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Positive/Negative Bugs

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Bugs can be creepy - and fun! Kids create a positive and negative design by repeatedly drawing a simple insect overlaid with a geometric shape. The outcome is really neat and will help build spacial reasoning, visual acuteness,...
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Over and Under: Learning Position Words

For Students Pre-K - K
In this activity on position words, students practice learning over the under. Students cut out a set of small pictures, then place them in the appropriate place on a larger picture of a tree. Pictures logically belong either over or...
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Paper Spiders

For Teachers Pre-K - K
The positional words up and down are the focus of a language and visual arts lesson. Learners get a paper plate and eight strips of construction paper. They create a spider out of their paper plate, and cut out a circle out of a piece of...
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The Language of Ballet

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Here's a very well organized lesson plan on learning the terminology of ballet. Learn the names of some basic positions, and how to perform them. Learn the names, which happen to be in French, of basic movements in ballet. Not only are...
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Graphite Embossing

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Teach your art class a lesson on viewing positive and negative space in multiple dimensions. They will use metal sheets and various pencil grades to apply the graphite embossing technique. This project will result in two contrasting images.
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Impressive Prints

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Explore printmaking with a discussion and project. Pupils first view and talk about various examples of prints and cover positive and negative space. They then come up with fictional animals and make prints of their creature using...
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Positive & Negative Space

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students review and differentiate between positive and negative space, view teacher sample, and cut out shapes to create puzzle-like picture in which one color of paper represents positive space and one color represents negative space.
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Positive/Negative Space - Black and White non-objective collage

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create a collage using cut black and white construction paper and utilize positive and negative space.
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Positive/Negative Bugs

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders create a design using a detailed drawing reversing positive and negative space. They explain organic shape and geometric shape.
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Screen printing - Positive-Negative shape - Paper stencils

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Young scholars explore materials and experiment with stencil process. Students study positive verses negative shape. They experiment with color planning and learn what happens when colors overlap. They work with personal symbols and/or...
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Lesson: Sacred Secrets

For Teachers K - 5th
As educators we are always looking to boost our learners' self esteem. Here they will analyze a Colombian sculpture, identify its traits, and then list positive traits about themselves. They'll create treasure boxes that exemplify a...
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More Position Words

For Students K - 1st
In this position words activity, learners learn spatial terms by drawing a red squirrel traveling up the tree, a gray squirrel going down, a blue bird flying down from the left branch, and a yellow bird flying up from the right branch.
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Good Habits Grow in Room 3

For Teachers Pre-K - 8th
Students go out on a limb with these ideas for using a tree to recognize good behavior, celebrate holidays, and build skills. They recognize and celebrate the positive behavior of their peers.
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Positions

For Students 1st
In this spatial terms worksheet, 1st graders study a picture of a box and some colored balls. Students check the box to illustrate the position of the given balls in relation to the box using spatial skills.
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Ordinal Positions in a Sequence

For Teachers K
Students study ordinal positions through class reading and discussion, complete an Animal Parade activity sheet and Internet activity to demonstrate knowledge about ordinal positions with 100% accuracy, and play a math computer game.
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Positive/Negative Shapes, Shamrocks And Matisse

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Students create Shamrock mobiles or art pieces using positive and negative shapes, card stock, glue, and the techniques used by Henri Matisse. The lesson includes many resource links and is a great project for St. Patrick's Day.
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Cutting Positive and Negative SYMMETRICAL SHAPES

For Teachers K - 5th
Students cut intricate symmetrical shapes on the fold. Also, they identify positive and negative shapes and warm, cool and neutral colors. Finally, they glue shapes to create a pleasing design.
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Relational Worksheets: Circle the Animals Facing Left

For Students K - 1st
For this positions of objects worksheet, students look at the animals and circle the ones facing left. Students improve their understanding of left and right.
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Circle the Vehicles Facing Right

For Students K - 1st
In this positions of objects learning exercise, students look at the vehicles and circle the ones facing right. Students improve their understanding of left and right.
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Left and Right Worksheet - Animals

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this positions of objects worksheet, students practice recognizing left and right by circling the animals according to directions.
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Left and Right Worksheet - Vehicles

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this positions of objects worksheet, students practice recognizing left and right by circling the vehicles according to directions for 5 examples.
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Relational Worksheet: Left and Right

For Students K - 1st
In this positions of objects instructional activity, students study the vehicles and circle the ones that are facing left. Students improve their understanding of left and right relationships.
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Position 8

For Students Pre-K - K
In this position and instructions instructional activity, students cut out the dog and paste it below the stars. The objective is to help students understand positions.
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Positions 5

For Students Pre-K - K
For this positions and instructions worksheet, students cut out the stars and paste them inside the moon. The objective is to enhance students' understanding of positions and directions.

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