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Buddhist Art - Lost In The Landscape
Learners explore new objectives for art and examine how Chinese painting reflects Buddhist principles. This lesson includes a vocabulary list and possible lesson extensions for various student levels.
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Go Green!
High schoolers use this outdoor sensory activity as a self-guided or as part of a facilitated programme. It encourages individual observation and exploration in the forest. Students can choose to work as an individual or work in pairs....
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Graphing Galore!
Students practice sorting and counting different objects. Using this information, they create graphs on a worksheet given to them. They describe and analyze the results and discuss them as a class to end the lesson. They also complete...
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Learning How To Include Proportional Figures and Objects in Landscape Drawings
Fourth graders are shown a slideshow of paintings showing landscapes. They create their own landscape painting using proportional figures.
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Student Meets the Real World
Students interview a local business person in order to design an advertising or promotional for their business. They summarize the meeting and use the information to design two promotional items using available technology. They make a...
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Following a Monster
Learners follow tracks of a monster who has walked through their classroom to see what he has done. They discuss sequencing vocabulary before using computer software students sequence the monster's visit using a concept map. In a word...
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Thomas Eakins: Scenes From Modern Life Lesson 2: Studies in Motion
Students investigate the motion studies of Thomas Eakins. They design motion studies as Eakins did using photography. They use digital photography to capture human motion and draw a representation.
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How To Make a Rainstick
Young scholars research the uses of rainsticks in ancient native cultures. The teacher discusses the ceremonies rainsticks were traditionally used in. The students then construct their own rainstick.
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Making E-Books in the Kindergarten Classroom
Students produce e-books using themselves and their physical surroundings to demonstrate content standards, such as number sense or color recognition. They provide evidence using a digital camera, props, and the presentation tool.
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Basic Sense
Fifth graders add fractions. After a class discussion on real life application of fractions, the teacher uses fractions strips to model adding fractions. In pairs, 5th graders model adding fractions by drawing diagrams. They justify...
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From Granite to Paper
In this weathering activity, students read about physical and chemical weathering and how kaolin in used in paper. Then students complete 4 short answer questions.
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Tall Tales: Reconstructing A Personal Tell
Sixth graders discover the ways archaeologists examine artifacts and where they are found. After being introduced to new vocabulary, they use artifacts from their own lives and discover what could be told about their life from them. ...
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Linking Lines to Landscape
Students evaluate art to enhance their core knowledge of fiction, American folk heroes, and the water cycle. In this art lesson, students complete a unit of activities to use art to study various topics of literature, history, and...
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Illustrated Safety Contract
Students create illustrated contracts that spell out chemistry lab safety rules. They create original drawings illustrating one of the safety rules published by Flinn Scientific.
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A Postage Stamp... A Drawing Activity
Students develop a list of individuals in school who help students. In this stamp making lesson, students create a stamp to honor a person who is helpful at school. Students share their stamps and explain why they chose the person on it.
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Poetry With the Sages
Students write poems and input them into a word processing program. In this poetry lesson, students listen to Chinese poems and draw mental images. Students compose poems and illustrate them. Students share their work.
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Brett Whiteley
Students employ a PowerPoint to publish an Interactive Multimedia Information Kiosk, where students can click on an object to gain more information or branch to different locations. They publish information that is exciting, dynamic and...
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Human Feet Are Strange
Feet are neat! So, if you've already walked the path of examining animal footprints with your class, put them in the shoes of early humans! A well-designed activity incorporates video, discussion, and hands-on learning to demonstrate how...
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Homes of the World: Ceramic Lesson
Kids consider the various dwellings humans inhabit all over the world. They choose a home from anywhere in the world. Then they research the type of materials, designs, and structures need to build that type of home. The project ends...
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Authors and Illustrators: What do they do?
Help readers understand the roles of authors and illustrators and why they have been recognized by medals of excellence. Your class will discuss and then create illustrations for a book. When they have finished, you can hold your own...
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Egyptian Relic: Ceramics Lesson
Egyptian artwork is inspiring in so many ways. Learners discover the world of Egyptian relics as they make a ceramic version of their own. Multiple resource links and full instructions make this a fun and easy-to-incorporate art project...
Residential College in the Arts and Humanities
Poetry Lesson Plans
Need some ideas for poetry lessons? Check out this packet loaded with suggestions for elementary, middle, and high school writers.
Project Articulate
Textured Landscapes with Grant Wood
Explore the world of textured landscapes through the eyes of the famous artist, Grant Wood. Here is an elementary art lesson in which scholars learn about Grant Wood's life, view his work, draw their own textured landscape, and then...
Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation
Propaganda Posters
Don't be put off by the fact that the World War I propaganda posters in this packet are Canadian and some of them are even in French. All the better, in fact, to see the techniques. The richly detailed plan has instructors model...