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Solid Waste and Recycling
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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Who Me? A Writer?
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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MONTAGE
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
Learners create a classroom story quilt based on a story (or series of stories) read as a group.
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My Awesome GIG!
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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Lasting Impressions
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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Internet Exploration of San Francisco
Students use the Internet for gaining information on a specific topic.
They identify a specific place or event in San Francisco history.
They summarize topic findings into a report to present to a small group and
also to be...
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Como se dice 'huevos'?
Learners research about the preparation and ingestion of eggs and egg dishes in foreign cultures. Students gain introductory
foreign languages mastery. Learners also exert their creative skills and acquired knowledge in the creation of...
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Visual Arts: Matisse and Escher
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
Students explore and discuss the process of taking a photograph.
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Sky Journal
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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Estimation and Pattern Discovery
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
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...
EL Education
El Education: Somewhere in the Park
After visiting a local park, students write sentences about the things they see in the park and created ripped-paper collages with partners to illustrate their sentences.
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Incredible Art: Eric Carle Collage
This lesson plan encourages children to use painted paper to make a collage using the style of Eric Carle as inspiration.
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Read Write Think: Children's Book Author Eric Carle Was Born on This Day in 1929
Eric Carle's illustrations feature paper collages, so after reading some of Carle's books you might create your own word collage for an added challenge. Students will choose a scene, an emotion, an animal, or a person. Then students...
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Imagination Factory: What Did You Do on Your Summer Vacation?
Here is an art idea for young students returning to school after summer break. Website provides ideas for making unique collages conveying any theme.
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Uss Constitution Museum: Constitution Collage
Tell the class that they will be making collages of USS Constitution. Reproduce the sails and hull pages to hand out along with scissors, rulers, paste and pieces of paper 11" x 17" on which students may assemble their collages.
Marilyn J. Brackney
Imagination Factory: Art Is More Than a Pretty Picture
With this art activity, individuals or groups can use a wide variety of objects to create a collage of America. The example collage is made of garbage, and is intended to be a commentary on our problems with trash.