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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.
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.
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)
Seasonal farm landscapes
Students will have visited the farm landscape four times throughout the year, recording their observations during four seasons. The drawings will incorporate their knowledge of farms from our visits, their exposure to the seasonal landscapes of Grant Wood and Claude Monet, and their knowledge of landscape art and its elements of color and perspective developed at the Museum. The final project will be individual student books containing their landscape drawings and text.
Format: lesson plan (grade K Visual Arts Education)
By Jamie Barnhill.
Imaginative writing
This plan addresses emerging writing skills by engaging the student's interest in creating original drawings.This plan is for Special Needs students, non-readers with limited writing skills, and reluctant learners.
Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts)
By Ann Franklin.
Math in the White House
This plan uses an online tour of the White House to reinforce the concept of tallying.
Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics)
By Bunnie R. Brewer, Missy Colborn, Kathy Hale, Kim Roberson, and Emily White.
CSS Neuse
An informative website that provides drawings, primary sources, and articles about the CSS Neuse and its role in the Civil War. Also find out about Richard Caswell, the first governor of the independent state of North Carolina.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
Early North Carolina exploration (warm-up activity)
This lesson is intended to be used at the beginning of a unit that examines the early exploration of the North Carolina coast and its inhabitants.
Through drawings published in Thomas Hariot's "A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia" teachers can raise student's interest in this unit.
Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
By Joe Hooten.
Scale drawings
In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 2.7
In this lesson for grade seven, students will use maps to measure the distances between cities in North Carolina. Students will write equations using the maps' scales to calculate the actual distances in miles.
Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics)
By Peggy Dickey and Barbara Turner.Adapted by Sharon Abell.
Futuristic airplane and the blind landing
A lesson plan, divided into two exercises, that teaches students techniques for communicating and observing both detail and directions using written, oral, and visual sources.
Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts)
By Elaine Cox.
Welcome to the New World
This lesson provides students an opportunity to read and interpret writings of the late 1500's and to transfer the information provided in the writings into a visual medium as a means of understanding and interpretation. The lesson also provides students practice in persuasive techniques.
Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
By Barbara Jean.
Frances Goodrich with Double Bow Knot coverlet
Frances Goodrich with Double Bow Knot coverlet
This photograph of Frances Louisa Goodrich was taken in 1943. She is standing in front of two woven coverlets that are hanging on a wall. The Double Bow Knot pattern coverlet is on the left and on the right is a coverlet in the Pine Cone Bloom pattern. Beneath...
Format: image/photograph
Welcome to my world!: Developing a personal narrative timeline
Students will create digital, narrative, and drawn versions of a timeline of at least five events of their life.
Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts)
By DPI Integration Strategies.
Swordfish
Swordfish
Drawing of a swordfish (Xiphias gladius).
Format: image/illustration
Drawings of cotton gin from Eli Whitney's patent application
Drawings of cotton gin from Eli Whitney's patent application
Format: image/diagram
Old portrait of Hernando de Soto
Old portrait of Hernando de Soto
This engraving of Hernando de Soto, created in 1791, depicts the explorer in his armor, with his left hand on the handle of his sword.
Format: image/illustration
Letter books
Kindergarten children are usually familiar with beginning sound "ABC" books with texts such as "A is for apple." In this activity, repeated for each consonant letter, art, writing, conventional spelling, and reading are combined to create a personal "Letter Book" for each child.
Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts)
By Clara McKenzie.
Faces tell feelings - Part 3 - Drawing facial expressions
Students will learn how to draw facial expressions and paint a portrait which portrays a particular expression or emotion.
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Visual Arts Education)
By Jan Kimosh.
Interior design: Designing my dream room
Students will study interior design as a profession. They will integrate their study with math, writing, vocational education, and computer skills by designing their own dream bedroom.
Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Visual Arts Education, English Language Arts, and Mathematics)
By Paula Hightower.
Believe it or not! Reporting on amazing animals
In Rethinking Reports, page 2.3
A visual and oral presentation of an "animal report" can engage students' interest and develop their artistic and visual literacy skills.
By Melissa Thibault.