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Red, White, and Blue Holidays Timeline

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders create a time line listing six national holidays in chronological order of occurrence. For this historical events lesson, 5th graders research holidays and write a paragraph summarizing each one. They then place each...
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6 Room Image Poem (adapted from Georgia Heard’s Awakening the Heart)

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students explore emotions and memories in preparation for poetry writing. In this poetry lesson students use a graphic organizer and prompts to begin to describe a specific memory which they will turned into a poem.
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Tallest and Shortest

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Students look at 3 rows of objects, circle the shortest object in each row and then draw an X on the tallest object in each row. This worksheet provides good practice for an important visual skill.
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A Different View

For Teachers 3rd - 4th Standards
Readers need to understand how their personal view point may differ or change how they see the view point found in a written text. Third graders read two informational pieces and fill out a graphic organizer to help them differentiate...
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Snow Day

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders examine the effects of a snow day on various people in the community. They listen to the book "Snow Day" by Betsy Maestro, complete a graphic organizer of people affected by the snow day, and write a story from the point of...
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DOT, GOT, SPOT, PLOT

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this penmanship activity, students are asked to copy the words "cot", "dot", "got" and "spot" on the corresponding lines. Word boxes are provided for visual learners. Note: D'Nealian lettering is used throughout.
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Discussing One's Health

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore common health issues.  In this health and literacy lesson, students match simple health statements with appropriate visual representations.  Students prepare and perform dialogues in which health issues are the...
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The Wyeth Family of Artists

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners work in expert teams to research the life and work of N.C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth, and James Wyeth. N.C.'s daughters, Carolyn and Henriette, were also artists. Their visual images of work in print or on the Internet are...
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Compare Characters in Bud, Not Buddy

For Teachers 7th - 12th
After your class finishes reading Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis, they use the Venn diagram here to compare two characters from the novel, in this case Bud and his grandfather Herman E. Calloway. Examples of qualities on which...
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Dimension in Art

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders consider space and the techniques artists use to create three-dimensionality within a painting or drawing. They examine works by Millet, Bruegel and Demuth and then create original drawings that explore the effects of...
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Anne Frank: Tiles - Discrimination Themes in Art Production

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students brainstorm a list of past or present acts of discrimination of which they are aware. They think about the feelings of the victims of these acts. They attempt to make a graphic visual of how those feelings might look.
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Build-A-Bird

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create an imaginary bird. In this anatomy instructional activity, students analyze how artists represent birds historically, then determine the anatomical aspects that suit a bird to its habitat. Using this information, students...
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Logos and Commercial Arts

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students identify popular logos and discuss the purpose they serve in advertising. They take a familiar logo and redesign it based on their own experience with the company it represents.
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Caribbean Music - Reggae

For Students 9th
In this Caribbean music worksheet, 9th graders examine a graphic organizer that describes the characteristics of reggae music. They answer 6 short answer questions using the details from the graphic organizer.
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Paws in Jobland: Color Magic

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students experiment with color. In this career lesson plan, students explore how color is applied and experienced in images and designs as they undertake the part of a graphic designer's or painter's role.
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Create-A-Puppet

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this art worksheet, students collect information from a given website to create scrap puppets. Students write their ideas about materials and designs in a graphic organizer. Students also write down tips from the website.
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Creating Your Own Web Site

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore and explain how to design Web pages complete with text, graphics, and hypertext links. After adding backgrounds, navigation buttons, and audio-visual effects, and revising their work based on comments from peers and...
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Things I Know About Generational Music

For Students 7th - 9th
In this generational music activity, students complete a graphic organizer with information about music that appeals to various age groups. Students further explore generational music by answering seven short answer questions .
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History of the Beatles

For Students 6th - 12th
In this Beatles music instructional activity, students read about the origins the musical group and their style in an article and graphic organizers. Students then respond to 8 short answer questions regarding the Beatles.
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Music and the Media

For Students 5th - 8th
In this music and media worksheet, students read a brief description of theme music and music for film and then complete a graphic organizer and respond to a short answer question.
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Rastafarianism

For Students 5th - 12th
In this Caribbean religion worksheet, students read a graphic organizer about Rastafarianism and respond to 2 short answer questions and 6 fill in the blank questions.
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Elements of Music

For Students 6th - 10th
In this elements of music worksheet, students complete a graphic organizer as they add 4 elements of music along with their symbols and descriptions.
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Classical Period Music - 1750-1810

For Students 9th
In this classical music worksheet, students examine a graphic organizer that explains 7 characteristics of the music. They examine characteristics such as melody, timbre, texture, dynamics, and melody. There are no questions associated...
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The Parts of Indian Music

For Students 7th
For this Indian music worksheet, 7th graders examine a graphic organizer that displays the three parts of the music. They read about the Tala, Raga, and Drone before answering 5 short answer questions based on the reading.