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Newcomers

For Teachers K - 3rd
Explore emotions associated with moving to a new home with young learners. First they listen to the books Painted Words/Spoken Memories by Aliki and Going Home by Eve Bunting. Then they are invited to share their experiences as well as...
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Practicing Letters g and h

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Which of these pictures begins with this sound? Learners focus on letters g and h in this alphabet practice instructional activity. They trace and print each letter and add them to an incomplete alphabet. Then, they...
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Practicing Letters e and f

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Which of these words begins with the letter e? Scholars become familiar with lowercase letters e and f by visually matching. After tracing each letter, they draw lines from the letter to images beginning with the same...
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Weather Words

For Students K - 1st
Weather and the days of the week are the focus on a fun kindergarten activity. Using a word bank with weather words, kids match the pictures of snow, wind, rain, and sun to their correct terms. They then draw a picture for the weather...
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April Daily Resources

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Spring has sprung in your classroom! An entire month of activities relating to spring prompts learners to color, draw, write, and work on phonics. 
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All About Me!

For Students K - 1st Standards
Reinforce punctuation skills as well as printing skills with a kindergarten autobiography worksheet. Youngsters write their information, including their name, address, and age, and draw a picture of themselves and the place where they...
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Seeing Feelings

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners create pencil drawings of assigned items and then, study painting by Vincent Van Gogh. They discuss how different colors make them feel and are then assigned a mood to express by adding color to their line drawing.
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Wynton's Tune

For Teachers K - 8th
Students examine the serigraph, "Wynton's Tune," by artist Faith Ringgold. They discuss the painting, listen to jazz music, create a drawing that tells a story inspired by their favorite music, and write sentences describing their artwork.
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What Shapes Can You See?

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Learners investigate shapes in art. In this visual arts lesson, students examine the ancient Panamanian "Plaque" and identify the geometric shapes in the art piece. Learners combine basic shapes to make an artistic picture of their own.
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Beside

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
It's important for youngsters to understand common prepositions; use this drawing activity to give them some practice. They follow directions which, for pre-readers, will need to be read to them. There are four prompts here directing...
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The oa Sound

For Students K - 1st Standards
Explore spelling patterns with this multi-step worksheet featuring the /oa/ sound. Learners read a brief introduction explaining that this sound can be achieved by three different vowel combinations. They complete a different...
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Tell Me More

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders demonstrate research techniques in addition to endeavoring to display focus and stay on topic. Using books and stories, they gather, organize, and share information about a topic. Additionally, they explain to the class...
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Picture a Tarantula

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students create an illustration based upon a read-aloud. In this visual arts lesson plan, students listen to the book The Tarantula Scientist and listen for details. Students create a picture based upon what they imagined during the...
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Analyzing Two or More Nonfiction Texts

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
How does recognizing the author's purpose help you draw conclusions about a topic? Using two articles (both are attached), learners brainstorm why each author wrote each article. Are their purposes similar or different? Learners use a...
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Denver Art Museum

Descriptive Haiku

For Teachers K - 5th
Even though this is technically an art instructional activity, haiku poetry is actually the main focus! Learners view photographs of Japanese tea caddies. They list five descriptive words for the caddies, then write haiku poems using the...
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ELA.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.9

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
As the saying goes: there are no new stories. Standard 9 for reading literature in the Common Core addresses this fact and requires that students be able to analyze how authors use the themes, stories, and characters of earlier works....
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Huichol Yarn Painting

For Teachers K - 8th
Young artists of many ages apply yarn painting techniques in combining their ideas and their art. After viewing actual examples of yarn paintings created by the Huichol people, learners choose an important scene from their own lives...
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2nd grade Reading

For Teachers 2nd
Read the story Alexander's Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day to your second grade class. They will either draw a picture of the part of the story that they liked the best or write one sentence about the part that made them laugh....
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Document Interpretation Exercise

For Students 11th
Dorothea Lange’s photograph, Migrant Mother, and The Paycheck by Rick Nahimias, provide learners with an opportunity to practice their document interpretation skills. After a careful study of the images, class members develop a detailed...
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Moving Left to Right

For Students Pre-K - K
These animals need to find their homes! Young scholars help them by drawing lines from each animal on the left to its habitat on the right. There is no guessing to be done here, though; pairs are directly across from one another. They...
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Match the Pictures

For Students Pre-K - K
Which of these objects are the same? Get your pre-readers comfortable with identifying objects that are identical, focusing on the term same. They examine eight pictures, drawing a line between those that are the same. The objects should...
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Missing Letters

For Students Pre-K - K Standards
Complete these rhyming words. There are multiple potential objectives in this phonics activity. Each of these CVC words is missing a first letter. Spellers complete the word along with its rhyming parter and draw a picture of the second...
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Poems: Itsy Bitsy Spider

For Students K - 1st Standards
Act out the "Itsy Bitsy Spider" rhyme with youngsters. Learners observe visual instructions before completing the corresponding actions, then draw the spider into a scene. Finally, they write down rhyming words that have the ai...
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Poems: Eating Treats

For Students K Standards
Which poem is best? Your kindergarten class follows along as you read three different poems. They decide which one they like best, then draw a picture to illustrate it. The class can also discuss why they chose the poems they did. A...

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