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Animal Action

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students construct descriptive sentences. In this cross curricular music and descriptive writing activity, students listen to classical music and pantomime actions that correspond to the music. Students write descriptive sentences...
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Dancing With Props

For Teachers K - 12th
Students move a prop by moving their bodies. They are encouraged to focus on balance, a variety of body movements, and making the prop central to their movements.
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Photo Reports Make it Happen

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students use detailed instructions to organize, research, write and present an impressive report or slide show to an audience.
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Kimono Collagraph Prints

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students gain an appreciation for art/textiles for Japan. They use different textures to create a collagraph plate. They hand color a print with colored pencil to create interest.
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Looking for Heroes

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explain the importance of the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights March and the long term impact in the US of non violent civic participation.
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Who Is Family? Analyzing Family Photos

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students examine families through photography. In this interdisciplinary lesson, students examine photographs of families and discuss the attributes of families. Students select family photographs to analyze in writing.
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The Challenge of Egg Photography

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine lighting and composition to create a photograph of a white subject (an egg) against a white background. In this photography lesson students examine each others photos to determine the best methods.
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Comparison/Contrast Composer Study

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils choose two composers to research and complete a compare and contrast study of them. In this composer research lesson plan, young scholars select two composers to research. Pupils use Internet sources, the library, and music class...
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Babar's Travels

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students read the story The Story of Babar and have a class discussion about his travels, discuss their families, design a map, pick music, and more. In this cross curricular musical lesson plan, students create a music map for each of...
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Coming to America

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students present tableaus showing scenes from The Memory Coat,  a book about immigration. For this tableau lesson, students examine the cover of the book and make predictions about what is happening and who the people are. They...
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Activity Plan 5-6: Architects at Work

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Young scholars build on what they know to make new discoveries. In this early childhood lesson plan, students engage in a block-building activity to develop language, math, and fine-motor skills.
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Portrait Propaganda

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners design an installation for a portrait of Hadrian in an ancient Roman town to illustrate and comprehend its propaganda role in daily life.
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Symbol Collage

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners recognize and compare symbols and their meanings on a mummy case with those in students' everyday lives.
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Reflecting Culture Through Coins

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students research and recreate coins from ancient civilizations to determine how the imagery reflects the cultures which originally made them.
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Form and Function

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discover the function of ancient Greek vessels by comparing their characteristics. They compare and contrast two ancient Greek vessels to determine the function of each.
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Harry Potter Alive and Well In the Sorcerer's Stone

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students brainstorm author's purpose, and use their imagination to draw pictures that illustrate what the purpose is. In this literature and writing lesson plan, student's use Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone as a guide from which...
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Inked Geometric Mandalas

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders gain an appreciation for mandalas in many cultures. Compare and contrast designs from many cultures. They see geometric design in mandalas and become aware of symmetrical balance and radial balance. They create a mandala...
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Giants Of The Past

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners create a paper sculpture based on ancient Greek and Roman statues in the Getty Museum. For this paper sculpture lesson plan, students read the story The Mysterious Giant of Barletta by Tomie dePaola. They then make a sculpture...
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Artist in Schools Program

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore the medium of watercolor paints. They observe basic watercolor painting techniques (such as wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry and dry-on-dry). Then students experiment with these techniques on small squares of watercolor paper.
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Antonyms

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Students encounter words that are antonym pairs with opposite meaning. Students show examples of antonyms to the class. Students increase knowledge of antonym pairs. Students share stories full of antonyms with each other.
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Copycats

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students practice making prints of their own unique designs. In this printmaking lesson, students create a design with paint on Styrofoam plates. They press their painted picture on paper to create a duplicate print. They then practice...
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Comparative and Superlative Adjectives and Adverbs

For Teachers 4th - 8th
In this comparative and superlative worksheet, students review rules and examples of  comparative and superlative forms of adjectives and adverbs. Students then complete fill-in-the-bank, multiple choice, and other practice problems.
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Surrealism

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders research several surrealist artists, e.g. Dali, Magritte, etc., and analyze and compare their styles. They apply their knowledge to their own drawings in pastel of flowers and plants.
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Surreal Hands

For Teachers 4th - 10th
Students compare and contrast various forms of artistic expression. They examine the similarities and differences of how various artists worked.

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