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Spiraling Through the Guggenheim: Exploring 20th Century Masterpieces
Students experience original works of art through an online tour of the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. They assess the value and unique architecture of the building as well as develop an awareness of its design and relationship to...
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Chinese Shadow Puppets
Students explore the art of Chinese shadow puppetry. They create puppets, develop and rehearse scripts and perform a show in front of the class.
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William Walton [1902-1983] LAM 102
In this music activity, students answer the questions that are based upon the influences upon the composition of the piece of music.
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Star Art
Pupils study about stars, constellations, and myths that accompany them. Then they create their own constellation using black paper and toothpicks and write a myth about their constellation. Their constellation can be viewed on an overhead.
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Eleanor Rigby, The Beatles; Le Martequ sans Maitre, Boulez
In this music worksheet, students analyze two songs. They write about the structure of the music, including such elements as tonal structure and chording. Students respond to questions about the musical background of the performers of...
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Opera
In this musical opera instructional activity, students fill in seventeen blanks from a word bank that describes the process of an opera and the roles found within each character.
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Carnival of the Animals
Students listen to music to study the various sounds instruments make and feelings they incur. In this music analysis lesson, students listen to musical extracts from 'The Carnival of Animals' describe the music. Students learn about the...
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African Myths and Stories
Young historians discover African stories associated with a royal altar tusk from the Kingdom of Benin in Nigeria, read myths illustrated on the tusk, and write a story about the life of an oba using figures depicted on the tusk.
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The Crucible
Students create a movie of a scene from The Crucible upon completion of reading the book. They assume a variety of roles in the film production.
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Time Line of the Year
Students record special events and memories on a timeline of the school year. In this timeline instructional activity, students understand the purpose of a timeline as they chart important events of the school year using photos,...
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Jazz In America - Lesson Plan 6
Fifth graders explore cool jazz and how it reflected American culture in the 1940's and 1950's.
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Tuck Everlasting Unit
Natalie Babbitt's award winning fantasy, Tuck Everlasting, is the anchor text in a unit plan that focuses on identifying similes, metaphors, imagery, and personification in the text and analyzing how these elements effect the development...
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The Family Quilt
Third graders examine the artwork of Faith Ringgold. They create their own quilt pattern on fabric and piece them together to create a class quilt. They compare their similarities with one another.
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"Leap, plashless": Emily Dickinson & Poetic Imagination
Students examine different poems from Emily Dickinson. They practice listening for meter in the poems and make connections between the texts. They also practice their own creative writing skills.
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General Lesson Plan for Documentary Lens
Use this general lesson guide to inform your instruction surrounding a documentary. The lesson is made up of five activities. The activities are intentionally general because they are designed to adapted for specific films. While the...
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The Call of the Wild: Differences Between a Book and a Movie Adaptation
Fling your class members “into the heart of things primordial” with a Venn diagram activity that highlights how the same themes are treated in the film and book versions of The Call of the Wild. Consider extending the exercise by having...
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That was Then, This is Now-House and Home
Eleventh graders discover the appreciation of the importance of visuals in exploring different aspects of society past and present. They collaborate on comparing and contrasting information. Students look at what life was like during the...
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Get to Know - Viewfinders
Students use viewfinders to focus on a specific visual image. In this visual image lesson, students use viewfinders as aids to selecting images and subjects for photography or art in nature.
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The Fabric of Our Lives:
Learners discuss quilts within their family to reflect on their experiences. Students examine quilt sqares and sewing techniques. Learners create the quilt square in the classroom and a Hyperstudio card in the computer lab.
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Checkerboard
Learners create checkerboards using paints, glue, rulers, and masking tape in this upper-elementary/middle level Art instructional activity. The instructional activity emphasizes the history of checkerboards, strategies and rules, and...
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Your State's Architectural Scrapbook
Young scholars examine architectural designs and styles found in their state and/or community and create scrapbooks that identify those specific traits. This middle-level art lesson can be adapted to work in a social studies classroom.
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Holidays
Third graders use a wide range of strategies to interpret, evaluate, appreciate, and construct meaning from print materials. They use appropriate reference sources with assistance for a variety of purposes and use the writing process...
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The Rhythm of Life - Episode One - Rhythm
Students investigate the role of music in their lives. They examine rhythm as the building block of music and examine how to appreciate music. They investigate music as a tool in health and healing.