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Kindergarten Mural
Students trace their bodies, color them in, outline them in black, and hang them on the wall to create a mural. In this mural lesson plan, students base their mural on the work of Keith Haring.
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Friends Mural
Students discover the art of Keith Haring by creating their own artwork. In this art analysis lesson plan, students identify the artist Keith Haring and discuss his artistic works. Students create their own murals similar to Haring's...
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Neighborhood Mini-Mural
Learners study the work of Keith Haring. In this art lesson, students create chalk drawing similar to the works of Keith Haring. Learners create a mural using the chalk drawings.
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Exploring the Uses of Art Through Latino Murals
Students assess role of art in their lives and discuss how murals can accomplish social change.
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Beaver Succession Mural
Students explore the concept of beaver pond succession. In this succession lesson, students discuss what succession is and how it works. Students create a mural to present their understanding of this concept.
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Collaborative Mural
Collaborative murals are a great way to let kids show what they know about nearly any subject. Murals can be about the environment, life cycles, habitats, character traits, or even the human body! Here you'll find handy tips and tricks...
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Hand-Painted Paper Fruits and Vegetables
First graders create hand painted fruits and vegetables to hang in the Sukkah, a temporary shelter used during the Jewish Holiday, Sukkot. They are excited about the creation of the works of art and the lesson engagement is high being...
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All the Colors We Are
Students make a hand print mural. In this painting lesson, students read the book All the Colors We Are and describe the color of their skin. Students learn how to mix paints to create various skin tones, create their personal color and...
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The Great Migration
Students explore how migration to Harlem created a new life for African Americans. In this cross curricular lesson, students illustrate maps showing the migration, paint murals representing African American life in the South and create a...
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Art: Mural Project
Students create murals. In this visual arts lesson, students study the process of creating murals and then design civil rights murals or their own.
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Trout Are Made of Trees Crayon Mural
Students recognize that for a trout habitat to be ideal, several components must be present. In this trout instructional activity, students explore what makes a healthy stream. Students create paintings for a mural of a trout habitat....
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The Civil Rights Movement
Students compare and contrast African-American, Asian-American, Chicano and Native-American movements with the civil rights movement and are exposed to the sociopolitical and economic factors involved in the rise of social movements.
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Ocean Life Mural
Students conduct Internet research on ocean life, view pictures of sea life, and create a class ocean life mural.
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Diego Rivera: Art as the Universal Language
Students analyze the work of Diego Rivera. They participate in a class discussion, critique various paintings, write a short story based on a Rivera mural, and create a class mural.
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Keith Haring & Social Awareness
Students view four sections of one of Haring's paintings. They describe the people and characters they see. Students participate in a variety of classroom art activities such as: Making a treasure box modeled after Keith Haring's work,...
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Painting a Mural
Pupils research create and design symbols to welcome students to their school. They present their idea to the class that includes a budget. The class work together to paint the mural.
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Table Murals
Pupils define what a mural is. They make their own murals on paper. Students vote on the following subjects: Recess, Disney Movies, Alien Planet, Cafeteria, and Big City. They draw murals in the teacher's preferred medium, pupils...
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Art Lesson: My Symbol
Students explore and brainstorm the concept of symbols in real world applications and create a poem describing themselves. They design and paint a symbol that represents him/herself utilizing the technique of simplification to express...
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Let's Paint!
Students read Jonah Winter's book, Frida, and Thomas Locker's, Miranda's Smile, and talk about the artists' styles. They practice their own painting styles.
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Art Alive! - Beach at Blue Point
And then what happened? Class members engage in a series of activities that model for them how to read the story in a painting. Participants respond to questions that ask them to closely examine the elements in William Glackens' "Beach...
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Art Alive! - Towing a Boat, Honfleur
Color, light and shadow, the placement and size of objects. These are some of the tools artists used to tell their stories. Model for learners how to read a painting by closely examining these features. The richly detailed packet...
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What does it mean to be American?
Students create a mural depicting what it means to be an American. In this being American lesson plan, students pull out magazine ads that depict what it means to be an American, then they make a mural out of it, and finally they present...
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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom ABC Prints
Students practice the alphabet. In this ABC lesson, students read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and identify the letters of the alphabet in the story. Students then make ABC prints using sponges.
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Decoding Haring's Symbols
Students mix colors and complete a yarn painting by using yarn to paint. In this painting lesson plan, students base this painting off of the lines and paint strokes of Keith Haring.