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| A Tribute to Miró
Students create a modern artist's painting in the style of Spanish artist Joan Miró (1893-1983). Students explore how horizontal, vertical and curved lines can be combined with basic geometric and natural shapes to create an original painting.
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Visual Arts |
Math |
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| Adjective Monster
Students will be introduced to adjectives and explore how descriptive words are used to creatively tell stories. Students will choose an adjective to describe a monster, and then create their own monster using paper sculpture techniques.
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Visual Arts |
Math |
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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 |
Math |
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| All Around the Baseball Field
Explore baseball by constructing a mock baseball field using an assortment of materials including pattern blocks, tiles and a variety of geometric shapes.
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Music, Theater, Visual Arts |
Math |
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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 |
Math |
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| Architectural Clues
Students will identify meaning in visual form, and distinguish between visual and verbal language.
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Visual Arts |
Math |
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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 |
Math |
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| Castles & Cornerstones
This lesson will explore the historic importance and function of castles in King Arthur's time, and introduce students to a general history of castles and architectural terms.
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Visual Arts |
Math |
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| Cinderella Trilogy
Students will compare and contrast different versions of the Cinderella story.
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Theater, Visual Arts |
Math |
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| Counting Crows
Fusing math and art, students analyze Aesop's fable, "The Crow and the Pitcher" through puppetry and experimentation.
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Theater, Visual Arts |
Math |
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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 |
Math |
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| Creating "AB" Patterns
Students will construct patterns concept using visual arts designs and math manipulatives.
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Visual Arts |
Math |
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| Cultural Creation Myths
Students explore the creation mythologies of three different cultures and present a play on one of them.
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Theater |
Math |
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| First Rhythmic Composition
This lesson introduces rhythm concepts, including the names and symbols associated with music notation.
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Music |
Math |
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| Hats Off To Color
Early primary students will learn about primary and secondary colors.
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Theater, Visual Arts |
Math |
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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 |
Math |
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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 |
Math |
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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 |
Math |
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| Lewis and Clark: Prized Possession
Students will learn about Sacagawea, Native American wampum, and the concept of a prized possession.
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Visual Arts |
Math |
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| Mandalas and Polygons
Students will learn about mandalas, and their importance across cultures. Then, students will apply basic principles of geometry and art design to make their own mandalas.
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Visual Arts |
Math |
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| Melodies & Math: Telephone Improvisations
In this lesson students will use the keypad of an online telephone to improvise melodies using 4/4 and 2/4 time, create instruments to accompany their numeric melody, and stage a collaborative class performance using each group’s composition.
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Music |
Math |
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| Music Composition
This nine-week unit in music composition covers elements of rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic composition.
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All |
Math |
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| Planets in Balance
Students create their own mobiles containing planets and satellites.
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Visual Arts |
Math |
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| Rhythm and Art: Elements of Art
Students learn about the elements of line, shape and color in art.
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Visual Arts |
Math |
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| Rhythm, Math, Rhythm
This lesson explores the relationship between rhythm and math.
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Music |
Math |
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| Shakespeare Stealer
This four-lesson unit centers around the play The Shakespeare Stealer, and the book of the same name.
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Dance, Theater, Visual Arts |
Math |
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| Shaping Patterns and Dancing Shapes
Students explain, and then use rope to create, several geometric shapes. They then create a dance based on the shapes.
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Dance |
Math |
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| Songs from the Past
In this lesson, students explore historical songs and analyze lyrics in order to learn about historical times and happenings.
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Music |
Math |
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| Wonka's New Product
Students propose making a new candy by writing a persuasive letter to the character of Willy Wonka.
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Dance |
Math |
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