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Dynamic Collages and Assemblages
Students create a two, three, or four-dimensional collage or assemblage. They use shapes, colors, images, objects, and textures to create their collage.
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Alternate Histories
Students create a mixed media collage. In this visual arts lesson plan, students look at the work of Jane Ash Poitras. They create their own collage that shows their personal and collective history and experiences.
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People Everywhere
Second graders identify people of different ages, cultural backgrounds, traditions, and careers and explain how they contribute to the community. Then they create a collage of different people of a community with 100% accuracy. ...
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I Am a Person on Character
Sixth graders explore the portrayal of males and females in mass media. For this language arts lesson, 6th graders create a digital collage and write a description about themselves using similes and metaphors.
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Chairs, Rooms, and Time Travel
Students compare and contrast two chairs that were made in different time periods. In this compare and contrast instructional activity students will compare two chairs They will then create a collage that takes place in a historic scene...
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"The Block": Romare Bearden's and Mine
Students study Bearden's style of collage and create their own collage that reflects their neighborhood. They are read "The Block" and poems about neighborhoods and write one about theirs.
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Very Hungry Caterpillar
Students read "the Very Hungry Caerpiller" by Eric Carle and create their own caterpillers using the same art techniques found in the book in this excellent early elementary lesson. Included with the lesson is a vocabulary list and a...
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Thank You!
Students demonstrate appreciation for volunteer workers. In this philanthropy instructional activity, students create a card, picture, or poem for a school volunteer. Students use a variety of art supplies to create the appreciation gift.
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The Cleaning Station
Learners study cleaning stations. For this science lesson, students make a painting of a fish known as cleaners which take dead skin off of other fish.
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Love, Kindness, and Friendship
Students explore the goal of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. They find pictures from magazines that show love, kindness, and friendship and other things that would make Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. happy. Students discuss why they selected...
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Golden Door Book
Pupils use the Golden Door as a theme to search for historical and aesthetic content. They create a paper collage containing relevant images, text and expressions.
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Essential to Autumn: Line, Shape, Color, Texture, Pattern, Rhythm, Emphasis, Movement, Balance, and Unity
Students explore the environment by learning about nature. In this art activity, students go on a walk and find objects to help in creating a picture, or collage representing whatever season is being discussed. Students write...
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Creating Your Own Ad
Students analyze the effective advertisements in print and Internet ads. In this advertisements lesson plan, students create a collage of original and repurposed words, graphics, and images of advertisements. Students create a poster for...
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Reading Power through Visualizations
Students practice visualizing images as they read in this lesson. Students create an oral collage with their visualizations. Students are then given three separate scenarios to visualize, and are assessed on their description of their...
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Playing Historical Detective: Great Grandmother's Dress and Other Clues to the Life and Times of Annie Steel
Students draw conclusions about an mystery person based on documents and artifacts provided. In this drawing conclusions lesson, students become detectives by reading and analyzing evidence provided. This lesson includes information on...
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Climate
Students study zoanthids. In this science and art lesson, students use line to create texture and how to use colors to create value. Students share their beautiful mat zoanthids with the rest of the class.
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Color
Students learn the effect that warm and cool colors have for those who see them used in visual art. They create a collage of variety of colors. They participate in a gallery walk to view the artwork of others.
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CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT: EXAMINE EXPRESSIONS THROUGH PORTRAITURE
Students use a work or art as a springboard to a personal narrative or descriptive writing, create a collage to identify tone through art, and use inference to discern what might have caused an individual to feel the emotion that is...
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Treasure Hunt with cameras
Learners complete a treasure hunt with digital cameras. In this technology lesson, students look for items specific to content and they photograph them with their digital camera. They upload the pictures to create collages with them.
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Dazzling Digital Poem Project
Eighth graders create a digital poem using PowerPoint, Audacity.com, and www.freeplaymusic.com. In this digital poem instructional activity, 8th graders write and edit original poems. Students utilize figurative language and imagery in...
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The Body of Christ
Seventh graders consider their own unique talents. In this church body lesson, 7th graders identify their personal contributions to the Body of Christ. Students create a collage and work with partners in a trust building exercise.
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Poetry Portraits
Students consider the attributes of heroes. In this literature lesson, students read selected poems from Hesse's Out of the Dust and then create their own bio-poems that feature themselves as heroes.
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Symbols of a Life
Learners identify the narrative elements in a work of art and write their own narrative. In this narrative and symbolism lesson, students interpret narratives depicted in the given works of art and write a biographical narrative about a...
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Flower Power
Students create flowery napkin rings, paint umbrellas, paint flowers, and create "butter-flowers" in this four-day lesson all about Springtime. The activities in this lesson could be accomplished over four days, used separately, or...