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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
How to Draw a 3D House (2-Point Perspective)
This lesson is designed for students who have learned how to draw basic boxes using 2-point perspective.
This is a two-part lesson that is designed to show students that their quality of their artwork can be improved by applying what they know about linear perspective. The lesson will reveal successful "before and after" pictures.
Part #1: Students (who have been taught the principles of 2-point perspective) will be challenged to draw a house. Most students will revert to old drawing habits
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4th - 12th
Adjectives for Describing Art Poster
This is a page/poster that students can use as a reference when writing about art. Great for teachers of art history, art teachers, and elementary teachers teaching art. Also great for gifted and talented learners. It is a great way for any teacher of writing to incorporate new vocabulary and incorporate art into writing.
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Famous Artist Research Project
Have your students research and report on a famous artist. Included in this pack: description of report and visual aid, rubric for project, graphic organizer for research notes, and list of artists with descriptions and images of works to choose from.
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9th - 12th
Also included in: 27 lessons and activities: Advanced Art (High School and Adult Ed)
3D initials Art Project
Perfect lesson for 6th-12th grade students. It is an intensely fun project that your intense art students will love.The lesson uses recycled materials and beautiful collage of scraps of decorative paper.
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8th - 12th
Also included in: 28 lessons and activities: Beginning HS Art (9th to 12th grade)
Primary GATE with Caldecott - BLACKOUT by John Rocco
The beauty of quality “picture book” literature is not only in the fantastic artwork but also in the interplay of pictures and words to create meaning from shared experiences.
As emerging readers, our primary-aged GATE students are becoming adept at solving inferential “puzzles” which bring the world of literature fully to life. In this lesson, we help our young thinkers dig deeper by making visual-language connections. They’ll answer critical thinking questions with inferences through the de
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1st - 3rd
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Typography - Lettering Art Project - Middle School Font Lesson Guide
This lettering project was a huge success with my middle school students! It can be used in a face-to-face, hybrid, or a virtual learning setting!This product includes:25+ slides detailing each step of this process.Basic pacing I used for my 40 minute class periods. It is totally editable as I uploaded it as the original PowerPoint file!If you want the fonts I used, I have included a PDF copy of the project!Example work Rough Drafting/Planning Worksheet PDF
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5th - 12th
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Also included in: Art Bundle - Growing Bundle!
WEP (Written Education Plan) layout for Visual Arts Students
A google doc that can be easily copied and edited with a WEP format to make visual art WEP writing a breeze. Edit to your specified needs. This includes a checklist of other gifted ID areas, art class enrollment checklist, school provided support list, optional support parents can provide, goals, timeline, signatures
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K - 12th
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Brave Irene - Classic Picture Books for Primary GATE - Dress Design Metaphors
Full of hands-on activities and critical thinking, your students will deliver physical metaphors to brighten the day for someone special. They’ll measure, design, and style clothing using miniature dress-making dummies just like Irene’s mother, and they’ll perform and share in an active vocabulary in context activity. Of course, this bundle contains plenty of critical thinking questions to keep those minds humming while the hands are not busy.
This unit is right on target for middle elementar
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2nd - 5th
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Photo Analysis Project - Media Literacy & Analysis
Extend your students’ analysis skills with this Photo Analysis Project. Students become the photographer and share a photo with a classmate. They analyze each other’s photos and write a formal and literary analysis. Editable in PowerPoint. (grades 7-10 ELA, Yearbook, and Journalism)This is a lesson in my Photo Analysis Unit, and it's great for teaching students to integrate audience, purpose, and context into their analyses.What You Get:1. Introduction to writing a photo analysis2. Peer conferen
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7th - 10th, Higher Education
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Animation and Critical Thinking for GATE and Generation Z -- The Piano FREE
4th Graders through adults find this video and activity fascinating. Let's try it FREE!Maybe your students will ask the same question mine did, "When can we do this again?"Using a short 2 minute video and an accompanying "Visual Inference Guide," students quickly become engaged in a critical analysis as they share insights with classmates--connecting video and literature.This format works for upper elementary through high school honors classes because students respond according to their abilit
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
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Primary GATE with Caldecott -- The House in the Night
The House in the Night gives us a wonderful opportunity to challenge primary level gifted learners—in language and poetry, critical and metaphorical thinking, visually, and artistically.
In this lesson, students will:
a.) discover the pattern of the poem and discuss critical thinking questions about the book,
b.) think critically about symbols, metaphors and language using a graphic organizer and class discussion,
c.) construct a personalized cumulative pattern poem,
d.) And thoughtfully i
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1st - 3rd
Principles of Design PowerPoint Presentation
This is a presentation that I use with my Yearbook class, though I am sure it is applicable to any art class that covers the principles of design. The principles that are explained and illustrated are Balance, Emphasis or Dominance, Variety and Rhythm. The presentation includes definitions and tons of examples. There is a slide at the end that asks, 'What principles of design do these illustrate?' This is where you can add your own examples (consider adding copyrighted material like famous paint
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5th - 12th
Geometry, Angles and Measurement in Art
An excellent culminating project or differentiated/compacting assignment for your geometry and angles unit. The students will learn about Cubism's history, defining elements, and important artists. They will view major works of Cubist art with guiding questions about geometric attributes, lines and angles. Finally, a project is presented where students will recreate a famous work of art. They will write a paper that analyzes the geometric attributes, lines, and angles of the work. (Specific guid
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4th - 6th
Artist Study: Leonardo da Vinci
Use this powerpoint to engage your students in a biographical study on da Vinci.
Includes information on his most famous paintings and an activity called Modern Day Mona Lisa. Kids love this project!! Use google images to download a printable coloring page FREE!
If you like this: My other studies are also in my store! O'Keeffe & Van Gogh
Copyright Carmen Mares 2015
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2nd - 5th
Ceramic Bust Lesson
For your 9th-12th grade or adults students as a challenge or final project. lesson includes basic instructions -written and visual, historical bust images, examples of student and master work, ideas for alternative/extension activities.
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10th - 12th, Adult Education
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The Giver Culminating Tic-Tac-Toe Activities
This Tic-Tac-Toe menu is ready to go! Students will choose one activity from the board to complete, or can develop their own choice and confirm it with the teacher. These projects are meant to be completed after reading The Giver by Lois Lowry.
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5th - 8th
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Art History Exam and Study Notes (Humanities-Literature class)
Here is a 100-question Art History Exam from the Renaissance to Contemporary periods. The test includes matching and multiple choice, covering a wide array of specific artists, art works, and artistic eras. Also included is an Art Notes handout for student study.
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8th - 12th, Adult Education
Art and Architecture of the Americas and Africa - Group Project
This is a MS Word document that details an art and architecture project related to tribal cultures in the Americas and Africa. It has been used primarily for AP Art History, but could also be used in a World History, Geography or Art setting. Cultures included in the Project:
1. Maya
2. Aztec
3. Inca
4. Central Andean Culture (Nazca, Moche, Chavin)
5. North American Indian
6. Sub-Saharan Africa (Nok, Benin)
Students are divided into groups and required to make a 10-20 minute unit to teach to t
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7th - 12th
Chinese Dynasty Project: Stop Motion
If you love teaching history through project based learning, this activity is a hit! Whether it is for Chinese History, World History, or Geography (what I created it for), the best way for students to learn is through creating. Attached is project with grading criteria, an example video, and a note sheet to use during their time to "show" their stop-motions. You use your digression as to how they create the stop-motion as well as if you would like to further assess over their class notes with a
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7th - 12th
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Photographer Interview Project - Media Literacy & Analysis
Extend your students’ analytical ability with Photo Analysis. In this project, students interview a photographer in order to build an understanding of purpose, context, and audience for their art. Then, they use this new understanding to analyze one of the photographer’s pieces. This resource includes a guidelines/brainstorming page and a project rubric, both editable in PPT. (grades 7-10 ELA, Yearbook, and Journalism)This is a lesson in my Photo Analysis Unit, and it's great for teaching studen
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7th - 10th, Higher Education
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Chromatography
This Chromatography lesson produces a tangible memento of the lesson. It also very visually illustrates the use of chemical dissolution methods as used in CSI investigations. The creative writing assignment attached is so challenging and integrated with the project that students may not even realize they are working!
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7th - 8th
"Games in the Orchard" A Scary (yet 'friendly') Theater Script
This is a scary, yet friendly conventional script that will undoubtedly thrill your drama group. [Some discretion is advised.]Parker Ward will be entering Junior High School in the Fall; he and his brother (Evan, a couple years his senior) along with a neighbor friend (Robert Allard), are spending the night at their uncle’s property. Unfortunately, the large ranch has a number of rather ‘scary’ attributes. Many years ago, an horrific accident took place with an itinerant worker (the man was mur
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Classroom Magazine
This assignment is the perfect enrichment activity, especially for advanced or honors courses. It is project-based and student-led! The project is designed to simulate a real magazine company, with the students taking the roles of chief editors, editors, and writing staff. Students are required to communicate with each other, make decisions together, and to create several different types of writing. Students will actually create a professionally printed magazine using design software of the teac
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6th - 12th
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