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A work that interprets or analyzes an event or topic using primary and other secondary sources.

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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Friends Fly Together
Because THE RED BALLOON is a silent film about a little boy (Pascal) and his friendship with a red balloon, students are not distracted by trying to translate spoken text. They can concentrate on what they are watching. They take notes in their home language or English--whichever is more comfortable--on what they see. These informal notes serve as scaffolding for discussion and writing.
Format: lesson plan
By Wendy Bell.
Teaching about slavery through newspaper advertisements
In this lesson for grades 8 and 11, students will analyze a selection of advertisements related to slavery from an 1837 newspaper in order to enhance their understanding of antebellum North Carolina, U.S. history, and the history of American slavery.
Format: lesson plan (grade 8 and 11 Social Studies)
By Kathryn Walbert.

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Learning about maps and colors
Students develop basic geography skills by reading neighborhood maps. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Visual Arts Education and Social Studies)
Provided by: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts