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Better Lesson: Scale Drawings

For Teachers 6th
This lesson will provide students the opportunity to work with scale drawings as they create their own road trip to see how far they go using a map of the United States.
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Other

Art Teacher on the Net: Portrait Drawing

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Seven lesson plans with unique approaches to drawing the human face. Web site also includes many other links to art related topics.
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Draw Your Nervous System

For Students 1st - 5th
Explore your nerves by creating a life-sized drawing.
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wikiHow

Wiki How: How to Draw Basic Human Figures

For Students 9th - 10th
Get a start on drawing human bodies by using simple shapes and then adding details later. This shows good visual examples including a simple guide to proportions.
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Department of Defense

Do Dea: Spreadsheet Software: M3: L3: Can You Draw It? Working With Shapes

For Students 9th - 10th
In Module 3 Lesson 3 of this course on spreadsheets, students learn how to insert shapes into a spreadsheet and enhance them by resizing, rotating, changing line width, adding color and text, etc. Includes slideshow tutorials.
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Read Works

Read Works: Lessons: Lesson 1: Verbal Cues

For Teachers K Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students to draw a conclusion from a verbal cue.
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Other

Cindy Mark: What's Bug'n You

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Students will enjoy learning more about bugs in this engaging resource. Allows users to draw a picture of a spider, create an insect information book, discover how insects move and be able to tell where insects live.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Judging and Reacting: Tutorial

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this slideshow tutorial, students will review the critical reading techniques of making judgments and forming reactions about what they read. Explanations are given about drawing conclusions, responding to literature, and making...
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Other

Math Mammoth: Children's Best Activities: Copy the Pictures

For Students 2nd - 4th
A collection of animal pictures with grid overlays for drawing practice. Students copy an image by drawing the contents of each square of the grid into a matching square on a second blank grid next to the picture. Each activity can be...
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Education Place

Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Make a Living Bar Graph

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Student use simple data to line up in a living bar graph activity when they respond to simple questions in this lesson plan. They physically and visually represent the data. CCSS.Math.Content.3.MD.B.3 Draw a scaled picture graph and a...
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Other

Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource includes a detailed biography, transcripts of his letters to his beloved brother Theo, photographs, numerous reproductions, and more. The museum also collects Western paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints from the...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Kindergarten Writing Lesson #2/Descriptive Prompt

For Teachers K Standards
This lesson plan provides a descriptive writing prompt for kindergarten students about a single event or about several events. Students will use a combination of dictating, drawing, and writing to narrate their stories.
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Research: Where Do I Begin?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The 21st century has made access to information easier than ever. Purdue offers tips on how to narrow your research field when trying to sort through this information. Click on the links in the sidebar to learn about the different types...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Come Along Daisy

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will engage in discussions about story details and write an informational piece about the events in the story "Come Along Daisy".
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Mice Squeak, We Speak

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this lesson students will write an informative sentence in response to listening to the story; "Mice squeak, We speak". Included in this lesson are examples of student work, videos of oral presentations, and puzzle pieces for new...
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Plum Landing: Marmot Manor: Mountain Mission

For Students Pre-K - 1st
After watching the "Marmot Manor: Mountain Mission" episode of PBS Kids' Plum Landing, students will draw a picture of the marmot's underground mountain home.
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Plum Landing: Popular Poplars

For Students Pre-K - 1st
After watching the "Popular Poplars" episode of PBS Kids' Plum Landing, students will draw a picture of poplar trees and publish them online. Students will include butterflies alongs their trees.
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Plum Landing: Flying Frog: Jungle Mission

For Students Pre-K - 1st
After watching the "Flying Frog" episode of PBS Kids' Plum Landing, students will draw pictures of flying tree frogs and publish them online.
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Other

Science Fair Primer: Reporting the Results

For Students 9th - 10th
A good explanation of the elements of a good science fair report written by a high school science teacher. Details are given step by step on stating the hypothesis, explaining the experimental procedure, presenting the data attained, and...
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Plum Landing: Link to the Lynx

For Students 1st - 5th
This PBS Kids activity is an extension of a Plum Landing episode featuring the lynx. Students will learn basic information about the lynx; students will also use online drawing tools to design a scene with a lynx hunting for food.
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City University of New York

American Studies Program: The Lowell Mill Girls

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource lists a number of questions for pondering about the women mill workers of Lowell, Massachusetts. There are several questions about many topics including the dress of the women, a drawing of the women, a time table of the Lowell...
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Plum Landing: Pictures

For Students K - 1st
This PBS Kids activity is an extension of Plum Landing episodes. Students will view pictures from other "earthlings" and then draw their own picture of scenes in nature.
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Plum Landing: Tree Inspector

For Students K - 1st
This PBS Kids activity is an extension of a Plum Landing episode featuring trees. Students will use the online tools to draw a tree that they closely observe.
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Plum Landing: The Kangaroo

For Students 1st - 3rd
This PBS Kids activity is an extension of a Plum Landing episode featuring Australia and its kangaroos. Using the online tools, students will draw pictures of trees that would shade kangaroos.

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