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Yellow Days: Studying Vincent van Gogh's Painting

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students 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. Students create their own...
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Isosceles Triangles

For Teachers K - 2nd
Pupils investigate triangles. In this shapes geometry lesson, students define and state the attributes for equilateral, scalene, and isosceles triangles. Pupils locate the prefix "tri" in a variety of words and make connections with the...
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Math: Odd Object Out

For Teachers K
Students discover how to classify and categorize items by sorting various objects. As they sort the items, they explain how the items are alike. By repeating the sorting procedure several times, students determine there are numerous...
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Andy Warhol and Silkscreen Pop Art

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explore art history by researching famous paintings on-line. In this Andy Warhol lesson, students discuss who Warhol was, his impact on popular art and methods of painting. Students examine his use of silk screen printing and...
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The Five Senses - Observation, Experimentation, Prediction, and Categorization.

For Teachers 1st
First graders engage in this creative and well-designed lesson. They rotate through five learning stations, each devoted to one of the senses. They practice observation, experimentation, prediction, and categorization.
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An Academic, Economic, Cultural, and Political Lesson Plan

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students reflect on how many board games they've played have African Americans, their culture or history incorporated within. They identify four street games and three card games that appeal to African Americans. They play the...
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Creativity and the Power of Flowers

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Imaginations bloom when student art is focused on flowers.
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Lost Treasures of Tibet: Mandalas

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Young scholars examine the history of mandalas from Tibet. After reviewing the Designing a Mandala handout, they use geometric symmetrical shapes to create their own examples. Next, they write poems or essays and explain the meaning of...
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Identifying Angles

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders discuss and examine examples of the different types of angles. After learning the names of the geometric shapes students identify the types of angles and then complete the Kidspiration activity, Identifying Angles.
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What a Relief Map

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create a map using cookie dough. In this geography lesson, students research the physical features of a country, draw a diagram and design and create a map out of cookie dough.
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Clay Portrait Project

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discuss facial proportions and mix colors similar to flesh tones. In this art lesson plan, students draw and paint a portrait and then translate this image into a 3D form using clay.
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Glass Blowing How Do They Make Glass Into Different Shapes?

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students experiment with butter as a supercooled liquid in order to better explain how glass is made into different shapes.
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Road Trip: Line, Pattern, and Movement

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students examine and explore various line, color, and movement elements in artwork. They view and discuss examples of abstract artwork, and create their own original abstract design that tells the story of a road trip.
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Vegetable Print Patterns

For Teachers 2nd
Create a unique print using vegetable stencils and tempera paints applied to grid like pattern formed from cut pieces of paper. Your students will choose either a warm or a cool color scheme.
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Harvesting Mosaics

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use pieces of farm pictures to investigate the elements of art.  In this farm art lesson, students use pieces of pictures to create an original artwork. Students use the Internet to find images.  Students create a...
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The Arkansas State Flag

For Teachers K - 3rd
Young historians take a look at the history of the Arkansas state flag. Pupils color, cut, and paste together their own versions of the flag. They learn about the meaning of the flag's colors, and what the various symbols on the flag...
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Bubble Tray

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Create jumbo bubbles and use them to teach about surface tension or interference, perfect for a physical science lesson on light or molecular attraction.
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Basic Concepts Jeopardy

For Teachers K
A basic concepts PowerPoint allows students to review basic concepts, such as numbers, letters, colors, and shapes. Youngsters see a picture of an animal, shape or color and will have to ask the question, "What it....?" to answer. Some...
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The Science of Color and Light

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students listen to a story about colors and then conduct various experiments to determine how people see colors, identify which colors stand out best from a distance, show the results of mixed colored lighting and explain the phenomenon...
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Stars and Stripes Forever

For Teachers K
Students produce a drawing of the flag representing their knowledge of its physical characteristics: its rectangle shape, alternating red and white stripes and blue rectangle with stars in the upper corner.
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Tessellation Design And Construction

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students study the basic elements and concepts of the visual art's perceptual component - such as shape, line and color. They create tessellations that foster problem solving and reflective thinking.
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Counting And Graphing

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners explore counting and graphing. In this math lesson plan, students practice counting from 1-25 and are exposed to two types of graphs: the pie graph and the bar graph. Learners use Skittles to represent a variety of measurements.
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ESL Conversational Adjectives

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
In these English Language adjective worksheets, students describe the first set of pictures that illustrate opposites. Students then describe the shapes by color and write sentences using the adjectives. Students finish with a color and...
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Side by Side: Butterfly Wings and Symmetry

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students observe butterfly images and then draw and paint their own design. They use this activity to explain symmetry.

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