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Color Mixing

For Teachers 1st
First graders practice identifying primary and secondary colors by mixing paint.  In this colors lesson plan, 1st graders utilize primary colored paint to mix and experiment with in order to create secondary colors.  Students...
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Colors: Primary and Secondary

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore primary and secondary colors. In this activity on light and color, students complete four different activities which include mixing colors, creating secondary colors from primary colors and observing the colors in a bubble.
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Transportation Unit

For Teachers K
Students maintain a journal and write about various types of transportation.  In this transportation lesson, students write using flash cards to describe vehicles. Students listen to stories and sing a song...
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Pre History through Modern Day Timeline

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students explore the historical sequence of cultures throughout history. They demonstrate the ability to organize events in chronological order and demonstrate how time is measured and annotated.
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Climate

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Young scholars study zoanthids. In this science and art lesson plan, students use line to create texture and how to use colors to create value. Young scholars share their beautiful mat zoanthids with the rest of the class.
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The Cleaning Station

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students study cleaning stations. In this science activity, students make a painting of a fish known as cleaners which take dead skin off of other fish.
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Keith Haring Painting Project

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students paint a picture based on the work of Keith Haring including Haring people. In this painting lesson plan, students also look and discuss the art of Keith Haring.
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Joseph Stella: Movement and Unity

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students explore line,shape,color and repetition,to create unity and movement. They discuss Joseph Stella's Battle of Lights, Coney Island and visuals of roller coasters. They use colored pencil techniques and create an artwork.
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SEASHELLS - PENCIL DRAWINGS

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Young scholars explore realism through drawing techniques to create 3D drawing on a 2D surface. They review steps of drawing and vocabulary and develop eye hand coordination while creating their own sketch. Upon completion of sketch...
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Sea Urchins - Diadema Antillarum

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students investigate oceanography by painting sea life. In this crustacean lesson, students identify sea urchins in our ocean environments and describe the functionality of their spherical-shaped bodies. Students design their own sea...
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Texture Towns

For Teachers K - 4th
Students explore different kinds of communities as well as identifying and discussing the attributes of their own neighborhood. They make choices about what kinds of shapes best create the look of the type of community they wish to...
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Recycling

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students examine different "cycles" that are found in nature, such as the water cycle and recycling. They create their own artwork about cycles to be displayed on a bulletin board
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Colors of Our World Crossword

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this language arts worksheet, students solve a crossword puzzle in which they read 12 clues and fit the answers in the spaces. All answers will be the names of colors. No word bank is given.
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Tints, Tones, & Shades Painting

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students experiment with color mixing, using paints as the medium to discover tint, tone, shade, value and intensity.
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Ceramic Terms Crossword Puzzle

For Students 8th - 12th
In this ceramic terms crossword puzzle worksheet, students use the 20 art clues to fill in the appropriate words pertaining to ceramic studies in order to solve the word puzzle.
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Verbs

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students complete verb worksheets. In this verb lesson, students complete two worksheets to help them identify and then use action verbs.
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Transportation Types

For Teachers K
Students answer questions after listening for details that identify many different kinds of transportation.
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Class Flow: Color Theory

For Teachers 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces students to the concept of primary, secondary and tertiary colors. The lesson concludes with an activity in which students create their own color wheel from mixing colors and...
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Create a Mood With Color Key

For Students 9th - 10th
Clearly defines high and low key color pallets. Provides visual examples and links to other color concepts. Attention is directed to watercolor painting, but can be applied to other painting methods.
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Serc: Investigating White Light: What Colors Make Up White Light?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Two different hands-on activities that explore white light and the colors that make it up. In one activity students will create white light by using a color wheel. In the other activity students discover the colors that make white light...
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Writing Fix: A Word Game for Kids: The Colored Wheels Game

For Students 1st - 4th
What kind of interesting things could happen to a vehicle that's an unusual color? In this student-created lesson, young writers click the color and the wheel button until they find a colored vehicle they want to write about. Then they...