Elizabeth RUDNICK Kindergarten Rose Warren ES
Below are some sites that I found helpful:
http://www.learner.org/resources/discipline-arts.html
http://www.pinterest.com/edutopia/arts-integration
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org
http://www.artseveryday.org/Educators
I viewed the video Music and Memory: Exploring the World of Music via the Annenberg site. Ethnomusicologist Ernest D. Brown narrates a section about the Griot in the Kora Tradition from West Africa. These musicians are considered the Storytellers/the historians of the tribe. Originally, they sang and performed for their Kings to help their leaders remember their history. But, now they are storytelling to the whole community. I see them as musical teachers, teaching their community about their past, their leaders, their heroes. They are also teaching the community, both children and adults about morals. Some of their lyrics are: Let's enjoy this world because this world belongs to everybody, and one day we must die." Through their music, information begins to be passed on to the next generation, verbally, and non verbally, opening them up emotionally and deeply. In childhood, those songs are learned and eventually remembered and understood. I really want to examine this concept more, and implement this into my classroom. Before cultures could write down their history, storytellers spoke about it, passing it down to the children. Before my kindergarteners can read and write fluently, they too rely on storytelling as an oral language. Integrating music to the process, like the Griot, could only deepen the students understanding. I tend to sing in my classroom to capture my students attention, to redirect, or emphasize a point. I also encourage the students to sing, echo my words. I think I may be on to something here.
Friday, February 28, 2014
Discussion on Websites
- http://www.neiu.edu/~middle/Modules/science%20mods/amazon%20components/AmazonComponents3.html
- http://www.aep-arts.org/
- http://www.artsedsearch.org/
- http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/
- http://nationsreportcard.gov/reading_math_2013/#/achievement-gaps
I focused tremendously on the theory behind arts education, because it is very important to me to understand the movement toward arts integration from a historical standpoint. I asked the question, why now? How did we get to a situation of such poor reputation of educational achievement in the first place? What indicators are leading the creation of Arts Integration? If Arts Integration is an attempt to solve problems indicated by national assessments, then it is important to know what these issues are.
The NEIU website had some lesson plan suggestions, and also led me to the other sites. AEParts is not really arts integration, although it does have a section for Arts and the Common Core. It also led me to the artsedsearch.org website. This website had many studies on there about various advantages that arts bring to the schools. AEParts also lead me to research what the NAEP test is and how it works. Interesting stuff, and it had sample questions. Now, I can use them to prepare students for the kind of tests that are rating our schools.
The NAEP results reflect well what CCSD struggles with as a whole. However, one concern that I noticed was that while across the board the math test scores were getting better, the gaps were only getting slightly smaller. Why is still a mystery to me, but hopefully over time the underlying causes of these issues will become apparent. One the strengths of Arts Integration is that it does seek to solve these issues by creating meaning in a common core subject for a student by integrating art with it.
Thursday, February 27, 2014
The Whole Schools Initiative
The Whole Schools Initiative
I found this website from the education closet. What I liked
about this website is the fact that they received a contract to receive
professional development from the Kennedy Center. They utilize a Universal
Design for Learning in order to inform and connect learning for all kinds of
learners. I particularly liked the fact that they share their integrated lesson
plans in a wide range of subjects.
I found some really great websites, but I still think that
my first go-to site will be Arts Edge. I
think that site is remarkable and has strong lesson plans that applicable to
each greade.
Surprisingly
I found out that Scholastic.com has a strategies for integrating the arts on
the their site. They have it broken down
by grade level, lesson plans, unit plans, and articles on the importance of the
arts. It is by no means anything close
to the ArtsEdge, but it is something that is out there. My big win was finding http://artsintegration.com/ They have
all sorts of information for teachers.
They have Arts Integration ideas for literacy, math, common core
alignment and even STEM!!! I found this website: http://artplantaetoday.com/2011/09/30/why-the-arts-improve-content-retention/ and it was interesting because it is a site
that is arts integrated, but It’s all botanical.
http://www.incredibleart.org/lessons/elem/integration.html
is another site that I found where there are lessons and activities for all
grade levels and genres of art. This
site was the best one that I found outside of the ArtsEdge site. It provides an art gallery and links and
other resources to other art sites. Each
lesson plan is complete with procedures, visual aids, a list of materials, grading
rubrics, and all of the integrated standards.
There is a ton of information on this site!! I even bookmarked this
site.
Arts Integration on the Web
As I was searching the internet for resources, I found many, many places that claimed to have arts integrated ideas and lesson plans. However, these sites all fell short with not much of anything good on them. I did, although, find a few helpful sites for us.
The J. Paul Getty Museum: The Getty Museum has a section on their website where you can browse or search for lesson plans. I was able to search by grade level range and subject. Many of the lesson plans I looked at had some great ideas and would only have to be tweaked just a little to fit within the guidelines of true arts integration. I even saw many elementary level lesson plans that had good ideas which I could modify for my middle school students.
Denver Art Museum Creativity Resource for Teachers: This website produced by the Denver Art Museum is fabulous. There is an abundance of arts integrated lesson plans available to search through. The lesson plans I viewed were already arts integrated, as they were teaching both content areas. I found many great ideas on this site that I could easily incorporate into my units. Like the Getty Museum page, you are able to search by specific criteria such as grade level and content area.
The J. Paul Getty Museum: The Getty Museum has a section on their website where you can browse or search for lesson plans. I was able to search by grade level range and subject. Many of the lesson plans I looked at had some great ideas and would only have to be tweaked just a little to fit within the guidelines of true arts integration. I even saw many elementary level lesson plans that had good ideas which I could modify for my middle school students.
Denver Art Museum Creativity Resource for Teachers: This website produced by the Denver Art Museum is fabulous. There is an abundance of arts integrated lesson plans available to search through. The lesson plans I viewed were already arts integrated, as they were teaching both content areas. I found many great ideas on this site that I could easily incorporate into my units. Like the Getty Museum page, you are able to search by specific criteria such as grade level and content area.
Kaaveh Akbari -- ELA
http://prezi.com/ygohioa6onlj/arts-integration/
This first link is an example of arts integration in an AP US History class. The creator did a neat job of presenting her ideas with the use of Prezi. She explained what arts integration is,and then she included ideas for projects. For example, she has her students produce a radio or TV commercial as well as designing a Time magazine cover for a specific era.
http://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=arts%20integrated%20classroom
For the above link, a suggestion that I have for everyone is just doing a search on Pinterest on arts integrated classrooms. You can easily get lost for hours just going through the different ideas posted on the site. From searching Pinterest, I found a book that I want to get my hands on -- "Living History in the Classroom: Integrative Arts Activities for Making Social Studies Meaningful."
http://www.edutopia.org/stw-arts-integration-resources-lesson-plans?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=STW-arts-integration
For this last link, this is a nice resource that you could point someone to if they are interested in arts integrated teaching, and you don't necessarily have the time to fill them in. This is something that hopefully we all could pitch in to create ourselves for CCSD. It's a site that explains arts integration, has sample lesson plans, and even has links to other resources (such as the Kennedy Center and AIS).
I do have to say that while searching the net for "arts integration" in education, I was frustrated to find a lot of things incorrectly labeled as "arts integration" when it truly should have been "arts enhacement." I'm glad that we've learned the difference between the two as I felt a sense of internal snootiness to read or view a link about "arts integration" only to recognize it was truly "arts enhancement." Because of this, I won't look like an amateur around those that are truly familiar with arts integration.
This first link is an example of arts integration in an AP US History class. The creator did a neat job of presenting her ideas with the use of Prezi. She explained what arts integration is,and then she included ideas for projects. For example, she has her students produce a radio or TV commercial as well as designing a Time magazine cover for a specific era.
http://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=arts%20integrated%20classroom
For the above link, a suggestion that I have for everyone is just doing a search on Pinterest on arts integrated classrooms. You can easily get lost for hours just going through the different ideas posted on the site. From searching Pinterest, I found a book that I want to get my hands on -- "Living History in the Classroom: Integrative Arts Activities for Making Social Studies Meaningful."
http://www.edutopia.org/stw-arts-integration-resources-lesson-plans?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=STW-arts-integration
For this last link, this is a nice resource that you could point someone to if they are interested in arts integrated teaching, and you don't necessarily have the time to fill them in. This is something that hopefully we all could pitch in to create ourselves for CCSD. It's a site that explains arts integration, has sample lesson plans, and even has links to other resources (such as the Kennedy Center and AIS).
I do have to say that while searching the net for "arts integration" in education, I was frustrated to find a lot of things incorrectly labeled as "arts integration" when it truly should have been "arts enhacement." I'm glad that we've learned the difference between the two as I felt a sense of internal snootiness to read or view a link about "arts integration" only to recognize it was truly "arts enhancement." Because of this, I won't look like an amateur around those that are truly familiar with arts integration.
Website, Website, Video
The first website I found was apparently a popular one. I looked at the lesson plans that were on Education Closet. There are many different types of lessons that cover reading, writing, math, music, visual arts, movement, and even bullying. I was amazed at the amount of lessons and how it was actual integration and not just enhancements.
The second place I went to look was Pinterest. Once you go to Pinterest you can search for arts integration or arts education; up pops a plethora of different ideas, lessons, and videos. You can take a quick peek at just a search for Arts Integration by clicking here. I was amazed at what I could find by using Pinterest. Since it is not an actual arts integration website there are a few pins that would be classified as arts enhancement, but as participants of this grant I feel we could weed those out.
There are many videos on YouTube, but one of the people that sticks out the most in my mind are videos by Mary Palmer. If you watch the video below you can see why I like her videos.
You can check more of her videos by going to her YouTube Channel. They are all geared towards elementary school, sorry secondary teachers. She also has a website where she has information about herself, information about her program Through the Arts,
The Teaching Channel
I spent my hour on the teaching channel website. I looked at some incredible lessons that teachers had prepared and modeled. I was very impressed with an arts integrated ela and music lesson. It was located at www.teachingchannel.org/videos/teaching-ela-with-music. The teacher was doing a lesson on black history month with composer Duke Ellington. In the lesson, students discovered similes in the book and had to write their own similes. Students then incorporated their own similes into song. I also watched the lesson about teaching symmetry with dance - www.teachingchannel.org/videos/teaching - symmetry-with-dance. There was another lesson I watched that showed how basic music fundamentals enhance student learning. I gained a few new insights into my teaching from this video. Teaching rhythms was simplified and it makes sense to switch that in my lessons. www.teachingchannel.org/videos/teaching-music-fundamentals-enhance-student-learning. The final lesson plan I watched was about a music teacher incorporating poetry into her music lesson. She had the students write a haiku and then put instruments with the haiku in appropriate places. www.teachingchannel.org/videos/teaching-3rd-grade-poetry-lesson.
All in all, I thought the lesson plans I viewed gave me some tips about how to teach my subject better and easier ways to incorporate ela and math.
All in all, I thought the lesson plans I viewed gave me some tips about how to teach my subject better and easier ways to incorporate ela and math.
The Links of Interest!
There is so much useful, and probably more useless, information on the internet, the task of limiting interesting links to just a few and sorting out the bad is daunting. I want to share a few things with a reminder that my mind makes bizarre connections frequently.
THE STORY OF MOVIES
http://www.storyofmovies.org/common/11041/educationalStandards.cfm?clientID=11041
Although I am primarily an Art Educator, I have a long standing passion for film. I took enough film history and production classes in college to qualify for a minor in it. In my 3rd year of teaching high school, and casual conversations with my art students about film history, I was shocked at how little they knew and became determined to teach some sort of Film History class. When I would ask, yearly, the administration looked at me as if I had asked to fly the moon. They told me it didn't exist.
I finally had a film buff administrator who thought it was a decent idea. The hard task of refining the curriculum fell upon me. After I had already taught the class a couple of years, I stumbled upon this website. While mainly geared towards middle school and a limited curriculum, it did help me in justifying what I was already doing and helped me with ideas to improve. The main page has this inspiring video that explains what the site is about;
http://www.storyofmovies.org/common/11041/som.cfm?clientID=11041
How can this help teachers who do not teach Film Studies? A few important points about integrating the art of film into any classroom:
1. Watch the full movie. Some administrators have been conditioned to have their head explode when they find a teacher doing this. Mostly it is justified (teachers having a free day showing films that have little to do with the curriculum) . But, as the filmmakers and teachers who developed this program discovered, students can only achieve full understanding if they watch the entire film. For many years, film was considered simple entertainment with little educational value. However, students now live in a visual age and are more likely to receive information via a video on the internet than reading (you can argue if this is a positive or negative development in humanity all you want, but it is a fact of contemporary society). Students must be taught how to "read" a film; why did the director choose that shot? Why is there an edit here? Students should also come to appreciate the history of film and the stories that are a direct reflection of the time they were made. If legitimately integrated into the content of the class, film becomes a powerful tool.
2. It's about the film, not the book. This might confuse or upset some English teachers, but if you are only using a film adapted from a book to supplement the book (for instance, students read "To Kill A Mockingbird" then watch the movie "To Kill A Mockingbird"), it is pointless and removes any value in actually watching the film. Rather than experiencing the film with the filmmakers' artistic intent, the overall approach to the film for the student becomes "what did they get wrong." A more integrated example would be to have students read a science fiction story then watch "The Day the Earth Stood Still" and discuss how each artist approached the overall genre of science fiction.
IMAGINEERING
http://www.imagineeringdisney.com/forums/
People who know me would not be surprised about this. Imagineering is a term coined by Walt Disney to explain the artists and engineers who help design and build Disney park attractions. This was a crazy Arts Integration experiment in the 1950's that could have taken down an entire film studio. Walt Disney managed to encourage artists, architects and engineers to work together (instead of arguing), understand each other and each others' strengths, and create a new form of entertainment.
I have had my art students in the past do a project where they must work together to design an attraction. Using Imagineering resources, I help students understand that the rides designed by engineers are not just roller coasters; these rides immerse people in a complete environment (from the architecture to the plants) to tell a STORY. Even if it is not obvious to the person riding it, every Disney ride begins with a written story, then designs, then the engineering (science) of building it.
While I cover the first and second aspects of this project, I have not been able to integrate the final science aspect of the project.
Hopefully I will find a willing science teacher one day.
THE STORY OF MOVIES
http://www.storyofmovies.org/common/11041/educationalStandards.cfm?clientID=11041
Although I am primarily an Art Educator, I have a long standing passion for film. I took enough film history and production classes in college to qualify for a minor in it. In my 3rd year of teaching high school, and casual conversations with my art students about film history, I was shocked at how little they knew and became determined to teach some sort of Film History class. When I would ask, yearly, the administration looked at me as if I had asked to fly the moon. They told me it didn't exist.
I finally had a film buff administrator who thought it was a decent idea. The hard task of refining the curriculum fell upon me. After I had already taught the class a couple of years, I stumbled upon this website. While mainly geared towards middle school and a limited curriculum, it did help me in justifying what I was already doing and helped me with ideas to improve. The main page has this inspiring video that explains what the site is about;
http://www.storyofmovies.org/common/11041/som.cfm?clientID=11041
How can this help teachers who do not teach Film Studies? A few important points about integrating the art of film into any classroom:
1. Watch the full movie. Some administrators have been conditioned to have their head explode when they find a teacher doing this. Mostly it is justified (teachers having a free day showing films that have little to do with the curriculum) . But, as the filmmakers and teachers who developed this program discovered, students can only achieve full understanding if they watch the entire film. For many years, film was considered simple entertainment with little educational value. However, students now live in a visual age and are more likely to receive information via a video on the internet than reading (you can argue if this is a positive or negative development in humanity all you want, but it is a fact of contemporary society). Students must be taught how to "read" a film; why did the director choose that shot? Why is there an edit here? Students should also come to appreciate the history of film and the stories that are a direct reflection of the time they were made. If legitimately integrated into the content of the class, film becomes a powerful tool.
2. It's about the film, not the book. This might confuse or upset some English teachers, but if you are only using a film adapted from a book to supplement the book (for instance, students read "To Kill A Mockingbird" then watch the movie "To Kill A Mockingbird"), it is pointless and removes any value in actually watching the film. Rather than experiencing the film with the filmmakers' artistic intent, the overall approach to the film for the student becomes "what did they get wrong." A more integrated example would be to have students read a science fiction story then watch "The Day the Earth Stood Still" and discuss how each artist approached the overall genre of science fiction.
IMAGINEERING
http://www.imagineeringdisney.com/forums/
People who know me would not be surprised about this. Imagineering is a term coined by Walt Disney to explain the artists and engineers who help design and build Disney park attractions. This was a crazy Arts Integration experiment in the 1950's that could have taken down an entire film studio. Walt Disney managed to encourage artists, architects and engineers to work together (instead of arguing), understand each other and each others' strengths, and create a new form of entertainment.
While I cover the first and second aspects of this project, I have not been able to integrate the final science aspect of the project.
Hopefully I will find a willing science teacher one day.
Resources.
Hi all, Rhyanne here. I apologize for the unprofessional name... I think I created a blogger account during college when I was going through a peep-obsessed stage! Best candy ever! And peep season is soon to be upon us!! MERLOT: Merlot is a search engine for interactive simulations. GOLD MINE! You need to register for an account, but it is so worth it. Simulations can be broken down by subject and/or grade level.
http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm
PRX: Public radio exchange! Accessible from school! So much cool stuff! These are radio stories collected from around the country. There are so many different topics, it's fantastic! There was a story on math and mime, similar to Rick's presentation. You do not need to sign up, but you can save playlists if you do. Plus, you can listen to cool radio stories on your prep as it's not blocked!
https://www.prx.org/
Look What I Found....
This site is more of just a quick link to a lesson plan for math
and arts integrated lesson, than it is for arts integration strategies.. but
the lesson it links up to is definitely one I’d like to try in the near future!
The lesson is called Venn Silhouette, and as the name implies, it has the
students using both Venn diagrams and a silhouette to explore math and art
related topics. Some vocabulary that the
lesson covers is overlap, same, different, compare, contrast, survey, graph,
certain, equally, likely, unlikely, impossible, and profile. I like that at the end of the lesson, it
allows for a gallery walk, extension activities like graphing and “I wonder”
questions to promote speaking and listening skills.
If you look around the website, click on the blog and
resource links for other activities that are arts integrated, or some lessons
that you could tweak.
Right from the homepage of the site:
Education closet is a site with ‘curated resources to help you
on your integration journey’
http://educationcloset.com/start-here-with-arts-integration/ GO HERE and CLICK ON ALL THE LINKS!! J Some links include:
The links at the top are user friendly and take you to great
arts integrated lesson plans that are ready to go! The search engine shows you
the lesson description, classroom content, fine arts content, and grade level
band all at a quick glance. When you select a lesson, an easy to read PDF pops
up and is ready to add to your curriculum engine! Super easy.
Another fantastic thing I love about this site is the
‘strategies’ tab that links you to you guessed it, strategies! A drop down bar
lets you choose professional development, visual arts, music, drama, or dance. From there, you can study up on or learn new
ways to teach the chosen subject and incorporate it into your core content
standards lesson plan.
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Education Closet, Glogster, Illumination
Education Closet
I came across an arts integration site called Education
Closet. It has so much in it. It has resources
that I think would be helpful to any teacher interested with arts integration. Even
me who’s almost done with the arts integration training find the materials
useful. I am leaning towards integrating
movement so I checked what they have. I found a detailed instruction of the
Mirroring Technique taught by Deb before. I found The Geometry of Dance lesson which uses
the Mirroring Technique was used to review the definition of symmetry. The Geometry of Dance is a great lesson on
symmetry and I believe this would be great too for middle school and elementary
grades.
There are other arts integrated lessons in math but most of
them use ipad. What I liked most is their article on Technology Apps for the
Arts which lists apps for arts integration, apps for arts and apps for music. I
can’t wait to look at those in the list especially Van Gogh’s Dream which lets
look at each painting, explore the history behind the art and art techniques
such as use of complimentary colors.
Education Closet has a STEAM portal. It’s my first time to
hear about it. It stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Mathematics.
http://illuminations.nctm.org/
For me this is a very good site for math content. It has lessons involving activities and projects that I'm sure could be modified to make them arts integrated.
http://www.glogster.com/
I just thought of sharing this with you. This is a website where you can create 'glogs' online multimedia posters with texts, photos, videos, graphics, sounds, drawings and data attachments. You may pay but you can access a free version. I used it in one of my technology class before.
As I was interested in more arts integrated lesson plans, the first site I located, Teachhub, just gave quick overall ideas of "integration." The information on the site was billed as "Awesome Lesson Ideas to Integrate Science Across the Curriculum." I say "integration" loosely because to me it was really arts enhancement. However, as we know, the ideas could be tweaked and expanded to arts integration using UbD.
The next site I went to was the NEA (National Education Association) website. The information on this site was "Arts Across the Curriculum, Grades K-5, Integrate Music and Visual Arts with Social Studies, Math and Science." Although I did not go through every lesson here the lessons seemed to be arts integrated. One lesson, "A Story on a Vase," was linked to the J. Paul Getty museum website. Each short blurb about a lesson was linked to other sites and gave complete integrated lesson plans.
The third site I located was HIGH (High Museum of Art Atlanta, Teach Across the Curriculum). In June 2011 while serving as workshop instructors, education specialists and classroom teachers developed these lessons during the Teacher Institute named, "Picasso to Warhol." The one Elementary Art Lesson,
"Warhol Reductive Printmaking," included essential questions. It taught all about printmaking, and students made their own print. There was not another aspect of language, writing, math, science or social studies within the lesson though.
This next site was a free site with "art ideas for toddlers to teens." Although this site has numerous lesson plans which could be adapted to the grade and age level necessary, not all of the lessons I viewed were arts integrated. Some were arts enhanced, but again, could be tweaked to really be arts integrated.
The last site I went to, Arts Integration Solutions was billed as 100 Arts Integration Solutions. Here there were weekly tips on its homepage. Funny thing, the Weekly Strategy #1 included the Tableau activity (Like we practiced in our workshop) and the dance element of shape. Students arranged themselves to create that frozen moment in time.
As I stated at the beginning, I was looking for more arts integrated ideas that I could use as is in later lessons, or lessons that just needed some tweaking. Most of the above sites linked into others to expand their circle of information. Teachers looking for more arts integrated lessons would find anyone of these sites a treasure. The last site contained weekly tips and I think is a good idea as any quick reminder of strategies that could be used in arts integration.
Stuff what I found
OK, here's just a few of the sites and documents I turned up.
Arts Integration Solutions Assessment Guide
This one's a PDF document from the same folks who sponsored our mime, et. al. workshop. It's got a good overall mission statement, rubrics, lesson samples, and student self-assessments.
TeachArts.org
This website is put out by the Fresno County Office of Education. There's a lot here worth looking at. Lessons from K-12, video resources (not all about AI, but good nonetheless, esp. Austin's Butterfly), ideas for units of study, and more. I really liked this one.
Edutopia Lesson Plans and Resources for Arts Integration
Edutopia is what George Lucas does with his money now that he's not making Star Wars prequels (and thank the Force for that). There are AI lessons here too, focused on middle school. What I found most useful were the professional development documents on subjects such as artful thinking, writing and the visual arts, and art history. Good resources for those of us without the background in visual arts.
Common Core and the Arts
This one's from the Arts Education Partnership, an inter-agency group that started with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Department of Education. It's a good overall site for understanding Common Core and how the arts can be integrated in and enhance the CCSS standards for math and ELA.
Peace y'all.
P.S. The Lemur is an alternate identity assumed occasionally by writer and teacher, Peter Schmit.
Arts Integration Solutions Assessment Guide
This one's a PDF document from the same folks who sponsored our mime, et. al. workshop. It's got a good overall mission statement, rubrics, lesson samples, and student self-assessments.
TeachArts.org
This website is put out by the Fresno County Office of Education. There's a lot here worth looking at. Lessons from K-12, video resources (not all about AI, but good nonetheless, esp. Austin's Butterfly), ideas for units of study, and more. I really liked this one.
Edutopia Lesson Plans and Resources for Arts Integration
Edutopia is what George Lucas does with his money now that he's not making Star Wars prequels (and thank the Force for that). There are AI lessons here too, focused on middle school. What I found most useful were the professional development documents on subjects such as artful thinking, writing and the visual arts, and art history. Good resources for those of us without the background in visual arts.
Common Core and the Arts
This one's from the Arts Education Partnership, an inter-agency group that started with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Department of Education. It's a good overall site for understanding Common Core and how the arts can be integrated in and enhance the CCSS standards for math and ELA.
Peace y'all.
P.S. The Lemur is an alternate identity assumed occasionally by writer and teacher, Peter Schmit.
ELA Marcy Seba- Lesson 5
ELA Marcy Seba- Lesson 5
I found several short and sweet arts integrated lesson plans
on this site. One I delved into was
Integrating music with writing. It uses
the lion/elephant selections from The
Carnival of the animals. Students listen to the music and picture in
their minds what the animals are doing.
Then they write whole group an individual descriptive sentences about
what the animals are doing and their movement.
Then they listen to the musical selection again and pantomime and do
tableau and add more to their sentences. I really liked the way the lesson was so
succinct. It was only one page! But I suppose our four day plans are
important to use as we are learning how to integrate arts into our
curriculum.
The following sites were links posted on the education
closet site.
The Whole Schools Initiative is
an arts integration website with information on strategies, lessons and teacher
trainings. Lots of wonderful information here!
I opened a zip file from this site with an extensive thematic
unit on hurricane Camille. For part of
the lesson they use interactive dance with twirl streamers to experience a
hurricane through their imagination.
This was called a creative visualization story.
A website focusing on
techniques and resources for incorporating the arts in all classrooms in a
variety of meaningful and rich ways.
This site offered workshops and in-school classes with
professional development opportunities.
There was also a Getting Started link that had a website with resources
and also highlighted sections of the site that are good starting place. There was a how to do arts integration
tutorial. This site seemed to be geared
more towards teaching artists. I didn’t
see any lesson plans and it was more of a how to implement arts education for
arts educators.
Like Pinterest, but specially designed for
Educators! This format is Arts Integrated at its heart…you’ve gotta check
it out!
I really didn’t find any arts integrated information or
lessons here. It does have a lot of arts
in general stuff and classroom ideas.
Perhaps if I explored further I would find the “Arts Integrated at its
heart…”
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