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Arts Now Learning: Dancing Machines [Pdf]
In this lesson plan, 4th graders explore simple machines through movement and create imaginative new machines through choreographic sequences and collaboration.
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Arts Now Learning: Dancing Cells [Pdf]
This activity will challenge students to create dances to represent the different parts of a cell.
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Arts Now Learning: Dance With Vertebrates and Invertebrates [Pdf]
In this lesson, 5th graders use movement and dance composition to aid in the understanding of vertebrates and invertebrates.
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Arts Now Learning: Dance With Heating, Cooling, and Insulation [Pdf]
In this lesson plan, 3rd graders use movement and dance composition to aid their comprehension of heating, cooling, and insulation.
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Arts Now Learning: Cultural Characters: World War Ii Conversations [Pdf]
For this lesson, students use photos of people in real-life World War II events as a springboard for composing dialogue between the people in the photographs. Students then work in pairs to create a scene set in World War II and present...
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Arts Now Learning: Cultural Characters: The Great Depression [Pdf]
In this lesson, students look at photographs (portraits and people, historical events and images depicting strife or struggle, etc.) based around a given time period and contemplate the impact a photograph has on the perception of a...
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Arts Now Learning: Cultural Characters [Pdf]
For this lesson, students look at photographs (portraits and people, historical events and images depicting strife or struggle, etc.) based around a given time period and contemplate the impact a photograph has on the perception of a...
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Arts Now Learning: Cultural Characters: Paul Revere [Pdf]
For this lesson, students explore the life of Paul Revere through the lens of a painting of the Midnight Run. Using the painting as a springboard, students write and enact a poem illustrating the event.
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Arts Now Learning: Explore Geometry With Abstract Imagery [Pdf]
Delve into the abstract world of Wassily Kandinsky! Allow your imagination to soar as you discover mathematical connections within Kandinsky images that explore the relationships between geometric shapes and polygons.
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Arts Now Learning: Explore Geometry With Abstract Imagery [Pdf]
Delve into the abstract world of Wassily Kandinsky! Allow your imagination to soar as you discover mathematical connections within Kandinsky images that explore the relationships between geometric shapes and polygons.
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Arts Now Learning: Explore Time With Theater [Pdf]
In this lesson, students explore different activities performed at different times of day. Student directors physically place other students in the order in which activities are performed during the course of a day. Students then become...
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Arts Now Learning: Exploring Adjectives Through Art and Creative Writing [Pdf]
In this lesson, students will use adjectives to describe artwork and to develop descriptive language in creating interesting and unique stories.
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Arts Now Learning: Discover the Art of Playwriting [Pdf]
Students discover the art of playwriting by brainstorming possible emotions, relationships, and storylines as they cultivate their imaginations.
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Arts Now Learning: Cell Talk [Pdf]
In this instructional activity, 5th graders will examine cell diagrams, then use their body, voice, and movement to become a particular part of a cell. Next, they work in pairs to create a dialogue between the different parts of the...
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Arts Now Learning: Celebrate Cells [Pdf]
In this lesson plan, 5th graders will personify the parts of the cell physically and vocally.
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Arts Now Learning: Bringing Our Reading to Life [Pdf]
For this lesson, students will form tableaux (frozen pictures) to represent what they are reading or hearing, as a way to bring the story to life and to check for comprehension.
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Arts Now Learning: Becoming History [Pdf]
For this lesson, 5th graders will act out in first person a chosen biography, focusing on their life, hardships, and triumphs.
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Arts Now Learning: Counting With Cups, and More! [Pdf]
Help students recognize and cultivate creative and critical thinking using various activities that connect math and music!
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Arts Now Learning: Cause and Effect Commotion [Pdf]
Instilling a strong understanding of cause and effect will increase students' reading comprehension skills. By acting out cause and effect situations, students will deepen the foundation of this important concept.
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Arts Now Learning: Creating a Compelling Story [Pdf]
Using music from a wide variety of cultures, learners will develop good listening skills and write from the heart using their own voices. This aural exercise will help students begin to think creatively.
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Arts Now Learning: Explore the Writing Process Through Painting [Pdf]
In this instructional activity, students imagine their dream destination spots and sketch them. They use basic watercolor painting techniques to paint their images and follow this by writing descriptions. In groups, they then compile a...
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Arts Now Learning: Exploring Habitats Through Music Composition [Pdf]
In this lesson, young scholars will learn about rondo form and practice a chant. After learning about the structure of the chant, they will work in small groups to create a chant about a habitat. The chants will then be combined with the...
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Arts Now Learning: Explore the Solar System With Theater [Pdf]
In this lesson, students build upon prior knowledge of the planets in the solar system by becoming aliens living on the planets. As aliens, they learn about their planets and create advertisements to persuade someone to visit them there.
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Arts Now Learning: Creating a Role Drama to Analyze Characters in a Text [Pdf]
Second graders will use drama to analyze characters in the text A Bad Case of Stripes by David Shannon. After an interactive read-aloud of the text, 2nd graders will take on roles of characters in the story. They will step into a role...