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Center Stage—Focus on Poverty
Students explore the concept of philanthropy. In this service learning activity, students examine stereotypes and discrimination based on socio-economic status. Students prepare to work with people of diverse backgrounds in service...
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Let's Make a Mural
Students social skills blossom as they work together on this mural-making activity. In this early childhood visual arts instructional activity, students develop creative-thinking, fine-motor, language, and social skills as they work...
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Learning About Artists
Students explore various artists and practice creating their style of painting. In this art history lesson plan, students discover various artists, such as Van Gogh and Michelangelo, and painting style each utilizes. Students paint a...
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Collaborative Drawings
Young scholars create a collaborative drawing. In this cooperation skills instructional activity, students are divided into small groups and are given art supplies. Young scholars decide on a topic for their illustration and create the...
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Sail Etend 45 Min Cooking Class
In this cooking project worksheet, students work in small groups to make a pizza. Clear directions are given, but some terms are more familiar to children in the U.K. There is a confusing heading on the paper with a date and time already...
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Stamp It!
Students explore environmental issues through art. In this stamp lesson, students use preconsumer waste paper and colored pencils to create rubber stamp designs. This is an environmentally safe lesson.
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Prairie Mural Project
Seventh graders construct a large mural of a praire showing plants, and animals that would live there.
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Orville and Wilbur Wong and the Fantastic Flying Machines
Upper elementary and middle schoolers examine the role of Chinese immigrants in America. They investigate literature, history and cultures of Chinese-Americans. This ambitious plan takes two weeks to complete, and it brings in elements...
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The Legendary Raptors
How are raptors and airplanes alike? Combine science and language arts in this fun and interactive project. Young scientists research the animal in order to design their own aircraft, and compete in a contest for farthest, fastest, and...
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Introduction to Cinematography
Places everyone! Action! Imagine an entire cinematography course, already designed, that includes everything you need to launch your own film studio, in one tidy 66-page packet.
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A Financial Flower Garden
Here is another in the interesting series of lessons that use the special State Quarters as a learning tool. This one uses the Mississippi State Quarter. During this lesson, pupils learn about the variety of state flowers that represent...
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To the North: A Black Family Leaves Arkansas to Find Work in Michigan
Upper elementary and middle school scholars study the economic factors that caused so many Arkansans to migrate to different parts of the country looking for work. Use this history lesson plan to help your charges gain a better...
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Put Your Best Facade Forward-Lesson 1
Students are introduced to the applied arts and focus on the applied art of architecture. They examine how architecture communicates messages about the people in a community who use a building. Students study the facade of their school...
Energy for Keeps
The Energy Times
Extra! Extra! Read all about past and present energy use in a classroom-made historical newspaper. Useful as a cross-curricular assignment between science, history, and language arts, the project is sure to get young journalists...
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Bookmaking
Students make and assemble parts of a book, read and respond to classmates' work, read aloud from their own book of poetry. They use the writing process and written language skills, participation in fine arts experiences, appropriate and...
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Painting Sheep
In this painting craft worksheet, students follow the directions to use paint and flour or wallpaper paste to create a sheep. Students use a cardboard "comb" to make whorls in this art project from Northern Ireland.
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Museums in the Classroom Pumpkin Project
Students identify the 5 stages in the life cycle of a pumpkin. They create a model showing the correct order of pumpkin life stages. They explain a pumpkin's life cycle to a partner, using their model.
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Tin Relief
Students create a sun tin relief sculpture. In this Mexican art lesson, students incorporate line and form into a relief sculpture that they create of the sun.
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Mythopoly: Where in the World Is Odysseus?
Students study Greek mythology. Among other activities, they evaluate a work of art and discuss the influence, significance, and history as it pertains to mythology. As a culminating activity they create a board game that shows their...
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Elmer the Elephant
Students read "Elmer" by David McKee. They answer comprehension questions and discuss how Elmer looks and how he is different from the elephants they see in the zoo. They complete a project in which they celebrate their individual...
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GET'N JIGGY WITH THE JITTERBUG
Twelfth graders research the history of the jitterbug dance through an interactive group project. The goal of the lesson is to get them to execute the dance steps independently with little outside help from the teacher. The steps are...
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Contour Drawing
Young scholars create a contour drawing of a hand creating an illusion of depth. After a brief demonstration of contour drawing, students practice by creating pictures of various objects. The final project consists of creating a...
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Choreographic Variations on "Plod"
Students examine the choreography of Dan Wagoner. In this art lesson, students create their own choreography based on the work of Dan Wagoner's dance "Plod."
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Are You an Animal Safety Sleuth
In this animal safety lesson, students brain-storm ways to be kind and safe with animals throughout the year. Students create a Kind Calendar for Animals in art class and distribute copies to other classes in the school. grocery...