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.
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