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Sand Painting

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Young scholars create sand art paintings based on those of the Navajo.
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Water Pollution and Food Chains

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers investigate the two key concepts covered in this instructional activity: first, how pollution can affect plants, and, second, how polluted plants affect the rest of the food cycle. In sum, this instructional activity...
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Check Out Lights and Shields with Beads

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore Ultraviolet detecting beads and conduct several investigations with them.  In this investigative lesson students participate in an experiment to see the harmful effects of UV light and discuss their findings. 
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Water Pollution and Food Chains

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders study the effect of pollution in our food chains. In this plant biology lesson, 6th graders first experiment with pollution by placing a carnation in colored water. Next they use a food chain triangle to see the concept of...
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Quick and Easy Tie-Dye

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students create their own tie-dye shirts. In this visual arts instructional activity, students take shirts and wrap a rubber band around a few small areas. They dot these areas with sharpies and then blend them together with rubbing...
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Group Foraging

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Young scholars explore co-operation by researching ocean life. In this fish science lesson, students identify many vocabulary terms associated with oceanography and discuss what group foraging means among fish. Young scholars utilize...
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Making Kwanzaa Place-mats

For Teachers K - 2nd
Pupils create a Kwanzaa place-mat. In this Kwanza lesson students use red, green, and black paint in alternating stripes to decorate their place-mat. The place-mats can be laminated and sent home or used in class.
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Art Criticism for Elementary

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students view various pieces of art and identify their basic elements. Using the art, they present the elements to the class in a presentation. They answer questions and organize them into written form. They also write and reflect on...
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It's A Jungle Out Here-Landscape Painting

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students work together to create a landscape painting. Using the musical "The Lion King", they must relate the painting to it and use while an adaptation is being performed at the school. Using the internet, they also review images from...
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Easter Bunny Baskets

For Teachers K - 8th
Students create Easter bunny baskets using cardboard half-gallon milk or juice containers, cotton balls, felt, pipe cleaners, and basic art supplies in this holiday Art lesson for the K-8 classroom. This can be adapted and made into a...
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Making Paint

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discover how paint is made, then create their own paint which they will use to create a picture. After witnessing the processes of emulsion and suspension, students work in groups to create their own paint, and then create...
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An Academic, Economic, Cultural, and Political Lesson Plan

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students reflect on how many board games they've played have African Americans, their culture or history incorporated within. They identify four street games and three card games that appeal to African Americans. They play the...
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Art & Life During the American Revolution

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders examine and critique the art, artists, and artisans of late 18th century America.
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Choosing the Best Graph

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders produce and examine two sets of data and create what they believe to be the most appropriate graphs to represent these sets of data. After completing the pre-assessment, they discuss reasons for using each type of graph...
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Science: Pigments and Photosynthesis

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the process of photosynthesis by identifying chloroplasts and chlorophyll pigments. In a demonstration, they observe a demonstration connecting pigments with sunlight conversion into energy. Using paper chromatography,...
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Japanese Festival Mask Making

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students learn about Japanese culture and make a mask. In this lesson about Japanese mask-making, students use research and art to explore the Japanese culture. Students research Japanese masks. Students design their own Japanese mask....
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Multiplication is a real handful (multiplying by 5's) (Elementary, Mathematics)

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students paint their hands and use digits to study the factors of 5.
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Van Gogh's Self-Portraits

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine Vincent van Gogh's self-portraits and letters. They consider how first-person art forms aid the process of self-discovery. They produce a Van Gogh-style self-portrait and write a letter describing it
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More Bait for Your Buck!

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students determine where to buy the heaviest earthworms as they study invertebrates. They create a double bar graph of the results of the weight data.
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Urban and Agricultural Settlements Why are They There?

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders identify types of human settlements, urban and agricultural, and determine geographic influence on why people settle where they did by use of maps and charts. They, in groups, identify the needs of a new settlement, which...
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Meet the Royal Food Family

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders use mini-books, posters, songs, trading cards and sorting activities to explore the five food groups needed for health: vegetables, fruits, grains, milk and meat. They discuss why good nutrition is important.
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Paper and Clothespin Dragonflies

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students use construction paper and clothespins to make a paper dragonfly. They place eyes on the dragonfly and use magic markers to add any detail they choose.
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Ecoregions of Texas

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Young scholars map the ecoregions in Texas and illustrate the vegetation native to the region. They will use their maps to investigate why prehistoric hunter-gatherers might have decided to live in one area over another, such as the...
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Dripping Paint [Action Painting]

For Teachers K - 12th
Students create examples of American Abstract Expressionism after studying the art of Jackson Pollock in this Art lesson for all levels. It is suggested to work with small groups of students if this lesson is done with a younger class.

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