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Essential Services
Students discuss necessary community services then complete a worksheet by filling in essential services, the needed inputs and outputs produced by fulfilling the service.
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Alexander Graham Bell: Voice of Invention
Students watch a Biography episode about Alexander Graham Bell -- his remarkable inventions, family life, and the individuals who influenced his work.
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Building Up, Breaking Down
Students explore their school building and examine the rocks it is made of. They discover how rocks become building materials and participate in a variety of activities surrounding this subject.
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Discovering Demographics
Learners analyze demographic data including a statistical overview of India. Students synthesize their findings and create an informational poster about India.
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"Home Sweet Home?"
Students research an endangered animal's habitat, investigate the survival problems. They research the animal's zoo life. They research some programs of reintroduction and chart the pros and cons of each.
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Class Conservation Corps (CCC)
Students investigate how the loss of soil, a valuable natural resource, affects their lives through loss of productive land to grow food, loss of coastal land mass, and poor water quality from runoff. They design a project to keep soil...
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The Wildland/Urban Interface Dilemma
Students examine all sides of the issues surrounding wildland fire. Groups assume the roles of different people who must decide what to do about a fictitious wildfire. They have a discussion to analyze the issue. A good, real life lesson!
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Protecting the Past: Give a Hoot, Don't Loot
Students discuss the looting and vandalism of various archeological sites. In pairs, they read and complete a worksheet and review their answers as a class. In groups, they role play a artifact preservation skit and perform it to their...
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The Kanaka Village at Fort Vancouver: Crossroads of the Columbia River
Young scholars study the interaction between Native American and European cultures in the Pacific Northwest in the 1800s. They focus their study on the Hudson's Bay Company and Fort Vancouver.
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East Asia: Current Events
Ninth graders read and evaluate current events of East Asia. They select an article, read and summarize the article and identify the key people, places, dates, and events in the article. As they summarize, they write a personal...
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Make It All Better!
Students brainstorm ideas to solve a problem. In this technology lesson, students share their ideas to class. They research innovations that could benefit the community.
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Tooling Around Arizona: Reading Arizona Maps
Students study geography. In this Arizona maps lesson, students develop their map reading skills. They have class discussions and work independently with various copies of Arizona maps to practice those skills. This lesson mentions...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Perspective Drawing
In this lesson, students use line segments, angles, and parallel and perpendicular lines in order to create a one point perspective drawing.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Perspective Drawing Inspired by n.c. Wyeth [Pdf]
In this lesson, students will generate unique fantasy drawings that utilize perspective and create the illusion of depth on a two-dimensional surface. Deriving inspiration from the American painter and illustrator N.C. Wyeth's The Giant,...
Goshen College
Learning to Draw by Learning the Basic Seeing Skills
Ideas taken from the book "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" are outlined here. This article discusses seven concepts that students need to be able to do to master the art of drawing.
Goshen College
Learning to Draw by Learning the Basic Seeing Skills
Ideas taken from the book "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" are outlined here. This article discusses seven concepts that students need to be able to do to master the art of drawing.
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Art Appreciation: Unit 4: 2 D Art
This fourth unit of a course on Art Appreciation looks at different forms of two-dimensional art. Students learn about the invention of paper, early perceptions of drawing, how hatching and cross-hatching were used by Michelangelo,...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 6: If Stones Could Speak
Sixth graders will explore history and will learn that archaeologists, like detectives, work to piece together the past through investigation. Archaeological research provides us with stories of human history that help us understand the...
Other
University of Evansville: Art Studio Chalkboard
This site from the University of Evansville is a great place for the aspiring artist to visit. Receive free professional advice and tips on basic drawing techniques. The site focuses on perspective drawing and shading.
Other
Art Education: Drawing in One Point Perspective
A fascinating interactive site showing how to use lines in on-point perspective drawings.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Studies for the Last Judgment and a Late Crucifixion Drawing
The Last Judgement was a common theme in church art, but Michelangelo's interpretation was entirely novel. His vision of the Apocalypse is a swirling maelstrom, filled with thick-set and muscular naked figures. Traditional symmetry and...
CGFA
Carol Gerten Fine Arts: M. C. Escher
This resource provides a very informative biography as well as a gallery with 15 pictures of great Escher art.
Yale University
Yale: The Illusion of the Renaissance
A curriculum unit on perspective, detailing the differences between medieval and Renaissance art. This is designed as a studio art course for 8th grade through high school, and contains some good information and activities. Illustrations...
Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago: Art Access: Traveling Above, Looking Below
Try drawing something from a bird's-eye view and change your usual perspective of that object. Relates this drawing-from-above concept to artist Georgia O'Keeffe.