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Experiencing Nature
Students create their own landscapes based on the topography of their region after studying the artwork of Cincinnati-based artist William Sonntag and other "Hudson River School" artists.
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Understanding Stage Design: Using Visual Elements to Provide Information to an Audience
Students study about theatrical design by developing environments for improvised and scripted scenes. They develop focused ideas for an environment using visual elements.
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Creating and Using a Checklist of Performance Techniques to Critique and Find the "Message" in Mass Media Performances
Learners analyze and critique theater events by evaluating and constructing meanings from improvised and scripted scenes and from theater, film, television, and electronic media productions.
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Bird Seed Fun
Students explore the concept of role playing and imagination. In this role playing lesson, students use bird seed to imagin they are creating different dishes of food and serving them to each other. Students can mix the bird...
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Paper Bag Puppets
Students create "paper bag puppets" using basic art supplies, construction paper, and their imagination in this awesome early-elementary Art activity. The lesson includes a resource link and suggests teaching a short history of puppetry...
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Pepper Shamrock Prints
Students print paper using green paint. In this art lesson, students dip open halves of bell peppers in green paint and make prints that resemble shamrocks. Students use their imagination and decorate the paper for St. Patrick's Day.
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The Wonderful World of Colors
First graders imagine what life would look like in one color, then many. They play a game with colored cards where students call out the names of colors. They match colored cards with objects of same color. They read "The Color Box."
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Transportation at the Fair
Students practice map reading, study modes of transportation, and use a map to interpret the past. They imagine a day at the fair to demonstrate knowledge of the role transportation systems play in a community.
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Bilbo Baggins, at your service!
Learners choose a character from The Hobbit to create an imaginative product such as poetry, music, sculpture, painting, or web page) that reflects the character. They must indicate a connection to the character (example: I am similar to...
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Drama: A Streetcar Named Desire
Twelfth graders examine all the descriptions of costumes, props, movement, lighting and music in the stage directions of A Streetcar Named Desire. They begin to imagine this drama as a production, not simply a script. Students perform...
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Waterworld
Students recognize poetry and the literary devices used to express the poem's meaning through poems about the sea. They use their imagination along with critical thinking skills in preparation for a creative writing assignment.
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Letter to Auntie Maria
In this writing worksheet, students write a pretend letter to their Auntie Maria. Students imagine that they were given a fantastic pair of boots and would like to describe them.
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Introduction and Conclusion
In this writing worksheet, learners read about how to write a successful introduction and conclusion. For example, students are encouraged to begin with an incident, real or imagined, which illustrates the point of discussion.
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Sensing the Past
In this historical worksheet, students examine a full color picture of a Victorian street scene. Students imagine they are there and record details on a chart about what they see, hear and smell.
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The Monster Match
In this creative writing worksheet, students read the story starter and then use their imagination to craft their own middle and end to complete the story.
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Details: Baby Chick
In this writing details worksheet, 2nd graders write details about imagining they are a baby chick just popping out of their shell. Students write 3 details about how this happened.
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What If ...? Worksheet
For this disaster preparedness worksheet, students imagine they are vacationing on an island where a tsunami is predicted. Students answer 4 questions about the precautions they would take, the supplies they would need and who they would...
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China Journal Response
For this China journal response worksheet, students imagine they are asked to take a job promotion in China. Students write about what part of the country they would want to live in and why.
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Activities Using Music From Saint-Saens & Moussorgsky
Student create a fish and listen to music while imagining their fish are swimming. In this music instructional activity, students identify instruments played and move their fish to the movement. Students work with kangaroos...
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Create Your Own Sporting Event
Students use their imagination and language skills to create and describe their own sporting event. In this sporting event lesson, students brainstorm sports related vocabulary and identify their parts of speech. Students categorize the...
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Subject/Verb Agreement
Students recognize the relationship between singular and plural subjects and verbs as they relate to developing stronger writing skills. In this writing lesson plan, students write and organize their thoughts and feelings while using...
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Gluskap Story Skits
Students read and analyze a Gluskap (Algonquin legend) story. Together, they discuss the morals and values these stories demonstrate and in groups, create and perform an imaginative skit based on one of them. They perform their skits for...
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Intervals
In this identifying musical interval numbers worksheet, student imagine the bottom note as 1 and count up each line and space from 1 to fill in the blanks with interval numbers learning how to recognize distances quickly.
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Drawing Into the Imagination
Sixth graders examine the work of artist Saul Steinberg by visiting online galleries of his work and looking at photo reproductions. After viewing and interpreting Steinberg's work, they write and illustrate fantasy stories which are...