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Critical thinking graphic arts resources for Microsoft Word
*Introduction to Art Curriculum for Middle School Art or High School Art
Looking for a comprehensive visual art curriculum for middle or high school students? Look no further than this visual art curriculum This course is jam-packed with classroom management tools, engaging lessons, creative projects, fun worksheets, and more to keep your students inspired and motivated throughout the school year. The full scope and sequence chart makes it easy to implement.With everything you need for a year-long or semester-long course, this curriculum includes 15 quality projects
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6th - 12th
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Computer Science Webquest: 8 Ways Computer Technology Solves Real Problems
From artificial intelligence to artificial limbs, computer science is changing lives, and the way we work and find solutions to problems. These 8 (actually 10 with an added nonprofit example!) scenarios present problems in life (such as car safety, and graffiti), ask students to think and reflect quietly about these problems cause damage and how computers might solve them, and then show cutting edge videos from the past 3 years that employ solutions using computers and automation. Updated for 2
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6th - 9th
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TED Talk Worksheet
Use this worksheet as a general guide for any TED Talk! This worksheet asks students to identify the speaker's claim/thesis and support for it. Students then reflect on the information shared in the talk.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Pen and Ink Drawing Unit Bundle
In this Pen and Ink Drawing Unit bundle you will get everything you need to teach weeks of pen and ink activities that will build mark making confidence in your Middle School or High School students. This lesson introduces line value techniques: hatching, cross hatching, stippling, scumbling and cross contour lines. It also includes several high quality pen and ink drawing examples from Art History, Contemporary Art and Student Work. This is the perfect start of the year lesson to build skills a
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7th - 12th
Kindergarten Graduation Craft
Editable Kindergarten (or preschool) Graduation Craft. Everything you need to complete the Kindergarten Graduation craft as shown in the Preview!
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PreK - K
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Graphic Design I/Vol. 1: Beginning Adobe Photoshop Projects
This bundle includes handouts for 5 Photoshop projects that I teach at the beginning of the year in a high school Computer Graphics class, a.k.a. Graphic Design class. These start off very easy and add tools and skills with each project. In addition, I have included Teacher Notes with suggestions for anyone new to this type of class, which I have taught for 14 years. Of course, in Photoshop there are always several different ways to do the same thing, so please adapt to your preferred method. I
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Adobe Photoshop Bundle for High School Art and Graphic Design
Infographic Creation Mini Unit & Assignment
Infographics are great tools to get students processing and contextualizing the information that they research while allowing them to creatively convey what they’ve learned. This makes them perfect for any class! This assignment was designed to teach students about the core concepts of infographic texts, how to make the basic visualizations (graphs, flow/pie charts, tables, titles, etc.) that comprise them, and how to incorporate them all together into a layout that conveys information for a sin
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Math Project-Create Own Dream Home-Blueprints and Floor Plan (perimeter & area)
Create blueprints and/or floor plans for your own dream home!!
Your little architects will love dreaming big with this project. Using their imaginations and graph paper, they will create their own blueprints.They will be learning area, measurement and perfecting those problem solving and critical thinking skills. The bonus is they won't even know it because they will be having fun.
This project is very "real life" oriented.
For the younger grades this would be better for the GT students. Or
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3rd - 9th
Inquiry Based Learning Project: VAPING
An Inquiry Based Learning Project your students are going to love!Vaping has become more and more common over that past decade, but how (un)healthy is it really for us? Students are given a general overview of how inquiry projects work, and are then set loose to dive into an authentic research process. At the end, they are given the option of presenting in one of four different modes: A presentation, a podcast, a documentary film, or an essay. This Package Includes:An Introduction to VapingAn Ov
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
Also included in: THE HEALTH & PHYSICAL EDUCATION CLASS BUNDLE
Informational Text Lesson on Hot Topics: Internet Safety, Woes of the Web
This is a set questions paired with two articles that pose the essential question: Do you know what your digital footprint looks like? The articles catch students' attention immediately, and spark some serious discussion. Not only will students be engaged throughout this mini unit, but also they will be practicing key ELA skills. Student Experience: This lesson provides a close reading guide with questions for each article and then provides and argumentative prompt to pull both of them togeth
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Also included in: Hot Topics Informational Text Lessons: BUNDLE, Set #1
Making Inferences: Pixar Short Film For the Birds
After watching Pixar's short film: For the Birds, students will infer by answering three questions and providing clues that lead to their inference.
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K - 10th
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Tile Pattern Printmaking Unit Bundle
In this bundle you will get everything you need to teach a successful printmaking unit to high school, homeschool or adult students even if you are new to printmaking yourself!This bundle includes:Tile Pattern Printmaking Powerpoint Slideshow- guides students through the basics of block printing, techniques, tools, and processes. Includes three pre- final project activities to build skills and confidence. Includes clear images of step by step process and beautiful images of student work.Tile Pat
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
Inquiry Based Learning Project: ENERGY DRINKS
An Inquiry Based Learning Project your students are going to love!Energy Drinks are one of the fastest growing sections of the food industry, and a growing issue in high schools everywhere (over 40% of students admit to having had one in the last three months!). But what exactly are they at risk of? Are energy drinks better than drinking coffee or a can of soda? Are they ok to have on occasion?Our students should know the truth about the drinks they're consuming and their affects, but more impor
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: THE HEALTH & PHYSICAL EDUCATION CLASS BUNDLE
*Middle School Art, High School Art Year long; Intro to Art 1 & 2 Curriculum
This visual art curriculm is packed with lifelong tools and includes everything you need to run your Middle or High School Introdcution to Art class. Highly organized, it includes a full Scope & Sequence charts, Visual Timelines, Engaging Lessons with Demonstration Videos, and Google-friendly Presentations. Everything you need to teach a full year of High School Art, or four semesters of Middle School Art is included.Teaching art can be challenging for many reasons, large class sizes a wide
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6th - 12th
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Magazines: Persuasive Writing & Media Mini Unit & Assignment
This mini unit is one students of all ages love, as it's focused on more creative, persuasive writing, and the media/artistic design of their own magazine!It's perfect for in class and/or as take home work, depending on your needs. The unit is comprised of two focal parts/assignments that can be taught together or separately: the first is writing an informal, persuasive (‘soft’) magazine article; the second is to actually design and create a magazine (covers, layouts, table of contents, ads).THE
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: THE PERSUASIVE WRITING MULTI UNIT BUNDLE
Behavior Reflection Sheet
We use this in our first grade class to help students understand the consequences of their actions. They "Stop and Reflect" in order to make a better choice the next time.
*I have recently updated the document to include a middle grade version for 3-5 with more grade appropriate wording and formatting!
After it is completed, fold in half to keep private. The student signs it, the teacher signs it, then it goes home for the parent to sign.
It has helped our parent communication immensely to
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PreK - 5th
Life During the Dust Bowl: A Gallery Walk Exercise
Engage your students in developing historical empathy regarding the experience of an individual living through the Dust Bowl with the use of historical photographs. Using a gallery walk format, students will examine the impact of the Dust Bowl and the experience of migrant families. Activity includes a pre-gallery walk activity and exit ticket, which involves students using what they learned to imagine that they are writing to a family member about their experience living during the Dust Bowl. T
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: US History Gallery Walk Activity Bundle
Primary GATE with Caldecott -- "Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!" Mo Willems
Let’s have some fun along with the Pigeon and expand DOK along the way! This lesson will lead your primary GATE students through four challenging activities, culminating in an artistic response showing why they “never get to do anything!” either.
Gifted and talented learners carry similar characteristics throughout their lives—even as kindergarten and first graders. One common characteristic of gifted learners is a strong sense of justice. Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus gives us a good o
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K - 3rd
The Critical Thinking Toolkit: DESIGN SPRINT (Design Thinking Activity)
Give your classes the critical thinking tools and frameworks they need to think through big, complicated issues, as well as training them to reflect on their own thinking patterns and behaviours!Design Sprints are creative problem-solving tools for moving your student’s thinking forward a lot in a small amount of time (1-2 hours) by taking them through a series of timed brainstorming, feedback, and iteration sessions. The logic behind them is that it’s better to test and figure out all the thing
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: THE CRITICAL THINKING BUNDLE
Adobe Photoshop Bundle: 3 Robust Introductory Lessons
This bundle includes 3 robust introductory digital art lessons for Adobe Photoshop: Visual Autobiography, Digital Surreal Collage and Digital Painting. I typically teach these three lessons in this order at the start of my semester long digital art course. Visual Autobiography:In this introductory Adobe Photoshop lesson students will gain confidence with the basic tools of Photoshop: Image resizing/cropping/free transform, color adjustments, white balancing, selection tools, layer masks, dodge/b
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8th - 11th
Argumentation/C.E.R. writing- Murder Mystery #2 - Improve student argumentation!
This is a follow up lesson to the Slip or Trip Murder Mystery! I use this lesson to re-teach my students understand Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning in writing later on in the school year. I've also used it as an extension activity for students that need to be challenged as this one is a bit more challenging than Slip or Trip. Cross-curricular - can be used in science and social studies classes as well.Included with purchase:- Copy of crime scene photo with story and discussion questions for group
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5th - 12th
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The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan - Teacher's Guide and Activities GATE
The beauty in The Lost Thing is that it settles into one’s soul in a casual and poetic way. What starts as a sort of amusing but sad story finds its way deeper into your heart. You begin to wonder, to ask questions. Soon you find yourself wanting to stand up and defend all the lost things in the world—including that lost part of yourself.
Are you somehow guilty too, you wonder? Quite unexpectedly, you begin to really feel the world Shaun Tan creates. It is a wonderful experience in mindf
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4th - 12th
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Also included in: 2019-2020 Gifted and Talented GATE Program for the Year - Elementary
Making Inferences: Pixar Short Film One Man Band
After watching Pixar's short film: One Man Band, students will infer by answering three questions and providing clues that lead to their inference.
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K - 8th
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Spinner Templates both Black and White and Colorful for CD or DVD
The following attachment has both a black and white and colored templates for spinners ranging from one to ten parts. The spinners are made to size on a CD or DVD in case you want to use a disc. These are also great graphics for teaching fractions or percentages.
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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