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Joseph Had a Little Overcoat

For Teachers Pre-K - 4th Standards
Create a cross-curricular learning experience based on the children's book Joseph Had a Little Overcoat with this collection of learning activities. Starting with a class reading of the story, children go on to learn about the sequence...
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Everybody Cooks Rice

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students read the book, "Everybody Cooks Rice," and they participate in activities pertaining to the book. They identify countries mentioned in the text and locate them on a world map. They use an atlas to identify the climatic...
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Create a Fan Design

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners design fans with organic shapes and contrasting colors. They recognize t'aeguk design as a visual element of Korean culture.
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Little Green

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore how to make the color green by mixing the two primary colors, blue and yellow.
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The Science of Color

For Teachers K - 5th
Students use the scientific method to explore how to make different colors with paint. They problem solve ways to darken and lighten colors without using black and white paint. Students hypothesize how to create new colors, and describe...
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Color

For Students 9th - 12th
In this color instructional activity, students read where light comes from and the different colors created through a prism. Students compare light (additive color) with pigments (subtractive color). Then students complete 1 drawing, 6...
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Keith Haring And Aboriginal Art

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the art of Keith Haring and examine how it relates to Aboriginal art. In this fundamentals of art lesson, students examine the fundamental elements of art, such as, line, symmetry, contrast, balance, color tints, and...
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Aboriginal Quilting Activity

For Teachers K
Students explore Aboriginal culture by participating in an art activity. In this First Nation history lesson, students utilize the Internet to research images and designs from Native American culture. Students create images on quilting...
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Learning About Artists

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students explore various artists and practice creating their style of painting. In this art history lesson, students discover various artists, such as Van Gogh and Michelangelo, and painting style each utilizes. Students paint a picture...
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Pointillism Landscapes

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works of art, use watercolors to create effects of light, color, and shadow, consider what ideas are important and what ideas they want to visually communicate, and paint their own...
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Parentheses

For Students 9th - 12th
Point out the proper uses of parentheses with this informational handout! This resource explains how to use parentheses for side comments, numbers in a list, and citations of outside sources. Learners can read a series of examples for...
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Brian Murphy ¿¿¿ Sleeping Self-Portrait¿¿¿

For Teachers K
Students examine and discuss the painting, "Sleeping Self-Portrait," by Brian Murphy. They answer discussion questions, mix various paint colors, and create a self-portrait using the primary colors and white.
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Seaweed

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this painting technique worksheet, students use paint to create pieces of seaweed. They mix primary colors to produce brown Students drag a sponge across the outline of a piece of seaweed. They use their fingers to create the effect...
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Ratification & Review

For Teachers K - Higher Ed
Students work with their parents to decorate strips of construction paper in primary colors to represent one family member per link on the chain. They sing a gathering song and all share their family chains. They read the story of the...
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Primary Geometry

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners identity simple geometric shapes. In this early geometry lesson, the teacher introduces students to triangles, squares, and rectangles, then learners identify and classify the shapes as they are found in the classroom. To...
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MENSA Education & Research Foundation

Introduction to Color: The Foundation of Art and Design

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
What is the most favorite color in the world? The series of lessons all about color and the color wheel, asks kids to research color, create an eye-spy activity, watch videos, and examine the color choices made by artists in their...
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Easter Parade Image

For Students 1st - 2nd
Primary learners use an Easter parade drawing activity to point out all the happenings in the image. Then they are instructed to use a variety of different colors to shade the image.
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Watercolor Painting- Pointillism with Fruit

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore pointillism painting techniques. In this pointillism painting lesson, 5th graders paint fruit using shades and tints. Students use the pointillism techniques along with watercolors to create a layered look. Students...
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BEGINNER LEVEL LESSON PLAN

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are be able to analyze primary sources (photographs) for evidence of Native American culture and construct a cultural symbol. They are explained what the stars and stripes stand for on the American flag. Students work as...
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Plant Pigments

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate the components of chlorophyll. They use paper chromatography to separate the many pigments of chlorophyll from one another.
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Coral Reef Center: Adjectives

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this using adjectives worksheet, students use adjectives in a word bank to complete sentences about a Coral Reef. Students fill in five blank answers.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Plants, Soil and Nutrients

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars conduct an experiment. They review how to use the scientific method to conduct an experiment with white carnations and food coloring. They create a hypothesis and test it to better understand how plants get nutrients,...
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Bibliotherapy - Prejudice

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students read and answer questions based on One Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes. In this tolerance lesson plan, students record their feelings and reflections during discussion of the book. Students create a dress using their own ideas.
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Cherokee Leaf Printing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars investigate their local creeks and forests and practice identifying trees.  For this ecology identification lesson, young scholars utilize a pad and pencil while on a field trip near their school and describe their trip...