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Dancing Lights
Young scholars view artwork and navigate the Internet, and read books to learn about the Aurora Borealis. In this Northern Lights lesson, students complete a KWL and separate the facts from the myths about the Northern lights. Young...
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The Northern Lights
Have any of your students seen the Northern Lights or heard of the Aurora Borealis? After reading an excerpt from the book Alaska by Rebecca Stefoff, discuss the story with your students. Next, divide your class into four groups to...
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The Amazing and Beautiful Aurora
Students create an oil pastel painting. In this pastel painting lesson, students examine images of the aurora borealis. Students produce an original pastel painting of the aurora.
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The amazing and Beautiful Aurora
Students research the aurora. In this aurora lesson, students participate in a webquest about the aurora. Webquest worksheet is included.
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Winter is All Around Us
Learners present what they have learned on Antartica. Students identify deciduous and evergreen trees and plants; identify and study about the habitats of animals that migrate, hibernate, and adapt; study the Aurora and Aurora Borealis...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Frederic Edwin Church
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides biographical information on Frederic Edwin Church in addition to an extensive listing of his works as displayed at the museum.