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Plant Parts
Students recognize the parts of the plant and the function it provides.In this plant parts lesson, students participate in three activities relating to plant parts and properties.
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Totally Tessellations!
Eighth graders investigate the concept of tessellations and transformations. They create patterns to demonstrate and practice the skill. Students write a description of the pattern for others to interpret. The pattern is assessed...
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Crayola® Model Magic® Colored Courtly Characters
Students create a "Noh"-style mask, based on Japanese Noh theatre masks. They experiment with different colors of modeling clay and explore ways to show facial character.
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Rainsticks
Students create a rainstick decorated with repeated patterns of shape and color, out of paper towel tubes.
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Life Sized Self Portrait
Students create a self-portrait that is compiled by using individual student drawings. The drawings emphasize line, shape, color and possibly texture depending upon the student's selection of materials.
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The Bunny Trail
Students practice 'delivering' eggs for the Easter Bunny along an obstacle course through which they perform various locomotor skills. They can also practice number and shape matching skills as they navigate the course.
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Color Theory and Acrylic Painting
Students study color, acrylic painting and abstract art.
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Kente Cloth
Students explore patterns and identify, extend, and translate color patterns. They discuss the origin and function of Kente cloth from Ghana, and discuss the patterns they see in students' clothing. Students color in a variety of...
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Yellow Days: Studying Vincent van Gogh's Painting
Young scholars revisit the color yellow and are introduced to van Gogh, the painter. In this visual arts lesson plan, students study Vincent van Gogh's painting "Sunflowers" and identify the color yellow. Young scholars create their own...
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Stain Glass
Students study the history of stain glass. In this stain glass lesson plan, students select an art period and research the use of glass during that time. Students create a picture presentation of stained glass pictures from their town....
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Water Color - Pen & Ink
Pupils paint with watercolors, define positive and negative shapes, mix wet and wet colors, develop visual balance, and define shapes with pen and ink.
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Review of Landscapes, Portraits
First graders examine the term landscape painting, and compare several landscape paintings in their use of color, line, and shape. They create winter landscapes on paper, then observe two Renaissance portraits.
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Exploring Equal Parts
For this math worksheet, learners examine 3 sets of shapes. In each set, there is one figure that has been divided evenly and one that has not. Students color the shape that shows an equal division.
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Mixed Media Weaving
Young scholars will demonstrate the ability to create the illusion of space by overlapping shapes.They will recognize the differences between art materials, techniques, and processes. Students will demonstrate the influence of personal...
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Printmaking - Multi-plate Relief Prints
High schoolers create a print using multiple blocks, utilize elements and principles of design in creating a strong design, and demonstrate skill in carving the block and registration of colors. They show appreciation and awareness of...
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Sea Urchins - Diadema Antillarum
Students investigate oceanography by painting sea life. For this crustacean lesson, students identify sea urchins in our ocean environments and describe the functionality of their spherical-shaped bodies. Students design their own sea...
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Tissue Leaf Rubbings
Students use tissue paper to create the texture of a leaf. They use different colors of tissue paper to have leaves of different colors. They place the leaves on white construction paper for all classes to view.
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The Art of Making Letters
Students explore letter formation through art. They analyze and discuss Jasper Johns letter paintings, and create the letter strokes using various colors and torn paper.
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Brian Murphy ¿¿¿ Sleeping Self-Portrait¿¿¿
Students examine and discuss the painting, "Sleeping Self-Portrait," by Brian Murphy. They answer discussion questions, mix various paint colors, and create a self-portrait using the primary colors and white.
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What Does It Take?
First graders study the attributes of circles, squares, triangles and rectangles. They sort shapes that are the same and those that are different into groups.
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Texture Towns
Students explore different kinds of communities as well as identifying and discussing the attributes of their own neighborhood. They make choices about what kinds of shapes best create the look of the type of community they wish to...
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Leaf Stencil Design
Young scholars design a pattern from a single shape and use overlapping to create color blends. They experiment with the effects of using a stencil.
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Marbling A La Haring
Students create a paper marbling painting based on the work done by Keith Haring. In this paper marbling lesson plan, students create abstract compositions and create a small mural with one another of their interlocking shapes.
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Cows on Parade
Students use assorted drawing materials and sheets from a cow shaped pad to create a unique, bright, colorful cows.