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ASL: Lesson 10
Focus on learning how to sign cardinal and ordinal numbers, nouns, and lexicalized fingerspelling. Here is lesson 10 of the series on learning ASL. Provided, are multiple links that provide a visual guide to proper signing. Teach your...
Alabama Learning Exchange
J. Alfred Hyperbolizes
Mermaids will sing to your class members as they engage in an activity related to T.S. Eliot's famous dramatic interior monologue. After engaging in a socratic seminar about literary devices in the poem, individuals choose one...
Smithsonian Institution
The Birth of an Icon: Learning and Performing the Origins of the Drum Set and Early Jazz Drumming in New Orleans, Louisiana
Bass drum, snare drum, tom-toms, cymbals. Perched behind their drum sets, wielding their drum sticks and wire brushes, drummers lay the grove and are the heartbeat of a band's performance. A dynamic lesson plan introduces young musicians...
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How Does Art Feel
Students examine a variety of textures, one of the seven elements of design. They experiment with various media and techniques to produce different textures. Then they produce two works of art, one using actual textured material and one...
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Changes in Western Art: From Realism To Cubism"
Students discover the influences of mid 19th and early 20th century art styles: Realism, Impressionism, Post / Neo Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism through an analysis of styles, subject matter, and media.
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Say It With Dance From Rodgers & Hammerstein's "Oklahoma"
Young scholars examine the history of the musical "Oklahoma". They choreograph their own segment from the Dream Ballet. They also gather information from listening to media reports.
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The Art of Violence
Violence and human suffering, as represented in art and film, are the focus of an investigation of the power of visual images and the moral implications of such representations. Class members examine “Guernica,” Pablo Picasso’s massive...
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The Ramayana: Showing your Dharma
Students identify characters and events from the Ramayana. They discuss ways in whcih the images convey non-verbal information and messages. They discuss similarities and differences in the visual and verbal tellings of the Ramayana.
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African Masks And Their Impact On Western Art
Explore the influence of African-style masks on Western art. Learners create individual masks using construction paper. They discuss and explore the techniques used to create these types of masks. The resource includes links to...
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What is Drawing?
Young scholars examine different types of drawings. In this art lesson, students experiment with different tools for drawing and view many examples of what can be created with each type of tool. Young scholars also experiment with how...
Huntington Library
Light in Painting
How do painters use and manipulate light in their artwork to give emphasis and establish mood and emotion? Pupils will analyze a few examples of landscape and portrait painting in order to explore the how light is used in art,...
Star Wars in the Classroom
"Shakespeare and Star Wars": Lesson Plan Days 13 and 14
How important are sound effects in films? In stage plays? In radio programs? To gain an understanding of the impact of these special effects, class members watch a short video spoof of the sound in a scene from Star...
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Presenting Research with PowerPoint
Students organize information and prepare a visual interpretation that enhances an oral presentation using pictures, graphics and sound.
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Creating a Story Quilt
Students create a quilt to represent an important event in their life. In this visual arts lesson, students research Faith Finggold and her quilts. Students use art supplies to create their own quilt and share the symbolic meaning with...
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Quilt Geometry
Seventh graders explore lines of symmetry, congruent polygons and patterns. They listen to "The Seasons Sewn," observe a PowerPoint presentation, and identify congruent polygons and visual patterns. Through an internet activity, 7th...
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Shades of Blue Matching
In this art worksheet, students examine and compare 8 rectangles on one side of the page, all a different shade of blue. Students draw a line to match the identical blue shade on the other side of the paper.
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Shades of Green
In this art worksheet, learners cut out 5 fully colored green circles of different sizes and shades of green. Students glue the circles one on top of the other to create a color shades "target" like the one pictured in the instructions.
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Purple Color Shade Matching
For this color worksheet, students analyze an example of a target color wheel of 5 shades of purple. On the blank target, students try to match the shades of purple as closely as possible using crayons, colored pencil or watercolor.
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Find the Real Mother Goose
In this picture matching worksheet, students examine 6 similar pictures of Mother Goose. Students color the one picture that is different from the others.
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The View From Here
Study the beauty of the landscape around you with an innovative art instructional activity. After discussing the foreground, background, and middle ground of landscape art, kids work on making their own piece of landscape art. The...
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Trace the Square
In this math worksheet, students are asked to study and trace the squares on the left, then draw a line to the ones on the right which are the exact same size. Note: Although the directions call these squares, none of them are. They are...
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Count all the Stars that Squigly Drew
In this counting instructional activity, students examine a page filled with stars, many overlapping each other. Students count the stars.
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Leaf Match
In this science worksheet, students draw lines to connect illustrations of leaves. There are two each of four leaves on the page. Leaves vary by type, shape, and color.
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Which Shape Is Different?
In this geometric shapes activity, students analyze 4 rows of shapes. Students circle the one figure in each row that is different from all the others.
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