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Martin Luther King Jr's Birthday

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed
Learners will recognize the problem of prejudice and racism in the history of America especially during the time of Martin Luther King Jr. They will also recognize that feelings can be expressed through the written medium of poetry.
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Debate: Whose Land Is It?

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students identify the main factors involved in determining who was able to claim the land of California as their own. They determine the factors of unjustness in the Gold Rush times. Students reflect on what they learned from the debate...
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International Women's Day

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students complete activities to learn about International Women's Day. For this women's importance lesson, students discuss the roles women play in students' lives. Students create a collage of special women in their lives and give a...
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Grade 10 - Personal Development (Mental Well-Being)

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders propose strategies for enhancing and maintaining emotional health and well-being encourage respect for others.
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Grade 11 and 12 - Personal Development (Mental Well-Being)

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students relate emotional health and well-being to personal productivity and to the workplace design, implement, assess, and evaluate a plan to promote personal, school, and community well-being
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Eat Right!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students use magazines and other food pictures to arrange healthy meals onto construction paper.
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MONTAGE

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders create montages using photographs or pictures. They wil use the montages to perceive and describe visual elements such as line, shape, and space.
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Story Quilts

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners create a classroom story quilt based on a story (or series of stories) read as a group.
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Plants

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students determine the types of plants from which particular fruits and vegetables grow.
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Contemporary Chicago 1936-2000

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders produce stories, poems, and drawings about Weisenborn's 1936 mural and make a comparable collage about Chicago in 2000.
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Visual Arts: Matisse and Escher

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders are introduced to the art of Henri Matisse and M.C. Escher. They create original works in the styles of Matisse and Escher and consider how their innovations have affected modern art.
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Looking at Photography Lesson 1: The Elements of Photography

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students explore and discuss the process of taking a photograph.
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Who Me? A Writer?

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners interview another student using a twenty question format and write a three-part biography of that person. They create a collage representing the person they interviewed.
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My Awesome GIG!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss various career options and issues related to careers. They research a chosen career online, and create a collage of pictures and words pertaining to their chosen careers.
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Solid Waste and Recycling

For Teachers 6th - 8th
For this unit of lessons, middle schoolers examine solid waste and recycling. They discover how litter is a major part of human waste. They also collect newspaper for recycling.
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African-American Artists

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students conduct research on a chosen African-American artist. They research how the artist's community influenced his art, analyze how themes are conveyed through the art, and create a collage depicting the artist's themes.
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Sky Journal

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students communicate their thoughts, feelings, and information about the sky in both written and oral format. They listen and read to discover the thoughts, feelings, and informtaion about the sky from others.
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To Vote or Not To Vote

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders discuss if it was worth some groups fighting for the right to vote. In groups, they participate in a debate in which they discuss whether the right to vote is a responsiblity by its members. They create their own piece of...
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Estimation and Pattern Discovery

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers collect sunflower heads from their community garden. They estimate its seed count using different strategies. They graph their estimations on a graph and use calculators to find the actual total.
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Mysterious Creatures

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils create drawings of animals. The project is research based and teaches learners how to use encyclopedias. The focus is upon finding useful illustrations. The fun of the lesson is displaying student work for opinions and guessing...
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Searching for Me in You

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore their own culture and identity through the study of literature and artwork of other cultures. Students read and discuss Last of the Breed and identify cultural values. They create a presentation that incorporates their...
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I Give You My Heart

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders create hearts using stencils, pastels, construction paper, and tracing and cutting techniques in this Art lesson for the 2nd grade classroom. Emphasis is placed on the concept of repeating patterns. An ideal lesson for...
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Lasting Impressions

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students brainstorm a list of images, people, and emotions that they associate with news stories that are particularly moving. They explore how the play "The Laramie Project" presents the events surrounding Matthew Shepard's death....
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Pizzazz!...Persona-Poems

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students compose persona-poems. They examine the sample poem and then practice writing their own persona-poem. Students collaborate in small groups and write a poem about their partners.

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