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3rd grade visual arts resources for GATE
California Missions Overview Informational Reading & Activities
Most information on the California Missions is too detailed, difficult or overwhelming for 4th graders. Our Mission Overview Text is engaging for kids and works as a companion for individual mission projects. This flexible but comprehensive unit works for shorter time frames and includes all necessary background information, a writing assignment based on the text, and a visual arts component suitable for classroom display.Topics covered: Purpose of California missions, construction and locations
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3rd - 7th
Wanted: Creature Creator! STEAM Activity for Gifted Students or Enrichment
Your advanced or gifted students and fast finishers will LOVE this S.T.E.A.M. activity integrating Science, Art, and Engineering! Watch your students' creativity ooze as they design an original creature for the New Zoo. Focusing on animal adaptations, this product guides students through the design process of brainstorming, planning, illustrating, labeling, and building. Differentiation made easy- let me do the work for you!
Want a fresh schoolwide enrichment program that's not just for the g
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K - 6th
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PHOTOGRAPHY using iPADS Unit 1 for ART and STEM - 12 lessons Best Seller G3-8
Are you teaching Photography, Art, Digital Technology or STEM, and need an impactful series of lessons that you can teach immediately? All you need is a digital device. Your students will love participating in each of 12 engaging lessons, as they navigate through the digital photography challenges. These lessons are purposely designed for choice and differentiation, while keeping the skills taught consistent across the class, to save your sanity. ⏰ How long will these lessons last me? iPAD PHOT
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3rd - 6th
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California Missions Poster Project
Students can use this project with any California Mission. Minimal Prep! Students will use higher-level thinking skills to complete. We have included a list of several resource websites for your convenience, but we especially love our own kid-level Mission texts available in our Thank A Teacher store.This 4th grade-geared poster project includes a rubric based on a 100 point scale. Students flex their research skills and their creativity to make this cool poster which doubles as a great display
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3rd - 4th
15 String Art Designs for Triangles
Directions and sewing pattern template only to sew 15 string art designs based on an equilateral triangle. Easy enough for early grades (with adult supervision) and challenging enough for middle school through adults. You need to supply sewing materials. Great for geometry enrichment or art/math. Fosters hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills and ability to follow directions.
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1st - 5th, Not Grade Specific
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Beginning of the Year Collage DIGITAL
This is a fun, digital activity that students can work on from home or at school! Students add information reflecting their own personalities and life to create a personalized collage. This is a great getting to know you activity as well as an awesome keepsake for the parents to have! The pdf file is also available for students to complete in the classroom on paper.
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1st - 8th
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Also included in: Digital Growing Bundle
Explorer Timeline Project Using a Graphic Organizer
TEXT NOT INCLUDED This foldable graphic organizer can be used with any explorer unit. Students research explorers using outside sources, then complete this foldable project. It can be used as a component in an interactive notebook or displayed on a bulletin board. Choose which explorers you want to assign to students. I assign five for my 4th graders. This product includes 22 images of the most commonly studied explorers of North America.Follow us at:www.teacherspayteachers.com/store/thank-a-
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3rd - 8th
Also included in: 4th Grade California Social Studies Projects All Year
Create a Culture Student Project | Gifted and Talented
Get your students thinking creatively! This project can be tackled in small teams or individually. Your students will use their imagination and creativity to invent their very own culture. The packet included will walk them through illustrating and writing about the following aspects of their invented culture.
- climate and geography
- language
- education
- architecture
- religion and beliefs
- economy
- clothing
- artifact list
Writing frames and a rubric are included.
This project is perfec
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PreK - 8th
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Spinning Tops: STEAM Challenge
Update (6/14/2017): The size of this pdf has more than tripled! If you've already purchased and downloaded, be sure to grab an updated copy!
This would make a fabulous STEM activity to end the school year...especially if your school has banned fidget spinners! On the day that I announced that we would be using fidget spinners for a math activity, I learned that the gadgets were now banned. I started from scratch, making a new activity to inspire students...this time, with tops that THEY create!
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3rd - 5th
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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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Solar Eclipse Figurative Language Flipbook
This is a great way to teach or review figurative language. There are 4 different pieces of figurative language related to the main subject (solar eclipses.) Students need to identify the type of figurative language, explain their choice, write their own sentence using the piece of figurative language, and finally create an illustration for the figurative language. There is also an assessment that goes along with the flipbook regarding the figurative language (and the definitions of each) that w
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3rd - 5th
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Creativity Activities Creative Thinking Printables for Enrichment Jan-March
Use these creativity resources to foster creative thinking and have your students thinking outside of the box! Creativity belongs everywhere, especially the classroom! Creativity motivates students to learn, promotes risk taking and problem solving, lights up the brain, assists with emotional development, and gives students an opportunity to learn with FUN! These creativity challenges are designed to encourage FEFO:Flexibility - Seeing ideas from different points of viewElaboration - Adding deta
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2nd - 6th
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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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Digital PHOTOGRAPHY for iPADS Unit 2 for ART and STEM with 12 lessons 3rd - 7th
Are you teaching Photography, Art, Digital Technology or STEM, and need an impactful series of lessons that you can teach immediately? All you need is a digital device. Your students will love participating in each of 12 engaging lessons, as they navigate through the digital photography challenges. These lessons are purposely designed for choice and differentiation, while keeping the skills taught consistent across the class, to save your sanity. PRAISE FOR iPAD PHOTOGRAPHY PART 2⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "Exc
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3rd - 6th
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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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Creativity Activities Creative Thinking Printables for Enrichment April - June
These creativity activities will promote creative thinking in your classroom and encourage your students to think outside the box every month!Creativity belongs everywhere, especially the classroom! Creativity motivates students to learn, promotes risk taking and problem solving, lights up the brain, assists with emotional development, and gives students an opportunity to learn with FUN!These creativity challenges are designed to encourage FEFO:Flexibility - Seeing ideas from different points of
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2nd - 6th
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Greeting Card Designer-Product Based Learning & The Engineering Design Process
Greeting Card Designer:A Project Based Learning Unit using the Engineering Design ProcessGreeting Card Designer is a Project Based Learning Unit using the Engineering Design Process for upper elementary. Students work collaboratively to design and create a set of greeting cards using specific criteria.The unit contains the following components:1. Greeting Card Designer Teacher Tips – Easy-to-follow directions for teacher preparation, materials for the unit, and procedures for the unit.2. Greeti
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3rd - 5th
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Scratch Art
Andy Warhol Inspired Art Lesson Plan
Get your students' creativity flowing with this art lesson plan! Andy Warhol is one of the most influential, iconic artists of our time and this project is the perfect way to introduce children to his Pop Art style. Use commonly found art materials to create this masterpiece.
Digital Download Includes Three PDFs:
PDF #1: Lesson Plan
• Supplies Needed
• Detailed Directions
• Learning Objectives (Skills Learned)
• Vocabulary
PDF #2: Letter to Families
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PreK - 12th, Staff
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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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Grades:
1st - 3rd
Food Truck Menu Design Challenge
***Edit for distance learning- Teams could meet as small groups on zoom, could be done individually, or could be done with siblings.*Rubric includedDay 1: Food Truck ResearchMaterials: 1 copy per student. Chromebooks/computersResearch different food trucks in your area. Take a look at their menus. Respond to the prompts on the research document. Day 2: Design BrainstormMaterials: 1 copy per studentStudents brainstorm what types of food they might want to include in their food truck menu. Day 3:
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3rd - 8th
Also included in: NGSS Engineering Design Challenges Bundle
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
Emergency Sub Plans for Art: Design Your Own Money & Piggy Bank
Print and Go! Sub plans for non-art majors. Design your own money and piggy bank It is a high interest. This is also a good activity for Art on a Cart! This packet includes a letter to the substitute teacher, the standard, a KWL graphic organizer, an artists' design sheet, and success criteria. Both an English and a Spanish version to support bilingual classes. Hope this is helpful for your classroom! Feedback is appreciated! : )
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1st - 5th
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Let's Make Faces - Piven inspired Self-Portraits (Back to School)
Students will create a mixed-media self-portrait inspired by Piven’s artwork.
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K - 5th
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Explaining Concepts With Scratch
This beginner Scratch guide will lead your students through planning and coding any explanation through Scratch. Perfect for small group instruction, centers, or whole group instruction, the individual student cards are designed to be used by students and walk them through the process of choosing a setting, sprite, and coding dialogue to explain a concept. Whether you're learning math, social studies, science, or even retelling a story, your students can use coding skills which is extremely enga
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3rd - 12th
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Also included in: Fifth Grade Math MEGABUNDLE
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