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Finding Meme-spiration with Public Domain and Creative Commons Images Lesson Plan

Finding Meme-spiration with Public Domain and Creative Commons Images Lesson Plan

This workshop lesson plan was designed by two academic librarians with first- and second-year undergraduate college/university students in mind ...
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Images for Creative Projects: Searching Successfully, Assessing Quality, Understanding Fair Use

Images for Creative Projects: Searching Successfully, Assessing Quality, Understanding Fair Use

This one-hour lesson plan for undergraduate college students covers search strategies, evaluation and rights for online images ...
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Infrared Selfie

Infrared Selfie

Students are invited to draw selfies based on a color temperature scale ...
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Town Planner

Town Planner

In this activity, students will have the opportunity to imagine what their city on Mars would look like if seen ...
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Art and Biology: Teacher Professional Development Resource

Art and Biology: Teacher Professional Development Resource

This resource was created in collaboration with a teacher professional development workshop designed for K-12 art and biology educators ...
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Back to Back Construction with Toledo Museum of Art

Back to Back Construction with Toledo Museum of Art

The activity develops the ability to technically describe an assembly of geometric shapes and it is intended for 6th–8th-grade students ...
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WordShop: Teacher Resource

WordShop: Teacher Resource

This resource will allow you to lead your students through a close looking exercise ...
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M is for Matisse: ABCs of Art with Toledo Museum of Art

M is for Matisse: ABCs of Art with Toledo Museum of Art

ABC’s of Art is a series of early childhood workshops which provide early childhood educators with tools and teaching strategies ...
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Explore colour and light with the Glucksman gallery

Explore colour and light with the Glucksman gallery

Explore colour and light in this creative home learning activity ...
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A Visual Writing Notebook from Visual Verse and M-Leuven

A Visual Writing Notebook from Visual Verse and M-Leuven

Download this free visual writing notebook with four creative writing exercises designed to help you explore the relationship between words ...
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The Digital Image Guide (DIG) Method

The Digital Image Guide (DIG) Method

The Digital Image Guide (DIG) Method is a resource to help students critically evaluate images ...
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Creativity in Education with the Glucksman and Róisín Hahessy

Creativity in Education with the Glucksman and Róisín Hahessy

This activity is from the Glucksman's Creativity at Home series and uses the work of Róisín Hahessy to inspire children ...
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Celebrating Diversity with the Glucksman and artist Chris Judge

Celebrating Diversity with the Glucksman and artist Chris Judge

Children will look closely at an image by Irish artist Chris Judge that presents 195 children, one from each country in ...
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Space and Time Activity for Primary-Aged Children

Space and Time Activity for Primary-Aged Children

Learn how to tell the time with a make-your-own comic strip! ...
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Visual Literacy and Close Looking

Visual Literacy and Close Looking

This lesson plan was written for a first year seminar course, CNX151: When Black Lives Matter ...
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Design Your Own Spacesuit

Design Your Own Spacesuit

Students will research the types of spacesuits astronauts need, and the features they include, then they will design their own ...
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