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| Acoustical Science
This unit explores the connection between size and materials used to create a musical instrument, and the pitches and tones the instrument makes.
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Music |
Science |
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| Alexander Calder, Master of Balance
Students will gain a deeper understanding of levers and their functions by viewing the mobiles of Alexander Calder.
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Visual Arts |
Science |
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| Animal Habitats
Early primary students will learn about animal habitats through song, movement, and creative dramatization.
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Music, Theater |
Science |
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| Atomic and Molecular Structure
Students will use physical science knowledge to create movement patterns that simulate the movement of atoms and molecules.
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Dance |
Science |
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| Brass Instruments and Pitch
Students will create their own "brass" instruments, and make predictions about how pitch changes based on the distance air travels in the instrument.
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Music, Visual Arts |
Science |
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| Can You Measure Up?
Primary students will learn measuring skills as they explore cooking, movement, and creative dramatization.
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Theater, Visual Arts |
Science |
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| Crafts, from Gallery to Classroom
This unit introduces students to the techniques involved in landscape painting, chair design, treescapes, and pottery, while also addressing diverse subjects such as Native American culture and the environment.
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Visual Arts |
Science |
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| Dancing Winds
In this lesson, students are introduced to the heating and cooling, expanding and condensing properties of air masses. Students will use movement skills and dance to learn and communicate information about the patterns of wind cycles, and the attributes of the atmosphere.
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Dance |
Science |
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| Dreams in the Golden Country
This unit introduces students to American immigration paths and time periods, Ellis Island, and immigration waves of the late 19th to early 20th century.
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All |
Science |
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| Elements of Myths
After reading myths that explain natural phenomena, students identify elements of the literary form and create their own science-based myth.
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Theater |
Science |
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| Forests and Treescapes with Romey Stuckart
Romey Stuckart is an artist who creates large-scale paintings of the forest and her surroundings, skillfully balancing abstraction and representation. Her heavily textured paintings are filled with inspiration and intuition. Using Stuckart's painting "The Cedar" as a focal point, students will create paintings while learning about the role that forests play in our environment and our imagination.
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Visual Arts |
Science |
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| Grand Canyon: Stories Told and Untold
Students learn about various historical, social, environmental, and geological elements of the Grand Canyon through art.
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Music, Visual Arts |
Science |
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| Gyotaku: The Japanese Art of Fish Printing
Students learn about the Japanese art of fish printing and make their own fish prints.
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Visual Arts |
Science |
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| How Do Cells Reproduce?
Students explore scientific drawing as a means of communicating ideas and information as they learn about the process of mitosis, or cell division, in yeast.
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Visual Arts |
Science |
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| How Many Cells are Born in a Day?
Students predict and graph the number of cells resulting from a series of divisions, as part of an exploration of pattern and repetition in nature.
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Visual Arts |
Science |
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| Immigrant Contributions to America
Students will recognize the various contributions of immigrants to the United States.
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Theater |
Science |
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| Into the Woods, Jr.
This unit uses the Grimm Brothers' Book of Tales and Stephen Sondheims musical Into the Woods to help students create their own musical versions of Grimm's tales.
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Music, Theater, Visual Arts |
Science |
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| Kaleidoscopic Cloud Dance
In this lesson, students use hand-sculptures and body shapes to create tableaus of the constantly changing shapes of clouds. Kinesthetic learners will benefit from this lesson relating movement and dance activities to atmospheric properties, cloud types, and the wind.
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Dance |
Science |
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Landscape Painting with James Palmersheim
Students will be introduced to the art of painter James Palmersheim, and will create their own landscape paintings. Students will learn various techniques to create an effective foreground, middleground, and background, using James Palmersheim's painting as an example of these levels. Students will also learn how to portray the illusions of depth and reflection in a painting. |
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Visual Arts |
Science |
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| Lewis and Clark: Artful Recordings
Influenced by the production Lewis and Clark: West for America, students research, study and draw, plant and animal species discovered and recorded during the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
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Visual Arts |
Science |
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| Magicicada: A Life Cycle
Students will learn about the Magicicada, and they will create collage cicadas and poems using facts about cicadas along with origami replicas.
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Theater, Visual Arts |
Science |
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| Medieval and Renaissance Art: Botanical Symbolism
In this lesson, students explore how botanical illustrations contribute to the telling of story in a 12th, 13th and 14th century religious painting.
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Visual Arts |
Science |
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| Mixed Media Messages: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
In this lesson students will explore varied aspects of recycling, identify and draw recycling symbols, create a mock television commercial focusing on the benefits of recycling, and create a stage set backdrop made of recycled materials.
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Theater, Visual Arts |
Science |
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| Mutant Insects
Students will learn about mutation and mutagens. They will research types of insects, then create their own papier-mâché "morphed" insect.
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Visual Arts |
Science |
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| My Little Island
Students will learn about the geologic processes of island formation, and the impact of geologic history on culture.
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Theater |
Science |
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| Oceans: A Fact Haiku
The sound and movement of ocean waves may be called poetry in motion. This lesson uses the ocean to teach students about a form of Japanese poetry. After learning about haiku, and hearing haiku, students listen to the ocean to inspire them in writing their own haiku.
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Visual Arts |
Science |
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| Oxidation & Combustion: Chemical Reactions in Fire
This lesson uses fireworks as a lens through which students explore concepts such as exothermic and endothermic reactions, combustion, and oxidation-reduction reactions.
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Visual Arts |
Science |
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| Patterns of a Lighthouse
Students work in teams to design the Fenwick Island Lighthouse using visual, sound, and light patterns.
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Music, Visual Arts |
Science |
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| Percussion Instruments and Pitch
Students will make predictions and explore how pitch changes based on the materials used in instrument construction
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Music, Visual Arts |
Science |
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| Planets in Balance
Students create their own mobiles containing planets and satellites.
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Visual Arts |
Science |
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| Science Meets Artistry: The Work of Cai Guo-Qiang
Students will discuss the work of artist Cai Guo-Qiang, and they will understand the technological, logistical, and artistic factors for creating performance-oriented works in public spaces.
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Visual Arts |
Science |
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| Scientific Impressions
Within this unit, students are introduced to artistic representations of wind, trees, and flowers.
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Visual Arts |
Science |
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| Scratch Dance
After gathering factual information on an insect of their choice, students will create and perform an original poem, and in the process learn how a poem can be used to communicate information.
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Theater |
Science |
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| Shadows & Light, Science & Puppetry
Students will learn how light interacts with matter, by creating and performing shadow puppet plays.
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Theater, Visual Arts |
Science |
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| Sphere's Density Dance
Above our heads nature directs an atmospheric drama unparalleled here on the ground. This lesson focuses on students using movement at different levels (low, medium and high) to understand and convey concepts such as layering, air-density and particles.
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Dance |
Science |
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| String Instruments and Pitch
Students will create their own string instruments, and explore how pitch is altered.
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Music |
Science |
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| Sunflowers
Van Gogh’s sunflowers are used to introduce the parts of a flower, and to encourage students' own artistic impressions of flowers.
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Visual Arts |
Science |
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| Systems of the Body: Movement and Choreography
Basic systems and organs of the body are explained through movement exercises.
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Dance |
Science |
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| Trees in Art and Nature
Students learn about trees, comparing those depicted in Van Gogh's paintings to those found in nature. Leaf rubbings are created as a final activity.
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Visual Arts |
Science |
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| Uncovering the Legacy of Ancient Greece
This lesson is designed to bring students in general touch with major sources from which the knowledge of ancient Greece has been retrieved. Students will recognize that what we know of ancient Greece has come to us mainly through generations of scholarly research and analysis of artifacts recovered in archeological digs.
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Visual Arts |
Science |
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| Uppity Farm Animals
Students will analyze problems and create solutions by dramatizing the story, Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type and the poem, "Farmer Brown Has a Problem."
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Music, Theater |
Science |
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| Weather and Wind
Students will write a report on wind and weather patterns, and will create a dance demonstrating weather patterns.
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Dance |
Science |
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| Weather on the Move
This unit gives teachers instruction to lead and facilitate movement and dance activities about atmospheric properties, cloud types, and the wind.
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Dance |
Science |
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| What is Inside a Cell?
Students learn cell components and contribute to a class drawing of a cell by depicting a specific organelle within the composite cell.
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Visual Arts |
Science |
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| Who Has Seen the Wind?
The movement of the wind causes trees to sway, grass stalks to bend, and flowers to quiver in its wake. In this lesson, students are introduced to the Beaufort scale for measuring wind force, and learn techniques for portraying the concept of moving wind in painting, pantomime and poetry.
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Visual Arts |
Science |
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| Woodwind Instruments and Pitch
Students will make predictions and explore how pitch changes based on the length of the air pipe.
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Music, Visual Arts |
Science |
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