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Verbs

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students complete verb worksheets. In this verb lesson, students complete two worksheets to help them identify and then use action verbs.
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Past Time: Vocabulary Practice Worksheet 3

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this vocabulary practice worksheet, students choose the best word from 2 possible choices to complete each of 12 sentences. Despite the title, the sentences have little to do with past time.
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The Gold Cadillac

For Students 5th - 10th
In this The Gold Cadillac worksheet, students read the book The Gold Cadillac and answer short answer questions about it. Students complete 6 questions total.
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The Gold Cadillac

For Students 3rd - 4th
For this literature worksheet, students refer to the book entitled The Gold Cadillac.  Students respond to 13 short answer reading comprehension questions.    
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Joseph Stella: Movement and Unity

For Teachers 5th - 6th
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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Tessellations

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders investigate the relationship between math and art by examining patterns and polygons.They examine how polygons make up the patterns that form tessellations, and determine tessellations that occur in nature. Finally, they...
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Exploring Restoration Techniques

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars, after taking a field trip to a museum, use paint to try to restore old objects.
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SEASHELLS - PENCIL DRAWINGS

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Young scholars explore realism through drawing techniques to create 3D drawing on a 2D surface. They review steps of drawing and vocabulary and develop eye hand coordination while creating their own sketch. Upon completion of sketch...
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Sky Show

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers participate in a discussion of the sky and colors. They watch a demonstration of how colors can change. They examine the issue of if weather should be a part of their coursework.
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The Weather Classroom - Atmosphere

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Meteorology learners explore the weight of air, layers of the atmosphere, and air pressure action through a series of discussions, demonstrations, and hands-on group activities. Enough discussion prompts, background information, student...
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The Cleaning Station

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students study cleaning stations. In this science activity, students make a painting of a fish known as cleaners which take dead skin off of other fish.
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Sea Urchins - Diadema Antillarum

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students investigate oceanography by painting sea life. In this crustacean lesson, students identify sea urchins in our ocean environments and describe the functionality of their spherical-shaped bodies. Students design their own sea...
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Texture Towns

For Teachers K - 4th
Students explore different kinds of communities as well as identifying and discussing the attributes of their own neighborhood. They make choices about what kinds of shapes best create the look of the type of community they wish to...
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The Weather Classroom: Atmosphere

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the planets and their atmospheres online. They write the story of "Goldilocks and the Nine Planets" to explain how each planet's atmosphere differs from Earth's. They design a viable life form.
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Apples

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders complete many cross categorical activities about apples. In this apples lesson plan, 2nd graders cook with apples, make a mobile, finger-paint, write a story about apples, and more. Students read poetry and complete math...
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Hamsters

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students read books, learn about the letter h, and eat apples all to learn about hamsters. In this hamsters lesson plan, students also use play dough to make hamsters.
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Arts Connect Ed Artist's Toolkit Encyclopedia: Color

For Students 3rd - 8th
An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This activity is from the artist's encyclopedia entry for color and includes information on the color wheel, value, mood, natural...
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Fed Stats: Mapstats for Kids Color Scheme

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Mapstats is a unique cross-curricular site that uses maps to teach about monochromatic color.
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Class Flow: Color Mixing

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is an elementary primer to mixing colors in art and is a great resource for beginning artists with activity pages for kids to demonstrate their understanding of primary and secondary colors.
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Learn Pysanky: Symbols

For Students 3rd - 8th
A collection of design motifs used in the art of pysanky, or Ukrainian egg decoration. Each symbol is accompanied by its meaning. A color wheel is also shown, with the meanings for each color when used in pysanky.