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Environment As Art
Students create an idea for environmental artwork for installation somewhere on school property.
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Textural Animal Sculptures - Model Magic
Students create textural animal sculptures. They explore how to accent their pices to make it look metallic.
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Say It Loud!: A Celebration Of Black Music In America
Students listen to and discuss the characteristics of Motown music. They recognize Motown music by its titles.
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The Chicano Movement in California - Culture, Causes, and Community
Students explore the culture and community of the Chicano movement in California using prints that emerged from the Chicano movement. The historical, binational, and bicultural components are examined in this three lessons unit.
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Exploring Pottery of North Carolina
Eighth graders explore the pottery traditions of North Carolina through a progression of investigation and hands on experience. State Standards are addressed during this two to three week lesson on regional pottery techniques.
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Dance Transitions
Learners create a small group dance that addresses free-flowing techniques and transitions for in-class performance. This lesson meets state arts standards and includes rubric for assessment.
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Colorful Cut-Outs
Students examine the works of Claude Matisse. In this Matisse Art Lesson, students explore Beasts of the Sea to find recognizable shapes. Students visit the National Gallery to view Matisse artworks.
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Rock Speaks
Students create primitive forms and caricatures to represent meaningful figures and/or events in their own lives, present their own works to the class, and attempt to interpret the relevant meaning from other students' work.
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Rain Orchestra
First graders mix secondary colors from primary colors and simulate a rainstorm by using body percussion.
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ABSTRACT EX[RESSIONISM DE KOONING STYLE
Students view and discuss the work of Elaine de Kooning and then the students create a painting in the Abstract Expressionist style.
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A Bird's-eye View
Sixth graders create a chalk drawing of a scene of their choice by using the process and techniques of horizon line, a variety of lines, vanishing points, and three-dimensional techniques.
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Comparative Sculpture Lesson Plan
Fifth graders view original artwork, define the art form sculpture, discuss similarities and differences between the examples provided, discuss the three-dimensional quality of each example given, and create and critique their own artwork.
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Roar-Shack Poetry
Students use tempera paints to create blots. They use the blots as inspiration for poetry writing by brainstorming and organizing all words they associate with the blot. They present their poetry along with their inspiration.
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Harlem Renaissance: Pivotal Period in the Development of Afro-American Culture
Students examine the time period of the Harlem Renaissance. In groups, they compare and contrast the type of art before and after the movement along with the state of society at the time. After reading a book on the topic of their...
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Painting Without a Brush
Students demonstrate how to finger paint. For this finger painting lesson, students use various painting tools and their fingers to create a unique art piece.
Facing History and Ourselves
Interpreting the Works of Samuel Bak: Self Portrait
Tenth graders explore the life of Samuel Bak. In this World History lesson, 10th graders develop a methodology for examining and analyzing works of art. Students examine art from the Holocaust and describe the experiences that the work...
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My Ideal World
Students create an image symbolic of their ideal world. In this lesson inspired by To Kill a Mockingbird and the artwork of Edward Hicks, students use Adobe Photoshop to create an image symbolic of their personal utopia.
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Touch-Drawings
Students explore an object without seeing it then draw what s/he felt. In this touch-drawings instructional activity, students partner and place objects in a paper bag so the other person cannot see it. Then students use their hands...
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"De Colores"
First graders learn color words in Spanish through the use of a song. In this Spanish music instructional activity, 1st graders sing the song "De Colores" to help them learn their color words in Spanish.
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Exploring Elizabeth I-Coronation Portrait
Young scholars explore Queen Elizabeth I. In this role playing lesson, students dress up as Queen Elizabeth I and take pictures. Young scholars discuss the coronation portrait of the Queen and discuss why she isn't smiling.
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The Chocolate Touch
Third graders read and analyze chapter two of the book "The Chocolate Touch" by Patrick Skene Catling. They compare and contrast a box of chocolates with the chocolates in the book, and write the sequential steps of opening a box of...
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Thematic Poetry Videos
Young scholars pen poetry regarding global issues. For this information literacy lesson, students research global issues and use their findings to compose poems regarding the topics. Young scholars create videos that include images and...
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Seasons
Third graders draw a picture. In this seasons lesson, 3rd graders name the seasons of the year, discuss what happens during each season, read a poem for each season and draw a picture for each season.