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Painting Pottery

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Learners summarize and illustrate the process of painting an ancient Greek vessel, identify the amphora as an example of the black figure style and order the steps and procedures necessary to produce an amphora in the black figure style.
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The Chemistry of Black Pottery

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders create pottery out of black clay using traditional methods. They demonstrate appropriate Native American cultural traditions related to the making of black pottery, including prayers to Mother Earth and Clay Woman.
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Greece: The Landscape

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Pupils work in small groups to create a topographic map of Greece. They must include labeled line drawings of bordering countries and bodies of water. Students use salt and flour clay to make Greece three dimensional, showing the many...
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Quiz 113

For Students 6th - 7th
In this color quiz worksheet, students answer 12 online questions about color. The color questions are related to history, art, culture and mineral dyes.
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We Are Unique - Yet Also Alike

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders compare their lives to trees and make connections between the two, consider how trees are metaphors for people, and draw and label trees to represent themselves. Students then read brief stories, fables or nursery rhymes,...
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Opening Lesson: Community

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils participate in a community service project and present an art project.  In this lesson on community service, students read Rainbow Fish and discuss its meaning for them as it relates to community. Pupils create an art project...
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The Mummy's Tomb: An Ideal Hope Chest Lesson Plan

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Students create replicas of Egyptian tombs. For this visual arts lesson, students study the beliefs of the ancient Egyptians regarding the afterlife. Students design small mummy tombs using shoe bows, modelling clay, and embellishments.
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Rice

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders develop a creative art project.  In this rice instructional activity, 3rd graders learn about rice, when and how it is harvested, and how it is stored.  Students make rainbow rice and use it to create other art...
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New and Different Civilizations-a Claymation Dreamer's World

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students create a movie about a new civilization using claymation.  In this social studies lesson, students design a storyboard that includes various features of a new civilization, then use video and digital cameras to create a...
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Masking the Truth

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners explore the artistic and social significance of African masks. They create their own masks that reflect an important aspect of moving in their lives.
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Greek Vase Painting Project

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students identify the cultural context of ancient Greek, and especially Athenian, vase painting and the range of vase painting depictions of daily life and mythology. They experience the artistic and technical process of creating Greek...
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Life in Ancient Mesopotamia

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Learners reconstruct and make drawings of vessels in the same manner as an archaeologist. In this archaeologist lesson plan, students each get a piece of a broken pot and they have to work together to put it back together. Once it is...
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Plates Everybody Can Make

For Teachers 5th - 11th
Students create hand-built plates. In this sculpting activity, students use textured slab molds and plate drape molds to create a plate. Students use texture tools and paint to design their plate.
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Jewelry - Metals - Advanced Ceramics

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners learn basic jewelry composition, work with a unique new substance to create a piece of fine jewelry, and are introduced to stamping, firing and polishing silver working.
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Hands-on History of Pottery

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners make pottery in the same evolutionary order as archeology indicates. They begin with simple pinch pots and then move to plain coil pots, manipulative decoration, and surface decoration. For each type of pot they discuss the...
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The Adoration of Shepherds

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students create bas-relief sculptures of themselves after studying the principles of bas-relief sculpture.
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Creating an Autobiographical Amulet Necklace

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students create their own personalized amulet necklaces after viewing images of artifacts from different cultures.
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Ancient Mesopotamian and Egyptian Writing

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research cuneiform and hieroglyphics from the internet and use educational software to create their own cuneiform tablet in this excellent World History instructional activity. The use of the computer software program...
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Promoting Knowledge of Letters and Words

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
In this literacy worksheet, students benefit from the research displayed in this activity. Teachers read the information concerning the instruction of the alphabet.
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Oaxacan Animals

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students explore the wood carving techniques and artistic capacity of the Zapotec Indians and create a whimsical creature based on the wood carvings. The creature is made from newspaper and designed using paint pens.
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Sculpture in Relief

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders create an abstract wall relief that incorporates the use of free form shapes, lines, movement, & color. They use oak tag, toilet paper holders and glue to create their sculptures.
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Portrait and Figure Drawing

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners investigate the self-portraits and figure drawings of famous artists such as Käthe Kollowitz, Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt and others following their own attempts to create their expressive original drawings.
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I can do it blindfolded!

For Teachers Higher Ed
One method of creating a genuine information gap is through the use of blindfold activities. Blindfolds can be employed in a variety of ways in the TEFL/ESL foster a truly communicative and student-centered approach to learning.
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Classical Greek Sculpture

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students create a sculpture of one of their classmates heads in the manner of the Greek sculptures. They apply the correct terminology into making their sculpture. They evaluate their own project and focus on areas to improve on.

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