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A Lifetime of Color – Lesson Plans Incorporating Art

Oct 21

Posted by eric in Art | Comments off

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A Lifetime of Color – Lesson Plans Incorporating Art:

“A Lifetime of Color is one of the resources that was listed today in a blog post on Curious Works. The Curious Works post is full of art education resources. A Lifetime of Color offers lesson plans incorporating art activities into Language Arts, Science, Mathematics, Music, and Social Studies. The lesson plans are designed for use with K-8 students. You can search for lesson plans by subject area or you can search for lesson plans by grade level.

In addition to lesson plans, A Lifetime of Color offers a collection of games and interactive activities for learning about artists and learning to create art.

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A Lifetime of Color’s lesson plans could be useful for finding new ways to combine content areas through the creation of art projects. “

(Via FreeTech4Teachers.)

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Ansel Adams at 100

Sep 9

Posted by eric in Art, Social Studies | Comments off

Tetons by Ansel Adams

Tetons by Ansel Adams

I’ve always been a fan Ansel Adams and his stunning landscape photography. He turned 100 in 2002 and to commemorate that event the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art launched an exhibit “Ansel Adams at 100.” Unfortunately, living in Chicago very few if any of us (or our students) would have been able to attend.

Now however, the Museum has decided to recreate the exhibit online with interactive content including photos, audio interviews, and video with the artist. Its incredibly well done and really a must see in my mind.

This site is a great resource for middle school photography units, or art appreciation at the elementary schools. Outside of Art this would be a great place to see stunning photos of the American wilderness in Social Studies, or to gather information for a bibliography project.

Hats off to Free Tech for Teachers for finding this great resource.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Ansel Adams at 100

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Teachers’ Domain – 100’s of PBS-Based Lessons

Aug 3

Posted by eric in Art, Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies | Comments off

Free Technology for Teachers: Teachers’ Domain – 100’s of PBS-Based Lessons:

“Teachers’ Domain – 100’s of PBS-Based Lessons
NOVA, Frontline, and American Experience are three of PBS’ hallmark series. Quite a bit of the content from those three programs is available online on the PBS website as well as on Snag Films. Teachers’ Domain is another place to find great video content from PBS. But the real purpose of Teachers’ Domain is to provide lesson plans and activities to match the media content from PBS and their content partners.

Teachers’ Domain offers lesson plans and activities for K-12 divided into five content categories. To help you narrow your search for lessons, the five categories, arts, language arts, science, mathematics, and social studies are divided into subcategories.”

(Via. Free Tech 4 Teachers)

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