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African American History to 1950: Examine African American history in the contexts of United States, North Carolina and world history. Assignments draw from a wealth of classroom-oriented primary sources, including slave testimonies, photographs, oral histories, and more.; Take this course: Begins January 6.

primary source: Original record or account of an event or topic that provides firsthand information. A primary source reflects the individual viewpoint of someone who observed or participated in the event or topic.

Color mixing: Students are introduced to the basic steps in mixing secondary colors from primary colors of paint.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Visual Arts Education); By Gwen Auman.

Colorful fruit bowl: Students learn color theory by exploring color mixing. Students will use overlapping to show simple perspective in their picture.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Visual Arts Education); By Marilyn Carter.

Exploring colors: The learner will develop the ability to use science process skills through exploration with primary colors.; Format: lesson plan (grade K Visual Arts Education); By Kristin Gray.

Mixing colors with Little Blue and Little Yellow: This is an integrated lesson based on a French book entitled Little Blue and Little Yellow by Leo Lionni. Within the lesson, students will experiment with various colors to create new colors and eventually write their own version of this story.; Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Visual Arts Education, English Language Arts, and Science); By Lisa Tartaglia.

Interior Design Project: Within this lesson, students will role play the job of an interior designer.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6–12 ); By Shannon Braxton.

Personal picture narratives: Jacob Lawrence: In this second grade lesson students will look closely at paintings by Lawrence depicting historical figures. Students will identify Lawrence’s unique style from work by other artists based on the elements of color and shape. They will create a painting using the same art elements to create a picture depicting an imagined scene from the life of Harriet Tubman.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Visual Arts Education); By Eileen Palamountain.

Skeleton Shrine for Day of the Dead: A shine with lots of skeletons, whose creators focused on the colors red and black; Format: image/photograph

Seljuk door: A close up of a door that looks like it has Arabic influences. The door has an ogee arch and muquarnas, or stalactite vault. It also has lots of geometric designs, hexagons and cubes, and a pattern of brick that alternates colors. In front of the door there...; Format: image/photograph

Tea men-daytime: Turkish men sit together in small groups for tea. The men area all wearing dark colors - grey, black, navy, brown, and most are wearing hats of some type. They are all outside; it looks like they are sitting in a street. The men look like their ages range...; Format: image/photograph

People: Several people walk across a sidewalk along a body of water. There are four women walking the same direction, all in cloaks that are dark colors, with hoods covering their heads and brightly colored dresses on beneath the cloaks. The men wear jeans and collared...; Format: image/photograph

An entrada sandstone land formation: A dark cloudy sky is the backdrop for this interesting sandstone landform. The sunlight brings out the different colors within the stone. Scruffy desert plants dot the landscape.; Format: image/photograph

Home weaving rug: A color photograph of the beginning of a rug being woven in a home. There is a stick holding several different colors of yarn that go into the rug. The vertical layers of the rug extend across the entire photograph, where as the horizontal weaving that is...; Format: image/photograph

Aya Sophia: The photo is of one of the Aya Sophia's domes from below. The walls leading up to the dome look like they are made out of something like concrete. The way the structure is formed enables the viewer to see the dome better. Part of the dome is made up of arched...; Format: image/photograph

Man selling goods in Istanbul, Turkey: An older man sits on a curb with a table of bottles in front of him. The bottles are filled with a variety of substances in several colors. The man has on a dark suit, with a round, dark green hat exposing his ears and face, the lower half of which is covered...; Format: image/photograph

Photographs: a process guide for students: Questions to consider when looking at photographs as primary sources.; By Dan McDowell.

Mosaic of Jesus in Chora: This mosaic in the Chora Church depicts a crowed gathered around a man who is lying down and appears to be dead; behind him there is another man dressed in Gold holding a baby. The crowd appears to be mostly men, and their gaze is focused on the man lying...; Format: image/photograph

Bedspread from Kaplan, India: This is a bedspread from Kaplan, India. The bedspread starts with a large square of a red and green floral pattern over a cream ground. This is then surrounded by a dense border of square and circular paisley patterns in similar colors, then small floral bands...; Format: image/photograph

Street vendor selling bangles in Jaipur, India: Street vendors sell bangles in Jaipur, India. The bangles come in all sorts of colors and patterns and are lined up in dozens of boxes on two wooden tables. Behind the two men, a rickshaw and two white cars are parked. There is debris and trash on the ground...; Format: image/photograph

Bryce Canyon, Utah: Spectacular colors can be seen in the layers of sediment in this photograph taken in Bryce Canyon National Park. There are pinks, purples, terracotta, tan, and white layers.; Format: image/photograph

Chesler Park Trail in the Needles area of Canyonlands National Park: Formed over millions of years, these rock formations show the layers of sediment that were laid down and later became rock. The layers' colors are in tans, red, gray, and black. In the foreground, chips of stone line the trail while in the background the rock...; Format: image/photograph

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