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Muralism, Muralists and Murals
Students examine images of various murals, and conduct Internet research on murals, the muralist movement, and muralists. They discuss themes for a school mural, then create a mural for the school incorporating the themes listed by the...
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Wide Awake Dreaming
Learners examine and discuss works of art by Juan Miro and other surrealist artists. They discuss paintings of Juan Miro, create a drawing of a dream-like creature, and write a description of their creature.
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How Does Art Feel
Students examine a variety of textures, one of the seven elements of design. They experiment with various media and techniques to produce different textures. Then they produce two works of art, one using actual textured material and one...
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Birthday Soup
Students recognize and read their birth date when it is written. They make a picture of a birthday soup bowl that includes the month, day and year of their birthday. Students memorize a poem.
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Graffiti Name Tag
Students incorporate the principles of design, use creative lettering, and create a graffiti tag that is representative of themselves.
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Pueblo Pottery
Students are introduced to the characteristics of pueblo pottery and create their own piece of pueblo inspired pottery. After a brief lecture into the history and methods creating pueblo pottery, students use provided materials to create...
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Diego Rivera
Students participate in activities in which they gather information on Diego Rivera. Using the internet, they examine and discuss his famous murals. They read an article on his life, circle words they do not know and complete worksheet...
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Parts of Speech
In this grammar worksheet, students focus on the various parts of speech. Students respond to 10 multiple choice questions in this online interactive worksheet.
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Birthday Soup
Students utilize the story, "Chicken Soup With Rice, " by Maurice Sendak to compare the number of days in each month, research their birth date and navigate their way through a calendar.
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Create Your Own Ad
Students examine the elements of advertising. They analyze the format and structure of advertisements. They develop awareness of advertising techniques and explain that media messages and products are composed of a series of separate...
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Pablo Picasso
Fifth graders research Pablo Picasso and apply what they know in a created piece of artwork. They create artwork out of geometric shapes such as triangles, rectangles and circles. They access the Internet to research Picasso and complete...
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Gallery Crawl
Learners explore art and artists from a specific country. While on a field trip to an area art museum, students choose one painting to sketch. After researching the chosen painting, learners prepare a presentation in the targeted...
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Spanish Theme Page
A great variety of activities and resources for both teachers and students of Spanish. Includes a picture dictionary, information, coloring sheets, and short books to inspire vocabulary learning. Contains many fantastic resources for...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Unit on Colors, Beginning Spanish
[Free Registration/Login Required] Unit on colors, flipchart. This small unit on colors can be used for K-2-beginning Spanish. It contains the colors name word bank, audio pronunciation/listening of the colors name, a small unit quiz and...
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Primera Escuela: First School
A diverse variety of fun activities for toddlers, preschoolers and kindergarteners. Among other subjects you'll find: alphabet, animals, holidays and events, coloring pages (for fairy tales, holidays, vocabulary, etc.) crafts and more....
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: De Colores
The activities in this lesson will help young young scholars learn ten new colors in Spanish and provide them with practice using them in songs, vocabulary, and writing simple sentences.
abcteach
Abcteach: Coloring Pages
[Free Registration/Login Required] Generate 3 blackline pages of a bear, a butterfly and a turkey to color with the instructions and color key in Spanish. These can be used to teach Spanish, or with your ELL students.
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: People (La Gente)
Great tool for teaching Spanish-speaking English Language Learners (ELL). This vocabulary lesson focuses on: opposites, colors, words for describing people. A variety of interactive, self-correcting exercises are provided to reinforce...
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: About Air
In this lesson students will use popcorn of different colors to model the composition of air. They learn that gases occupy space, air is a mixture of different gases, and the oxygen needed by the human body is not the principal component...
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: Clothes (La Ropa) Vocabulary
Great tool from Ingles Mundial for teaching the English words for articles of clothing, colors, and common verbs and descriptors to Spanish-speaking English language learners (ELL). Uses a variety of interactive, self-correcting...