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Brainstorming and Number Patterns
Ninth graders discover what it means to "brainstorm." They explore a given simple number pattern and then, working in groups, brainstorm more complicated number patterns. They display them around the room and then solve the number...
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Fire Safety
Students review how to exit the school building during a fire drill. They discuss the World Trade Center escape routes and why there was difficulty getting out on September 11, 2001. They compare fire escape routes of the World Trade...
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Potato Launcher Energy Lab
Students investigate conservation laws using a potato launcher. In this physics lesson, students measure angles, time and distance of the potato. They discuss applications of experiments like this.
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Introduction to Ecology
Eighth graders identify the living and nonliving components of an ecosystem. For this ecology lesson, 8th graders explain the role each organism plays. They participate in class discussion and answer a quiz at the end of the lesson.
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Who's Who? Subject and Object Pronouns
In this subject/object pronoun activity, students play a game, choosing cards with pronouns written on them and placing the pronoun in sentence. Other players determine whether it has been correctly used in the sentence to score points.
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Take A Verb Back In Time
Students write a story that takes place in the past and include regular and irregular verbs. In this verbs lesson plan, students identify the verbs after they write their story.
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Information Station
Students look through different print materials to information. In this information lesson plan, students look through the newspaper, magazines, and menus to practice finding such things as, the weather for the day, a picture of a nice...
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Self-Control
Pupils examine their feelings of anger in various situations. In groups, they view scenerios from different points of view and from reading many poems. They answer comprehension questions about a story they read to end the class.
Kinder Art
Kinder Art: Drawing (Lesson Plans)
Forty creative lesson plans on drawing for young scholars of all ages! Each one gives an example, a list of materials, and step-by-step directions. Many of the activities also provide a list of books, vocabulary, extensions, and more!
J. Paul Getty Trust
J. Paul Getty Museum: Explore Art, Drawings
This site breaks down the art of drawing into six subcategories, each encompassing a different drawing medium. Mediums include chalk, charcoal, crayon, ink, metalpoint, and pencil. Each subcategory has many visual examples.
Other
Sidewalk Chalk Guy
This unknown chalk pastel artist creates unbelievable 3-dimensional images on the sidewalks of the city.
California State University
A Bird's Eye View
With this lesson plan students will create a chalk drawing of an outdoor scene from a bird's-eye view. Lesson includes links to perspective drawing techniques and examples.
HotChalk
Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Birdseye View, Mapping
Lesson that helps students understand that maps show a "birds-eye view" of a place. Students stand above a teacher-made model and discuss how the objects in the model looked from above. Then students draw objects from a birds-eye view,...
Other
Soft Chalk Llc.: Polygons in the Coordinate Plane
This site provides short lesson reviews on how to plot points on a coordinate plane to form polygons. It also gives quick checks in between.
Other
Art Show: Progression of Painting of Apples
Here at ArtShow, artist Betsy M. Kellum explains her pastel technique with this still life drawing. Both oil paints and pastels are used. Kellum explains the drawing/painting process from the blueprint of the artwork to the finishing...
HotChalk
Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Billie Bird Learning About a Bird's Body
This activity is designed to introduce young learners to the various parts of bird anatomy and to express that through creative movement, poetry, and drawings.
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Web Gallery of Art: The Artist Drawing in the Farnese Gardens
An image of "The Artist Drawing in the Farnese Gardens", created by Hubert Robertz (Red chalk, 340 x 455 mm).
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Web Gallery of Art: Alessandro De' Medici in Profile
An image of "Alessandro de' Medici in Profile", created by Jacopo Pontormo, c. 1534 (Stylus, black chalk, traces of another red chalk drawing, 165 x 126 mm).
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Polygon Perimeters
Lesson providing practice for finding the perimeters of polygons. Students draw polygons using sidewalk chalk and then measure the perimeters of each shape.
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Web Gallery of Art: St Apollonia
An image of "St Apollonia", created by Albrecht Durer in 1521 (Chalk drawing on green primed paper, 414 x 288 mm).
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Web Gallery of Art: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
An image of "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", created by Friedrich Bury in 1800 (Chalk drawing, 955 x 534 mm).
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Web Gallery of Art: Head of a Girl
An image of "Head of a Girl", created by Diego Rodriguez De Silva Y Velazquez, c. 1618 (Chalk drawing, 150 x 117 mm).
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Web Gallery of Art: Portrait of an Unknown Man
An image of "Portrait of an Unknown Man", created by Jean Clouetz (Chalk drawing).
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Web Gallery of Art: Madame De Lautrec
An image of "Madame de Lautrec", created by Jean Clouetz (Chalk drawing).