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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.

The Craft Revival and economic change: In this lesson plan, originally published on the Craft Revival website, students will interpret photographs and artifacts as representations of western North Carolina’s economy at the turn of the century. They will also analyze historical census data and produce a visual web that will represent the changing nature of the economy of western North Carolina.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Social Studies); By Patrick Velde.

Create a Music Carnival: This is a lesson in which the students will combine their knowledge of rhythm, pitch, and tone color with their imaginations to create original compositions about animals. They will use "Carnival of the Animals", by Saint-Saens, and "Peter and the Wolf", by Prokofiev, for comparisons.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Music Education); By Rowena Licko.

Critical thinking and art with The Snowy Day: This lesson will focus on the illustrations from The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats. The students will describe what makes illustrations worthy of a Caldecott Award. In addition, the students will complete an art project that will allow for creative critical thinking to compliment the illustrations in the book.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Visual Arts Education and Information Skills); By Caryn Levy.

Dance of the times: African-American expression of jazz: Explore jazz dance as a social dance form and a uniquely expressive art of African-American culture from the 1920's and 1930's. Students will learn about the complexity of African-American experiences that generated the dance and musical style. The activities develop students' understanding of jazz dance while integrating visual, audio, and kinesthetic learning styles.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Dance Arts Education); By Shelese Douglas.

Dem "Dry Bones" take form: This lesson introduces musical form (ABC) by using the song "Dry Bones."; Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 Music Education); By Melissa Vincent.

Describing Japanese screens and scrolls through images: The second part of a larger unit on talking and writing about, as well as creating, Japanese screen and scroll paintings. The purpose of this unit plan is to introduce descriptive aspects of art criticism, while teaching the art and culture of Japan. Students create illustrations of classmates' descriptions of Japanese screens or scrolls.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Visual Arts Education); By Michelle Harrell.

Describing Japanese screens and scrolls through words: The first part of a unit on talking and writing about, as well as creating, Japanese screen and scroll paintings. The purpose of this unit plan is to introduce descriptive aspects of art criticism, while teaching appreciation for the art and culture of Japan. Students use observation and descriptive writing to discover richly detailed Japanese screen and scroll paintings so that another student can illustrate it in the next lesson.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 Visual Arts Education and Social Studies); By Michelle Harrell.

Developing continuous air during articulation: Combining long tones and burst-tonguing will assist many beginning instrument players to eliminate excessive breaths while articulating.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Music Education); By Lynn Dale.

Dino-rhythms: Students will read rhythm notations written on dinosaur shapes, discover how to play two digit number patterns, create their own rhythm patterns and play rhythms on unpitched percussion instruments.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 Music Education); By Amy Snyder.

The effects of the Great Depression in North Carolina: This lesson is designed to give the students a better understanding of the personal effects of the Great Depression on the people of North Carolina. It also uses the student's creativity to help others understand these effects.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies and Theater Arts Education); By Yvonne Carroll.

"Eggs-tra" special sounds: Students will identify, compare, and classify the sounds made by plastic eggs filled with rice, pebbles, and salt. They will graph the results of their discoveries. They will then compose and tape sound pieces illustrating dynamic levels they discovered. Finally they will construct their own "maraca" using plastic eggs.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 Music Education); By Sondra Edwards.

Experience ABA form: This lesson will help students understand ABA Form. Through listening activities, they will be able to distinguish the "A" section from the "B" section and the return of the "A" section. Other activities will also be used for illustration.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Music Education); By Lisa Qualls.

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.

Exploring the families of instruments: Students will learn about the families of instruments and conclude the lesson by constructing a model instrument from one of the families studied.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 Music Education); By Leslie Cothern.

Expressive papier-mâché masks: Students will be creating an original papier-mâché mask that expresses an emotion. In doing this, they will be expanding upon their knowledge of representing the human face while further developing technical skills in papier-mâché sculpture and acrylic painting.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Visual Arts Education); By Kerri Fuller.

Faces tell feelings - Part 2 - Observations: Students will view a PowerPoint presentation of various portraits by different artists. They will observe facial expressions and the emotions they convey in these works of art.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Visual Arts Education); By Jan Kimosh.

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.

Faces tell feelings - Part 4 - Computer animation: In this lesson, students will create an animated face presented in a slide show using Kid Pix software.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Visual Arts Education and Computer/Technology Skills); By Susan Wenzel Getter.

Faces tell feelings - Part 5 - Typefaces: Students will study various typefaces in terms of their line quality and shape. Then they will use various editing functions in a word processor to create a text document whose typefaces "show" a particular emotion.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Visual Arts Education); By Susan Wenzel Getter and Jan Kimosh.

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