Lesson Plans

Design money, open a store, add up purchases, make change—this game is packed with consumer math!

Create an educational poster about the historical women of the U.S. space program called The Mercury 13.

Make a beautiful Navajo-style bracelet. Students explore traditional jewelry-making with this silvery Southwestern-U.S.

Santa on a speedboat or surfboard instead of a sleigh? December is warm in much of the world. Design holiday cards to fi

An out-of-this-world imagination will help your students write and illustrate a space adventure.

Discover the value of social commentary as you turn a newspaper story into original artwork similar to Diego Rivera's po

Create a beautiful central Asian textile replica using the opulent colors of Crayola® Twistables Colored Pencils.

Is a picture worth a thousand words? Use art to make a point with a political cartoon.

Introduce young students to maps by having them create their own map with lines for roads printed with car wheels.

Create a paper weaving in the style of the Ashanti people of West Africa. In this project artists learn the meanings of

Space travel has captured imaginations for generations. Combine creativity and problem solving to construct a 3-D spaces

Add "bling" to any science project, such as this insect drawing, with new technology!

Children love to imagine what they may become. Imagine with them, as they visually explore possibilities after reading

Transform an ordinary paper plate into stylish ethnic jewelry! Similar necklaces are worn by many groups of people in ce

Choose your partner and do-si-do! Use Crayola® Sidewalk Paint to create a squared set to help you learn basic square dan

Creativity and fun erupt as students use their knowledge of simple machines to build toys!

Create a replica of the U.S. White House! Learn about the building's history, architecture, and its famous occupant's ro

Play with place value as children use Crayola Dry-Erase Crayons, dry-erase boards, as well as tens and ones manipulative

Beautiful poetry, art, and music are such wonderful ways to express your ideas and feelings. For brilliant Swirls and Sm

What happens when you combine an art technique called sgraffito with the beauty of spiral designs in nature? You get a c

The inspiration for the “Then and Now” project explores how we decide what is desirable or beautiful and how that aesthe

Create 2-dimensional symmetrical butterflies with beautiful patterns and colors.

Celebrate Chinese New Year with a magnificent dragon parade! Or design this accordion-fold mythical creature to reenact

Here’s a story that never gets old. After reading Simms Taback’s version of There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, k

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes! What animals change more than tadpoles? Show the life stages of frogs in this hopping biology proje

Track how Edison's inventions changed everyday life. Imagine a world without lightbulbs or sound recordings!

Introduce young students to basic physics principles with this exciting race car activity.

Create light, sparkly snowflakes! Decorate a package, trim a tree, or hang them in winter windows. Let it snow!

What symbols or logos would you use to represent the three branches of the U.S. government? Students mark important pass

Build self-confidence and develop leadership in young artists as they use a variety of Crayola media and techniques to c

View the landscape from a new perspective, using your imagination to creatively paint objects as they would appear from

Learn how to mix and apply tertiary colors to flowers in the style of American artist, Georgia O’Keeffe.

Give creativity a voice and discover your own creative side! Students band together with classmates to design a beautifu

Invite students to get presidential with Crayola Model Magic® finger puppets! Then practice questioning skills with pres

Could you travel 75,000 miles in 30 years? Moroccan traveler Ibn Battuta did—by foot, horse, camel, or boat—in the 1300s

Can one person make a difference? Find out how Thurgood Marshall's legal career in Civil Rights shaped the lives of peop

This powerful diorama pays tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebrate his historic civil rights speech on the step

Storytelling and mathematics merge when students discover that by arranging and rearranging a set of seven geometric til

Introduce students to tangram puzzles by creating designs with squares and triangles.

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

Honor someone special with a handcrafted monument! Explore national and local monuments for inspiration in your design.

Students discover interrelationships between art and math with this fascinating activity focusing on line, shape, patter

Tick, tock, it’s time to help students learn to read analog clocks with this quick, dry erase activity.

Invite your students to contribute to their community of caring! Gather memorable symbols of qualities such as honesty,

Encourage mathematical thinking as students practice real-time timekeeping while recording and graphing evening activiti

Enjoy the cross-curricular possibilities for your students as they delve into the timely topic of recycling and solving

Classmates design 3-panel story sequence scenes about the same story, then compare designs.

Children's author Virginia Hamilton is the inspiration for drawing and writing original stories.