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Calico watercolor cats: This two-class lesson focuses on students learning how to draw a cat using geometric shapes, learning and applying wet-on-wet technique of watercolor painting, and using crayon to create area surrounding cats. The final art product will be a mixed media painting of one cat and one kitten in an indoor or outdoor environment. Students will orally present their completed artwork using prepositions and nouns to describe the location of their cats.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Visual Arts Education and English Language Development); By Barbara Zimmerman and Heidi Summers.

Faces tell feelings - Part 6 - Emotions collage: Students will create a collage using magazine photos and words printed in computer lab to express a particular emotion.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Visual Arts Education); By Jan Kimosh.

Fort Raleigh National Historic Site: Information about the Lost Colony, the Civil War, Virginia Dare as well as thoughtful explorations into cultural conflict in this area and women's role in the 1587 Lost Colony.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

Mini totem poles: Students will create mini totem poles using paper towel tubes and Crayola Model Magic clay. Totem poles of Northwest Coast Indian tribes will be explored.; Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Visual Arts Education and Social Studies); By Mary Ann Athens.

Inference by analogy: In Intrigue of the Past, page 2.12; Students will use historical sources and an archaeological site map to infer the use or meaning of items recovered from a North Carolina Native American site based on 17th-century European settlers' accounts and illustrations. They will also describe prehistoric lifeways based on archaeological and ethnohistoric information and explain why archaeologists use ethnohistoric analogy.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)

Native American poetry workshop: This week-long set of lessons uses four different center activities to help students respond to poetry written by American Indians. This lesson plan was written with ESL (English as a second language) students in mind, so there are many opportunities to practice vocabulary, discuss and talk with others, and model expectations.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and Social Studies); By Liz Mahon.

I, the basket: Writing a first-person story as an inanimate object: In this interdisciplinary lesson for grade seven, students explore the first-person point of view through children's literature and images of Nepal. Students exhibit their understanding of first-person narrative by writing a children's story from the perspective of an inanimate object.; Format: lesson plan (grade 7 English Language Arts, Information Skills, and Social Studies); By Edie McDowell.

Fort Raleigh and the Lost Colony: In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 4.3; England's first two settlements in the New World differed in character and purpose: The first short-lived colony, inhabited entirely by men, was set up as a stake in the newly discovered Americas and a base of privateering against French and Spanish shipping. The second was intended as a permanent colony and was settled by men, women and children. Their disappearance is a mystery that remains unsolved nearly 400 years later.; Format: article

Resources on the web

The Vincent Van Gogh Gallery: Find the most comprehensive collection of images of Van Gogh's paintings, drawings, graphics, letter sketches, and correspondence on the Web. (Learn more); Format: website/general; Provided by: David Brooks

Winslow Homer in the National Gallery of Art: Interactive online companion to the Winslow Homer Exhibition featuring the artist’s works in oil, watercolor, and illustration. (Learn more); Format: website/general; Provided by: National Gallery of Art

The American Museum of Natural History Congo Expedition: An online collection of photographs, field notes, anthropological objects, and many other multi-media resources that document and provide context to James Chapin and Herbert Lang's Congo expedition. (Learn more); Format: website/general; Provided by: American Museum of Natural History

America in the 1930's: Devoted to the 1930's, this website explores the Depression era in American History through film, publications, exhibits, and radio broadcasting. Primary resouces including film clips and audio recordings lend to an authentic feel of the time period. (Learn more); Format: website/general; Provided by: University of Virginia

Natural History Museum: Sponsord by the British Natural History Museum, this website contains a variety of multimedia resources for learners interested in studying life on earth, a little bit of space, and nature's records of the past. Sound boring? Well then, check out the flesh-eating... (Learn more); Format: website/activity; Provided by: Natural History Museum (British)

Congo Trek: A Journey Through the Heart of Central Africa: Take an online adventure into the wild, wild Congo in Africa with interactive maps, virtual journeys, and dispatches from a real life biologist trekking through the thick forest. (Learn more); Format: website/activity; Provided by: National Geographic Society