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Arts Now Learning: Monet's Magic [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th
In this instructional activity, 4th graders will learn about the impressionistic painter, Claude Monet. Students will learn how to paint fuzzy (up and down strokes) while mixing tints, creating the illusion of water. They will also learn...
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Arts Now Learning: Microorganism Freeze Frame [Pdf]

For Teachers 5th
In this lesson, 5th graders will explore the concepts of beneficial and harmful microorganisms by creating tableaux.
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Arts Now Learning: Multiplication / Division Hula [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd Standards
In this lesson plan, 3rd graders use their physical bodies to solve multiplication and division problems, using Hula Hoops to help group and enact math problems.
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Arts Now Learning: Moving With Mathematics [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this lesson, students explore the concepts of fractions, percentages, and decimals by creating dances using locomotor and non-locomotor movements.
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Arts Now Learning: Moving With Fractions [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th Standards
In this lesson, 4th graders use movement phrases to model common fractions and decimal fractions with like denominators. They compare the fraction of locomotor and non-locomotor movements in a movement phrase. Students then create their...
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Arts Now Learning: Moving Sound [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th
In this lesson plan, 4th graders will use movement and dance composition to aid their comprehension of sound and sound waves.
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Arts Now Learning: Moon Phaser [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th Standards
In this activity, 4th graders will study the moon for a period of one month and learn to identify each major moon phase. They will then describe the moon through poems, haikus, and similes.
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Arts Now Learning: Musical Inferences [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this instructional activity, learners will learn that inference is also present in music. They will examine music from different soundtracks to see how music is used to set the stage for events. They will describe how music gets...
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Arts Now Learning: Reading With Cups, and More! [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, students will explore how music and language arts naturally overlap to promote literacy as they cultivate their creative and critical thinking.
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Arts Now Learning: Reading With Cups, and More! [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, students will explore how music and language arts naturally overlap to promote literacy as they cultivate their creative and critical thinking.
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Arts Now Learning: Narrative Necklaces and Beyond! [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
In this lesson, students will create a piece of art that will identify an artist, but is not a standard self-portrait with traditional facial features. It will be a collage incorporating images, colors, symbols, and text to help describe...
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Arts Now Learning: Magnetic Pollack [Pdf]

For Teachers 5th
In this lesson, 5th graders will create a painting based on the action paintings by Jackson Pollock. Instead of dripping and splattering, the paint will be moved using a metal object, such as a paper clip, along with a magnet.
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Arts Now Learning: Discover the Art of Playwriting [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students explore interpersonal warm-up exercises to awaken their bodies and prepare them for collaboration. They then discover the art of playwriting by brainstorming possible emotions, relationships, and storylines as they cultivate...
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Arts Now Learning: Dance Across the United States of America [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
These activities will allow students to become explorers and travel across the United States to encounter a variety of land forms. Students will create a story about their trek and then create choreography to match the sequence generated...
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Arts Now Learning: Dance Graphs [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders will interpret data on graphs and then use the information to explore dance composition and the form and order of created choreography.
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Arts Now Learning: Dancing Differences [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This activity will allow students to explore comparing and contrasting through movement and choreographic sequences.
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Arts Now Learning: Dancing Through Sentence Structure [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
This activity will allow students to explore sentence structure through movement and choreographic sequences.
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Arts Now Learning: Dr. Seuss Is on the Loose [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
The rhythmic and melodic elements of Theodor Geisel's children's literature provide many opportunities for knowledge of language, vocabulary acquisition and use, and creative expression and communication in music. Students work with two...
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Arts Now Learning: Dramatic Living and Non Living [Pdf]

For Teachers K
Students explore the differences between living and nonliving things through the lens of the nursery rhyme, "Hey Diddle Diddle." After bringing the characters to life, the students discuss the concepts of living and nonliving and act out...
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Arts Now Learning: Dramatic Writing With Ansel Adams [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
Using Ansel Adams photographs for inspiration, students will explore creative writing, directing, and acting.
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Arts Now Learning: Dramatic Writing With Ansel Adams [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Using Ansel Adams photographs for inspiration, students will explore creative writing, directing, and acting.
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Arts Now Learning: Dramatic Writing With Ansel Adams [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Using Ansel Adams photographs for inspiration, students will explore creative writing, directing, and acting.
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Arts Now Learning: Ecosystems in Action [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th
In this lesson, 4th graders explore animals and plants that inhabit ecosystems by using movement to deepen the retention of vocabulary. After reviewing the ecosystem players, students will play a call and response game by responding with...
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Arts Now Learning: Discover the Art of Playwriting [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, students participate in interpersonal warm-up exercises to awaken their bodies and prepare them for collaboration. Next, they go through brainstorming exercises to stimulate their imaginations, and this leads into...