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Lesson Plans - Visual Arts

Ocean Bottle

Here’s a science project that doubles as a fun craft. Create your very own ocean waves in a plastic soda bottle. Display for all your friends to see!

Under the Deep Blue Sea

Students will learn about the ocean and the creatures that live there, listen to stories and poems with oceanic settings, conduct research about oceanic life forms, and write their own stories and poems about the sea.

As Slippery as an Eel: An Ocean Unit Exploring Simile and Metaphor

This lesson explores figurative language comparisons formally known as simile and metaphor; however, the focus of the lesson is on exploring the ways that authors use words rather than on the official terminology for language use.

What’s Deep in the Ocean?

The ocean’s surface really is just the tip of the iceberg! Oceanographers have found amazing creatures that adapt to drastic underwater conditions.

Tides, High and Low

Explore how gravity and the moon affect tides. Find out how tides are useful to man.