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Kente Straw Weavings
Fourth graders explore world culture by creating an arts and crafts project in class. In this weaving instructional activity, 4th graders identify the Kente culture and their uses for straw and other natural elements in their...
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Weather & Climate
Sixth graders differentiate weather and climate. In this earth science lesson, 6th graders complete a KWL chart about the two. They complete a worksheet by identifying whether a certain statement describes weather or climate.
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Andy Warhol and Silkscreen Pop Art
Students explore art history by researching famous paintings on-line. In this Andy Warhol lesson plan, students discuss who Warhol was, his impact on popular art and methods of painting. Students examine his use of silk screen printing...
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Visual Elements in the Giant Kites of Guatemala: Shape, Rhythm, and Color
Students view pictures of and discuss geometric shapes included in kites from Guatemala. They discuss the repetition of shapes and how that creates a motif. Students draw three concentric arches across their paper. They create a design...
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Inquiry Lesson About Color
Students investigate the color choices artists make in their work, and to practice the scientific process of predicting, observing, inferring, and interpreting. This lesson plan's purpose is to prepare students for a museum visit.
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Who Am I? A Look at Portraits
Students examine a variety of portrait examples in order to visualize how information is portrayed in the pictures. They create a portrait.
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Life Sized Self Portrait
Pupils create a self-portrait that is compiled by using individual student drawings. The drawings emphasize line, shape, color and possibly texture depending upon the student's selection of materials.
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Road Trip: Line, Pattern, and Movement
Students examine and explore various line, color, and movement elements in artwork. They view and discuss examples of abstract artwork, and create their own original abstract design that tells the story of a road trip.
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Welcome to Our Classroom!
Students observe a piece of artwork by Rafael Ferrer that surrounds an archway. They discuss the sculpture and design an archway for the classroom door.
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In The Eye Of The Beholder
Students identify and define definitions of beauty and perfection in Chinese and
Japanese art and compare those definitions to other cultural beliefs and societies. This lesson includes a two-part lesson evaluation.
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Joseph Stella: Movement and Unity
Students explore line,shape,color and repetition,to create unity and movement. They discuss Joseph Stella's Battle of Lights, Coney Island and visuals of roller coasters. They use colored pencil techniques and create an artwork.
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Drawing -Scratchboard
Students choose subject of composition and do sketches in computer lab of flora and fauna contained within their environment.
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The Laundress
Students explore the concept of work, and work typically assigned to women, through artwork depicting laundresses.
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Valentine Hearts
Young scholars sort candy Valentine hearts into groups and create individual graphs.
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Ambush Warriors
Students identify four different categories of reptiles and explain how snakes deliver their venom to their prey.
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Mathematics of Fair Games
Pupils study about mathematicians' notion of fairness in games of chance. They work in pairs to perform three different experiments using macaroni and paper bags. They record their results on charts and discuss the fairness of the games.
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Glass Blowing How Do They Make Glass Into Different Shapes?
Students experiment with butter as a supercooled liquid in order to better explain how glass is made into different shapes.
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VH1 Fan Club Dave Matthews Band
Learners study how the music of Dave Matthews Band is based on jazz, blues, bluegrass, rock and roll, and rap.
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Sheryl Crow and Willie Nelson - Lesson 2
Students use appropriate terminology to describe the instrumentation and style of a musical example. They identify common elements between musical styles and vocal styles.
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Just Graph It!
Young scholars research presidential election voting results, and organize and interpret data on class graphs.
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Double Exposure Lesson Plan: Artistic Analysis of a Photograph
Students view photographs on Web module, practice answering questions of analysis, and identify artistic qualities of photographs by applying the analysis of elements of art.
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Time's Up
Students reflect on the events of the year 2000 by creating timelines that note memorable events in the news and in their won private lives. They combine individual timelines into a larger classroom timeline.
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Modeling Forest Fires Using Probability
Students explore forestry. They discuss creating fire breaks to control forest fires. Students create models to determine the best way to manage forest fires. They discuss current techniques of forest management.
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A "State of the Arts" Coin K-3
Young scholars recognize the U.S. penny, nickel, dime, and quarter by design, size, and denomination and that the portraits and other images depicted on the coins were designed by artists. They study common Texas symbols and choose one...