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Noun Clown
In this grammar worksheet, 2nd graders identify that a noun is a word that names a person, place, or thing. They underline the noun or nouns in each of the sentences listed on the sheet.
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Discover the History of Melody
Students connect to music resources. In this music lesson, students visit the websites of the Handel House Museum, the Horniman Museum, Reid Concert Hall, and the National Center for Early Music. Students...
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Timely Tolerance
Eighth graders work together to focus on an oppressed group of society. Using the information they gather, they create a museum exhibit to educate their community on the group. They present their PowerPoint presentation to the class to...
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Postcards From The Wilderness
Students examine and discuss various landscapes from the Getty Museum. They create postcards featuring landscapes that incorporate rubbings to create texture. They write letters on the backs of their postcards describing their landscapes.
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Meet the Children of the Getty: A Set of 8 Activities
Students participate in eight activities designed to examine the many students represented in artworks at the J. Paul Getty Museum. They draw, identify shapes and patterns, analyze paintings and make personal connections with their own...
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Giants of the Past
Learners listen to the book, The Mysterious Giant of Barletta, and create paper sculptures based on ancient Greek and Roman statues in the Getty Museum. They write narrative stories told from the viewpoints of their sculptures.
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Flora and Fauna as Figures of Speech
Students view artwork in manuscript pages depicting insects, animals, plants, flowers, and ornate writing, such as those found in the Mira calligraphiae monumenta in the Getty Museum.
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Exploring Restoration Techniques
Learners, after taking a field trip to a museum, use paint to try to restore old objects.
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Explaining How Things Work
Students will focus upon learning how to write an essay based upon observations that are made at a museum. After watching a demonstration or learning how to do something, students write an essay explaining the process to someone who has...
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Dominic's egg
Students visit the Art Discovery museum for four consecutive weeks. Each session includes a tour of the galleries and a hands-on studio component. During the four sessions students work on both individual and collaborative projects. ...
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Statement of Principles
Students examine how Neoclassical art conveyed moral and ethical ideas. They create their own works of art that serve as social commentaries.
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A Picture's Worth 500-700 Words
Students write a narrative or short story of 500-700 words based on an assigned work of art.
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Creating Your Own Story
Students think about a dramatic moment in their lives and imagine how to translate it into a work of art. They write their own personal experience as a story. They describe a visual image of their personal experience and/or story.
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Look Again
Students interpret and discuss what they see in a work of art over a period of time.
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Chicago On Stage
Students view a film about the genres and disciplines of performing arts. They examine the theatre community in Chicago and the origins of theatre companies. They answer questions and discuss them to end the lesson.
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Images of Children in Dorothea Lange's Photographs
Students look carefully at two photographs by Dorothea Lange for elements of art and narrative content. They use descriptive language when speaking and writing about Lange's photographs of studenT lives.
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Exhibiting Your Knowledge
Learners are introduced to the various museum functions. In groups, they create a traveling exhibition based on Gutenberg's invention and the first printed book. They share their exhibition with the class and answer any questions presented.
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Decorating Objects... and Re-decorating
Students create decorative objects and discuss their importance in form and function. For this art history lesson, students discuss Chinese porcelain objects with mounts later added by the Chinese. Students recreate an example of this...
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Personal Portraits
Young scholars create their own self-portrait or a portrait of someone they know well.
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Still-Life Painting: Arranging Nature—Lesson 2
Learners choose meaningful objects for a still-life arrangement and paint it using watercolors. After reflecting on their choice of objects and composition, students begin to write an artist's statement.
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Depicting Motherhood in Family Stories
Students examine the roles of mothers and grandmothers by looking at black-and-white photographs of one American family and comparing that family's multi-generational story with their own. In this mothers and grandmothers lesson plan,...
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Writing the Artist's Statement
Learners read and write an artist's statement. In this artist's statement lesson, students read Dorothea Lange's artist statement before writing one of their own about their photography. They examine their own photography and use...
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Introduction to the Nature Journal
Students create nature journals. In this introduction to the nature journal lesson, students discover the uses of nature journals and begin their own. Students are challenged to use vivid, concise terms in their descriptive language....
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Framing the Landscape
Students draw their own drawings after learning about composition of drawings and lines. In this drawing lesson plan, students learn about different lines they can use while drawing. Then they go outside and draw their own.