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Creatures from Planet X: Spiders
Students are given a description of some fascinating animals from "Planet X". They follow the descriptions given to illustrate one of these animals paying careful attention to introduced vocabulary such as 'appendages', 'receptors', and...
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Facts, Feats and Folklore: Spiders
Students review and discuss a variety of sayings, folklore and superstitions about spiders. They discuss this information and choose either an interesting fact or appealing foklore tradition to illustrate.
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Reverse Glass "Painting"
Students examine the life and works of John Audubon. They compare and contrast various pieces of art and identify the purposes of stained glass. After observing his art, they create their own stained glass creation using the concepts...
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Letters from the Japanese American Internment
Learners make deductions about life in an internment camp by reading and comparing letters written to Clara Breed. Along the way, they consider the advantages of looking at a historical event from the multiple points of view of...
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Baga Drum
Students examine a Baga Drum in order to explore the history of the Baga people of West Africa. In this art history lesson, students recognize figures used in Baga Drum design that represent aspects of Baga culture. They also design and...
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Performance Standards/Competencies
Middle schoolers research how children dressed during Colonial times. Students design and create life-sized likenesses of themselves, dressing the paper dolls in colonial dress.
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Earth Day
Third graders utilize technology to access, analyze, interpret and communicate information about Earth Day.
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Lesson 3: Lobster Roll!
Students play a game that illustrates the delicate ecological balance between fishing, fishing regulations and fish populations. They collect data and analyze the results.
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Creating Pinhole Prints
Ninth graders produce an image from a negative created with a pinhole camera using the provided materials and create a test strip in 5 second increments to determine the exposure time for a final print.
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Geography: I Spy Environments
Fourth graders examine nature paintings from a Utah museum for their physical characteristics. In small groups, they observe museum postcards and discuss the season, precipitation, temperature, and geometric shapes pictured. Focusing...
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: Listing of Environmental Artists
ArtCyclopedia's list of environmental artists from the 20th century to the present day. There are links to the artists' biography and works.
PBS
Art21: Mel Chin
This artist enjoys infusing art into unlikely places and uses current culture, such as technology, to bring about awareness of global issues.
Other
Robert Smithson
This is the official site of Robert Smithson who is an artist most known for his earthworks and recognized by his work 'Spiral Jetty.' There is a fantastic collection of his work, interviews, and much more!
New York Times
New York Times: Robert Smithson: Earth Art
An audio slideshow about artist Robert Smithson narrated by New York Times art critic Michael Kimmelman. The slideshow, which illustrates many of Smithson's drawings and works of scuplture, including his famous "Spiral Jetty," coincides...
Other
Circlemakers
Now that people have come forward and admitted to making crop circles, we can enjoy them as the true art that they are! Here are some incredible examples of this art. But even the artists themselves want to believe there is something...
Virtual Museum of Canada
Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Twentieth Century Todmorden
This exhibit looks at the twentieth century history of the Don Valley, which is located in central Toronto and has played a key role in its development and sense of place. Todmorden Mills is frequented by school groups, tourists, Toronto...