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Drawing sea turtles
This lesson plan takes students step by step through drawing a sea turtle, using the process to discuss the animal's anatomy.
Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)
Marketing careers: Working with scale drawings
In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 2.6
This activity for grade six combines math, art, and writing, as students create a scale drawing of a toy car and reflect on how math can be used in marketing careers.
Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics)
By Kim Abrams, Mike McDowell, and Barbara Strange.
Classroom food web
This lesson is to demonstrate which organisms feed on one another and how food webs are created.
Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Science)
By Kurt Oswald.
Coordinate plane artwork
For this lesson students will go to the computer lab and use the General Coordinate Game applet created by the Shodor Foundation to obtain a more specific understanding of the coordinate plane, its parts, and how it can be used to graph points. Afterward, the students will practice using the coordinate plane by drawing a picture on a coordinate plane and then writing out directions (using coordinates) for that picture to be replicated exactly by another student, who will not see the picture but will follow the directions.
Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics)
By Erin Foerster.
Long and Tall
Teacher and students discuss how some objects are very tall, and some objects are very long. Using long, narrow pieces of paper, students will draw two long objects and two tall objects. This lesson is intended to help children observe what is around them, judge size, and fill the page from top to bottom with the intended object.
Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Visual Arts Education)
By Jan Kimosh.
Drawing of hanging
Drawing of hanging
Drawing of a Civil War deserter being hanged from a tree.
Format: image/illustration
Patent drawing for Henry rifle, 1860
Patent drawing for Henry rifle, 1860
Patent drawing of the "Henry Rifle," the predecessor of the Winchester rifle, by Benjamin Tyler Henry.
Format: image/diagram
Stamp it here, stamp it there, stamp it where?
Using a drawing program (Kid Pix), students will integrate English Language Arts and Technology Skills as they work with Geometry skills.
Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics)
By Mary Rizzo.
Geometry and art: Art museum post-visit
This is the third lesson in a three-part unit integrating math, writing and visual arts. In this integrated lesson, students apply their knowledge of geometry by organizing and displaying information in graphs with correct labeling. Students then compare and analyze graphs. Finally, with this information students create a geometric design.
Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Visual Arts Education and Mathematics)
By Loretta Hopper.
Faces tell feelings - Part 4 - Computer Animation
In this lesson, students will create an animated face presented in a "Slide Show" using Kid Pix Studio.
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 Visual Arts Education and Computer/Technology Skills)
By Susan Wenzel Getter.
University of North Carolina, 1797
University of North Carolina, 1797
A drawing of UNC's first building by one of the university's early students.
Format: image/illustration
Jamestown garden
Jamestown garden
This drawing was first published in the National Park Service publication New Discoveries at Jamestown: Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America. The drawing, which shows a man and woman tending a garden, is...
Format: image/illustration
The Death of John Lawson
The Death of John Lawson
Baron Christoph Von Graffenried's drawing, The Death of John Lawson, depicts Von Graffenried, his servant, and John Lawson being held captive by Tuscarora Indians shortly before Lawson's death. In the center of the drawing, the...
Format: image/illustration
Frosty friends
Students will draw snowmen using various tools in the illustration component of their program. Our students use KidWorks2 by Davidson but others may be used instead. They will then write original stories to accompany their illustrations.
Format: lesson plan (grade K Computer/Technology Skills and English Language Arts)
By Linda Baker.
Temperature graphs
In the following lesson students will locate and record daily high temperatures for several major cities. This data will then be displayed on line graphs. Students will choose one city, and based on its high temperatures, write a paragraph describing appropriate clothing and activities for that location. They will draw a picture of themselves dressed in the clothing and participating in an activity they described.
Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics)
By Kaye Clark.
Mr. Griggs' Work
The students will learn about the importance of responsibility, dependability, punctuality, honesty, and effort in the workplace through the reading of the book Mr. Griggs' Work. The students will have the opportunity to explore these character traits in their own work setting.
Format: lesson plan (grade K–5 Guidance)
By William Hodge.
Keith Haring and Radiating Figures
Students will examine the work of Keith Haring and then look at how simple figures and patterns create movement in an artwork.
Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Visual Arts Education)
By Marion McClure.
Animal slide shows!
This project is a culmination of a science unit on animals which integrates computer skills, language arts and art. After a study of animals which includes classification, basic needs of animals, animal adaptations, and animal behaviors, the students will use the computer to complete a slide show of one animal they have studied at length.
Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Computer/Technology Skills and Science)
By Margie Bartolomucci.
Radial symmetry design
Students will study the carving of 18th century America and create a rosette design using radial symmetry.
Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Visual Arts Education)
By Lisa Mitchell.
Power and grace
In Northern and coastal Vietnam: Waterway settlements and Chinese influences, page 12
Most of the original buildings of Hué's Imperial City date to ambitious efforts by Nguyen dynasty rulers in the 1800s to control both the north and south of Vietnam from a centrally located capital. While drawing on the symbolic model of the powerful Chinese...
By Lorraine Aragon.