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Counterpoint Activities: Listening and Discussion
Students assess whether or not a piece of music is contrapuntal. In this music education lesson, students listen to various pieces of music and identify whether the music is contrapuntal or not contrapuntal.
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Metallic Sounds
Students differentiate between metallic and non-metallic sounds. In this music lesson, students listen to the audio clip of "March" and march in time with the music. Students identify the metallic sounds in the music piece. Students...
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Bean Name
Students write their names on pieces of cardboard. In this art lesson, students outline the letters with glue and place beans on the glue.
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Snowman Q-Tip Painting
Students draw an outline of a snowman onto a piece of paper using the white crayon. In this art lesson, students use Q-tips to make dots inside the outline with white paint.
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The Haunted Lift
Young scholars read a poem and discuss how the poem could be made into a piece of drama.
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Powerpoint: Show Your Gratitude
Students name things for which they are thankful. Then they search the Internet for pictures and audio or film clips that symbolize these items. They arrange six to ten pieces of digital content into a PowerPoint presentation.
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A Musical Textures Activity
Students identify textures in music. In this music appreciation lesson plan, students listen to a variety of classical music pieces and identify components of musical textures including monophony, homophony, polyphony, and heterophony.
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Anything Fabric
Young scholars participate in a circle activity in which a piece of fabric is passed from student to student. They each tell something that the fabric could be such as a bonnet or turban. They use their imagination as they determine what...
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Weaves of Gold
Students use the internet to research the history of weaving. In groups, they collect a pile of leaves and sticks from their school property. Using construction paper, they weave gold pieces of paper through the sticks and different...
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Live Paintings
Students research various works of art, write essays, and create live performance art pieces in this 2-day Art, History, and/or Language Arts lesson plan for 7th and 8th grade. The use of a digital camera to capture the "live"...
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Art Class Warm Up
Students complete warm up activities for art class. In this art activity lesson, students complete open ended questions, scribble, draw for a fantasy trip, read a poem about art, complete a KWL chart, discuss an important piece of art,...
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Visual Arts Lesson: Virgin of Guadalupe
Sixth graders paint symbols of their culture after examining painting of the Virgin of Guadalupe.
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Elegant Art Nouveau
Learners create an elegant drawing in the ornamental, decorative and luxurious style of Klimt. After viewing a Powerpoint presentation, students create several patterns on scratchboards.
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Visual Arts - Portraits and Paintings
First graders examine portraits and paintings. They create their own self-portrait.
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Torn Paper Collage Books
An excellent instructional activity on bookmaking awaits your students! This simple, and easy-to-implement plan should provide you with some excellent student-made products that you'll be proud to send home with them. The instructions...
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Old Fisherman
Sculpting is a lot of fun and it stimulates multiple senses at once. Learners observe and then create a fisherman (or any person) out of paper clay. They mold and sculpt their clay until they have shaped a person. They then paint and...
Sargent Art
Metal Embossing Weathervanes
Metal work has been used for hundreds of years. Ninth graders get a chance to experience the artistry of metal embossing in this highly structured lesson. Each step is accented with a helpful image and related instruction. The end...
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Becoming One With Clay: Pinch Pots
Explore the making of a pinch pot using this resource. Learners discuss the properties of clay, including its molecular structure. Then, they make their own clay pot. As they work, they identify the techniques used to make a pinch pot,...
Dick Blick Art Materials
“Rhythm in Layers”
Young artists learn to build rhythm into a design by repeating colors, shapes, and patterns in a 3-D sculpture activity.
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Painted Story Quilt
Emmulate some of Faith Ringgolds famous painted story quilts in your classroom. Have your class choose a story or you choose one for the whole class to portray. They will select their favorite scene to paint onto their story quilt. What...
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Copper Sheet Boxes: Artistic Engineering
Secondary artists create a metal box made from copper tooling foil and solid oil paint sticks (Shiva Paintstiks). The exacting design develops organizational principles and the painted finish allows for individual expression of...
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Colored Pencil Repoussé
Artists employ a basic metalworking technique by embossing lines and textures into a soft metal. They look for examples of embossed metals in historical and contemporary examples. This fascinating process has been used by many cultures...
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Pop Culture Icons: Medieval Music
Kids compare and contrast music from the past to the present. They listen to and review the characteristics of Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and Pop music. Then, they discuss the differences in each and how musical icons from the past...
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Georgia O'Keefe - A Unit for Grades 9-12
SStudents view examples of O'Keef's work and watch a video about her life. They use colored pencil to create a 6" x 6" reproduction of a 2" x 2" square cut from a magazine picture, finding and using the most interesting shapes in the...