A 30-minute introduction to sight reading in 6/8 time and the key of E-flat major, focusing on the feeling of compound meter and navigating three flats.

This lesson shifts focus to the collective representation of apes as they form a community in the sanctuary and eventually rebel. Students analyze the portrayal of ape communication, social hierarchy, and the final shift toward agency.

Students explore Caesar's origin story, analyzing how the film represents growing ape intelligence and emotional complexity within a laboratory setting. The lesson focuses on the intersection of science and ethics through the lens of primate representation.

Conception d'actions de médiation concrètes, de la mise en espace physique du CDI aux outils numériques, pour engager les élèves dans la lecture.

Exploration de l'histoire, des genres et des mutations actuelles de l'édition pour adolescents, incluant l'impact des réseaux sociaux et des nouvelles tendances éditoriales.

A project-based lesson for middle school students to learn fundamental composition techniques, including melody writing, harmonic support, and arranging for classroom instruments. Students will apply these skills to create and perform an original short piece.

Students explore the historical significance and emotional weight of the Greensboro Sit-ins through drama-based activities and historical analysis, focusing on the theme of courage.

A comprehensive look at the 1937 Degenerate Art exhibition in Nazi Germany, exploring how art was used as a tool for propaganda and the suppression of modern expression.

A lesson designed to help students distinguish between effective and ineffective slide design for their invention presentations. It uses a side-by-side comparison of a 'good' and 'bad' presentation to teach visual design and organization principles.

A lesson designed to help students analyze and discuss visual art using specific vocabulary and sentence stems focused on color, perspective, design, lines, and detail.

Students will investigate the contrasting aesthetics of Protestant and Catholic art during the Baroque period, focusing on how the Catholic Church used emotional and dramatic art as a tool of the Counter-Reformation to persuade and inspire the faithful.

A lesson exploring the power of satire and political comedy through the lens of Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes, featuring modern connections and a creative script-writing activity.

Students will analyze how Jacques-Louis David and Francisco Goya used art to shape the narrative of Napoleon's conquests, interpreting the difference between state-sponsored propaganda and visual protest. The lesson includes a writing activity where students adopt 19th-century personas to review these iconic works.

This lesson explores the differences between Italian and Northern Renaissance art through the lens of humanism, focusing on Botticelli's elegance versus Bruegel's gritty realism. Students will watch a video segment and perform a visual analysis of 'Dutch Proverbs' to understand how Northern artists democratized humanistic themes.

This lesson explores the intersection of art and political activism, specifically focusing on Picasso's *Guernica* as a response to the horrors of the 20th century. Students will analyze the stylistic choices of Cubism in depicting war and create their own conceptual sketches for a modern piece of resistance art.

Students explore the intersection of geometry and realism by mastering one-point linear perspective, inspired by Leonardo da Vinci's Renaissance masterpieces.

A lesson connecting the conservative political restoration of the Congress of Vienna to the emotional and nature-focused themes of the Romantic art movement. Students analyze how the failure of Enlightenment 'reason' led to a cultural shift toward feeling, history, and the sublime.

This lesson explores the tension between "Committed Art" and "Autonomous Art" through the lens of political theory and art history. Students will analyze how artists like Bertolt Brecht and Theodor Adorno approached social change, culminating in the creation of their own artistic manifestos and sketches.

Students will explore the tension between art used for state propaganda (Nazi Germany) and art used for social resistance (Kehinde Wiley). This lesson uses the Crash Course Political Theory video 'Should Art Be Political?' to ground a comparative analysis of visual techniques and the power of public monuments.

A visual arts and science lesson where students explore the concept of fog as a 'cloud on the ground' through watercolor painting and sponge-dabbing techniques.