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The Art of Nonviolence: Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, and Concepts of Nonviolence in Indian Art

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students make connections between nonviolent ideals and art. In this visual arts lesson plan, students discuss the successes of the American Civil Rights Movement and discuss Gandhi's influence on the movement. Students then examine...
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Schools for Sale

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners explore the concept of for-profit companies running schools. In this privatizing schools lesson, students simulate a meeting of school board members, community leaders, and other stakeholders to determine the privatization of a...
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All About My School

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students construct a website with several links to pages they create. The site weaves logo titles, photos, animation, and textured backgrounds created and edited in PhotoShop into pages created using Dreamweaver software. The project...
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Arm and Face Casts - body art

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students study African masks. They also study African American Art and look for its influence in Modern Art. They research and design their own culture.
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Sense of Place: Our School

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students explore the concept of 'sense of place' through journaling and class discussion. In this community lesson, students discuss what makes them feel like they belong. Students give three speeches that develop the sense of place...
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Art as Artifact-A Set of 7 Activities

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students search art objects in these seven detective activities for clues about the people in the past who used them and the world in which they lived.
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School Announcement Blog

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students become bloggers. In this technology lesson, students use video and image editing to add to an online school announcement blog that they maintain.
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Our School's News

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students work collaboratively in small groups to create and edit various publications to promote their school's activities and accomplishments. Groups work to complete these publications and publish or update them bi-monthly.
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Folk Art Weather Vane

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students create replicas of Folk Art Weather Vanes using farm animal outlines, cardboard or wood, paints, and staining techniques. Emphasis is placed on the appreciation of folk art, the history of the weather vane, and creativity.
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: Human Rights at School

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students evaluate the human rights climate for their school. In this human rights activity, students complete activities to identify the human rights climate at their school using the lesson plan on the given link.
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Writing About Art: Objective vs. Subjective

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the sculpture "Head With Horns" by Paul Gauguin. In this perspectives instructional activity, students discuss what the terms "objective" and "subjective" means. Students are shown the sculpture and write their...
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Scratch Art

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students create a piece of art using crayons, black paint and toothpicks. They cover a paper with bright crayon color, paint over the crayons with black paint and then scratch a design over the black paint in a an outline of their choice.
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Visual Art: Romare Bearden and Group 306

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students examine the life and art of Romare Bearden. Using his "Mill Hand's Lunch Bucket" for inspiration, they write a first chapter for a book. Students observe numerous other works of his art and discuss them from artistic and...
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Integrating Anime and Manga into an Art of Motion Picture Course

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers examine the art of Anime and note its characteristics. Using scenes, they identify the plots, characters and themes trying to be portrayed. In groups, they compare and contrast the animation in America to that of Anime...
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Poetry Alive! Interpreting Poetry Using Digital Images

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate poetry by incorporating images into the words of a poem.  In this language arts lesson, students discuss poetry writing devices and self expression with their classmates.  Students create a film about the...
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Lesson Exchange: Introduction to Research Papers (Senior, Literature)

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Although unlikely in today's English classroom, this lesson focuses on introducing research papers to seniors in high school. It briefly reviews the parts of an essay, and mentions showing learners example essays, but no examples are...
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Inference

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Making inferences about what you read is an important skill for both elementary, middle, and high school learners. Focusing on events which occurred during World War II, they answer a series of questions related to what we can infer as...
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Word for the Dazed

For Teachers 9th - 12th
If used in a high school English class, this series of slides identifying vocabulary words found in the short story "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan would be useful. The presentation focuses on three words, prodigy, indignity, and discordant. It...
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King Lear: Fun Trivia Quiz

For Students 11th - 12th
Some amusing commentary accompanies the answers to this interactive online quiz about Shakespeare's tragedy, which is on the syllabus for many high school seniors. The details in question range from fundamental to esoteric. Check content...
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Andrew WK: Party Hard

For Students 9th - 12th
High school pupils can sharpen their research skills by utilizing the Internet to find the answers to the trivia questions presented in this on-line resource. This focuses on questions that have to do with the musician, Andrew WK.
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A Tribute For a Queen: Aaliyah

For Students 9th - 12th
High school learners can sharpen their research skills by using the Internet to find the answers to the trivia questions presented in this on-line worksheet. This resource focuses on the late singer, Aaliyah.
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On Which AC/DC Album?

For Students 9th - 12th
High school high schoolers can hone their research skills by utilizing the Internet to find the answers to the trivia questions presented in this on-line worksheet. This particular worksheet focuses on questions about the band AC/DC....
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Totally Trivial - B

For Students 9th - 12th
High school pupils can hone their research skills by using the Internet to find the answers to the questions presented in this on-line worksheet. This resource focuses on questions whose answer begins with the letter "B."
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In Text (Parenthetical) Documentation

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
How and when to use parenthetical citations in research writing is the focus of a text-heavy presentation appropriate to high school seniors or college level writers. The bulk of the slides, designed to illustrate a lecture, deal with...

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