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Ceramic Leaf Bowl
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Students will explore beauty in nature, learn the structure of the leaf/purposes of the leaf, learn draped slab forming technique, exhibit skills and craftsmanship in handling clay and exhibit skill in glazing.

Subject:
Arts Education
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Incredible Art Department
Author:
Jeryl Hollingsworth
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Exploring Your Nature Neighborhood: Creating a Nature Journal
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The North Carolina Museum of Natural Science created this resource as part of an online workshop series, but you are welcome to use or modify it for your classroom. It includes a video and written directions for creating nature journals and tips for incorporating them into your classroom. For information on taking any the Nature Neighborhood online workshops for CEUs or EE credit, visit: https://naturalsciences.org/learn/educators/online-workshops.

Subject:
Arts Education
English Language Arts
Science
Social Studies
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Author:
NC Museum of Natural Sciences
Date Added:
07/31/2023
GEDB Learning About Animals Around the Globe: Make a Paper Hand Puppet (Lesson 2 of 4)
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Students will use their animal sketches and notes from the last art class to generate ideas and create a 3-D paper hand puppet of the animal they chose to study. Teacher will demonstrate a variety of paper sculpture and folding techniques. Students will use these paper sculpture techniques and choose contrasting colors/shapes to create an expressive hand puppet with big, bold, and expressive elements of art. Some recycled papers will be used to teach recycling and conserving of our paper resources. Fraction folding techniques/terminology will integrate math into this art lesson. This lesson was developed by Nancy McGuire as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.            

Subject:
Arts Education
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Author:
Melody Casey
Date Added:
12/11/2019
GEDB Learning About Animals Around the Globe: Perform a Puppet Show (Lesson 4 of 4)
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Students will collaborate in groups to plan and present a puppet show using their hand puppets and illustrated animal booklets. They will share what they have learned about animals around the globe with their classmates through these puppets and illustrated booklets. Groups will be assigned by the teacher according to their animals' regions/habitats of the world. This lesson will use all the information learned and products created during this unit called "Learning About Animals Around the Globe". This lesson was developed by Nancy McGuire as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.            

Subject:
Arts Education
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Author:
Melody Casey
Date Added:
12/12/2019
GEDB Learning About Animals Around the Globe: Research and Sketch (Lesson 1 of 4)
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Students will learn about animals around the globe through growing awareness, research, and sharing of their perspectives about animals and their particular habitats. In this first introductory lesson, students will listen to discussion, view images, and then research animals from various regions of the world using internet images and an assortment of animal books provided at their work tables. After the class discussion and individual study of resources, students will choose one animal as a focus and become familiar with its physical characteristics, habitat, and fun facts to share during a future lesson. Students will then use drawing paper and pencil to render quick sketches of their animal showing its physical characteristics. These sketches will be used during the next art lesson when students will create a 3-D paper puppet of their animal. This lesson was developed by Nancy McGuire as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.            

Subject:
Arts Education
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Author:
Melody Casey
Date Added:
12/11/2019
GEDB Learning About Animals Around the Globe: Write and Illustrate a Booklet (Lesson 3 of 4)
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Students will use their notes, sketches, and paper hand puppet from the previous lessons in this unit to write and illustrate a booklet about their animal and the global region where it lives/lived.  Students will understand the correlation between art and literacy as they create a short booklet about their animal and its habitat. Students will prepare to share these short stories with their peers in the form of a collaborative puppet show when they have completed their illustrated booklets. This lesson was developed by Nancy McGuire as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.            

Subject:
Arts Education
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Author:
Melody Casey
Date Added:
12/12/2019
History Detectives
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Students will put on their 'detective hats' and use magnifying glasses to find evidence that supports attributing the paintings in the Molleno Altar Screen to one artist and one piece. They will work in small groups and present a case to share with the entire class. They will also explore what would need to be different for them to prove that the pieces do not belong together.

Students will be able to: describe what an altar screen is; state that Molleno painted the scenes for this particular altar screen; develop and support a theory or hypothesis using details and logic; and share what they think and have learned with other students and the teacher.

Subject:
Arts Education
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Denver Art Museum
Author:
Denver Art Museum
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Monochrome Mania
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Students will learn the concept of and procedure for changing color value. They will then apply these new understandings as they create their own abstract scribble design and use a monochromatic palette to paint their design with watercolor paint.

Subject:
Arts Education
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Incredible Art Department
Author:
Stormey Kasser
Date Added:
02/26/2019
NC Kids' Exploration Journal
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The NC Kids' Exploration Journals are a fun educational tool to help youth explore their communities and natural surroundings! Each journal contains: 18 multidisciplinary activities with guided prompts, 6 lined journal pages for recording observations and reflections, and 4 blank pages for individual creativity.

The digital versions of the journal are designed to be printed out for students either as individual activities or in its entirety so that they can explore their school yard, local park, or own backyard. Though designed for 1st - 5th-graders, older audiences may enjoy them too! They are also available in both English and Spanish languages.

While supplies last, hard copies of the journals are currently available for free to teachers by contacting karen.ipock@ncdcr.gov.

Subject:
Arts Education
English Language Arts
Healthful Living
Science
Social Studies
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Interactive
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
DNCR
NC Arts Council A+ Schools Program
NC Department of Natural & Cultural Resources
NC Museum of Natural Sciences
NC State Parks
NCArtsCouncil
NCDNCR
NCMNS
NCStateParks
Date Added:
11/10/2021
A Natural Balance in Photography and Poetry
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Students will brainstorm a list of adjectives to describe two early photographs called "cyanotypes." Next they will create their own cyanotype photograph. Students will then write original poetry using the previous list of adjectives to describe their own nature-inspired cyanotype photograph.

Subject:
Arts Education
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
J. Paul Getty Trust
Author:
Julie Lambert
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Playground Shape Art Elements
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Students will use their observational skills as they observe and discern different geometric shapes, art elements of line and space, and art principles of emphasis and balance found within the construction of their playground equipment. The students will analyze playground equipment, identifying the various elements incorporated in the construction of the pieces

Subject:
Arts Education
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Incredible Art Department
Author:
Stormey Kasser
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Portrait Diptych
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This lesson features a glue relief self portrait and personal portrait image covered with aluminum foil on the outside cover. On the inside are special messages about the "artist" and his or her special image.

Subject:
Arts Education
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Incredible Art Department
Author:
Dawn Stienecker
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Teaching Resources from the Denver Art Museum
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This free website provides more than 600 adaptable lesson plans written by teachers in collaboration with the Denver Art Museum for more than 130 objects from the museums world-class art collection. Lesson plans and resources focus on inspiring students to think and problem-solve creatively. Organized in an easy way so that teachers can pick the topic they would like to explore or enhance, then use works of art to teach that subject.

High resolution images are included. Museum visits are not necessary to implement lesson plans. Includes professional and student development tools such as teacher workshops and webinars, virtual classroom courses, career videos, educator blogs and creativity tools. Easy for teachers in language arts, social studies and visual arts to provide a curriculum rooted in the arts while also meeting 21st Century Skills.

Subject:
Arts Education
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Denver Art Museum
Author:
Denver Art Museum
Date Added:
02/26/2019
What's In Your Tree?
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Students will learn the value of and how to incorporate symbolism as a means of expressing personal meaning as they create an original family tree which represents their family and culture. They will incorporate language arts skills through expressing their personal story in writing a composition, as well as history as they orally express the ideas they have set forth both in their symbolic rendering as well as their writing composition.

Subject:
Arts Education
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Incredible Art Department
Author:
Stormey Kasser
Date Added:
02/26/2019