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Vegetable Faces: A Guiseppe Archimboldo Portrait Study
Students create drawings of vegetable faces.In this early childhood lesson plan, students identify various vegetables, which they use as models to create drawings. Students experiment with the vegetable drawings by adding faces to their...
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Story Quilts-For the Classroom
Students create a classroom story quilt. In this literacy lesson, students recall events from a text and illustrate their favorite part of the story on a quilt piece. The quilt is sewn together to form a classroom quilt.
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Mark This!
In this writing and art lesson, students use their favorite story to draw a picture and write a caption for their picture. They create their picture and caption on a piece of tagboard that is to be used as a bookmark. A nice, simple...
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Reading Paintings, Drawing Words
Students consider an art exhibit comprised of words that tell stories and create their own original pieces of art.
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Relationships, Day 1: Self-Esteem
Students explore self-esteem and create a self-portrait collage. They discuss things they like about themselves, things they are able to do on their own, and reasons people appreciate them. They demonstrate how to give and receive...
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Romare Bearden: Piecing Together A Viewpoint
Students examine the history of Romare Bearden and her artwork. The lesson consists of some virtual field trips and projects. The lesson is designed to be taught as either a social studies or art lesson. The teacher could also teach this...
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What does it mean to be American?
Students create a mural depicting what it means to be an American. In this being American lesson plan, students pull out magazine ads that depict what it means to be an American, then they make a mural out of it, and finally they present...
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The Cold War
Tenth graders explore the origins of the Cold War. In this Cold War lesson plan, 10th graders analyze selected songs and identify what historical events they reference. Students create a musical collage or timeline for the period since...
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What's Wild?
Third graders examine pictures of animals before deciding if it is a wild animal or a domesticated animal. They discuss the difference between the two types of animals, where they live, what they eat, and what they need to survive. Using...
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Martin Luther King Jr's Birthday
Students 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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International Women's Day
Learners complete activities to learn about International Women's Day. In this women's importance lesson plan, students discuss the roles women play in learners' lives. Students create a collage of special women in their lives and give a...
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Debate: Whose Land Is It?
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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Solid Waste and Recycling
In this unit of lessons, students 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?
Students 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
Pupils create a classroom story quilt based on a story (or series of stories) read as a group.
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My Awesome GIG!
Young scholars 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
Learners 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'?
Young scholars research about the preparation and ingestion of eggs and egg dishes in foreign cultures. Students gain introductory
foreign languages mastery. Young scholars also exert their creative skills and acquired knowledge in the...
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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
Students 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.