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Curated OER

Dango

For Teachers K - 4th
Students discuss lines, shapes, patterns, and colors used in Jun Kaneko's piece Untitled (Dango). In groups, they help make a paper Mache replica and demonstrate their understanding of lines, shapes patterns, and colors by painting their...
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Curated OER

Create a Wrapping Cloth Design

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create wrapping clothes using paper or cloth scraps being sure to find or make geometric shapes. They create a visually balanced composition including symmetry,and repeated patterns.
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Curated OER

Painting Like an Impressionist

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers demonstrate knowledge of the Impressionist style by showing complementary colors, a variety of types of brushstrokes, and a specific time of day or weather condition.
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Printables
Newberry Elementary School

Kindergarten Worksheet

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Give a kindergarten resource sheet to the parents in your classroom to help them track their kids' progress. Activities that kindergartners should master include identifying letters of the alphabet, numbers, colors, shapes, and parts of...
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Lesson Plan
Dick Blick Art Materials

“Rhythm in Layers”

For Teachers K - 12th
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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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Terrific Tessellations

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students create to pieces of artwork using two primary colors and tessellation techniques. This is an excellent lesson that can be accomplished using standard art techniques or educational software such as Adobe Photoshop or Microsoft...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Peter Max Style Ties

For Teachers K - 12th
Here is a rare example of an art lesson plan which can be used K - 12. Learners view prints of Pop artists. They discuss Pop artists such as Andy Warhol, and Peter Max. They cut tie shapes out of oak tag, and design ties in Pop art...
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Oglebay Institute

Post-Impressionism: Van Gogh Drawings

For Teachers 2nd - 10th
Turn your young artists into little Vincent van Goghs with a lesson on brush stroke style and color blending. Pupils practice the painting technique by sketching various shapes before recreating a van Gogh piece or creating an original...
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Assessment
Balanced Assessment

Plenty of Pentagons

For Students 6th - 8th
Why are only four colors needed to color webs from regular pentagons, not five? An assessment task requires young mathematicians to first construct regular pentagons using a compass and straightedge, then has them consider a shape formed...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Picasso Portraits

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Explore Pablo Picasso. For this art history and face drawing lesson plan, read a brief biography of Pablo Picasso. Draw a self portrait following guided instruction by the teacher.  Paint a self-portrait and practice adding white and...
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Handout
Merck KGaA (Darmstadt, Germany)

EMD PTE

For Students 9th - 12th
You can't tell by the title, but this is a functional periodic table of elements. Incorporating bright colors, lucid text, and easily operated features, this application serves as a valuable reference tool for your chemistry class.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Geometric Abstraction

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create an abstract work of art that is made by repeating geometric shapes and lines, write concise instructions to reproduce the work of art and reproduce someone else's artwork via written instructions.
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Lesson Plan
Fairbanks North Star Borough School District

Eric Carle Mural

For Students K - 2nd Standards
Inspire first grade artists to learn about abstract and realistic art while reading Eric Carle's Where are you Going? To See My Friend. Young artists design and make a mural collage by tearing shapes of paper while comparing English and...
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Curated OER

Planting a Rainbow Bulletin Board

For Teachers K
Students explore a variety of colors and shapes after reading the story, "Planting A Rainbow," by Lois Ehlert. The tracking and reading of labels attached to diagrams form an experience in vocabulary development in this lesson.
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Activity
Exploratorium

Peripheral Vision

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Life science learners discover the range of peripheral vision. They compare the angles at which they can detect motion, colors, and detailed shapes. 
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Hawaiʻi State Department of Education

Peace Quilt

For Teachers 5th
Learners explore color, shape, line, balance, radial symmetry, unity, repetition, and pattern as they make a peace quilt inspired by those made by Hawaiian women in the 1800s. After learning a bit about the history or peace quilts, the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

A Horse of a Different Color

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Elementary schoolers explore the wide variety of horse coat colors and reproduce an existing color as well a create their own horse coat color. There are two fine worksheets embedded in this plan that learners use to crete these coat...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Geometric Collages

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate the concept of geometric patterning. They create their own patterns with a few basic requirements. The patterns must illustrate the concepts of flipping, 90 and 180 degree rotations. The collages also consist...
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Website
American Museum of Natural History

All About Horses

For Students 6th - 12th
Horses come in all shapes and sizes, but all belong to the same species. Young scholars explore the different traits and connect the information to genetic modification. The interactive gives them the option to read about 18 different...
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Activity
Curated OER

Torn Insect Art

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Sometimes the best way to drive home a concept is through an art project. Here is a quick and easy activity that can help learners remember or become more familiar with the parts on an insect's body. They tear brightly colored paper into...
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Activity
Discovery Education

Through the Looking Glass

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Turning white light into colors only takes a little scientific know how! Young scholars create their own spectroscope in a hands-on activity exploring the properties of light. Using a diffraction grating, they discover how white light...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Airbrushing on Silk

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers create artwork by airbrushing on silk. This is a simple beginners project using five colors of paint and two types of stencils: positive and negative. As with all of the art lessons that come from this source, the products...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Scavenger Hunt: Creature Features

For Students 3rd - 5th
For this animal/science worksheet, students participate in a scavenger hunt to locate a variety of animals with different shapes, sizes and colors found in a zoo.
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TED-Ed

Different Ways of Knowing

For Teachers 9th - 12th
 “Words have colors, emotions, numbers, shapes, and personalities.” Daniel Tammet welcomes viewers to his world with a 10-minutes video that illustrates how he, as an autistic savant, perceives the world. Class members are then asked to...

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