ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Mona Mesa: What Is Your Opinion? [Pdf]
In this lesson, 1st graders look at a print of "Mona Lisa" by Leonardo DaVinci and talk about what they see, searching for visual clues to help them form an opinion. They discuss the importance of portrait paintings during the...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Geometry: Cross Sections and Nets
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson students draw two-dimensional representations of solid figures. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice, watch instructional videos and...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Self Portraits With the Touch of a Finger [Pdf]
In this lesson, students will explore self-portraiture by looking at classical portrait paintings, such as Diego Velazquez's La Infanta Margarita or Raphael's Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione. A close look at these works reveals...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Geometry: Cross Sections and Nets
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson students draw two-dimensional representations of solid figures. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice, watch instructional videos and...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Defining Rotations
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this tutorial, students learn about the rules that operate in the rotation of 2-D figures on a coordinate grid. Includes video, lots of examples, review...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: "Movin' on Up"
Students will use their knowledge of scale factor to enlarge a picture to scale. They will then use PhotoStory to create a collage of their pictures. This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in Math and Science...
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: A Brush With History
Exhibition of portraits of American heroes, statesmen, writers, artists, scientists, and historical figures draws on the paintings in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery to consider the story of America. View portraits from...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Max's Math Adventures: Max's Fantastical Zoo
Use this rhyming description of Max's Fantastical Zoo to make some amazing animals from geometric shapes. There is a teacher's guide for easy lesson planning.
NASA
Nasa: Earth, Moon and Mars Balloons
In this lesson, students will construct a scale model of the Earth-Moon-Mars system.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Exploring Cross Age Tutoring Activities With Lewis and Clark
Interaction and adventure draws high school and elementary school students together as they analyze stories about the Lewis and Clark expedition.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Geometry: Relation of Polygon Sides to Angles and Diagonals
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Find interior angle measures of polygons by drawing diagonals to create triangles.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Geometry: Polygon Classification in the Coordinate Plane
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Graph geometric figures given the ordered pairs of vertices.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Literary Nonfiction
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn how to analyze literary nonfiction, especially speeches, by making inferences and drawing conclusions based on evidence in the text. The...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Geometry: Dilation in the Coordinate Plane
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This concept teaches students how to draw dilated figures in the coordinate plane and use dilated figures in the coordinate plane to find scale factors. Students...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Shapes Into Sculptures
In this lesson, students will identify 2- and 3-dimensional shapes as well as create shape drawings and sculptures. Teacher materials are available.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Search the Perimeter and Secure the Area
This lesson will not only help students compare and contrast the concepts of area and perimeter, but it will also move toward the concept that area is maximized while minimizing perimeter with a square.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Seventh Grade Math: Area and Perimeter
Learn how to enlarge drawings, figure out how much tile to buy to cover a specific floor, and learn about area and perimeter. These and other lesson plans are provided, including a fun interdisciplinary plan featuring dragons.
Other
Nearpod: Points, Lines, Segments & Rays
In this instructional activity, students will identify and draw lines, segments, rays, angles, and points.