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Google

Cs Education at Google: Cs First: Art Theme

For Teachers 4th - 8th
A set of eight activities that teach students basic computer science concepts using the programming language Scratch. Includes lots of additional supports for teachers. All materials are free and teachers sign in to create a class. This...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Common Themes in Literature

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on common themes in literature, beginning with a slide show discussing 11 different, common themes and literary examples. This is followed by a 11-minute YouTube video with students acting out common themes in...
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Other

Pacific Asia Museum: Animals in Japanese Art

For Students 9th - 10th
A rich-media site that explores animals, both real and imaginary, as a central theme in Japanese paintings and prints. Learn about the traditions and techniques of Japanese painting and prints and see examples of work created by Japanese...
Interactive
Vocabulary University

My vocabulary.com: List of Themes for English Language Arts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a list of themed puzzles for English Language Arts. Click on a theme or puzzle that will take you to an interactive activity. All content is printable without a charge. NOTE: Each theme has a corresponding vocabulary word list...
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DLTK

Kidzone: Gingerbread Man Theme Unit

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This five day theme unit for the Gingerbread Man is full of great ideas. It is suitable for children in preschool, kindergarten, and early elementary. From Language Arts to Math, this site has it all!
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Scholastic

Scholastic:magic School Bus Themes Index

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Magic School Bus cross referenced by themes to provide quick access to many activities and references.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Online Theme Unit for Caves

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Discover more about caves through this online interactive theme unit. This resource provides links to sea caves, cave animals, caves in the United States, the science of caves and more.
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Art Institute of Chicago

Art Institute of Chicago: Benin: Kings and Rituals: Court Arts From Nigeria

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the history of the royal art of the Benin Kingdom in Africa. An overview of the art is provided and with further explanation given according to themes. View maps and selected works of art. A video, charts, glossary, and a...
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Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Minneapolis Institute of Arts: World Myths and Legends in Art

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Fully comprehensive site that dives into world myths and world cultures. View art that expresses mythological themes from various cultures around the world and learn about cultural similarities and differences. Key words for learning,...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of African Art: Contemporary African Art

For Students 9th - 10th
An exhibition of contemporary African art that pulls together the work of 28 artists from 15 different countries. Read artist biographies, view representative works, and think about two prominent themes that emerge from the collection:...
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Vocabulary University

My vocabulary.com: List of Themes for Performing Arts & Fine Arts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a list of interactive vocabulary activites for performing and fine arts.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 4: Pushing Up the Sky

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders learn that storytelling is a performance art that also transmits knowledge about cultures and life. Through reading different tales from various cultures, 4th graders are able to compare and contrast similar themes,...
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Tate

Tate Kids: Memento Mori (Remember That You Must Die)

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive exploration of the universal themes of death and mortality, as depicted by a range of twentieth-century artists. Developed by the Britain-based Tate museum, this site combines art criticism with a survey of symbols that...
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National Endowment for the Arts

National Endowment for the Arts: The Big Read: To Kill a Mockingbird

For Students 9th - 10th
Guide to Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, with historical information, author biography, discussion questions, and a ten-lesson unit of study including activities, homework assignments, project ideas, and essay topics. A radio show,...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Art Through Time: A Global View

For Students 9th - 10th
Art Through Time: A Global View connects pieces of artwork from all over the world during different eras by examining common themes between them. The website is arranged to browse by theme, a specific piece of artwork, or to compare...
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Other

Centre Pompidou: The Object in 20th Century Art

For Students 9th - 10th
See how artists within various art movements and styles of the 20th century have portrayed objects in their art. Presents a vast array of work surrounding one theme.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Arts and Humanities: Art History: Global Contemporary Art

For Students 9th - 10th
A guide to contemporary art around the world, themes, types of modern art, conceptual art, performance art, famous modern artists. We should at least pull out the artists we have in our famous persons bank. Should be cross-checked...
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Sf Mo Ma Art Think: A Personal Narrative

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Find a matched set of activities--each with a slightly different disciplinary emphasis--that takes participants through a close examination of the work of contemporary California artists Joan Brown and Jay DeFeo. Their work often...
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Art Institute of Chicago

Art Institute of Chicago: Girodet Romantic Rebel

For Students 9th - 10th
A wonderfully detailed exhibition site, developed by the Art Institute of Chicago, devoted to this gifted French painter, whose work is often viewed in opposition to the prevailing neoclassical style of his time. With a career that...
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Other

National Museum of Wildlife Art

For Students 9th - 10th
From the home page, click on the elk icon to enter, then go to "collections". The National Museum of Wildlife Art holds works of the American West from 1819 to the present, with themes of explorer art, sporting art, Romanticism,...
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Other

Whitney Museum of American Art: Georgia O'keefe: Abstraction

For Students 9th - 10th
Find a full-featured analysis of an abstract work by Georgia O'Keeffe that communicates many key elements of her art, such as her use of color, the inspiration she found in nature, and her approach to abstraction. Includes insightful...
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Art Institute of Chicago

Art Institute of Chicago: Becoming Edvard Munch: Influence Anxiety and Myth

For Students 9th - 10th
From the landing page of a past exhibit introduction, use links to learn about Edvard Munch and the themes in his work. View selected works and the tools and techniques he used to create his art. A chronology of his life and additional...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Themes: Beauty & Happiness: How Do We Define Beauty?

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a collection of Grade-Leveled texts (3-12) to address the question, "How do we define beauty?" Select a grade level and a collection of on grade-level reading passages on the topic comes up. [Free account registration required...
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 6: The Witch of Blackbird Pond

For Teachers 6th Standards
Sixth graders will learn about the influence of family expectations and religious values on the development of one's personal identity. Students will also learn how reading informational texts in coordination with literary texts can...