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Education Department at 954.921.3274, ext. 232,
or email education@artandculturecenter.org.
DISTANCE LEARNING LESSONS
All the Feels
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With the help of the book In My Heart: A Book of Feelings, students will think about how our emotions can impact the people around us. Students will create their own individual paper heart art that allows them to show their own feelings while thinking about how they want others to feel.
K-2
Social Emotional Learning, Art
Collaborative Creature Creation
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In this engaging lesson students hone their cooperation skills while working together on making a critter limited only by their imaginations! But first they will stretch those imaginations by changing our perspectives on how we make sense of the natural world around us and its history.
2nd-5th
Visual Art, Cooperation, History
Operation: Cooperation!
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In this highly-interactive session, students will learn the importance of listening and understanding when it comes to cooperation. Students will work to put their listening and patience to the test as they hone these essential skills of successfully working together.
1st - 6th
Communication, Teamwork, Social Emotional Learning
Puppies and Pop-Ups with Avery Monsen
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Whether you're long, tall, furry or scaly, you’d surely make great friends with the Art and Culture Center/Hollywood’s pal, author Avery Monsen! Join Avery as he reads his newest picture book, I am the Longest Dog with his pal Lucy. She’s a lot longer than other dogs, but Lucy loves her unique shape. Together, inspired by the book, Avery and Lucy show us how to create a pop-up of our own unique friend.
1st-4th
Art, Social Emotional Learning, Acceptance
Ways With Words
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When we think about art we might not think about words, but in this virtual lesson students will see examples of visual poetry, or poems which use the literal structure of a poem to create an image related to the poem. Students will then work together to create a collaborative visual poem as a class.
K-5 (Lesson is scalable to specific grade band within range)
Language Arts, Visual Arts
Whose Them?
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This lesson will introduce students to collective nouns and the terms we use to describe groups of things. Through interactive movement and full-body engagement, students will reinforce vocabulary and gain knowledge of the concept of collective nouns, generally, and explore specific examples. The lesson will culminate with an art-making activity where they get to create their own collective noun!
K-2
Language Arts, Visual Arts
Your Community Anew
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Students will think and share ideas for how to improve on their local community - be it their classroom, school, neighborhood or town. Drawing inspiration from books like Maybe Something Beautiful and other sources, students will then be given time to draw and share their own inspired ideas that can later be used to create a classroom mural to encourage others to work for positive changes around them.
1-3
Language Arts, Visual Arts, Earth Science
Science & Art Series:
These interactive, virtual programs explore the depths of the sea, the inner-workings of planet Earth, and the far corners of space. Adventure with us as we combine literacy, science, history, and art! Each lesson is written for specific grade bands and, therefore, is geared toward their unique developmental needs. We can also provide extension activities and suggested resources to captivate our explorers beyond the distance learning classroom.
A-MAZE-ing Ants!
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Venture underground as we explore the secret complexities of life as an ant! Students will learn about the often-massive ant colonies that exist below our feet and what goes on there.
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2-5 (Lesson is scalable to specific grade band within range)
Science, Art, Math
Buzzing About Local Bees!
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We all know about honeybees, but do you know that there are 4,000 different types of bees native to North America? In this virtual lesson we learn and explore what makes a bee a bee and why it’s important that they come in so many shapes and sizes.
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2-5 (Lesson is scalable to specific grade band within range)
Science, Art, Math
Camouflage Creation
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Students will explore the often hard-to-find critters who are experts at camouflage and discuss the benefits of blending in. Students will create their own camouflaged creation and will compete against each other to be crowned the Captain of Camouflage!
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K-3
Earth Science, Art, Math
Colorful Coral
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Adventure with us as we combine science and art as we explore the world of coral! Is Coral living or nonliving, and how can we tell? Students will deepen their observational skills through exploring underwater life and creating with us!
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K-3
Science, Art
Dance Bees, Dance!
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Focusing on the ways humans communicate and share information with each other, students will learn about the astounding ways that honeybees do so with dance. After exploring the incredible ways they use their bodies to “talk,” students will play a game of physical telephone to try their hand at “dance-communication!”
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K-2
Science, Art, Movement, Language Arts
Gorgeous Galaxies
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Adventure with us as we combine science and art as we explore out of this world! Students will learn about the different types of galaxies and how to identify them. Then they will create a galaxy all their own!
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2-5
Science, Art
Hive Creation
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Students will learn about the inspiring and exact ways that honeybees create their intricate bee hives. Through an exploration of geometry and engineering, students will try out their skills as a hive-constructor while learning all the various jobs a single bee might have throughout her lifetime.
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2-8 (Lesson is scalable to specific grade band within range)
Science, Art, Math
Mysteries of Monarch Migration
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Learn about the jaw-dropping journey, lasting thousands of miles, that these delicate critters take from as far north as Canada all the way to Mexico each November. Students then use what they learned to create a migrating monarch of their very own!
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2-5
Science, Visual Art, Math, Language Arts
Mystery Chrysalis
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This lesson explores the life cycle of the butterflies and introduces students to some of the mysteries and unknowns that scientists are still trying to figure out. Students get to act as scientists as they engage in a scientific investigation before having the chance to create an artistic hypothesis of their very own!
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2-5
Earth Science, the process of scientific investigation, Visual Art
Rooted in Place: the hidden world of plant roots!
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Students will dig into the virtual dirt through this lesson exploring the hidden world of tree and plant roots! We’ll discuss the various ways that roots help trees and plants grow and survive. Then using the power of wind, students will make a well-rooted art project.
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1-5 (Lesson is scalable to specific grade band within range)
Science, Art, Math
The Distance Learning Arts Studio is supported in part by The Frederick A. DeLuca Foundation and Helen Ingham Foundation