American Museum of Natural History
Mesozoic Museum
Mini museum curators create an exhibit that showcases the Mesozoic era. Pupils use their knowledge of dinosaurs to make informative posters, drawings, and dioramas. Following three steps to complete the hands-on activity, scholars read...
Missouri Department of Elementary
Happy, Sad, Scared and Mad: All Belong To Me
"What are feelings?" and "Why are feelings important to understand?" are the essential questions of a lesson plan that boosts self-awareness. Scholars discuss the four basic emotions—happy, sad, scared, and mad—in...
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Crafting Models of Efficiency
Young scholars build and compare models of both an energy inefficient and efficient classroom. For this energy efficiency lesson, students creatively use recycled materials to build two separate classroom models. They factor in concepts...
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Values and Composition
Students examine and analyze the values of gray and the composition in photographs by Ansel Adams. They discuss elements of art, draw shapes and lines, complete a tone rectangle, and create a still life drawing.
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Everyone can explore architecture
Students draw like an architect. In this interdisciplinary lesson, students research and draw several examples of different forms of architecture through societies, cultures and times, then present them to the class.
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Oo is for Octopus
Learners learn to print the upper and lower case DeNelian letter Oo in this language arts instructional activity. Students trace several examples before forming their own letters in the unlined boxes. Also included is a Connect-the-Dot...
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Learning the Color Blue
In this recognizing the color blue worksheet, students observe a box colored blue, draw a picture of something blue, trace and write the word Blue. Students complete 5 activities.
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Learning the Color Purple
In this color word learning exercise, students learn to recognize the color purple and print the word. Students draw something purple in the box. Students then trace a dotted example of the word "purple" before practicing on their own.
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Learning the Color Orange
In this color word worksheet, students learn to recognize the color orange and print the word. Students draw something orange in the box. Students then trace a dotted example of the word "orange" before practicing on their own.
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Learning the Color Pink
For this color word worksheet, students learn to recognize the color pink and print the word. Students draw something pink in the box. Students then trace a dotted example of the word "pink" before practicing on their own.
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Learning the Color Brown
In this color word worksheet, students learn to recognize the color brown and print the word. Students draw something brown in the box. Students then trace a dotted example of the word "brown" before practicing on their own.
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Learning Black and White
In this color words worksheet, students learn to recognize the colors black and white and print the words. Students draw something black and white in the box. Students then trace a dotted example of the words "black" and "white" before...
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Learning the Color Yellow
In this color yellow worksheet, students learn to recognize and print the word "yellow". Students draw a picture of something yellow. Students trace the word and then practice printing "yellow" on the line.
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Acorn Designs
Students study painting. In this art lesson, students draw an object reated to Autumn or Fall and place it into a box. Students then squeeze paint in the center of the paper and put acorns into the box rolling the acorns through the...
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Texture And The World Around You
Students discover different textures used in art by exploring objects, creating magazine montages, and printing collagraphs. The lesson spans three days and includes three different activities to aid in the learning process.
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Uu is for Umbrella
For this printing practice learning exercise, students learn to form both upper and lower case Zaner-Bloser letter u. Students trace several examples before generating their letters in the boxes.
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Introduction of Primary Sources
First graders create two personal artifacts to add to a primary source shoebox that represents information about themselves. The first draw a self-portrait then build an artifact from Play-Doh and pipe cleaners to represent something...
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Learning the Color Red
In this recognizing the color red worksheet, students observe a box colored red, draw a picture of something red, trace and write the word Red. Students complete 5 activities.
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We Are All Different in Many Ways!
Students draw a picture with only one color crayon. As a class, they discuss how the world would be different if there were only one color crayon to use. After being read a book, they discuss how each person is important even though...
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Practice Exercises in IT Skills Pack 4: Presentation Graphics
Students explore how to annotate and align clip art as well as create Powerpoint presentations. In this presentation graphics instructional activity, students expand their IT skills set by completing 4 projects employing clip art and...
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Can You Sell Your Cereal?
Young scholars evaluate television commercials about cereal and create their own cereal product. They watch cereal television commericals and evaluate cereal boxes to compare their features. As a class they create a T-chart to identify...
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Picture This!
First graders watch the teacher model how to draw pictures and write words in a First, Next, Then, Last - 4 block graphic organizer. They write and draw in their own 4 block papers.
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It Looked Like Spilt Milk
Class rereads book It Looked Like Spilt Milk and reviews what a good sentence looks like. They look at websites which contain cloud pictures and then use their imagination and draw on the computer their cloud pictures.
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Moving In Character
Eighth graders compare and contrast the motivations and reactions of literary characters from different historical eras confronting similar situations and conflicts. For this history lesson, 8th graders read excerpts from the books,...