In 6th grade, we talked about how colors can evoke emotions. For example, red can mean love or anger. The students took self portraits with ...
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Cross contour animals are a great way to introduce volume to middle school students. After a lesson on contour line, we discussed how cross...
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At our school, we have two art shows a year: one in the fall, and a large one in the spring. Hanging hundreds of pieces of art can be a hug...
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A Fabulous 10 Page Middle School, Mexican Textile Inspired Sneaker Design Lesson Plan to make your Art Ed life so much easier. This step by step, on trend, colorful, in depth, Middle School, textile design lesson plan gives students an opportunity to execute a supercool design brief while learning a...
Need Wonder activities for your classroom or home school Wonder teaching resources? We have Wonder lesson plans, Wonder worksheets, and more ideas for book projects, kindness activities for middle school, and diversity lessons to make a great study unit for students using both the novel by RJ Palacio and teaching with movies (including the popular precepts project!).
We explored abstract drawing for this Georgia O'Keeffe inspired project. I was sort of puzzled to find out that hardly any of my 6th graders...
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Welcome to the How-To Guide for First Year Art Teachers where I give you my 10 Steps for Success! Congratulations! You got your own classroom. OH MY GOSH, you have your own classroom. Your mind and stomach start racing, both with extreme excitement and panic because now, it all just got real. You will have a lot of students, a lot of planning, and a lot of classroom to keep organized. Figuring out where to even start is a huge stress and will require a tea (or a beer) and a nap (probably some Netflix too).
Cross contour animals are a great way to introduce volume to middle school students. After a lesson on contour line, we discussed how cross contour lines convey volume. Students selected an animal they wanted to draw. After drawing was complete, cross contours were applied with sharpie. The backgrounds are done in a student generated pattern colored in prismacolor. Shout out to Ms. Power for coming up with this awesome lesson.
We all know that helping students develop their fitness is important. It's one of our main goals as Physical Educators. But, how do you make fitness engaging? And maybe even more important, how do you
My favorite teaching units are my research and rhetorical analysis unit. I love teaching rhetorical analysis and assigning students a rhetorical analysis PAPA square. Read on to learn more about the rhetorical analysis PAPA square activity and to sign up to receive your own free copy! I love providing my students with the knowledge and resources they need to critically read and analyze text, know why it is powerful, and understand how the author crafted it. I feel that truly understanding the language and the text, primarily through rhetorical analysis, is something that makes all of my students critical thinkers.
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My rule #1 in a series about bringing out the best behavior in middle school students, Helpful tips for managing adolescents effectively.
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I love the look of OP art but....on it's own, sometimes it can be too plain. We spent about a week on the background alone. Students used sharpies to fill in the checkerboard. We created the circles on a separate piece of paper with a protractor and cut and pasted the sphere on the background. We used a charcoal pencil to add the shadow to give it some depth. The contour line portraits were also done on a separate sheet and pasted. A lot of paper, I know. But, I think it was worth it ;) Supplies: paper, pencil, rulers, protractor, sharpie and crayola markers, charcoal pencil, scissors
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Does getting to know your students at the beginning of the year feel overwhelming? Whether you’re at a new school or just getting a new batch of kindergartners, finding the time to discover all your students’ passions and interests can take forever. This article will take 8 minutes to read.
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If you are anything like me, the first 10 days are a struggle. You have so many new ideas for the new year, so many things you want to implement, and you feel pressure to start on the very first day. Here’s my number one tip: DON’T. Just don’t. In special education, and more specifically […]
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Before beginning any writing unit with my middle school students, I always begin with vocabulary but not with boring old dictionary work!
Choosing one act plays for middle school is not an easy task. The students are at a very in-between point in their lives. They no longer want to be...
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