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Goal CD-4: Children demonstrate appreciation for different forms of artistic expression. 

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Goal CD-4: Children demonstrate appreciation for different forms of artistic expression. 

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Students will use colorful clay to shape the same thing (ex., A dog or the sun) Students will then swap art pieces with a partner and tell them what they liked about the piece. After this, the students will add what they think will make the other piece look better. This shows how they appreciate other art and how they can collaborate their ideas to make something beautiful. This will be done as a whole lesson by using different forms of art. The second part of this lesson will be for students to draw the same thing they picked on paper with markers. This will show the differences in how they portray certain things with certain different artistic expressions.

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Textures

Creativity

patterns

Problem-solving

shapes

Collaboration

colors

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How many different ways can one thing be portrayed?

Why is collaborating on one project important for learning?

How can other people's point-of-view help to shape your own?

How do different art forms help to portray different aspects of the same things?

Why is it important to accept differences in other peoples opinions and build off of that?

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Molding clay helps children express their creativity along with feeling different textures. This is one of the many ways children can express their feelings with art.

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Colorful markers are always a way for students to let out their creativity. They can learn how different shapes can make up different pictures like the face of a dog but using circles. These are also good to use when teaching colors and how to use them.

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Using blocks can help kids utilize problem-solving skills, collaboration, and, of course creativity.

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Students can use this to further their art and also pick which colors they want to use for backgrounds of drawing (ex, picking blue construction paper when drawing pictures of clouds.)

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Finger paint is an easy way for students to show their emotions and thoughts without necessarily drawing real things. Finger paint allows students to create things using nothing but their fingers and allows them to use the shape of their hands/fingers to create other things (ex, hand turkeys.)

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Play-doh, much like clay allows for experience with different textures. On the other hand, play-doh does not dry out so it allows children to make mistakes and fix them easily.

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Shells are all different shapes, colors, and sizes. This allows students to use their judgment when picking which ones to use. This is also good material when teaching textures.

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These can be used to help students get a general idea of how different structures stay up.

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Different leaves can help children learn patterns, shapes, and colors and even help them to link it with different trees.

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This can help with sorting, finding patterns and linking colors to where things go.

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In this activity created by Cassie Stephens, students use construction paper and glue to create a rainbow book. This helps to teach students the colors of the rainbow and what order they go in!

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This activity was created by Sue Lively to help teach kids math in a fun way. This activity uses shells to add and subtract. She also uses the colors of the shells. to sort into bigger numbers (ex, white shells are the number 2)

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In 3rd grade my teacher gave me and my group mates three different colored buckets. She then gave us three different piles. One had sticks one had rocks and one had leaves. She mixed the three piles together and made us sort them into their rightful buckets. I think this helped me with sorting, colors, and cognitive function.

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Another activity I did as an elementary schooler was to create art using leaves. This helped me with problem-solving because whenever I made a mistake I could just move the leaves around and nothing was permanent. I leave all kinds of patterns and textures from the different leaves and utilized them in my pictures.

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This activity uses play to teach numbers. Using a snack to count all the different numbers is a fun incentive. This uses colors, shapes, and even motor skills when the child uses chopsticks.