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Curated OER

Lesson: Mary Heilmann: To Be Someone

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Kids consider the pure abstraction and minimalism found in Mary Heilmann's work. They analyze several of her pieces through critical discussion and then think about her use of a song title as the title of her exhibit. Learners then use a...
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Curated OER

Diversity of Colors

For Teachers K - 5th
Students investigate color diversity by experimenting with jelly beans.  For this color spectrum lesson, students observe colored jelly beans through different filters and light sources to change the existing look of the bean.  Students...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History

African American Life After the Civil War - Sharecropping

For Teachers 4th - 5th Standards
What is the sharecropping system? What role did it play in the post-Civil War economy of the South? Who were the sharecroppers? Who employed them? How were they paid? To answer these questions, kids examine a series of sharecropper...
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Curated OER

Learning About Tint and Shade - Van Gogh

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students paint a picture inspired by Van Gogh's Starry Night, using various tones of the color blue. Students journal their thoughts and feelings about the painting and then analyzing a few questions given. Students title their paintings
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Curated OER

Visual Arts

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners create a finger painting which exhibits both the primary and secondary colors.
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Curated OER

Complex Color Wheels

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students design a color wheel which incorporates 12 colors, tints and shades of each color, black and white within a circle.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Size Shuffle

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd Standards
In the eyes of children the world is a simple place, objects are either big or small. This simple activity aims to expand the comparison language of young mathematicians as they use the words taller and shorter to compare their height...
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Virginia Department of Education

Graphing Systems of Inequalities

For Teachers 8th - 10th Standards
Apply systems of inequalities to a real-world problem. Here, scholars learn to graph solutions to systems of linear inequalities. To finish the lesson, they solve a problem involving burgers and cheeseburgers using a system of inequalities.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Hundred Chart Digit Game

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Math games, especially in the primary grades, provide great opportunities for developing the number sense of young mathematicians. Working in pairs with a deck of single-digit cards, students take turns drawing two cards and reading the...
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Curated OER

In Depth with the Full Spectrum

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the basic color wheel and the ways that artists use color to guide the viewer's attention through a painting's composition. A creation of a sense of depth in a two dimensional space and the effect of color on mood and...
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Memorial Art Gallery

Art Alive! - Towing a Boat, Honfleur

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Color, light and shadow, the placement and size of objects. These are some of the tools artists used to tell their stories. Model for learners how to read a painting by closely examining these features. The richly detailed packet...
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Memorial Art Gallery

Art Alive! - Beach at Blue Point

For Teachers 1st - 12th
And then what happened? Class members engage in a series of activities that model for them how to read the story in a painting. Participants respond to questions that ask them to closely examine the elements in William Glackens' "Beach...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Sort and Count

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Young mathematicians are on their feet and moving around in this primary grade sorting activity. After giving each child an object or picture card, they then sort themselves into groups, counting to see which has the most or least...
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Curated OER

An Apple a Day

For Teachers Pre-K
Students sort and compare apples before making apple prints. For this apple lesson, students use a painting to inspire art prints made with apple halves. Students compare and sort apples.
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Curated OER

My Own Backyard

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students explore and react to the painting The Road to Santa Fe. In this interacting with art instructional activity, students locate various objects in the painting.  Students copy the angle of objects by using their bodies.  Students...
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Curated OER

Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King, Jr.

For Teachers K - 2nd
Primary learners will embrace diversity and celebrate multiculturalism through these engaging activities. Which include reading the story Martin Luther King and singing the song "A Man Named King." They will also explore the concept of...
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Curated OER

Clothing Color Wheel -- Lesson 2

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students review the primary, secondary and tertiary colors. Using magazines and fabrics, they create a color wheel to show the correct order of colors. To end the activity, they share their color wheels to the class and discuss why they...
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Curated OER

Mixing Colors

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners listen to a story about mixing colors. They explore color using cups of water, color and coffee filters. They use sight word vocabulary to describe the colors.
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Curated OER

Color Your World with Changes --- the Camouflage Game

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders, after predicting dominant colors foud in their habitat or garden, visit heir area on a monthly basis. They search for colored toothpicks, then graph the results, determining the dominant color for the month.
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Curated OER

Warm & Cool Coloring

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify, explain and use the basic elements of design. They explore the concept of warm and cool colors in as simple and fun manner. They label one coloring book picture warm and the other picture cool. They color the...
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Curated OER

Newton's Color Wheels

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the effects of light while experimenting with several color wheels. They make observations and record them. The information from the observations is used to help fuel the discussion that follows. The lesson includes...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

What Color Are The Leaves?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars identify the colors in leaves. In this chromatography lesson, students read the book Why Do Leaves Change Color? and construct chromatography strips to identify the colors of leaves.
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Curated OER

Creative Color Wheel

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore graphic design by using color wheels to color images.  In this art analysis lesson, students utilize Adobe Photoshop to experiment with coloring old images and removing all color as well.  High schoolers self...
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Curated OER

Learning about Maps and Colors

For Teachers 1st
First graders discuss "Harold and the Purple Crayon" and his drawings. In this neighborhood geography activity, 1st graders learn to detect and classify places on a map including their home. Students recognize their address as a specific...