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Learning to Look, Looking to Learn - Sunday Morning

For Students 9th - 12th
Jerome Myers' depiction of the urban landscape in "Sunday Morning" is the focus of a series of activities that asks viewers to examine how an artist uses the elements of a painting to tell a story. The resource packet includes an...
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Ribbon Wand Dancing

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Pupils construct a ribbon wand which, through the use of line, color, contrast and shape can be used to better express a given emotion. Students improvise a brief dance created through manipulation of ribbon wand using three distinct...
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Primary & Secondary Colors

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students gain the knowledge of how to create color/s. This is relevant in their lives as they will forever be exposed to color and learning to identify how color is created.
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See What I Hear

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students examine relationships between music and color, emotion and imagery, listen to different passages of music, and visually depict what they hear.
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If You Give A Pig A Party

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students read If You Give A Pig A Party and participate in visual arts activities based on the book. In this visual arts lesson plan, students read the given book and do visual arts activities that include matching words to pictures,...
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Shapes Show It

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students use art to express emotion.  In this visual arts lesson, students explore the use of various colors and shapes in an effort to express emotions displayed in the Twelve Labors of Hercules.  Students use the computer...
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Andy Warhol Animals

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students view and identify the colors on the color wheel. After viewing a PowerPoint, they discuss the reasons why animals become endangered. They examine the life and works of Andy Warhol and review contour drawing. To end the...
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Quick and Easy Tie-Dye

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Young scholars create their own tie-dye shirts. In this visual arts lesson, students take shirts and wrap a rubber band around a few small areas. They dot these areas with sharpies and then blend them together with rubbing alcohol. 
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Animation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Studnets comprehend the elements of value, perspective and color schemes. They comprehend the principles of contrast, emphasis and unity, and the expressive qualities of thematic development and sequence. Young scholars are asked about...
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Follow the Directions

For Students 1st - 2nd
For this following directions worksheet, students follow the directions for the shape coloring activity. Students color the various shapes according to the directions and write their name inside the big circle.
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Learning About Pointillism

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students read a biography about George Seurat and examine the Pointillism style of painting. They create Pointillism style paintings of apples and consider how the viewer's eye mixes color in the interpretation of the painting.
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Crayon Resist Fall Leaves

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students observe the different colors in fall leaves. They create a multi-color fall leaf in the crayon-resist technique.
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Haring All Over

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students view a web site showing various artworks by Keith Haring. They discuss pattern and design through line and color. Then they create an original artwork using color, shape, line, and pattern.
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Color Mixing

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students distinguish and recognize the three primary colors used in color printing. In this color mixing instructional activity, students predict what color will be produced when pigments or color beams are mixed. Students will...
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Figure Drawing

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders participate in a demonstration where the teacher chooses a student and uses the student in a figure drawing. They study the repetition of a color throughout the picture and how the color repetition makes the eye follow...
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Mixing Colors

For Teachers 1st
First graders, exploring and experimenting with the primary colors of red, yellow and blue, mix different colored icings together to create other colors formed with primary colors. The color wheel is also discussed and shown during this...

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