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Lesson Plans - Visual Arts

In Line with Time

This lesson is for Day 4 of the unit Inventions and Inventors. Students participate in constructing timelines of significant contributions in the field of communication. Class interaction follows to provide practice in interpreting the order of events.

Leonardo’s Machines

To explore Leonardo da Vinci’s ideas about design and machines.

Inventions 1: Edison and the Light Bulb

To introduce students to the realm and power of inventions, and help them to better recognize their impact on people and society.

Tesla: Inside the Lab

There is an amazing amount of information on this site that is mainly applicable to mathematics and physics.

Story of Silk

Students will learn the steps in the silk-making process. They will arrange sequencing cards to illustrate the steps. Later students will unravel a silkworm’s cocoon.