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Lesson Plans by Discipline - Book and Papermaking
Grades K – 4 |
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Teach your students how to make paper with this project. |
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Children will create their own journals, sketchbooks, or scrapbooks with this project. |
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Even young students can achieve beautiful results — without the use of chemicals or special materials. |
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Students learn a very basic bookbinding technique incorporating a dimensional object and simple fastening method. |
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Design a "big" storybook. Children can write the story and choose something in the story to be the book cover. |
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An easy bookmaking lesson that works across the entire curriculum. Students make books to use as journals or scrapbooks and fill with personnel stories or poetry, sketches or photos. |
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Students make printmaking papers, cards, book covers, picture frames and photo mats. |
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Make beautiful boxes to fill with good wishes. They make perfect gifts and give students experience with the arts of Calligraphy and Origami. |
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Grades 5 – 8 |
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Expand students knowledge of materials and spatial relationships with this unique project. |
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Teach your students how to make paper with this project. |
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Using The Golden Door as a theme to search for historical and aesthetic content, students create a paper collage containing relevant images, text and expressions. |
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Students learn an easy and economical form of metal working. |
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Illumination is the decorating of books or manuscripts with ornate lettering, scrollwork, icons and images. This lesson plan introduces an easy and inexpensive way to apply metal leaf to a single letter, then embellish it using colored pencils. |
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A painted book in the style of Robert Indiana. This lesson plan challenges students to choose eight ideas that can be stated with one simple word, then assemble them into a painted book. |
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Even young students can achieve beautiful results — without the use of chemicals or special materials. |
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Students learn a very basic bookbinding technique incorporating a dimensional object and simple fastening method. |
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Students recognize that a handmade book is a work of art in itself. |
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An easy bookmaking lesson that works across the entire curriculum. Students make books to use as journals or scrapbooks and fill with personnel stories or poetry, sketches or photos. |
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Students make printmaking papers, cards, book covers, picture frames and photo mats. |
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Grades 9 – 12 |
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Expand students knowledge of materials and spatial relationships with this unique project. |
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Using The Golden Door as a theme to search for historical and aesthetic content, students create a paper collage containing relevant images, text and expressions. |
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Students learn an easy and economical form of metal working. |
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Illumination is the decorating of books or manuscripts with ornate lettering, scrollwork, icons and images. This lesson plan introduces an easy and inexpensive way to apply metal leaf to a single letter, then embellish it using colored pencils. |
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A painted book in the style of Robert Indiana. This lesson plan challenges students to choose eight ideas that can be stated with one simple word, then assemble them into a painted book. |
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Even young students can achieve beautiful results Ñ without the use of chemicals or special materials. |
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Students learn a very basic bookbinding technique incorporating a dimensional object and simple fastening method. |
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Students recognize that a handmade book is a work of art in itself. |
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Every Spring my art students want to go outside to sketch. In anticipation of an outbreak of Spring fever this year, one class made their own journals to take outdoors and fill with impressions, observations, and daydreams. |
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An easy bookmaking lesson that works across the entire curriculum. Students make books to use as journals or scrapbooks and fill with personnel stories or poetry, sketches or photos. |
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