Students work in small groups to rehearse and perform mystery plays, analyzing their specific plot structures and reflecting on social-emotional themes.

Students learn the fundamental components of a play script and use a model play to identify setting, characters, and plot structure.

An independent practice lesson where students read an adventure play and apply their skills in analyzing drama elements, vocabulary, and textual evidence.

A guided lesson featuring a mystery play where the teacher models how to analyze drama structures, use text evidence, and determine word meanings before students practice with guided support.

Students practice and perform five unique fractured fairy tale scripts, each featuring exactly five characters to support collaborative group work.

A final unit integrating all skills to create large-scale works inspired by the natural world and global art traditions.

A deep dive into the lives and styles of iconic painters, focusing on impressionism, surrealism, and pop art.

Explores tactile art-making through paper tearing, layering, and found-object assembly.

Focuses on the fundamentals of line, shape, and color through wet and dry media, inspired by landscape and portraiture.

A 40-minute guided art lesson for grades K-3 that introduces the 7 elements of art through a single integrated drawing activity and supporting mini-tasks. Ideal for substitutes, this lesson builds a 'Creative Creature' step-by-step.

A comprehensive substitute-friendly lesson introducing the 7 Elements of Art to students in grades K-3 through visual exploration and hands-on practice.

A hands-on file folder game and introductory lesson focusing on four core elements of art: line, shape, color, and texture. Students learn to identify these elements through visual examples and interactive matching.

A guided exploration of the Harlem Renaissance exhibition at the Met Museum, designed for students with emerging reading skills to engage with art history through literal and inferential questions.

A creative exploration of colors through a word search activity, designed for young artists or those needing large print accessibility.