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Drumming from the Heart
Students complete a craft activity using recyclable containers and read a story to a younger child. In this service instructional activity, students read the story 'The Drum' and do a service project retelling the story and making a drum...
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Let's Recreate Our World To Make It Better
Students examine art by artist by Tom Rollins. They discuss the painting and what it means to them. They create their own models of apartment complexes based on ideas from literature.
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Introducing the Incredible RBT-2000
Fourth graders construct a miniature robot using recyclable materials. They write a descriptive explanation from the robot's point of view explaining how it aid in protecting the environment.
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Making Paper
Students explore how natural earth materials are processed into a human-made product. They simulate a manufacturing process by making paper. Students review the importance of recycling in preserving our natural earth resources.
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Adaptive Reuse
Students identify historic buildings in their community that have been adaptively reused. Through "adopting" a building, they will study how recycling of buildings is an environmentally and economically sound practice for communities.
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LESSON PLANS
Second graders encounter how the native and Spanish cultures influenced art on Colonial New Mexico. They experience some of the games, art and tools of colonial New Mexico. Students strive to increase new vocabulary. They also access how...
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A Moment When My Life Changed
Young scholars recognize symbols in a work of art, analyze composition of picture by Hollis Sigler, and plan and execute compositions that successfully tell stories, primarily with symbols.
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Ed Paschke
Learners examine and discuss the artistic style and techniques of the artist Ed Paschke. They analyze various works of art by Ed Paschke, then choose an icon from art history and alter a photocopy of it using scissors and collage materials.
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Romare Bearden
Students examine and discuss a collage by the artist Romare Bearden. They analyze the impact of jazz on art, listen to jazz, and create an original collage.
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Beeswax Flower Candle
Students create "Beeswax flower candles" in this early-elementary classroom Art instructional activity. Materials needed include foam pieces, straw, a glue gun, clay pots, beeswax, and popsicle sticks. This activity is ideal for the...
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Marshmallow Bunny
Young scholars create "marshmallow bunnies" using marshmallows, toothpicks, pink construction paper, and cloves in this quick and easy early-elementary level Art lesson plan. The 30-minute lesson plan is ideal for holiday ideas around...
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Sticky Hearts
Students create "sticky hearts" in this early elementary lesson plan that explores the use of different media in works of art. The lesson plan suggests using white posterboard, constructions paper, corn syrup, food coloring and lots of...
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Toilet Paper Tube Turkey
Students create "toilet paper tube" turkeys in this Thanksgiving Day art lesson for the early elementary classroom. The lesson suggests using toilet paper tubes, construction paper, googly eyes, scissors, and glue to create each turkey.
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GARBAGE 1: THE ROOTS OF TRASH
Students identify the various natural resources used to produce common items; to explain how people use science and technology to produce those items.
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Electronics: Wants or Needs?
Third graders determine how electronics negatively impact the environment. In this environmental lesson plan, 3rd graders read the article "Earth Friendly Waste Management", and identify how recycling impacts our environment. Students...
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Earth Day Lesson
Students analyze Earth science by answering environmental study questions. In this Earth Day activity, students read the book The Lorax and identify the themes within it. Students define several recycling vocabulary terms and create an...
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Making Paper
Students explore paper making. In this cross curriculum multicultural ecology and art lesson, students follow written and oral instructions to make paper using common household items. Students predict the amount of paper use in their...
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Castles and Cornerstones
Students become familiar with the style of architecture of medieval times. In this architecture activity, students design a model of a medieval castle including its cornerstone. Students understand scale in their representation.
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Shape Shifters- Trees and the Environment
Students make a tree sculpture. In this trees and the environment activity, students learn about the parts of a tree, discuss what a tree needs in order to grow, find images of trees in art and nature, use various materials to create a...
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Chocolate Chipping Away at the Rock Cycle
Eighth graders identify the different types of rocks. In this earth science lesson, 8th graders compare and contrast rocks and chocolate cookies. They explain how materials are recycled beneath the Earth.
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Cast A Paper Valentine
Students create and learn about the history of Valentine's Day cards, as well as use recyclable materials to design their own cards.
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Pop Bottle Terrarium
Students make terrariums out of bottles, pebbles, cuttings from other plants, and water. In this terrarium lesson plan, students learn about recycling by using household items to make terrariums.
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Presentation of Our Family
Although there is no real lesson plan included here, you could easily recycle the idea! Get kids using vocabulary related to family, age, feelings, and nationality. Start by teaching basic vocabulary words and phrases (you'll need to...
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Didgeridoos
Students explore the Aboriginal culture from Australia and create and play their own didgeridoo using recycled objects.
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