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Art and Artists

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students effectively gather and use information for research purposes. They comprehend the visual arts in relation to history and culture. Students practice note taking skills, and summarizing skills. They know and compare the...
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Art Is More Than Just a Pretty Picture

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students create unique art piece from litter. For this visual art lesson, students learn the importance of recycling and create a unique art piece. Students construct collages.
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Piet Mondrian Art

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students study Piet Mondrian's artwork. In this visual arts lesson, students analyze the use of lines and colors by Mondrian in his art. Students create their artwork in the style of Mondrian.
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The Hello Goodbye Window: Visual Art

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Young scholars create a portrait of themselves with a grandparent.  In this visual art activity, students read the book entitled The Hello Goodbye Window and discuss the events.  Young scholars then draw a portrait of themselves and...
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Toothpick Art

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students review primary colors and practice making straight lines. In this visual arts lesson, students paint simple shapes as large as a toothpick, using specific primary colors. During the construction of the shapes students are...
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Imagining the Environment: Introduction

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students examine the importance of the environment including the setting, lights, sound, costumes, and props for a play or story. They visualize the appropriate environments and practice applying the techniques.
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Analyzing Visual of Samson and the Lion

For Students 6th - 10th
What strategies do historians use for interpreting visuals? This simple worksheet lists four questions that learners can use to approach and analyze historical photographs, fine pieces of art, etc., as well as an opportunity to apply the...
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Natural Beauty: Looking Sharp

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students create covers for their "nature journals" using watercolor techniques and the artistic ideas of color, depth, and focal point. This lesson can be used in the Science or Art classroom and meets national standards for both.
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Cornmeal with Powder Paint

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Pre schoolers use art to build observational skills and eye-hand coordination. They squeeze art into a ribbon like shape on their paper, then sprinkle cornmeal and powder paint over it. They watch as water is sprayed on top of the...
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Truth Or Consequences

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine historical works of art and analyze how these paintings could be used for personal, cultural, and/or political purposes. This exploratory lesson on art ideology includes two handouts/worksheets for student use and...
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The Symbolism of Allegorical Art

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Introduce learners to allegorical art with four bronze sculptures by Francesco Bertos. After modeling how to recognize bias and allegory in Bertos' Africa, class groups examine the other three sculptures in the series before creating...
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Greeting Card Boxes: Recycled Art

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Greeting cards can be cute or pretty, and they end up in the trash. Turn your old greeting cards into a functional box. Learners fold, cut, and tape old cards to create small boxes that are perfect for holding paperclips, erasers, or...
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Allegory in Painting

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students define allegory and discuss its use in visual arts. They identify and explain allegorical themes in a number of images.
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Rhythm and Art: Gesture Drawing

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore connections between non-verbal language and art. In this visual and auditory art lesson, students investigate the science of sound and principles of drawing. They then use various genres of music to directly apply that...
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The Díne (Navajo) Native American Tribe

For Teachers K
Students participate in a variety of activities to become familiar with the Navajo Indians. In this Díne (Navajo) Native American tribe lesson, students understand where the Navajo tribe lived and find them on a map. Students discuss the...
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Good Readers Visualize

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore reading. In this visualization lesson, students practice, creating images in their minds while listening to the story The Vegetables Go To Bed, by Christopher King. They listen to the story and then draw what they...
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Persuasive Poster

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Young scholars examine the effects of visual media in advertising/propaganda and how posters can influence a person's ideas. They create their own persuasive poster to convey a chosen message.
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Jump-Starting Research with Visual Thesaurus

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students navigate the Visual Thesaurus to find keywords for research.  In this keywords lesson, students use synonyms, hypernyms and hyponyms to find keywords. Students understand why some searches are effective and some are ineffective. 
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The History of Art

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Teachers can use these art history lesson plans as a way to get students to look at art in a new light.
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Monochromatic Painting

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Learners create a piece of monochromatic art. In this monochromatic art lesson, students design a piece of art and analyze their painting objectively. Learners connect color and emotions.
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Art, Naturally

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students read an online article which examine different works of art. They study how patterns and shapes found in nature influence art. Finally, they create original works of art and write artist's statements.
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Artist Mice Art Nice

For Teachers Pre-K - Higher Ed
Young scholars help create "Art picture frames" that display their own artwork throughout the year in this exciting lesson for the pre-Kindergarten classroom. The "frames" are then decorated with small mouse cutouts and pictures of each...
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Fine Art to Animation With Keith Haring

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders create their own morphes in the computer lab emphasizing lines and color and explain them. In this art lesson plan, 5th graders base their creations on the work of Keith Haring.
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Art Across the Planet: Exchanging Art

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore art when it is used as a source of information about society and material culture. They communicate with students in a foreign country, and share ideas and experiences in order to create drawings of their homes to exchange.

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