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- Classification with pictures
- Students learn taxonomy through presenting a project to the class.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
- By Lemuel Lamb.
- Classifying transportation objects
- In this lesson the students will sort, classify, and label transportation items by various attributes.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Mathematics)
- By LuAda Skaggs.
- Classroom food web
- This lesson is to demonstrate which organisms feed on one another and how food webs are created.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Science)
- By Kurt Oswald.
- Clown portrait
- Students will create a clown portrait using tempera paint, oil pastels, and collage. They will look at prints of clowns from famous artists
You can even dress as a clown if you wish. - Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Visual Arts Education)
- By Michelle Harris.
- Collaging symmetry
- Students will create a symmetrical artwork with construction paper, glue, and yarn. This lesson will allow students to use critical thinking to create an original work. They should learn that there is more than one solution to a creative problem.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Visual Arts Education)
- By Marion McClure.
- 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.
- Colors and symbols of stigmatization
- This lesson is an introduction to the reading of Night by Elie Wiesel, which students will read independently. The students will do research to discover the different colors and symbols used to symbolize the Nazi party's list of undesirable people. The students will gain an understanding of how other people can arbitrarily judge other people as inferior.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 English Language Arts, English Language Development, and Social Studies)
- By Sandra Hurd and Wilma Gale.
- A comparison of the plant ecology of two fields
- Students will apply random sampling techniques to do a plant population/community/ecosystem study to model how these things are interrelated.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Science)
- By Linda Sutton.
- Congruent figures
- This is a fun, hands-on activity to help students identify congruent figures.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Mathematics)
- By Jennifer Robinson.
- Creating your own rock art
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 5.4
- Students will use regional rock art symbols or their own symbols to cooperatively create a rock art panel. They will also use a replica of a vandalized rock art panel to examine their feelings about rock art vandalism and discuss ways to protect rock art and other archaeological sites.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Visual Arts Education and Social Studies)
- Creature creation: An elaboration writing activity
- This lesson will focus on the writing element of elaboration. It will also tap into higher order thinking skills with the creation of a Coastal Plain imaginary animal and a creative story about the creature. This lesson could be linked to 4th grade Science and Social Studies objectives. For more in-depth knowledge in those other subjects, go to the lesson entitled Researching the Coastal Plain
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
- By Ana Sanders and Heather Ennis.
- 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.
- Decomposition in freshwater
- This lesson includes hands-on activities to demonstrate the process of decomposition in a freshwater ecosystem. It also focuses on the importance of decomposition and its critical role in the food chain.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Science)
- By Heather Lanier.
- 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.
- Describing words: Go Away, Big Green Monster
- The students will use describing words in their writing based on the book Go Away, Big Green Monster while integrating math concepts about shapes.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts and Mathematics)
- By Paula Jennings.
- A dicey stem and leaf plot
- After being introduced to a stem and leaf plot, students will be able to create their own stem and leaf plots.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5–6 Mathematics)
- By Debbie Newton.
- Digging up discoveries
- The students will study archaeology, practicing their knowledge of spelling patterns and capitalization and punctuation skills along the way. The students will go to a teacher-created excavation and discover a surprise in a “rock” from the excavation. The students will then write about their experience.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts and Science)
- By Alyssa Slater.
- Dinosaur math
- The children will be involved in several different activities (graphing, sorting and classifying, patterning) rotating to each station during the lesson.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics)
- By RobinC Adams.
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