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Flowers

For Teachers K
Students create a crayon resist flower following a dicussion about Georgia O'Keefe's art.
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Cut-Out Designs A La Henri Matisse

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders, using postcards and prints of Henri Matisse, draw, cut, arrange, and glue cut-outs in an aesthetic manner. They also examine the background of Henri Matisse's paintings.
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Teaching Two-Part Inventions with Notation Software

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students demonstrate the canon form and Bach's Two-Part Inventions by composing an aesthetically pleasing left-hand part after being given only the right hand part to J.S. Bach's Invention No. 8 in F Major. Keyboard lab suggested.
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Amate Bark Paintings/Folk Arts of Latin America

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the history of bark paintings in South America and produce their own version of these paintings.
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Shaping Up!

For Teachers K Standards
Kindergartners are introduced to basic shapes. Learners spend 45 minutes a day in geometry centers carrying out the activities outlined in this ambitious plan. There are games, hands-on activities, interactive websites, art projects,...
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Rock Speaks

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students create primitive forms and caricatures to represent meaningful figures and/or events in their own lives, present their own works to the class, and attempt to interpret the relevant meaning from other students' work.
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Looking for Local Public Art

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students explore artwork in the local community. They increase their knowledge about their community. They create a slide show presentation with sounds, text and transitions.
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African Art and Personal Adornment: What is Beauty?

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students examine the concept of beauty. They write about what they think is beautiful and compare their ideas to those of others.
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Our School Song

For Teachers K - 12th Standards
Show your school spirit! Class members use instruments or sing along and employ what they have learned in the two previous lessons to perform their school's songs.
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Introduction to Ludwig van Beethoven

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
"Ode to la Tortilla" and "Ode to Joy"? Sure! Use Gary Soto's poem to introduce learners to the ode format. After examining the descriptive words Soto uses, class members study a poster of Ludwig van Beethoven, suggest words that describe...
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Alphabet Poems

For Teachers K - 1st
Develop fluency with a variety of works. Help kindergartners use multiple strategies to understand text and decoding. They will create an alphabet poem book on Kid Works 2 to illustrate and write their own poem. In the end, they will...
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We Tell Stories

For Teachers K - 5th
Young readers bring characters to life by working in small groups to script and perform stories that contain a community concept. Detailed questions and activities are outlined for the class. Consider having your groups create...
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How Do you Feel?

For Teachers K - 6th
Young scholars discover how moods and perceptions can be affected by colors. As a class, they create their own color wheel and identify primary and secondary colors. They draw their own cool and warm color mosaic and discuss how each one...
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Calendar Art

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars assemble and decorate a calendar. This is a lesson to be used at the beginning of each month to make a calendar for the month. Math concepts for this lesson consist of each student writing numbers on the calendar.
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Colors and Mural Painting

For Teachers All
Visual arts activity featuring a group mural that is constructed by each student soda straw paintings that reflects the use of shape, color and hue.
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MOSAICS

For Teachers All
Visual arts activity emphasizing pattern and design in individual student mosaics made with paper and reviewing line, shape, space, and color. The individual mosaics will be used to create a border for a group mosaic in another activity.
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POETRY AND ME

For Teachers All
A visual arts lesson plan combined with language arts, where the students will create a visual poem using crayons. Students are asked to make a connection to an important aspect or event their lives.
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A World without Color and a World with Color

For Teachers All
Visual arts instructional activity involving the creation of a black and white picture followed by a re-creation of the same picture using color with an emphasis on contrast, depth, and mood.
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COLLAGE

For Teachers All
Visual arts instructional activity featuring a self-representative collage that is constructed with magazine clippings that the student has selected.
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Joseph Holston Exhibition Lesson Plan

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Pupils, in groups, view original artworks by Joseph Holston in a gallery space. They create a genre work of art that emphasizes the use of the artistic elements line, color, and shape.
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Inuit Sculpture

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students identify and analzye various examples of Inuit art. Using the art, they discuss how it reflects traditions in the culture that are thousands of years old. They also examine the regional differences within the art of the Inuit.
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You Be the Critic!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars review several pieces of art and choose one that inspires them. They research the artist and his or her contributions to art and then recreate the artwork and compare their copy to the original.
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Mindful Murals

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders depict the illusion of depth in an artwork, using overlapping shapes, relative size and placement of fabric on a mural. They identify with the elements of art in objects in nature, the environment, and Ringgold's mural.
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It's Ruined!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research Ancient Roman architecture in an attempt to create unique representations of the buildings. State art standards are met during this 2 hour instructional activity for high school art class