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Who Has Hair?

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students explore similarities and differences. For this Teaching Tolerance lesson, students read literature and participate in activities that features mammals and their hair. Students learn that they share things in common while we are...
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Identity

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Young scholars examine identity represented in contemporary drawing. In this art analysis lesson, students analyze identity in the art images. Young scholars complete image based discussion. Students create a work on paper with a...
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The Jones Family Express

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students complete pre reading, writing, during reading, and interdisciplinary activities for the book The Jones Family Express. In this reading lesson plan, students complete journal entries, answer short answer questions, have...
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Peas In A Pod: Mendelian Genetics

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Students complete a series of lessons where they learn about the basics of genetics, fill out Punnett Squares correctly, and solve reality based problems. In this genetics lesson plan, students have worksheets that are provided.
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From Smithson To Smithsonian

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students evaluate a series of primary source documents. They Identify the variety of opinions regarding the use of Smithson's bequest and define the legislative compromise embodied in the Smithsonian Institution Act. They examine the...
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Modern Landscapes

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students analyze the artistic responses to the changing landscape during the interwar period. In this art analysis lesson, students analyze landscape images and consider the ways artists depicted the changing landscape. Students complete...
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Everyday Marvels

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students consider the meaning of innovation and analyze the design of objects. In this object design lesson, students examine revolutionary objects and their design. Students complete discussion activities for objects like Band-Aids,...
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Salvage the Senses

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students develop sensory awareness through this series of lessons.
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Performance into Art

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students explore two works of art of performance art. In this performance art lesson, students analyze performance art in the examples of Yves Klein and Joseph Beuys. Students complete image based discussion activities. Students research...
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Gesture and Chance

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students examine the role of chance in creating Dada art and analyze the idea of gesture. In this art analysis lesson, students consider gesture in drawings and the role of chance in Dada art. Students complete image based discussion....
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Politics and Portraiture

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Young scholars examine the art of artists who use portrait drawing to make a political statement. In this art analysis lesson, students discuss the elements of a portrait and view the portraits as political expressions. Young scholars...
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Pencil Holder

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars construct a pencil holder. In this visual arts lesson, students create a pencil holder from a soup can, glue, and spray paint. Young scholars decorate the pencil can with decorations. They can use this pencil holder as a...
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Frame It!

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students make decorative picture frames for holiday gifts and use creative thinking skills to decorate frame patterns. They demonstrate ability in following directions.
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Greetings from Maya Angelou

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the life and works of Maya Angelou. They complete a Webquest, read poems, listen to a reading by Maya Angelou, answer discussion questions, and write a poem, short story, or essay based on a newspaper article.
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Goods and Services?

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Pupils distinguish between goods and services, and identify that goods and services are used to satisfy needs and wants. They view illustrations from books to find and chart examples of good and services and make connections that goods...
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Rise of the Modern City

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students explore industrial design and photography with an emphasis on the history of Paris. For this modern art lesson, students analyze and discuss the images of modern city life in Paris and the Eiffel Tower. Students participate in a...
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Constructing Things

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Learners analyze the history and art in the Constructivism movement. In this art analysis lesson, students analyze and consider the material types in the art form. Learners complete image based discussion. Students work in groups using...
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Rise of the Modern City

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Learners investigate the industrial developments of the twentieth century and the development of urban environments. In this industrial art lesson, students compare and contrast graphics and analyze industrial developments on...
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Dig In! A Study of the Earth's Crust

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students write a praise chorus and discover the composition of the Earth's crust.  In this Biblical creation and the Earth's crust activity, students read a praise passage from Psalms and perform a choral reading.  Students...
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Taxes

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore the concept of taxes and gather relevant information to become a tax 'expert. In this taxes lesson, 4th graders work in teams to find information regarding different areas in taxes. Students work together to...
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GENEROSITY

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students assess the impact that each one of us has on the other, that we all have something important to give and how when we give our offerings out how they make a difference in other people's lives as well as the difference they make...
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A Planting We Will Go

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore how to transplant trees in their community. In this citizenship lesson, students construct a map of where to plant trees and then plant the trees.
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Kwanzaa: An African-American Heritage Celebration

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners explain some of the symbols of Kwanzaa. They demonstrate their understanding of Kwanzaa by making a book about what they have learned.
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Spend, Save, Invest or Donate

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the concept of philanthropy. In this personal finance lesson, students consider economic choices and why people donate to causes. Students investigate the processes of borrowing money and investing money in the lesson as...