Students will analyze images from Joris Hoefnagel's Mira calligraphiae monumenta. They will illustrate a figurative saying featuring an animal, such as a simile, metaphor, hyperbole, or personification. They will write the saying in ornate font and draw the animals using pens, colored pencils, or markers.
Students will explore ancient Roman history. They will discuss and analyze different stories and images of statues. They will create a statue and write a narrative about the sculpture.
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Students will analyze a small corner of a painting, focusing on color, line, shape, mood, and imagery. They will each be given a small portion of the larger painting. They will sketch their portion after analyzing it. Finally, students will put their sketches together like a puzzle to form the entire painting.
We spend more time than ever using media and everywhere we turn there are messages telling us how we should look that can make us feel less confident about our appearance. While we’re probably not going to use fewer media, we can protect our self-image and body confidence from media’s narrow-body ideals that reinforce thinness for women and muscularity for men. It’s all about asking the right questions.
Body image refers to how people see themselves. Distorted body image (also called negative body image) refers to an unrealistic view of how someone sees their body. Like eating disorders, it is seen most commonly in women, but many men also suffer from the disorder.
You begin forming your perceptions of your body’s attractiveness, health, acceptability, and functionality in early childhood. This body image continues to form as you age and receive feedback from peers, family members, coaches, etc.
Personality traits such as perfectionism and self-criticism can also influence the development of a negative internalized image of your body.
Students will analyze Sebastiano Ricci's Perseus Confronting Phineus with the Head of Medusa. They will discuss the story elements found in the painting, such as setting, characters, and actions. Students will be given a print of a painting and write a narrative based on the characters and setting. Based on their narrative, students will illustrate what happened before and after the given painting.
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Students will discuss how animals camouflage and the reasons why animals use camouflage in the wild. They will analyze A Hare in the Forest by Hans Hoffman. They will find animals that are camouflaged in the painting. Students will draw an animal that uses camouflage. They will create a crayon resist and use watercolors to fill their piece.
Teachers and parents understand how digital mistakes can hurt feelings, reputations, and privacy. But it can be harder to convince kids that a seemingly harmless post today could be misunderstood tomorrow—let alone in the future and by people, they never thought would see it. These activities use concrete examples and thought‑provoking discussions to teach young learners how to maintain a positive online presence and protect their privacy.
This resource is a 139-page unit plan with materials, scenarios, and conversation starters focused on digital safety.
Students will analyze decorated letters from illuminated manuscripts. They will create a paper collage using an outline of a letter. They will draw an animal that begins with the same letter. Images will be compiled to create a class alphabet book.
Students will measure space and furniture using their feet. They will analyze Bed (Lit à la Turque) by Jean-Baptiste Tilliard. At home, students will sketch their bed and measure it with their feet. In class, the students will compare and contrast the size of their bed with Bed (Lit à la Polonaise).
Students will explore architecture and the job of an architect. They will discuss the difference between organic and geometric shapes. They will sketch the outside of the school building. Students will trace sketch lines with black crayons to create a wax resist. They will paint the building with watercolors.
Students will analyze paintings of landscapes, focusing on texture. They will sketch an imagined landscape. They will create textures using rubbings and write a letter to a friend or family member describing their landscape. The drawing will be glued to the front of a postcard with the letter on the back.
Students will analyze illuminated manuscripts. They will identify decorated initials, historiated initials, borders, illuminations, parchment, and scribe. They will write a fairy tale and illustrate it in the style of illuminated manuscripts.
Students will analyze two beds, Lit à Polonaise and Lit à Turque. They will draw a bed using three-dimensional drawing techniques. They will build and paint a three-dimensional model of the bed.
Students will discuss fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen. They will sketch a character from one of the fairy tales. They will create a portrait using colored pencils, crayons, pastels, or watercolors.
Students will discuss wildlife - both plants and animals. They will go outdoors and sketch animals and plants. They will analyze a still-life painting, Vase of Flowers by Jan van Huysum. Students will collaborate to make a large collaged still-life.
Students will analyze illuminated letters. They will tell personal stories and illustrate them. Students will illuminate a letter that represents the most important part of their story.
Students will listen to and analyze Antonín DvoÅ™ák's music. They will discuss spirituals and Native American music. They will discuss inspiration and influence on different types of music. They will compose melodic music about something that inspires them.
Students will work in groups of four. Each one will take a turn leading the group in an improvisational musical activity - movement, melody, or rhythm. They will define ensemble and quartet.
Students will listen to the story Mouse Paint by Ellen Stohl Walsh while they mix primary colors. They will discuss how different colors make us feel different emotions. They will listen to Antonio Vivaldi's Four Seasons. They will discuss how music makes us feel different moods. They will illustrate each season while they listen.
Students will analyze music by describing the dynamics, pitch, and duration. They will move to show emotion in the music. They will use finger paints to express their emotion while listening to music.
Students will explore the history and art of masks. They will decorate their own mask using a variety of materials. They will display their mask and discuss art elements included in the design.
Students will collect mementos and pictures that are meaningful to them. They will use these pictures, magazine pictures, and/or scrap pieces of paper to create a collage.
Students will explore the history of quilts, uses of quilts, and quilt block patterns. They will create a pattern for a collage quilt block. Each student will complete one block to be used in the class quilt.
Students will collect an assortment of paper merchandise wrappers. They will create a collage paper background. They will cut out words using Inovart Print Foam sheets to create a printing plate. They will ink the plate and stamp the collaged background.
Students will analyze resist paintings. They will use oil pastels to draw a vase, stems, and flowers. They will use watercolors to create the resist wash filling all empty space with color.
Students will choose a version to start mixing music. They will drag and drop different beatboxes and melodic riffs to the different cartoon characters. They can mute/unmute a sound by clicking on the character. They can share their composition.
Students will collect leaves. They will sing a song about fall/leaves. They will compose a B section for the song using instruments.
This mini-book includes several tips to help a beginning ukulele player. It includes chords, strumming patterns, and links to ukulele demonstration videos.
Students will read Max Found Two Sticks by Brian Pinkney. They will define rhythm and beat. They will identify quarter note, quarter rest, and eighth notes. They will clap rhythm patterns.
Students will explore musical elements used to communicate, such as dynamics, pitch and tempo. They will listen to the book Ring! Yo? by Chris Raschka and decide how each sentence should be spoken. Students will analyze the "conversation" between instruments in III. Presto by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Students will listen to The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle and recall the number of food items eaten each day. Students will play unpitched percussion instruments for each food item while re-reading the book.
