and related resources. Core goals are the development of relationships between...
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: Eye Contact: Modern American Portrait Drawings
Portraits in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery can be seen and understood with excellent gallery notes that also survey the history of portraiture in American art leading up to the modern period.
Ibis Communications
Eye Witness to History: The Gibson Girl
The Gibson Girl, an illustration done by Charles Gibson, became a fashion icon in the early 1900s. See some of Gibsons drawings and learn more about this social model for women in the early 20th century.
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Electric City Trolley Museum Association: Vehicle Collection
Find drawings and brief descriptions of various trolleys used across the country in the last part of the 19th century and early 20th century.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Modernist Portraits: Ernest Hemingway
Drawing on the monstrosities of World War I, Ernest Hemingway presents male characters persevering through many difficult circumstances in his works, as highlighted in this biography. See "Ernest Hemingway Activities" for more resources.
Library of Congress
Loc: American Beauties: Drawings From the Golden Age
Online Exhibit of stylized icons of feminine beauty from America's "Golden age of illustration" (1880?1920s).
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Joslyn Art Museum
The Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha features a collection that spans the ages from antiquity to the present, with emphasis on 19th and 20th century art from Europe and America. Native American art includes decorated objects, drawings, and...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Modernist Portraits: Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens is featured in this succinct biography for his modernistic poetry which draws upon his theory regarding the importance of perception. See "Wallace Stevens Activities" for related resources.
Library of Congress
Loc: Stagestruck! Performing Arts Caricatures
A short overview of the coming of age of the caricature during the early twentieth century. Exhibition was in the Library of Congress Swann Gallery of Caricature and Cartoon from November 1998 to April 1999.