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Angles in Art Lesson

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students examine the correlation between art and math. Using their computers, students construct and measure angles. Students identify the properties of angles and polygons. They engage in the Angles program on their Palm and use the...
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Social Studies: How Did Native Americans Live?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders examine Edward Curtis' photographs and Robert Griffing's paintings to analyze Native American culture. They present research information on specific tribes, using the photos and paintings to uncover information about the...
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A Study of Japan with the Haiku of Basho

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders explore haiku poetry and the works of the Japanese poet Basho. They review characteristics of haiku poetry and other forms of poetry. After they write three or more haiku poems, they illustrate one of them and share with...
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When is a Block, not a Block?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students use a stamped shape image to create a piece of imaginative art. For this stamped art lesson, students use a stamped shape as a starting point to create their own imaginative piece of art that incorporates the stamped shape.
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Fingerprint Spring Flowers

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students create spring flowers. In this art lesson, students paint stems with brushes and then use their fingers to create flowers.
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Fun Apron

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students create an apron. In this crafts lesson, students get an apron and place their handprints on it in fabric paint. They cut out items from fabric to glue on as well. 
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An Artistic List of Ways to Make Flowers

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students use cupcake holders, paint, then add green construction paper stems and leaves to make flowers.
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Celestial Photography

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers practice photographic skills and gain an awareness of photography as a scientific tool.
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Spinning Short Vowel Game

For Teachers 1st
First graders, in pairs, use spinners to experiment with different combinations of letters. They combine letters and determine whether they have produced a word or not. They construct and record words choosing letters from designated tiles.
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Drawing On Gray Toned Paper

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners create an artwork that uses organizational principles and functions to solve a visual arts problem. The piece creates the illusion of transparency used to unify a work of art that demonstrates that light advances and darks recede.
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PEBBLE PICTURES

For Teachers K - 8th
Pupils paint pebbles to look like people, fish, butterflies, or birds. They glue to a background.
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Beautiful Numbers

For Teachers K - 6th
Students focus on the shape of numbers.
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Emily Carr's Trees

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners explore flowing lines and form
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Magnetic Poetry

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students reinforce creative writing skills.
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Art Appreciation

For Teachers K - 6th
Young scholars explain that everyone has their own opinion about what they think is good art. They study images, then put a heart behind the one they like the best, the least and the one they think their mom or dad would like.
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What is a Still-life?

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students use works of art to explore how to paint a still-life.
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Investigation 4 - Dinosaurs Tracks

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders make inferences and interpretations from sets of dinosaur tracks. They describe Utah fossils and how they were formed. Partners trade their sketches of tracks and try to guess which dinosaur it belonged to.
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Buildings, Buildings Everywhere

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners gain awareness of shapes in architecture by creating a painting of their school and writing a reflective summary of their study of architecture.
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Dino Dung!

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students examine how there is more to poop than they think! After reading through material, they answer a series of questions on coprolite, and explore the diet and physical attributes of dinosaurs, as well as their environment.
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Learning Empathy Through Art

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils observe the painting, From That Day On, by Ben Shahn, and reflect on the story of the Lucky Dragon. They research and discuss the physical and emotional side effects on the Japanese people after the atomic bomb was dropped.
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Middle School Home Energy Audit

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders research the origins of local electrical power and compare costs and methods of generation with other areas of the country or world.
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SKYDYES

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students use fabric they have created in their quilts. Unlike dyeing and marbling, hand-painting fabric with Setacolor textile paints is not messy, not toxic, and the serendipitous results make every student feel like an artist!
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Visual Arts: Matisse and Escher

For Teachers 3rd
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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Transforming Negatives to Positives

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars create double-exposed photographs, poetry, and multimedia presentations to celebrate their Open Court "City Wildlife" unit.

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