Are you looking for a fun way to increase your students’ art history knowledge? Try a mystery artist board! In my classroom, students engage in friendly competition to research and make guesses a
Teachers seeking creative ways to enhance their students drawing and observation skills often face challenges. Finding activities that engage yet improve these skills aint easy.
This Mound Builders lesson plan will teach your students about archaeology, the mounds built by prehistoric Native Americans, and the art found inside.
With their Leonardo da Vinci Reading Passage in hand, students will move around the classroom answering questions, playing detective and finding clues to the case. This Text-Marking Detective Mystery has students using their reading passage multiple times searching for evidence to each of the 18 questions. Great addition to your art history unit. Topics include: Leonardo da Vinci, Renaissance, Last Supper, Mona Lisa, journals, science and art Students will work individually (or in pairs) and race to see who can solve the case first! A friendly competition always increases engagement. As students answer each question, they will need to underline or highlight where they found the answer in the reading passage. This activity can be used for individual work, partner activities, anticipatory sets, unit review, sub plans, extension activities, early-finishers, or just for fun the day before break. What’s Included? ✔️ Reading Passage ✔️ 18 Questions – Task Cards ✔️ Student Case File Recording Sheet ✔️ Student Directions ✔️ Teacher Answer Key ✔️ Teacher Directions ✔️ Early Finisher or Extension Activity (summarize passage) What do students need? ✏️ Pencils or Highlighters (to mark the text) Click HERE for more NO PREP Escape Rooms Click HERE for Digital Trivia Escapes Click HERE for Text Marking Detective Reading Activities Click HERE for Math Escape Rooms Click HERE for Digital 360 Escape Rooms Click HERE for Color by Number Collaboration Activities Click HERE for Breakout Puzzle Stations Click HERE for Code and Grid Reading Escapes ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ How to get TPT credit to use on future purchases: Please go to your My Purchases page (you may need to login). Beside each purchase you'll see a Provide Feedback button. Simply click it and you will be taken to a page where you can give a quick rating and leave a short comment for the product. Each time you give feedback, TPT gives you feedback credits you can use to lower the cost of future purchases. I truly value your feedback greatly as it helps me determine which products are most valuable for your classroom. :-) Copyright Information : © Think Tank Teacher LLC. Please note - all material included in this resource belongs to Think Tank Teacher LLC. By purchasing, you have a license to use the material but you do not own the material. You may not upload any portion of this resource to the internet in any format, including school/personal websites or network drives unless the site is password protected and can only be accessed by students, not other teachers or anyone else on the internet.
People often draw random shapes and lines to signify something. If a child draws it, we regard it as something innocuous and attribute it to a child’s developing curiosity. But if a whole, ancient…
Sixth graders have finished their cave walls! Last year I didn't get to do a cave art project with the students because they breezed throu...
These free Mystery of History Lesson Plans for volumes 1-4 are perfect for planning out your history curriculum.
Inside: Nazca Lines craft for kids learning about Peruvian culture and history. It’s Hispanic Heritage Month, 2017! At the end of this post, find our Multicultural Kid Blogs HHM giveaway for some fun prizes. Today I’m sharing an exploratory Nazca lines craft. The project gives hands-on feel for these marvels of Peru, and how they were
Patronen is een fantastisch thema om een onderdeel uit te nemen of je eens helemaal in onder te dompelen. Er is zoveel mee te doen dat je ook wel het gevaar loopt de weg kwijt te raken. Een eerste …
Julius Schmid (1854-1935), Beethoven, 1901, oil on canvas, 95 x 145 cm. Wien Museum
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Discover the mysteries of the Voynich Manuscript, a 15th-century codex with undeciphered text and unique illustrations. Explore its history, theories,
Scholars have been wrestling with the meaning of Botticelli's 'Primavera' for centuries. Here are four surprising facts most agree on.
In this post I share how we set up our Mystery of History Notebook for Volume 1.
Inexplicable ideas, super-human efforts, impossible results; when you explore the Mysteries of the Andes, you travel beyond the boundaries of human logic. The answers to these riddles are yours to complete, but you have stand before them and absorb their complexity before you are able to truly answer...
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If you're looking for fun and educational worksheets to help your students master the coordinate plane, look no further! Our Spongebob-themed coordinate plane worksheets provide an engaging way for students to practice plotting points and understanding the relationship between the x and y axes. With colorful graphics and familiar characters, these worksheets are perfect for elementary and middle school students who are just starting to learn about the coordinate plane. Boost your students' confidence and skills with our interactive and visually appealing Spongebob coordinate plane worksheets.
So, I posted recently that my sixth graders were writing a mystery that was going to take place in the library. I took two of the best...
Yesterday was the first session in my after school Medieval Art Class! What a blast! I have a great group of kids and a nice mix of boys and girls! Aren't these fabulous?! We did a variation on a project I saw in the book, "Medieval Projects You Can Do" by Marsha Groves. The image is pretty much the one Groves uses, but I used the Contact paper technique that I've developed with my students over the last couple years. I showed the children pictures of stained glass from medieval times, making sure that I had examples of traditional stained glass (tall and rectangular), some details showing the brushed-on enamel details, and an example of a rose window with its circular design. I then provided them with a guide that had the dragon image on it with all of the sections labeled so the children would know what was fire, what was dragon and what was background (sometimes that gets confusing). Using a template like this is actually very traditional. In medieval times artisans would sketch the designs for windows onto wooden panels and the artisans would fabricate the windows on top of the wooden templates. The end results of this project were gorgeous! It is funny how different the pieces can be even thought they are all the same subject. One bit of warning, using tissue paper squares with children can be, um...tricky. This group wasn't bad at all: I had the tissue paper squares in a tray in the center of each table and I warned that crazy movements can cause the squares can fly up and get on other people's work (not cool!). Once the tissue paper is on the Contact paper, it cannot be removed, so the children need to be mindful of their neighbors' pieces and move slowly and carefully. I do hope you try this project, it really is a cool one! Here's the method: Dragon (Faux) Stained Glass Supplies Needed: Template (I copied mine on 8 1/2" x 11" paper) Pencils, Ruler & Sharpie to create your template Piece of clear Contact paper slightly larger than your paper guide Clear tape Four 3/4" x 12" strips black construction paper "(for frame) About four 1/4" x 12" strips black construction paper "(for leading) Many 1" squares of tissue paper, assorted colors Scissors 1 clear sheet protector, optional Directions: 1. Make your template: Draw a border around the copy paper that is about 1/2" wide. Use the pencil & ruler to create a simple, bold image made up of straight lines. Don't make anything too detailed! You can use the dragon image for inspiration. Once you have your design down, use the Sharpie to go over the lines. These will be the guide lines you will use when placing your construction paper leading. You may want younger children to work from a template image you've created, but older children could create their own over a period of classes. 2. Tape the template to the table using clear tape. 3. Remove the paper backing from the Contact paper and place it on top of the template sticky side up. You will be doing all of the work on the sticky side of the Contact paper. Tape the Contact paper to the table using a couple pieces of clear tape to hold it in place while you work. 4. Place the 3/4" pieces of black construction paper over the areas of the template designated as your border. Place the paper strips directly onto the sticky side of the Contact paper and press lightly. It is OK if the strips extend beyond your template--you'll be trimming the piece later. 5. Using your template as a guide, place the 1/4" strips of construction paper over the leading lines on the image you drew. Simply rip (or cut) the construction paper strips to the proper length to cover your leading lines. Cover all of the lines in your drawing. 6. Once you have the border and all of the leading lines covered in construction paper, start filling in the remaining sections with colorful pieces of tissue paper. The squares can overlap each other and can overlap the black construction paper lines a bit (you are actually working on the piece from behind). But take care to make sure the tissue paper goes where you want it to. It is almost impossible to remove the tissue paper from the Contact paper once it gets on there. 7. Once all of the sections are filled in with color, trim the piece down to 8 1/2" x 11" and slip it into a clear sheet protector to protect it. Other options would be to use another sheet of Contact paper on the other side of the piece to seal the tissue paper and construction paper safely inside. Or you could run the piece through a laminator (maybe), I don't have one at my disposal, so I'm not sure of that, but it may work. Place in a sunny window and enjoy! Working on our dragon (faux) stained glass windows. Everything is taped down with clear tape and the tissue paper squares are in the center of the table in cardboard trays.
This week in Science we have been learning about Earth's Land Features. All week we took notes, learned hand gestures, and watched a video, and then we made a landform flipbook. I have to say, it came out SOOOO cute!! I got the idea from an AIMS lesson and adapted it for the SC landforms. Here is what it looks like completed! And here it is in action! You can download it HERE!
Lesson 43 The city of Rome We set off to build an aqueduct. I used 2 paper towel holders and the top part of a pizza box. For Some reason I didn't get a picture of it cut up, hopefully you can get it from the picture below. The sides came from the pizza box. I 1/4 of one of the paper towel holders away. Then I used my hot glue gun to glue it all together. I asked Conner first if water can get to the other side of a flat plate without help. So, he tried it out and couldn't get it to work. Then we tried the aqueduct and it worked!! Lesson 44 Isaiah and Micah He became the potter to his piece of clay!! Lesson 45 Israel Falls to Assyria 100 legos. Blessings!! Places you may find me linked to.
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