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- Creativity Explored
- Gentlehands Accordion Book
- Creativity explored
- Faith Ringgold - Martin Luther King - Quilt Making
- Differentiated Learning Egyptian Project
- Natural Disasters - Assesssment
- Natural Disasters - Learning Activities
- Natural Disasters - Year 5 and 6 unit
- Word Lists - Stage 3 Early White Settlement
- Worksheets - Stage 3 Early White Settlement
- Units - Stage 3 Early White Settlement
- Units - Stage 3 Early White Settlement
- Units - Stage 3 Early White Settlement
- Invasion - Stage 3 Unit Early White Settlement
- Architecture can be a personal project
- Aborigine art makes good rainy day activity
- Solar System Unit
- Butterfly Unit - References
- Butterfly Unit - What Have We Learned?
- Butterfly Unit - Butterfly Poetry
- Butterfly Unit - Symmetry Lesson
- Butterfly Unit - How to Attract Butterflies
- Butterfly Unit - Eat Like a Butterfly
- Butterfly Unit - Life Cycle Sequencing
- Butterfly Unit - Life Cycles of Butterflies
- Butterfly Unit - From Caterpillar to Butterfly
- Butterfly Unit -What Caterpillars Eat
- Women in History Pageant
- Gatsby's Book Cover Symbolism Project
- Do Something about...
School Violence Art Curricula Unit
Day 3: Jackson Pollack - Lines Convey Emotion - Pakistani Handicrafts Unit - Clay Seals
- Funky Western Designs[Variety]
- Art Lesson Plans - Junior / High School
- Helping Others - Giving Tree
- 8 days on Deafness and American Sign Language
- Cesar Chavez Quilt Stories
- Cameo Portraits, the Colonial Period
- Quilting Literature
- A Thousand Paper Cranes
- Do Something about... School Violence Art Curricula Unit Day 9: Conflict Resolution - Keith Haring Figures Part II
- Black Africa - Tribal Art
- painting without paint
- Vasarely and Op Art
- Landscapes
- Sowa's Ark
- Students make historical monument sunset silhouettes in this lesson on contrast
- This digital storytelling lesson encourages students to use electronic media to tell a personal story in a creative way
- In this transportation lesson, the class creates a land/air/water pocket chart graph after reading a transportation story
- Here students decorate plastic cup flowers with different materials that they then test for opacity, aesthetic value and durability
- Here's an idea for making Saint Patrick's Day shamrock headbands
- Here kids record and draw journal observations about the needs of their growing seeds
- Use this suncatcher idea to add sparkle to your classroom or as a crafty fundraising idea on Parent Teacher Night
- This inspirational craft activity is part of a "Day Camp in Hawaii Unit" suitable for after-school, summer school, scouts or other youth groups
- Students create their own state flag here
- Students create a propaganda piece here and write about an American Revolutionary War colonist who is influenced by it
- This cardinal-inspired paper craft teaches children about circles and cutting on a curved line.
- In this Modern American Abstract Art lesson, students depict the inner character of pets
- This is a brief idea for making "Fireworks Art" on construction paper
- Here's a lesson on trees that uses leaf rubbings and "The Giving Tree"
- This Squeezy Ball Father's Day idea teaches gerunds and reduces stress
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School Violence Art Curricula Unit
Day 5: The Power of Language - While making African tribal masks, students learn here how scarcity of goods leads to conflict
- In this lesson, students experience Tiananmen Square
- Here's a lesson on landscape collage and depth
- This Father's Day card idea begins with an origami shirt with an attached paper tie
- Here's an idea on Expression Through Art
- Here students put dots on butterfly wings and then find the sums of their creation
- In this inexpensive lesson, students mix primary colors to paint a pumpkin scene on a rock
- Students print meaningful geometric Adinka Design patterns in the Ashanti tradition in this lesson
- "Each One Teach One" is a Flatfish stations activity (3-5)
- This is an idea for a lesson on the Art of Bookmaking
- This idea involves creating "Penguin light bulbs"
- Here's an Idea to get students started in Writing about Themselves
- Map Rubric
- These are multidisciplinary election lesson ideas
- Day 8: Route to Freedom:Mapping North Carolina's UGR routes
- A Christmas lesson on the Advent Calendar (also a Religion lesson)
- Dreamcatchers are the center of this Native American culture lesson and "all-about-me" activity
- Fabulously Faux: The Rockford Frescoes
- In this lesson students create model Native American Homes
- This art idea involves overlapping shapes
- This "Spaghetti Noodle" drawing exercise is a simple, but creative time filler
- This lesson on angles integrates science, social studies, and art
- This well-developed lesson plan is on Geometric Architecture and involves students creating their own "Architecture"
- This lesson idea on Shapes involves students creating Windsocks out of Shapes
- This lesson on assemblage/collage uses the works of Matisse
- Groups create a Photo Story 3 presentation about a researched biome here
- Students create "Colorful Turkeys" in this Thanksgiving idea
- An Art lesson for making Playdough Christmas Ornaments
- Cooperation is necessary to create these sneaky snowmen
- Here students compose and illustrate their own Homeric simile
- In this idea, students think about what they look like when they sleep
- Here students write Irish blessings on green hearts that are combined to form shamrocks
- Posing as 1788 journalists, students create a newpaper front page to share their viewpoints on the ratification of the constitution
- Crayola software is used in making pattern value portraits in this art lesson
- Here's an idea for making Father's Day T-Shirts
- This lesson plan focuses on Integrating the studying of Shakespeare and the Internet
- An idea for making decorative Christmas ornaments out of Light Bulbs
- A unique lesson plan on African Jewelry Making
- Metal Craft - engraving a foil-covered dish
- Here is a collage lesson in which students create animals
- This collage lesson plan uses rhyming in poetry
- Kids love to get their hands in the "green mess" of these Christmas Wreath ornaments
- Here's an artistic idea for learning about Spiders
- Students create their own "Chica Chica 123" book here about counting by tens
- Still life contour drawings are changed into an abstract collage here utilizing cubist techniques
- In this lesson, jazz inspires students to create a Romare Bearden style collage
- Here's a brief idea for creating parodies of the American Gothic painting
- Careful here, this one is on Rock Throwing
- Here students write about photographs
- In this greeting card idea, students also collect and identify leaves, write a poem and discuss photosynthesis
- UGR Unit Rubrics
- This art and science lesson asks students "What's Inside The Egg?"
- This poster idea teaches the differences between monocot and dicot plants
- African Ashanti dolls are created and discussed here
- Here students use the "Art of Geometry" to create actual 9-patch quilts
- In this clever Easter science experiment, students witness absorption, diffusion, and primary color combinations while creating coffee filter Easter egg
- Here's an idea for making milk jug Easter baskets
- After this nature hike, students identify, write about and make a shadow box with their outdoor treasures
- Another Navajo lesson plan, this one involving Weaving Rugs
- This is an excellent "draw what you hear" lesson
- The third lesson is on Elements of Sculpture and involves Designing a Glyph of a Jaguar
- After reviewingYou are Special, students create and write about a "just like me" marionette
- This human face drawing lesson provides generic drawing skills useful for learning in a variety of subjects
- Here is a fantastic multidisciplinary spider unit titled "Spooky Spiders and Wacky Webs"
- Students write and illustrate sentences about "Earth and the Eight Milky Way Planets" in this astronomy lesson
- Here is a crafty Mother's Day necklace idea
- Patchwork Collage - arranging wrapping paper shapes
- This Psychology / Art lesson is on Rorschach Spots (Inkblots)
- A great, artistic idea for students to portray their feelings
- Use this back-to-school art activity to review writing paragraphs
- This outstanding cartography lesson combines the elements of art, geography, geology, math, and more
- Autumn Fun - Children write biographies for their Pumpkin Pal art projects
- Here is a simple and inexpensive Indian basket-weaving lesson
- Reading and Writing Workshop With Student Round-Robin Participation
- Here is an edible pudding finger painting lesson
- This safety lesson uses Kidspiration templates to teach about helpful community members, traffic signals, and how to cross a street
- This is a procedure idea for creating construction paper silhouettes
- This family portrait time filler requires only yarn and stickers
- Here's a lesson on impressionism titled "What's Your Impression?"
- In this lesson on the joys of giving, kids make fragrant bath salts to give as gifts for Christmas and other occasions
- Here's a fun idea for studying Insects that involves a new type of Painting
- Students learn about Memorial Day here while using crumpling skills to create an appropriate flag decoration
- Rock Sculptures are the subject of this lesson
- Click here to celebrate Chinese New Year with oriental music and lanterns
- Here's a Careers idea that involves Painting a T-Shirt
- This multidisciplinary lesson centers on cookies and the letter "C"
- Favorite Parts in Charolotte's Web
- This is an excellent lesson on national symbols that are unique to our country
- Here's a brief idea for creating "Junk Art" using everyday materials
- In "Community Helpers," students draw and write about their future occupation and how they will help the community
- Using Karo Syrup to create Art (Can be used for Special Education)
- Patterns are created with this bubble blowing idea
- Puppets for parent night
- Here's an idea for making Christmas ornaments from dough
- A Writing and Art activity about "When I Grow Up..."
- This outdoor idea combines sidewalk chalk with music symbols
- In this two-part lesson, students learn about still life drawings and a Styrofoam plate method of printmaking
- A fun first-day journal activity
- Here's an idea for making a House with Food
- This well-developed sculpture diorama lesson examines positive/negative space and the works of Dale Chihuly
- This self-reflection art and writing project showcases students' strength and goals
- This is an interesting idea called "Painting With Mud"
- Here is an inexpensive way to make great advent wreaths
- A brief idea for making Poinsetta Christmas Ornaments
- Children will love making and giving this holiday gift craft - pinecone air fresheners
- These are preschool "bee counting" activities
- Here's another Christmas Tree Craft idea - this one is edible!
- Blue popcorn is used to craft a state flower (Texas Bluebonnet) in this lesson
- Here's a lesson plan on "Squiggle Art"
- This portion is on Native American Folk Tales
- Use this clever idea to color salt with sidewalk chalk to create colored sand Valentine's Cards
- This exercise teaches the anatomy of the eye, the usefulness of models in science, and critical thinking
- This is an idea for crafting Christmas puzzle picture frames
- In this self-portrait lesson, students fit a face into a space
- This lesson in computer animation enables students to obtain a deeper understanding of chemical elements or other subjects
- This is a multdisciplinary literature class final paper and portfolio project about contemporary authors
- Making this valentine mailbox idea could lead into a letter writing lesson
- This collage lesson helps students create paper mosaic animals
- The secret ingredient in this painted stained glass window idea is cooking oil
- This is an edible physical and directional state geography lesson
- Here's an idea for making a Turkey hand puppet from a plastic glove
- Day 3: Hear the Whistle Blow! -Musical Messages of Freedom
- Photography is the subject of this lesson involving Dorthea Lange's Migrant Mother
- Here are some great New Year's resolution lesson ideas
- Last is a lesson on Native American Superstitions
- Here students create a civil war leader index card by drawing a picture of the individual on one side and listing three facts on the other
- Students make marshmallow snowmen with this winter craft idea
- This Art and Social Studies lesson is on Navajo Sand Paintings
- The life cycle of a butterfly is taught here with books, poems, story assignments, and pasta art
- In this lesson, students use their brain to make a brain out of Play-Doh
- This is a holiday gift bag craft idea
- Here is a collection of extension activity ideas
- "Stained Glass Patriotic Heart Suncatcher Project" uses the preceding lessons
- Here's a Holiday craft idea called "Little Angels"
- Create a "Fused Art Glass Frame" with a kiln
- Here's an interesting idea for keeping Pet Rock Journals
- This Painting lesson is on Janet Fish's Still Lifes
- You can create a Mother's Day memory with this flower pot idea
- This "Stained Glass Cutting" lesson should be practiced before beginning projects
- This clever idea uses carbon paper shapes and an iron to create resist silhouettes
- Here students express their emotions while taking a musical and artistic trip to the "Saint-Saëns" Zoo
- This idea involves making Thanksgiving collages from magazines
- In this new Chipo's Gift "glyph" activity, two species of moths will be compared and contrasted
- Here's a timely Thanksgiving Turkey Art project
- This lesson is on Multiplication Facts with the Numbers 3, 6, 7, and 9
- This is a solar system lesson with an art component
- This is a very brief Thanksgiving art idea called "Dress The Turkey"
- In this lesson, students use yarn to illustrate the life cycle of a flowering plant
- Here students design a stamp to commemorate the life of Thomas Jefferson
- This lesson is on creating artistic prints with vegetables
- Day 10: Riding the Rails:Personal Journeys to Freedom - Continued
- This lesson is on concrete (for an Architecture theme) and involves making a Footprint Stepping Stone
- To complete this lesson, students create a diorama depicting a cause or effect of the American Revolution
- "Quilt 4 America" is the title of this idea for Coping with Terrorism
- An Art lesson plan on Impressionism and Claude Monet
- This lesson teaches the Relationship between a Species and its Ecosystem
- In this lesson, students make a map of the Great Wagon Road
- Here students create a mural depicting how their community lives and works together
- Word Play Fun... Not Your Ordinary Literary Masterpiece!
- In this Thanksgiving lesson, students write a list and visually present what they are thankful for by creating a placemat
- "Peter and the Wolf" introduces orchestra instruments in this lesson
- In this Ancient Egypt lesson, students create a personal hieroglyphic tomb wall with artifacts and map
- In this idea students make handprint spiders
- This is a plan for making a Valentine Person and poem
- Can you guess who is in the Kapok Tree? This descriptive paragraph lesson answers this question
- Students experience Monet's work by painting with watercolors and torn paper in this lesson
- In this "Write Like An Egyptian" idea, students draw a short story using their own hieroglyphics
- This lesson is on the Dada Art Movement
- Students make Paper Flowers that Smell in this Valentine or Mother's Day Idea
- Here is a fun Thanksgiving lesson plan called Musical Turkeys
- Lesson 1 involves looking at and talking about Mesoamerica and their Glyphs
- This Independence Day lesson idea yields student art work for a time capsule
- In this book-based activity, students cut, fold and shape paper into "The Magic Hat"
- In this reference lesson, students research and present state facts on a poster
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Day 7: Conversations and Arguments with Lines - This is an idea for making a four seasons tree booklet
- Predicting with Charlotte's Web
- An immigrant group's "culture capsule" is created in this multidisciplinary lesson
- Here students research the culture, language, and traditions of their native land of origin
- Lesson 2 focuses on the Symbolic Meaning of Glyphs
- In this lesson students create work similar to Andy Warhol's Images and use computers
- Students create paper quilting squares here to give a sick classmate well wishes and something to do
- This lesson involves writing a paper as a culminating activity
- This is an Easter lesson on patterns in art and math
- In this project, students present a historical artist to the class with a speech, poster/PowerPoint, and original art in the artist's style
- This lesson involves Martin Luther King Jr. and Faith Ringgold to make a Quilt to Record History
- Here's an idea to reuse those Plastic Easter Eggs as decorations
- A lesson on Native American Pottery and Culture
- This is a changing seasons webquest
- Students create their ownHarold and the Purple Crayonstyle drawing story here
- Here students generate object art in the manner of Wayne Thiebaud and other 1960s pop artists
- Children recognize the importance of line in artwork in this hatching and cross-hatching drawing lesson
- This lesson idea focuses on what it means to be an American (or Canadian, etc.)
- Here students draw "My Family is...," after reading "My Family is Forever"
- This Expressionism lesson is part of a Thanksgiving project-based multidisciplinary learning plan
- In this one-point perspective lesson, the student will design an interior based on a particular artist's style
- Students learn how to use KidPix software in this introductory computer activity
- UGR Unit Bibliography And Webliography
- Here are some good ideas to get Students involved in getting Parents to Parent's Night
- Art Term Bingo is a great after-lesson activity
- This lesson is called "The Wonderful World of Matisse"
- Here students make a PowerPoint on the history, art, literature, and culture of a Spanish-speaking country
- 5 Step Lesson Plan - Falling Leaves
- Jewelry Making - decorating salt dough pieces
- This Drawing 4 Children software idea is brought to you by the number 5 and the colors red, blue, green, black, and purple
- Here is a very interesting creating art on computers lesson
- This idea is for creating a Snowman Picture Christmas Ornament
- These center activities serve as a delightful introduction to the common garden snail
- Make a class puzzle
- Interplanetary Movement Passport WebQuest
- To integrate Music, this section is on making "Rocky Music"
- This Easter lesson is called Egg Wrap and is on Circumference, Measurement, and Estimation
- Here is an idea to use songsheets to display student artwork as well as singing skills
- A Valentine lesson using various Styles of Media to create Heart-Themed Art
- Here's an idea for creating a Bill of Rights Mural
- In this creative lesson, students make an animal and choose an environment
- This is a kindergarten stormy vs. fluffy cloud activity
- This idea is for making people out of Valentine Hearts
- Waxed paper stained glass butterflies hangings are crafted here
- This lesson on Rainbows involves students creating a Crayon Resist
- In this texture lesson, students turn a shoe sole rubbing into a sole fish
- This section is meant to be a general Exploration of Rocks in general
- Here's a Craft idea to create neat Juggling Balls for use in PE!
- This multidisciplinary vacation lesson exercises math problem solving, art, literary, and map skills
- Here's a brief lesson to help students learn to write their names, using yarn
- In this lesson, students paint in the abstract style of Joan Miro
- Kids learn the names of the continents here by completing a challenging cut-and-paste activity and a descriptive T-chart
- Here's a good money idea - Christmas "ornament" shopping in class
- Here's a fun Easter egg project
- Memorial Day poppies are created here
- Students use free digital scrapbook technology in this project to create alliterative phrase wall hangings
- In this lesson, students craft and classify snowflakes
- This great New Year's lesson is called "Reflections: 2001" but can be used for any New Year
- This lesson idea is on color and paint palettes
- Here are 3 Native American Craft ideas
- Here is an art history lesson on Byzantine art and architecture
- Unit introduction, timeline, essential questions, objectives, national standards, adaptations
- These three activities help students build a "feelings" vocabulary
- Let your students draw AND write, "All About Me"
- Early American Tin Punch Ornaments are made here
- Keith Haring Figures Part III
- This helpful "Note to Art Teaching Assistants" contains a great clean-up song
- This Chinese New Year lesson encourages appreciation of Chinese culture through celebration
- Students create artwork based on their knowledge of line, shape, color, words and emotion
- An interesting lesson plan on Marketing a Product, including Making Commercials
- Here is a dramatic play plan for law enforcement activity centers
- In Lesson 4, students Carve a Glyph on Sandstone
- In this idea, students send postcards from Pluto
- Here's an interesting idea for Creating Skits on Spelling or Vocabulary Words
- Here's a simple craft idea for making a pinecone Christmas ornament
- " A Round and A Round"
- Do Something about... School Violence Art Curricula Unit Day 4: Shapes and Composition with Goya & Picasso
- Diary Writing Rubric
- A lesson on creating Kente cloths
- Classroom Cave Art is a lesson incorporating visual art, reading, and early culture
- Another Holiday Craft idea - Clay Christmas Ornaments
- This Foreign Language lesson plan involves students looking forward to the future and writing about their past in an "Internet Encyclopedia" entry
- Here students describe one of America's European explorers in a poem and then decorate it
- Students learn a paint brush program to create their own caricatures here
- Students create Mother's Day Cards with Poems in this lesson idea
- This lesson uses language arts to teach creative movement
- Here is a Christmas paragraph storybook idea
- Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with the paper mache maracas crafted in this art and music project
- Here's an idea for holding your own art exhibit
- In this holiday idea, students present a family report and collage to their family
- In this Valentine's idea, hearts decorate a popsicle stick frame
- This Johnny Appleseed lesson includes geography, transportation, U.S. history, sense of taste, graphing, and story illustration
- In this lesson, students create a weaving using materials that describe them as a person
- Cooperative Group Work Rubric
- This part is on Weight and Balance with Rocks
- Here are instructions for creating the Hawaiian 'Uli 'Uli musical gourd rattle instrument used in hula dances
- This idea involves creating a collage from magazine clippings of "My House"
- Students retell Jan Brett's "The Mitten" with cutout animal puppets in this delightful reading comprehension lesson
- Making 3-D snowflake magnets is a fun winter/holiday project
- A lesson involving Making Tessellations
- "Dinosaur Prints" are created in this lesson
- Kindergartners use computer and ABC to create an original stamp pattern
- "Mosaic Flower Pots" are created using the Mosaic Direct Method above
- Here is a Flatfish Movement activity (K-2)
- Similar to the one above, this one is on Native American Rock Designs
- Here student "Sports Illustrated" reporters tour the U.S. and its National Parks following their team
- Here's a great lesson/game for learning musical elements
- This is a craft idea for creating dinosaur treasure eggs
- Introduction to Pakistan's Handicrafts
- Here's an idea for a Holiday Calendar to countdown to Christmas (or other events)
- This Science lesson teaches all about Crystals and can be used to make Christmas Ornaments
- This bulletin board idea results in a cornucopia of produce related similes and metaphors
- Here kids decorate a cutout of a state symbol (Texas Cowboy Boot)
- Here students research a key American poet's relationship to an American literary era
- Here is a good Halloween idea called "Monsters, Ghosts, and Other Things That Go BOO"
- "One Million Bones" is a collaborative art project to call attention to the atrocities of genocide and mass violence
- This is a simple Valentine's Day card holder project
- This "Preposition Man" idea won't go "IN one ear and OUT the other"
- Here students demonstrate understanding of patterns and geometric shapes while creating Native American Wall Hangings
- This excellent color wheel lesson introduces students to the moods, vocabulary, and theory of color.
- This patriotic collage idea that can be used for holidays throughout the year
- Here's a fun idea for an autumn centerpiece
- Creating a class birthday quilt from old cards brings the class together, teaches patterns, and how to tie
- Here is a "Baggie Butterfly" art project to complement an insect unit
- A good Art-focused lesson on Painting, the Elements of Light, and Studying Countries
- This Multidisciplinary lesson deals with the Esimation of a Pumpkin's Weight as it is carved
- This lesson plan is on Picasso and involves creating Picasso-Style Art
- Here Halloween storyboards are assembled and acted out
- In this lesson, "Little No Speak" helps young students cope with anxiety
- This art idea helps students express "How does that make you feel?"
- Young students make and decorate bean-filled coffee can shaker instruments here
- Here's an idea for Quilting "Squares of Hope" to help Cope with Terrorism Acts
- Pipe cleaners, Styrofoam blocks and imagination can create a 3-D rainbow over a lake, if you use this idea
- Here is an Evaluation section for the unit
- In this ESL lesson, students create drawings based on descriptions in a novel
- This idea also uses Karo Syrup for painting
- This lesson on violence involves creating memorials for September 11th through poems & painting
- This lesson uses Impressionist Van Gogh's Starry Night to teach the hatching technique (cross-curricular ideas included)
- Here is an art lesson on aboriginal art in Australia
- This lesson involves creating art with Easter eggshells
- After learning the cultural history of pottery, students design and make a functional piece here
- Students use their initials to tell their own biographies in this lesson
- This multidisciplinary unit focuses on the significance of Martin Luther King Day and the civil rights movement
- This Thanksgiving Bulletin Board idea uses "Turkey Handprints"
- Here's an idea to make collage snow people as seen in Lois Ehlert's book "Snowballs"
- This multidisciplinary Rainbow Fish activity idea is perfect for the first day of school
- This is a Flatfish Data Collection activity (K-2)
- Students learn art history and paint a picture utilizing a color scheme in this color wheel lesson
- This is an outstanding multidiscipline integrated unit on Patricia Polacco: A Crafty Author <
- Ceiling tile masterpieces are created in this lesson
- Students identify and count shapes and colors used while constructing Geometry Animals here
- Here's a lesson on the Navajo Indian Culture
- This one is on Rocks from an Ant's Eye View
- "Electronic Pizza" is a computer and art program that uses MS Paint
- An interesting Art idea for creating "Holiday Rugs"
- Here is a flag footprint idea for the patriotic holidays
- Students invent and use a new notation system in this lesson
- This is an outstanding differentiated learning project about Ancient Egypt
- Here students design candy bar wrappers after reading "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
- Here slope is calculated through picture design
- This Craft idea is for making a Christmas Wishing Tree
- Tobacco/Smoking
- Students create art with a toy car rolled through paint in this clever idea
- This non-objective art lesson shows how history influences art and how art illustrates nouns
- Day 6: Underground Research
- Here is a great painting with sand art lesson for all ages
- Here students express themselves while decorating frog stencils
- Coloring pages are included in this child's first factoring lesson
- This is a lesson plan for creating "Leaf Turkeys"
- This simple idea transforms plants (collected leaves) into animals (art project)
- Free form drawing makes this art idea take shape!
- Here is an idea for making colored sand and sand pictures
- Here's a idea that uses colored joint compound to mimic Van Gogh's heavy brushstrokes
- "Fusing Glass Instructions" are needed for the next project
- Here is a having fun with dance pictures art idea
- Zig Zag Zinnias are paper sculptures of flowers in a pot for Mother's Day or for teaching about different types of lines
- This idea involves developing a friendship book about a student's favorite friend
- Michelangelo and his painting of the Sistine Chapel are the subject of this lesson
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Day 13: Safe Carriers Part II - This "Guess What I did on my Summer Vacation" drawing idea is a great first-day icebreaker
- A lesson on the American Flag and its Symbols
- Safe Carriers Part I - Students use modern packaging materials to create a safe place
- "Beginning Stained Glass Instruction" is needed for the Delphi projects below
- Here's an interesting idea for creating Fish Paintings (and studying Fish)
- You can recycle your Candy Canes on Valentine's Day with this idea
- A great interior-design project for high-school classes
- Students write and deliver Valentine's Day craft demonstration speeches here
- Here's an idea to make a "Sandwich Book"
- Here students read about the rights of pre-1760 colonists and design "Go Britain" bumper stickers
- This lesson is on Basket Making with Posterboard and involves Measuring
- In this sequence comprehension lesson, students make a 6-square story quilt
- This portion is on Rock Streaking
- Children (Special Ed) learn rain concepts here by making a rain cloud out of construction paper and yarn
- Start the first week of school off right with this fun idea
- These "Me" collages are great for getting to know classmates
- In this get-to-know-you idea, students create a self-portrait collage with their favorite things
- Student art illustrates a patriotic song in this holiday slide show idea
- Children sculpt clay models of their favorite community members in this lesson
- The last lesson involves completing the Glyph Carving
- This simple idea creates a paper plate flower
- Here students make and label the parts of a paper plant
- Here is an observational pencil drawing lesson
- Day 5: Tracking the Quilting Codes - Continued
- This lesson teaches the direct glue & grout method of Mosaics
- A brief lesson on Tessellations
- A Spider's Life Cycle
- Students investigate and create flowers using inventive materials for an "April Showers - Bring Me Flowers" mural in this lesson
- In this idea, students create pictures from the squiggles and swirls drawn by their partner
- "Round the Clock" is a unit on time to the half-hour and digital/analog clocks
- Here's a 4th of July lesson involving making a simulated fireworks display
- Students make puppets of their favorite Artists and look at art's importance in society in this lesson
- Another Art lesson, this one using math (less than and greater than)
- Here's a winter idea for creating marshmallow snowmen
- This is a wonderful collection of practical Valentine's Day gift craft ideas
- Students must defend their organelle with research and pictures to the Cell Body Corporation as it considers layoffs
- This idea combines making snowmen and rhyming
- This lesson introduces Moh's Hardness Scale to test the Hardness of a Rock
- Make a Halloween pumpkin face with geometry shapes here
- This multimedia lesson teaches how to use key images and music to convey a theme in a personal photo story narrative
- As you progress through this 2-week U.S. Constitution Unit, you build a tree with branches and leafy amendments
- Here's an idea for making butterflys using egg cartons
- This is an idea for a first day of middle school art class questionnaire
- This part deals with "Pet Rocks"
- Here's great Thanksgiving "Textured Turkeys" lesson
- Here is an idea to hang and save student art work beneath their self-portraits
- Day 2: Conductors of Freedom:The Role of Abolitionists and Quakers in the UGR Movement
- Grids are used in this lesson to create enlarged Mondrian styled paintings from photos
- Students write appreciation cards to their past and present teachers here and learn the importance of being thankful
- In this project, students research, write, and use media to support a local environmental issue
- This is a simple introductory art portrait idea
- Make creative writing fun using computer generated coloring pages
- Safe Carriers Part III
- This is a 4 Part Unit on Music and Emotions
- An interesting sculpture lesson on silence - expressing without words
- Students create a "Tribal Fact Book" in this Native American lesson plan
- "The Odyssey" is translated into a children's book in this lesson
- This diorama project combines reading, writing, speech, and art
- Students Research about others and Write Biography Poems in this lesson idea
- This lesson looks at the structure of atoms
- Create a simple shoebox lid shadow box here with potpourri and craft stick flowers
- This is a scanned picture of what the 4" x 3" squares and grid should look like
- This lesson is on the Commutative Property of Mathematics
- Create artful fireworks with a little paint, glitter, and a plastic hammer
- Students study the hardships of pilgrim life in this lesson and make a "thankful for" quilt
- This Indo-Islamic art unit introduces students to Mughal miniature painting
- This is a mitten tracing and lacing activity
- Paint a picture of what you want to be; an Art and Social Studies lesson
- Presentation Rubric
- Day 7: Underground Research - Continued
- Action painting art is created in this Jackson Pollock lesson
- Learners use self-describing words as a structure in this "Art about Me" drawing idea
- An Art or Social Studies lesson on Costa Rica
- This lesson involves creating Textured Rubbings
- This rainforest bird lesson is an introduction to research and CD art
- Children create "A Book of Many Colors" from magazine pages in this idea
- "Ten Apples Up On Top" by Dr. Seuss inspires this self-portrait art and counting project idea
- This is an excellent multidisciplinary rock and mineral unit
- This art lesson is written in Spanish for Kindergarten
- Students study masters of surrealism and create surrealist computer art cubes in this two-week lesson
- Here's an idea for a first day of school "Class Puzzle" that shows each student's importance
- This lesson called "Book Blurbs" helps students with Reading Comprehension and Identifying Climax
- A collection of Big Book Activities, dealing with the book What Will the Weather Be Like Today?
- A brief lesson idea on Art using pastels for Weather
- Toddlers and preschoolers press their hands and feet into service for this patriotic flag activity
- This lesson plan is on Cave Paintings and Historical Stereotypes
- Here is a great lesson on the artist Marc Chagall
- In this Thanksgiving reading lesson, an emergent reader is made into a predictable chart
- Here students use sidewalk chalk to create, measure, and label the "Longest & Weirdest Candy Cane"
- This is another Valentine's Day craft idea called "Milky Hearts"
- Here's a lesson on Mythology Dioramas and Set Design as a career
- Tinker Toys and digital cameras are used in this direction writing exercise
- A fun Thanksgiving idea for creating "Coffee Filter Turkeys"
- Students studyWhere the Wild Things Areby Maurice Sendak here and create new monsters
- This lesson explores music and color and our feelings about each
- This is the traditional Thanksgiving turkey hand cutout idea
- This "Shape Ship" geometric art project also teaches the concepts of slide, turn, and flip
- In this craft project, students create a Christmas tree from hearts and buttons
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Day 6: Tree of Decisions - This is a great no-nonsense presentation of "Art Classroom Rules"
- In this multidisciplinary lesson, students form a beautiful bulletin board using rhythm and math
- This hydraulic water cycle lesson integrates technology and is appropriate for special education students
- In this idea for Coping with Terrorism, students make a Flag from Sept. 11th Newspaper Clippings
- Spaghetti Webs
- Students learn the concept of community in this well-developed photography "about me" project
- In this creativity lesson, students express words, emotions, or actions in pastels
- "Sharpie Tie Dye" is a cool and easy idea that really works
- Here's a Seasons Book idea
- Create a real silver charm bracelet with this silver jewelry clay lesson
- Students use their sense of touch while making these textured collages
- Here students make and decorate holiday bells
- This well-developed lesson teaches the basics of "Innovative Wire Sculpture"
- This brief idea on Designing a Music CD cover merges Art with Music
- This six pillars of character student publishing project yields a free full-color hardbound class book
- Students use Words and Pictures as Visual Images to tell Stories in this lesson
- Here you can teach Art Concepts using Rocks
- Here's a "super" idea - have students create and write about their own "super-hero"
- A fun activity for creating Sentences out of Candy Hearts (Valentine's day)
- Parents will absolutely love this clever open house idea
- This lesson is on Ikebana - the Japanese Art of Flower Arranging
- This idea involves using dried Leaves to make glitter art
- Here's a good idea for making "Movie Posters" for Novels students have read
- This is a good art filler activity - Musical Chairs with Art at each chair
- How to make your own glass beads
- Students report on one of the five U.S. land regions in this lesson
- Here's an idea for creating a "Sheet Of Color"
- This lesson plan involves emotions in music and srt
- This lesson plan uses science and see-through fish
- "Scribble Music" is a great early year, break time or substitute plan
- Abstract art as a visual metaphor for modern music is the hypothesis explored here
- Project Rubric
- An idea for making Paper Stained Glass Windows
- If your school hasn't made a flag on the fence with paper cups yet, you really should try this idea!
- Here is a holiday idea for all ages involving symbols, terminology, composition, and the pentatonic scale
- A brief Christmas activity idea for making 3-D Paper Bell Ornaments
- This clever Easter idea transforms egg cartons into ready-to-decorate baskets
- Here's a unique idea - Jell-O Painting!
- This lesson on Calligraphy is called "Write Me A Picture!"
- This art idea is for making an Easter basket out of a bleach jug
- This lesson plan explores finger painting with sophistication and a video
- This first part is on Pilot Jobs and Vocabulary
- This is an art history idea on Early American Limner Portraits
- This is a butterfly symmetry lesson
- Students give the gift of their time in this "Giving Tree" idea
- Need an art idea? How about drawing original advertisements?
- Leonardo da Vinci’s Polyhedra and Intarsia
- A Music lesson integrating Art and Language Arts involving Contrast
- This part is on Native Americans and their Rock Art
- This World War I lesson includes an art project
- This 6-foot Mayan pyramid is created out of recycled materials
- A good lesson that involves making a poetry notebook
- This similar "All About Me" scrapbook idea yields a bulletin board, a classroom book and a teacher's keepsake
- Students create a stained glass "Rousseau's Jungle" here with gel glue and oil pastels
- A Writing idea for Designing a Magazine
- "Cowboys at Christmas" is a unique multi-activity lesson teaching us appreciation for the "big gifts" we often take for granted
- This is a program for writing and illustrating a hardbound class book
- An excellent Art lesson for the first day of school called "My Favorite Things"
- This is a lesson on Ecuadorian Masapán bread dough sculpting
- This is an Overview of the unit with links to the other components
- The second lesson is on Measurement, Graphing, and Creating Art for their plane
- In this lesson, students draw landscapes in the style of impressionist artists of the 1800s
- In this lesson students create Art from the Natural Dyes in Vegetables
- This is a Great Gatsby book cover symbolism project
- This is an integrated Aboriginal Dot Painting lesson plan
- This is an idea for a shoebox fundraising parade to benefit hurricane victims
- Here's a good collection of bulletin board ideas
- In this multidisciplinary idea, students recreate Romeo and Juliet in a different time and place
- Students will write Haiku Poetry and Create a Picture for their State in this lesson
- Here's an idea for teaching about theme and variation in music
- Kid Pix software is used here to create an animal habitat and climate slide show
- This lesson is on Creating Illustrated Mythology Book Covers
- "Chipo's Gift" is a thematic cross-curriculum book unit about an inquisitive mopane worm
- Here is a Rain Forest lesson involving painting animals
- Day 9: Riding the Rails:Personal Journeys to Freedom
- Coconut turkeys are the "centerpiece" of this Thanksgiving Idea
- Keith Haring Figures Part I - students work together to create a mural modeling cooperation and conflict resolution
- Geo-spiders are made while discussing conflicts in this Anansi related lesson
- Witching You a Happy Halloween
- Here students study multimedia persuasion techniques and use them to create Photo Story 3 advertisements
- Here students create and draw onomatopoeia sounds with instruments and "The Listening Walk"
- This is an early childhood computer art idea using the Paint program
- This Native American lesson involves Painting an Event, Story, or Person from Native American History
- In this lesson, students create a political cartoon illustrating imperialism prior to WWI
- This Thanksgiving Craft idea is called "Turkey Pins"
- Here students decorate a special Valentine and tuck a teabag, candy, or chore coupon inside
- In this lesson, students create a 9/11 Remembrance Tapestry
- This idea uses Drawing 4 Children software to draw shape people
- "Gumball Drawing" is a simple art lesson on using the circle tool in MS Paint
- This idea is for creating a "Robot" Valentine Mailbox
- This Art lesson involves Painting (or Drawing) Sunsets and Landscapes and some Geology study too
- Day 4: Tracking the Quilting Codes
- This science and art lesson uses the book "The Very Busy Spider"
- In this computer lab project, KidPix is used to create mouse pads for holiday gifts
- A Science and Art lesson on creating a Rain Stick (Music and Social Studies too)
- Here's an idea for creating a Class Wreath using your incomplete puzzle pieces
- In this color wheel lesson, students learn about art history and color moods
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Day 1: Shape and Feeling - In this holiday idea, students draw an imaginary map of Santa's "North Pole" community
- This lesson is on Music, Lines, Color, and Related Emotions
- Another Easter lesson idea, this one involves creating a "stuffed" picture
- This idea is called "Cave Man Zoo" and involves cave paintings
- This is a fun beginning of school lesson involving painting portraits with chalk
- This art lesson deals with Vincent van Gogh
- After discussing infinity and Fabergé, students decorate paper Easter eggs in this idea demonstrating the "infinite" possibilities of human imagination
- In this "Follow the Drinking Gourd" activity, students create a big dipper looking glass and write their personal meaning of freedom
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Day 2: The Emotional Aspects Of Color - Here students learn to recognize the writing trait of voice in books, music and art
- Students create a travel brochure to an imaginary place in this lesson
- Keith Haring Figures Part IV
- "Literature and Patterns" is a reading - writing - drawing lesson about Easter Eggs
- Here students create their own version of Munch's paintingThe Scream
- Clay Seals - modeling designs in clay
- In this listening idea, students write an 8-page story booklet inspired by the mood of eight songs
- This one deals with the Lakota-Sioux Sun Dance
- Students communicate electronically here while photographing local geography for a PowerPoint presentation
- A "Special Me" class book is created here with Kid Pix self-portraits and written personal summaries
- In this lesson idea, Special Ed students demonstrate creativity by making edible pictures on their pizza
- Day 1: Derailment of Human Rights:A Life of Slavery
- This one is called Sketch To Stretch for Language Arts and Art
- Counting in Espanol
- Self-Report Affective Assessment Rubric
- Spring Time (Caterpillars)
- VALUE with Gridding
- Pointillism - Georges Seurat
- Leaving A Lasting Mark
