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281 Activities

Arts

Artistic voices shine in every medium, letting creativity take center stage! Learners express themselves through music, theater, visual art, design, and performance. It’s all about exploring feelings, telling stories, and making something meaningful!

Activities

Masquerade Masks

Arts • Literacy

35m

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Grades K - 5

Masquerade Masks

By Rediscover Center

K - 5

35m

In this activity, students will learn how to make Masquerade Masks using materials collected from their home or outside in their neighborhood. This is a simple but versatile activity to really liven up a story your class is currently reading or celebrate a special day. Get creative with colors or patterns as you see fit!

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Masquerade Masks

Arts • Literacy

35m•Grades K - 5

Shakespeare Scene Work

Arts • Literacy

45m

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Grades 9 - 12

Shakespeare Scene Work

By Mizzen Education, Inc.

9 - 12

45m

Students collaborate to plan and perform a short scene from Shakespeare. In order to decide how the scene will be played, students will briefly analyze and discuss the characters, motive, plot, setting, and how the language expresses the underlying meaning in the scene.

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Shakespeare Scene Work

Arts • Literacy

45m•Grades 9 - 12

Group Picasso (Team Building) Game

Arts • Social and Emotional Awareness

20m

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Grades 3 - 12

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Group Picasso (Team Building) Game

By !Mpact Players

3 - 12

20m

Rotate self-portraits and try to create artistic masterpieces within seconds before time is called!

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Group Picasso (Team Building) Game

Arts • Social and Emotional Awareness

20m•Grades 3 - 12

Reader’s Theater and Poetry (Grades 9-12)

Arts • Literacy

45m

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Grades 9 - 12

Reader’s Theater and Poetry (Grades 9-12)

By Mizzen Education, Inc.

9 - 12

45m

Students practice presenting short stories and poems in a flexible Reader's Theater format.

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Reader’s Theater and Poetry (Grades 9-12)

Arts • Literacy

45m•Grades 9 - 12

Space and Time

STEM • Arts

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Grades 3 - 8

Space and Time

By Jazz at Lincoln Center

3 - 8

Students practice moving through a subdivided space, a space which simultaneously represents fractions and musical notes. This practice allows students to witness firsthand both equivalent fractions and rhythm. Students then create their own unique rhythmic patterns.

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Space and Time

STEM • Arts

1h•Grades 3 - 8

The Animal Spin

Arts • Social and Emotional Awareness

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Grades 3 - 8

The Animal Spin

By Jazz at Lincoln Center

3 - 8

Students experience collective improvisation through everyday conversations and vocalizing like animals.

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The Animal Spin

Arts • Social and Emotional Awareness

2h•Grades 3 - 8

Creating Games & Puzzles

Arts • STEM

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Grades 6 - 8

Creating Games & Puzzles

By OregonASK

6 - 8

Students create their own board games, while giving and receiving feedback from others.

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Creating Games & Puzzles

Arts • STEM

2h•Grades 6 - 8

Inventions (Team Building) Game

Arts • STEM

30m

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Grades 3 - 12

Video

Inventions (Team Building) Game

By !Mpact Players

3 - 12

30m

With only minutes on the clock, your team must create, sketch, and present a hilarious invention to solve an odd-ball problem!

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Inventions (Team Building) Game

Arts • STEM

30m•Grades 3 - 12

Creativity & Play: This is Not...

Arts • STEM

15m

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Grades K - 2

Creativity & Play: This is Not...

By VentureLab

K - 2

15m

Let your imagination run wild as you transform everyday objects into something different! In this playful warmup activity, students take turns generating ideas about what everyday objects could become. The objects can turn into something as wild as students like - they should have fun with it!

This activity is designed to set the right tone for the rest of your lessons by not limiting our ideas to what seems sensible or possible, and to show that play is a fun way to encourage creative thinking and problem solving.

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Creativity & Play: This is Not...

Arts • STEM

15m•Grades K - 2

Surprise Talent Show (Grades 6-8)

Arts • Social and Emotional Awareness

45m

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Grades 6 - 8

Surprise Talent Show (Grades 6-8)

By Mizzen Education, Inc.

6 - 8

45m

Today has a surprise talent show. Students get to display their skills and talents in an impromptu performance.

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Surprise Talent Show (Grades 6-8)

Arts • Social and Emotional Awareness

45m•Grades 6 - 8

Airplane Livery (Logo) Design

Arts • Literacy

45m

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Grades 3 - 5

Airplane Livery (Logo) Design

By Mizzen Education, Inc.

3 - 5

45m

The livery of an airplane is like its external uniform; it is an identifying design or symbol that identifies an airline's fleet or company. Youth will design a livery for their own airline and apply the livery to a model of an airplane.

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Airplane Livery (Logo) Design

Arts • Literacy

45m•Grades 3 - 5

What’s That Drawing?

Arts • Literacy

45m

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Grades 6 - 8

What’s That Drawing?

By Mizzen Education, Inc.

6 - 8

45m

Students use their artistic skills to try to get their teammates to guess a word using only picture clues. This activity builds vocabulary, visual arts, listening, and creative thinking skills.

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What’s That Drawing?

Arts • Literacy

45m•Grades 6 - 8

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STEAM Activities for Middle School at Home

STEM • Arts

10 Items

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Grades 6 - 8

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STEAM Activities for Middle School at Home

By Mizzen Education, Inc.

6 - 8

This Playlist gives middle school aged students fun engineering and design activities that can be done at home or in small groups.

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STEAM Activities for Middle School at Home

STEM • Arts

Grades 6 - 8

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Design for Life for 3rd-5th Grade at Home

Arts • Digital Media and Communications

8 Items

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Grades 3 - 5

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Design for Life for 3rd-5th Grade at Home

By Mizzen Education, Inc.

3 - 5

This Playlist allows younger students to become ad, logo, and campaign designers at home.

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Design for Life for 3rd-5th Grade at Home

Arts • Digital Media and Communications

Grades 3 - 5

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Real World Arts & Design

Arts • STEM

6 Items

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Grades 9 - 12

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Real World Arts & Design

By Mizzen Education, Inc.

9 - 12

Students go through a variety of fun arts and design activities that have real world applications.

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Real World Arts & Design

Arts • STEM

Grades 9 - 12

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Visual Arts Activities For 3rd-5th Grade at Home

Arts • STEM

13 Items

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Grades 3 - 5

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Visual Arts Activities For 3rd-5th Grade at Home

By Mizzen Education, Inc.

3 - 5

This Playlist provides younger students a variety of visual arts activities that encourages creative thinking at home.

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Visual Arts Activities For 3rd-5th Grade at Home

Arts • STEM

Grades 3 - 5

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S.INQ Sound

STEM • Arts

9 Items

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Grades K - 5

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S.INQ Sound

By OregonASK

K - 5

This lesson has hands-on activities ranging from learning about sound, pitch, and amplification through material exploration to designing, building, testing and modifying their own musical instruments.

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S.INQ Sound

STEM • Arts

Grades K - 5

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Making Comics

Arts • Digital Media and Communications

7 Items

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Grades 3 - 12

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Making Comics

By OregonASK

3 - 12

Enter the creative world of storytelling through comics!

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Making Comics

Arts • Digital Media and Communications

Grades 3 - 12

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How to Look: Art Exploration for Teens

Arts • Digital Media and Communications

2 Items

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Grades 9 - 12

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How to Look: Art Exploration for Teens

By ArtsConnection

9 - 12

You don't need to be an expert to look at, discuss and respond to art. Use the activities, tools and resources in the How to Look: Exploring Art for Teens collection to help students explore, discuss and write about visual arts, monuments and dance. Guide teens through observing, analyzing, sharing ideas and opinions about the art they encounter and the world around them.

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How to Look: Art Exploration for Teens

Arts • Digital Media and Communications

Grades 9 - 12

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Make It Move Invention Camp

STEM • Arts

15 Items

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Grades 6 - 8

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Make It Move Invention Camp

By OregonASK

6 - 8

The Make it Move Invention Camp curriculum explores transportation, vehicles, and mechanical things that move! These activities explore engineering and invention with hands-on, fun activities that end with the creation of an invention that improves quality of life.

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Make It Move Invention Camp

STEM • Arts

Grades 6 - 8

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Fascinating Rhythm

Arts • Digital Media and Communications

15 Items

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Grades 3 - 8

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Fascinating Rhythm

By Jazz at Lincoln Center

3 - 8

The JALC-AC’s second module, Module 2: Fascinating Rhythm encourages students to explore the rhythms, or patterns of their lives. Students learn how to represent rhythmic patterns through symbols – both random and those used by musicians and musical educators – arranging and rearranging the symbols to create sound and movement.

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Fascinating Rhythm

Arts • Digital Media and Communications

Grades 3 - 8

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