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Landscape: Birch Tree Land
Birch trees are wonderful subjects to paint. Here are the instructions needed to show your class how to paint a birch tree landscape that includes spatial logic such as fore, middle, and background. All you need to do is provide...
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Fall Reflections Monoprints
Create a natural autumn scene using the monoprinting method. Class members work on creating an image with reflection, foreground, and background using one line.
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Visual Depth in Art
Young scholars explain the concept of foreground, middle ground and background in creating a sense of depth in a landscape painting or drawing.
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Drawing of Animal of Student's Choice
Adult students with developmental disabilities are the focus of this lesson plan. Students look through a variety of printed material to locate an animal to draw. They draw an animal with a background with either black pen or pencil....
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Nutrition
Learners determine which foods help keep our bodies healthy. They identify the six food groups and classify different food items into the correct categories of the food pyramid. They evaluate for one week the foods that they eat and...
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Draw a Map
Students draw a map. In this map drawing lesson students draw a map to show where a character is from and where they are going in the story. Students are writing an odyssey.
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Creating a Watermark
Young scholars discover how to insert a watermark into a Word document. For this word processing lesson, students follow step-by-step instructions to add either a picture watermark or a text watermark to the background of their...
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Landscape Painting
Third graders paint a landscape that demonstrates the illusion of space. In this visual arts instructional activity, 3rd graders paint a creek with reflections as the focus and include images showing foreground, middle ground,...
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President Dwight Eisenhower
In this President Dwight Eisenhower worksheet, learners read a 2 page article on the President, answer 5 questions with multiple choice answers and 5 short answer questions.
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From Foreground to Background
Students examine the composition of landscape paintings with an emphasis on foreground, middle ground, and background. They view and analyze a painting by Poussin, and create an original imagined landscape.
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Interpreting Perspective
Sixth graders analyze how a character's perspective is influenced by cultural backgrounds. For this language arts lesson, 6th graders discuss traditions and celebrations they participate in. Students read a story and discuss how the...
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Reading Short Stories
In this graphic organizer worksheet, students fill in the graphic organizer with the predictions, settings, characters, background, and more for short stories. Students complete 5 sections.
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Landscape
Students create a landscape or cityscape. In this landscape lesson, students discover the definition of a landscape and describe various examples. Students choose three images and write "postcards" from each of the three...
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Background Beliefs
Students explore the beliefs and values of others. They discover that different types of background beliefs and experiences have a profound effect upon a person's world view. They explore whether a disagreement is over facts or values...
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Showing Depth
Fourth graders examine and demonstrate how to create a middle ground, background, and foreground on a picture or work of art. They identify middle ground, background, and foreground on Michael Sowa's works of art, then create their own...
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An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away
Students share their ideas about doctors and relate to their classmates. Then they refer to their prior knowledge and information discussed to explain and support their ideas and prepare for a visit with a doctor by charting ideas,...
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Expressing Emotions Through Art Lesson 3: Everybody Works Together
Learners examine works of art that convey the idea of working together and analyze how artists use foreground, middle ground, and background. They use two-and three-dimensional materials to create a work of art.
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Taino Indians of Puerto Rico
Students assess a pluralistic society. In this social studies lecture, students gain information about the Taino Indians of Puerto Rico. They listen to the information for use on future assignments. This lesson includes resource links...
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An Apple Tree in Fall
First graders discover the two color families and how artists use the colors to express mood or feeling. Students paint pictures using water colors of an apple tree and include background, middle ground, and foreground in their scene.
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Huntington Library: Garden Lesson Plans: Elements of a Japanese Garden [Pdf]
A multi-faceted activity where students learn about the elements of a Japanese garden, then construct a peepshow book that demonstrates their understanding of foreground, middle ground, and background to represent a Japanese garden....
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Stockton College: The Battle of Brunanburh
This site contains information regarding the Old English poem, The Battle of Brunanburh. This site contains valuable background information, translations, and text.
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Mapping Margery Kempe
The place to start in any investigation of the work of Margery Kempe. Full text of "The Book of Margery Kempe" and many resources and images related to the time and context of her work.
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Loc: Country Study: India
An extensive site from the Library of Congress that covers all kinds of topics about India. Includes a very detailed history of British India under "Company Rule, 1757-1857," "The British Raj, 1858-1947," and "Sepoy Rebellion, 1857-59."...
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U. Of South Carolina: John Milton & 17th Century Culture
A collection of images, text, and documents, this site gives a good idea of the context in which Milton lived and wrote. Plan to spend a chunk of time to see the whole exhibit.