Students make place cards. In this lesson, students make place cards for the dinner table. The family changes where they would normally eat dinner by sitting somewhere else.

Students complete a St. Patrick's Day activity. In this St. Patrick's day lesson, students complete a dot to dot using Shamrock stickers. The stickers either make a picture or are just randomly placed. 

High schoolers become immersed in a compelling anecdote of the civil rights movement through the experience of constructing dramatic scripts. An added goal is to equip students, through this "hands-on" experience, to critique dramatic...

Students study bugs. In this counting lesson students place the correct number of fake bugs in each cup pretending they are real.

Students create farm mural that includes all the different things found on a farm.

Groups make a model of an Ocean Commotion exhibit based on what they saw during the fieldtrip. These dioramas can be used as an informal assessment of student knowledge acquired at Ocean Commotion.

Young scholars complete several plant life activities. In this botany instructional activity, students practice painting images that resemble plants they are familiar with as well as planting seeds outside of class. Young scholars...

Eighth graders explore the Underground Railroad.  In this American History lesson, 8th graders create a song about the railroad.  Students analyze various symbols used during the Underground Railroad. 

Sixth graders engage in a variety of activities in order to study the culture of Ancient India. They read text in order to answer specific questions. Students make a crossword puzzle to review vocabulary among many other exercises in the...

Students research the uses of rainsticks in ancient native cultures. The teacher discusses the ceremonies rainsticks were traditionally used in. The students then construct their own rainstick.

In the Arts and Crafts of Storytelling, American folk heroes come to life, help students expand their vocabulary and increase knowledge of figurative language. Students identify figurative language like similes, idioms and hyperboles....

This article by Marietta and Arthur Ellis describes the history of soap-making. Scroll through to find reference to colonial soap-making history and techniques. [PDF]

Students and teachers will enjoy the craft project ideas on this colorful site! You'll find simple instructions with illustrations on how to make a Kachina doll, canoe, totem pole, rainstick, tepee, rattle, and a bulletin board to tie it...

Burrows & Company manufactures carpet and rugs from the original William Morris designs. In addition to photographs and descriptions of the designs, the site also has biographical information.

Online exhibit that represents the evolution of the woodcut as illustration during the late Medieval and early Renaissance period. This exhibition explores the development in technique, composition, perspective, and coloration of the...

Two thousand years before today's "global economy," an exchange network linked the continent of Asia via the Silk Route. Between the first and eighth centuries of the common era, the empires and states of Asia often came into conflict as...

Great resource for St. Patrick's Day activities, art projects and more.

Siqueiros, Diego Rivera, and Jose Clemente Orozco-known as Los tres grandes-cultivated an artistic style that defined Mexican identity following the Revolution. They crafted epic murals on the walls of highly visible, public buildings...

Students of all ages will enjoy these creative art projects and recipes! Provides photo examples and step-by-step instructions.

A very basic lesson idea to get young artist to begin thinking about positive and negative space with the help of some tape.