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Arts Now Learning: Acting Out the Adverb, but What About the Adjective? [Pdf]
In this lesson, students will compare and contrast adjectives and adverbs. They will explore how acting out an adverb is easier than an adjective. While they can reach for the adjective, they are often difficult to physically...
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Arts Now Learning: Addition Race [Pdf]
In this lesson plan, 2nd graders will complete math problems with groups to reinforce the concept of completing addition using regrouping.
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Arts Now Learning: Carnival of the Animals [Pdf]
Students will expand knowledge about music vocabulary through exploration of The Carnival of the Animals, composed by Camille Saint-Sains. Students will be able to use key music terms in discussions with their peers and in persuasive...
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Arts Now Learning: Be One With the Water [Pdf]
Fourth graders will explore states of matter and the water cycle by bringing water to life with their bodies. By enacting the changes that water molecules experience, 4th graders will learn scientific information kinesthetically.
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Arts Now Learning: Art History Learning Stools [Pdf]
Fourth graders will learn about the art that documents our world via art history, genres, and master artists. They will select an era or artist that inspires them, research it, and create an artwork using collage, painting and drawing...
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Arts Now Learning: A Day With Dali [Pdf]
In this lesson, 3rd graders will look at the print, "Persistence of Memory" by Salvador Dali and talk about what they observe, including the importance of foreground, middle ground, and background in a painting. Students will then...
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Arts Now Learning: A Perfect Sacred Sphere [Pdf]
In this lesson, 4th graders will explore protractors, rulers, balance both radial, and symmetrical, and concepts of angle measurements as they create their own mandalas.
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Arts Now Learning: Acting Hot and Cold [Pdf]
In this lesson, 3rd graders will explore heating and cooling through pantomime. By enacting the effect of sunlight on a snowman and a growing seed, students will learn scientific information kinesthetically.
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Arts Now Learning: Adventure Island [Pdf]
For this lesson, students will study examples of treasure maps and make a list of features and symbols. They will use their imaginations to create their own treasure maps and compose narratives to describe them.
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Arts Now Learning: The Color Monster [Pdf]
Explore how our emotions color our lives and add depth to our stories.
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Arts Now Learning: All in a Row [Pdf]
This lesson will allow students to represent place values with their bodies to allow them to visualize how 1, 2, and 3 digit addition works.
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Arts Now Learning: Cool / Warm Name Design Rubbings [Pdf]
In this lesson, 3rd graders reflect on who they are by listing their likes and dislikes, beliefs, hobbies, etc. They then create a rubbing of their name and add rubbings of objects they like, along with symbols and sketches. Next, they...
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Arts Now Learning: Classification of Animals: "Connect Your Animal Show" [Pdf]
Fifth graders learn about animal classification by reviewing the taxonomy system, then looking at pictures of animals as if they were scientists, acting out an animal's characteristics, then classifying their animal.
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Arts Now Learning: Civil War Personalities [Pdf]
This lesson invites students to derive inspiration from photographs (portraits and people) from the Civil War era. These images serve as impetus to write monologues and create improvisational skits.
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Arts Now Learning: Character Choreography [Pdf]
In this lesson, portraits provide inspiration for students to create character descriptions. Then, basic dance techniques are used to express the traits, motivations, and feelings of the characters as students work collaboratively to...
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Arts Now Learning: The Civil War [Pdf]
In this lesson, 5th graders explore the concept of cause and effect in the context of the Civil War and work in groups to write and deliver speeches articulating a point of view for one of the War's causes: tariffs, state's rights, or...
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Arts Now Learning: The Art of Anatomy [Pdf]
In this lesson, 5th graders learn about value and draw a 7-tone value scale. They then observe and draw an area of a skeleton model on a 6x6-inch square, incorporating line, shape, and value. They color the negative space and add collage...
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Arts Now Learning: Problem Solving With Movement [Pdf]
In this instructional activity, student groups are assigned word problems. They are tasked with solving their problems using dance and then choreographing answers to their problems. These are performed for the class and the associations...
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Arts Now Learning: Problem Solving With Movement [Pdf]
In this lesson, student groups are assigned word problems that require order of operations to be solved. They solve their problems using math and then choreograph an answer to their problems that incorporates the order of operations....
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Arts Now Learning: Personal Pizza Pies: Fun Fractions With Food Art [Pdf]
In this lesson, 4th graders learn about the art of Wayne Thiebaud, and then create collaged personal pizza art, cutting their 'pies' into fractions.