Students integrate techniques in printmaking with readings in poetry and literature. They read various pieces of student literature and poetry, and create prints using various printmaking techniques.

Students are instructed to create a monster in a paragraph or even a short story. This activity allows students to work with new vocabulary. It is also a good way to practice using verbs and adjectives in Spanish.

Young scholars read Katherin Paterson's novel, Bridge to Terabithia and participate in a variety of enrichment activities. Lesson provides study questions for each chapter of the novel.

Young scholars studied photography in order to establish individual vision, creative thinking and writing skills while communicating ideas and emotions. They exhibit their work.

Students analyze a political cartoon, and at the same time cover the basic parts of speech, in order to view a cartoon and determine its subject, action verb, and object.

Learners explore how Julius Caesar's military brilliance forged a new Rome, but Augustus' political genius made it an empire for the ages. Despite being Caesar's nephew and adopted heir, Augustus struggled for thirteen years to...

Students compare the given rhyme to another rhyme that they already know (I Know An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly). Students listen and identify the similar rhyme pattern of the two rhymes and apply those concepts to a group creation of...

Students wget a chance to enhance their manual dexterity and follow a sequential process. Students gain an appreciation and an understanding of a culture other than their own.

Sixth graders engage in a visual arts lesson featuring still life sketching and watercolor painting created by individual students.

This lesson can be used in American history, social studies, and geography courses in units on westward expansion and the Civil War.

Students view examples of songs that have the ocean and its life as their themes. After hearing and reading them, students write their own, having done research on the social and political issues of the ocean's environment.

Fourth graders demonstrate lines of symmetry using polygons, pentominoes, and block letters of the alphabet. They describe, identify, and analyze characteristics and properties of geometric shapes.

Students create a three dimensional work while exploring the use of unconventional materials to create specific textures and designs. They explore basic concepts such as volume, form, texture and balance.

Students discuss the Revolution and consider the causes of the war, the attitudes of the colonists, and the position of the British. Then students explore American involvement in wars since the country's inception.

Pupils explore myths that explain the world, recognize some characters of Greco-Roman mythology and their symbols, and Make personal connections to the theme by writing and drawing a myth of their own.

Students recognize and clap the syncopated rhythmic beat of a rap song and identify recurring rhythmic pattern in the excerpt of "Dance of the Adolescents" from Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.

Students gain appreciation and knowledge of art history, specifically the African American contributions to folk art made in the South Carolina region.

Students create a crayon resist technique work. They use wax and water based paint to resist each other and repel.

Students create, transform, and critique their own piece of artwork. In doing this lesson, students get more experience working with angles, lines, and measurement. They gain experience seeing, and creating their own patterns and shapes.

Students learn the vocabulary of contemporary sculpture and distinguish between abstract and realistic sculpture, mobile and stabile, biomorphic and geometric. They write equations using Calder's mobiles

Young scholars participate in a discussion about the basics of house design including the influence of site, materials, function, form and style. They explore these concepts by creating a floor plan and conceptual drawing of a house.

Students examine the three historical portraits Andrew Jackson, iam Pitt and Portrait of a Boy for symbolism. They research Andrew Jackson's involvement in the Cherokee Indians' Trail of Tears in North Carolina, and compose a portrait.

Students visualize a character or event and personalize it through drawings.

Learners experience folk dance as a form of expressive art, and appreciate the rich cultural heritage of Eastern Europe.