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Spring Art Activities

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students complete a variety of art projects to celebrate the arrival of spring. They create symmetrical butterfly designs, paper mache eggs, and caterpillars, and complete a crayon resist and marble painting.
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Playing the Part of the Potter

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers identify and define horror vacui (fear of empty spaces) and create their own pinch pot vessels with no empty spaces.
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Statement of Principles

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine how Neoclassical art conveyed moral and ethical ideas. They create their own works of art that serve as social commentaries.
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Buildings, Buildings Everywhere

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students gain awareness of shapes in architecture by creating a painting of their school and writing a reflective summary of their study of architecture.
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The Coral Reef

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders discuss life in a coral reef, and view photographs and a computer program about coral reefs. They design and create colorful watercolor, ink, and crayon drawings of coral reefs.
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Imagining Homes and Environments

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students discuss relationship between environments, natural resources and housing, establish connection with students in classroom or school there, and paint pictures of what they think homes look like based on basic data about environment.
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Clouds

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore how to identify cloud types by observing clouds. They record data and have fun by applying newly acquired knowledge throughout the curriculum.
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Trail of the Cougar

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners examine cougar behavior, habitat, social organization, efforts to support their survival and the threats to it. They create posters to present information about cougars.
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City Wildlife in a Vase

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine a still-life painting. They discuss the observation of nature by scientists and artists and explore the symbolism of biological life cycles depicted in a painting.
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People at Work

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create a work of art and write a story about "Man with a Hoe Five Years Later." students also photograph their hands with a tool and write about what wonderful tools hands are.
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Create A Travel Brochure

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students identify the different landforms in the State of Oaxaca, Mexico and create a travel brochure highlighting Oaxaca's attractions.
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OaxacaTurtles

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students identify types of turtles off the coast of Oaxaca. They become acquainted with the Mexican Turtle Center. They create a project (mural, map, panel discussion, logo/design) to communicate researched information.
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What's In a Name?

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students listen to poems, and discuss what they like and dislike about each poem. They write an original poem about a partner, describing their partner and creating art to go with it.
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Art Curators

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students use the Internet to select various works of art around a theme. They create a PowerPoint exhibit of these works and create the written documentation to accompany their presentation. They critique the class exhibits.
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Illustrated Senses Poem

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Pupils choose a natural object found in Yosemite and writes a poem using their senses.
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ABC Big Book

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students create a book with each page representing a letter in the alphabet.
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Celestial Reflections: See Yourself in the Sky!

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners create a mirror/mirror frame using glass mosaic tiles, grout, and various other mosaic supplies.
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Magnificent Mandalas

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students examine the principle of radial symmetry and apply it to an original mandala design. They draw a design using organic and geometric shapes, repeating the design symmetrically around the paper.
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Multi-Media Still Life

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students create a multi-media collage still life that reinforces basic skills taught in art class. They use watercolor, markers, gluing and cutting skills.
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Painting a Mural

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students research create and design symbols to welcome students to their school. They present their idea to the class that includes a budget. The class work together to paint the mural.
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"Kookie Kitties" - Paul Klee: Finger Puppets

For Teachers K - 4th
Students examine and discuss the painting, Cat and Bird, by Paul Klee. They identify the various types of lines, shapes, and colors in the painting, and design and create finger puppet versions of the animals from the painting.
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Chinese Characters And Calligraphy

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders select one or more Chinese characters and paint them on watercolor paper using information gathered about Chinese calligraphy. Chinese proverbs are also emphasized in this 4th grade art lesson.
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Pottery, Porcelain, And Posterity

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research and discuss the various ceramic techniques foudn throughout China's history using primary source documents and internet resources. This lesson plan emphasizes small learning groups.
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The Artist As Storyteller

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students practice the art of storytelling by examining scroll writing techniques of Asia and applying them to a monthly story of their own classroom. This lesson is in two parts (Part II continues throughout the school year).

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