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Expressing Emotions Through Art Lesson 1: Everybody Shows They Care

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners examine how artists depict the idea of caring in works of art. They create drawings of themselves that use the principles of design to express their feelings of caring for something.
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Art as Storyteller

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students examine how paintings tell stories. They read biographies about artists, analyze paintings, research and write the art history of a painting, write a creative story based on the painting, and create a painting in the artist's...
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Visualization

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students review the meaning of summarization and talk about the meaning of visualization and list them on the board. They listen to "What A Wonderful World" and picture the images in their minds. They then read part of their chapter...
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Clerihew Dances II

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore rhythm and quality of word and phrased to that of dance. They move to the rhythm of poetry.
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ABA Form in Music

For Teachers 4th
Patterns happen everywhere, in music, math, and language! Fourth graders listen to the "William Tell Overture" visualizing the patterns that they hear. They then discuss and write an ABA poem that matches the ABA form found in the music...
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Writing a Word Fib Poem

For Students 3rd - 8th
Students write a word fib poem using different word starters and different number of syllabled lines. Students write 6 lines in the poem.
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Illustrated Words - colored pencils

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use images and lettering style to communicate the meaning of a specific word chosen for the composition. They make rich, smooth, layered areas of color using colored pencils.
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Writing About Art: Objective vs. Subjective

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the sculpture "Head With Horns" by Paul Gauguin. In this perspectives instructional activity, students discuss what the terms "objective" and "subjective" means. Students are shown the sculpture and write their...
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During Reading Strategies (Visualization)

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students develop and apply strategies using visualization. In this reading lesson, students listen to sounds and draw images that depict the audio recordings. Students then apply this visualization strategy to nonfiction material...
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Word Wonders

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Young scholars read passages and use phonics and context clues to self correct themselves while reading. For this reading lesson, students complete a worksheet which is embedded in the plan which has them choose the correct word to...
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Beyond the AB Pattern in Dance

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students demonstrate various patterns using dance. In this expressive arts lesson, students are led in a warm-up to demonstrate the AAB pattern, which includes spinning and jumping. Students are broken up into groups and perform several...
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Chinese Art: Botanical Motifs

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students are introduced to Chinese Art and how artists used botanical motifs. They look at slides of motifs and then create a watercolor themselves. A functional motif will be created by them and they have to provide its meanings to...
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African Art is Alive: Drum, Dance, Storytelling....

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students investigate and experience African culture through various art forms. Students explore the physical and political geographies of Africa through mapping activities. Students, in groups, prepare presentations about different...
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Arts & Entertainment/Production Marketing

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students demonstrate a comprehension and a tasteful appreciation of the creative and performing arts. They seek, experiments, and shares reactions of different forms of art. Students analyze and reflect on others' work. They recognize...
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Word Scramble Snack Crackers

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students make letters on crackers spelling a word. In this art lesson, students spray cheese on crackers and enjoy eating the creation after spelling words.
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Land Art

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students use natural materials outside to create a work of art. In this land art lesson plan, students plan their sculpture inside in one day and create it outside over a period of 2 days.
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Word Search: Elements of Music

For Students 6th - 8th
In this music worksheet, students find the words that are related to the different elements of music and the answers are found by clicking the button at the bottom of the page.
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Shakespeare Word Search

For Students 6th - Higher Ed
In this arts learning exercise, learners find the words that are associated with the works of Shakespeare. The answers are found at the bottom of the page.
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Musical Instruments Word Search

For Students 4th - Higher Ed
In this language arts worksheet, students will be searching for words are all musical instruments. Students will locate 34 vocabulary words all pertaining to the topic.
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Responses To Twentieth Century Music: A High School Art Curriculum

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore their own responses to sound by hearing the music as a regular part of the class structure. They develop an awareness that certain art evokes certain sounds and moods and develop an intuitive responses to the music.
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Listen and Do Art

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students listen to directions and complete an art project. They distinguish among kinds of information and purposes and complete multi-step tasks. The teacher gives directions while the student learns, and subsequently the student has to...
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Integrating Anime and Manga into an Art of Motion Picture Course

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers examine the art of Anime and note its characteristics. Using scenes, they identify the plots, characters and themes trying to be portrayed. In groups, they compare and contrast the animation in America to that of Anime...
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Matching Words (Worksheet A)

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
In these matching words worksheets, learners read the word pairs in the 24 examples and circle the words that are matching pairs.
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Words in the News: New Orleans Job Losses

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students discuss what they know about Hurricane Katrina and the city of New Orleans. In groups, they use they match the new vocabulary words to their definitions. They read an article about Hurricane Katrina and answer questions.