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Visual Composition

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students study how elements of visual composition and group storyboards for a one-minute videotaped commercial.
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Lesson #23: Ceramic Self-Portrait as a Famous Artist

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Young scholars sculpt a bust out of clay using naturalistic features.  For this sculpture lesson, students use themselves or classmates as models to ensure correct form and proportion of a hollow bust.  This lesson includes...
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Contemporizing Myths

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students examine ancient Greek myths and illustrate origin myths scenes in a contemporary setting. In this Greek myth lesson plan, students analyze Rembrandt’s painting The Abduction of Europa and discuss how the artist took an...
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Making Connections

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students identify the main ideas in a passage from literature, and in a painting, and justify their conclusions using logic and language arts skills.
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Beyond the Soup Can, Thermal Screen Printing for Classrooms

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders study self-portraits done by Andy Warhol and other artists. They define Pop Art, printmaking vocabulary, and create a series of screen prints using the art principle of repetition.
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Who Am I?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate the question "who am I?" They create an original self-portrait of themselves that incorporates written words. Students' self-portraits depict who they are.
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The Bartered Bride

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore the ways music is used to convey ideas about a culture. They define folk art by viewing and comparing visual folk and fine art. Then they analyze the musical piece," The Bartered Bride" and relate it to how folk...
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The Naked Truth?

For Students 9th - 10th
In this the naked truth worksheet, students, with a partner, complete eleven sentences with words from a word band associated with being naked, match up four nudity jokes with their appropriate punchlines and have a conversation over...
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Let's Talk About Painting

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders identify the elements of the arts. In this visual arts lesson, 2nd graders read the book Matthew's Dream and discuss the elements of the arts. Students create their own paintings according to the style of specific artists.
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Self-portraits: Integrating Arts And the Language Arts

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Students look into a mirror and draw their own self-portraits. Then they write a descriptive essay, describing the portrait and the features of their face.
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Reading Stories in Art

For Teachers K - 12th
Students study how artists tell stories using visual images by identifying and comparing elements of narrative (setting, characters, and plot) in a painting and a Greek vase.
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What's Your Expression

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore facial expressions in a mirror and create drawings of people with a facial expression of their choice. They graph the facial expressions drawn.
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Everybody Needs Somebody

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students brainstorm feelings words and discuss what causes us to have feelings. Using artwork, they discuss how different artists show feelings and emotions. Using the internet, they research how other cultures express their feelings and...
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Present Simple or Present Continuous

For Students 6th - 7th
In this ESL verb forms activity, students complete 10 sentences by inserting the correct present simple or present continuous form of each verb given in parentheses.
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ESL: Fiil-In-The-Blank Vocabulary Practice

For Students 4th - 5th
In this ESL vocabulary worksheet, students read sentences, "thinking" about the correct word to fill in the blank, then click on the answer button to check for accuracy.
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Rijksmuseum: Rembrandt's "The Night Watch"

For Students 9th - 10th
A full-featured exploration of Rembrandt's "The Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch," better known as "The Night Watch." Learn who is in the painting, the symbols in it, what makes "The Night Watch" innovative,...
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The National Gallery (UK)

The National Gallery: Self Portrait of Rembrandt

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the National Gallery's tribute "Encounters with Rembrandt" at its Rembrandt 400 online exhibition, this site focuses on Rembrandt's self portrait and is featured alongside two other self portraits by Lievens and Flinck who...
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Prado Museum: Rembrandt: History Painter

For Students 9th - 10th
Past exhibit of Rembrandt's works at the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain. Website contains a video preview of the exhibit in Spanish with English subtitles, practical information about the exhibit, information about Rembrandt, and a video...
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BBC

Bbc: Simon Schama's Power of Art: Rembrandt

For Students 9th - 10th
From the BBC's documentary series on art "Simon Schama's Power of Art", this is the web-page synopsis version of the program on the Dutch master Rembrandt.
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Martin Lawrence Galleries

Martin Lawrence Galleries: Rembrandt

For Students 9th - 10th
A wealthy collection of etchings done by Rembrandt. Various themes in which a majority include the human figure.
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National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: Inside Scoop: Rembrandt [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th
A printable, kid-friendly introduction to the art of Rembrandt. Includes a suggested art activity and simple art analysis questions.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Rembrandt Peale

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Luce Foundation Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, this is a portrait photograph and biography of Rembrandt Peale, the early American portrait painter and most of famous of the Peale brothers family of artists.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Rembrandt Etchings

For Students 9th - 10th
The Metropolitan showcases all the etchings and drypoints in its collection by Rembrandt on this page. Here you can read about his lifelong experiments with printmaking and also take in interesting tidbits about each work separately.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Rembrandt Paintings

For Students 9th - 10th
The Metropolitan showcases all the paintings (chiefly portraits) in its collection by Rembrandt on this page. Here you can read a biographical note of the artist and learn about the qualities of his art for which he is best known and...

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