4th Grade Art Lesson Ideas - Pinterest http://www.pinterest.com/theresamcgee/4th-grade-art-lesson-ideas/ Making the Connection http://educationcloset.com/tag/arts-integration-lesson-plan/ Yaneo.org http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=5&ved=0CEAQFjAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yaneo.org%2Fwhat%2Fattachments%2F_lesson-plans%2FYA-LP_Rhythm-Terry-Boyarsky.pdf&ei=GwkMU6P6DsbuyAGAxIHIDQ&usg=AFQjCNHbMOB2qqCK3p4OWMk76YCKnTXqFw&sig2=ztQWgeWBHOPxmt-Ih7rqCg Cool blog spot with ideas http://facaartroom.blogspot.com/p/4th-grade-art.html Amazing site and direct connection to common core standards http://artsintegration.com/portal/ A school in Maryland helped build this site full of arts integration ideas and lessons http://www.edutopia.org/stw-arts-integration-resources-lesson-plans Integrating drama into your lessons http://education.byu.edu/arts/lessons/drama Strategies for arts integration http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/collection/strategies-arts-integration
Sunday, March 30, 2014
Web Pages and links for Art Integration
This website / link, http://www.incredibleart.org/lessons/elem/integration.html
The following items contain elementary art by
integration links:
Life Sized
Renaissance Clothing ; Integration of Art
and Drama ; Italian
Renaissance Art Drama Italian Renaissance Art Drama 2 ; Impressionist Art
& Drama ; Indiana
Artists 1880-1905 ; Movement
and Rhythm in Modern Art ; Dress-up to the
Olde Masters ; Pitchy Patch
Puppet ; Elements
of Art Introduction ; Dress-up
to the Olde Masters ; Living Paintings
http://docisto.info/view.php?id=www.mstm.us/pdf/curriculum/2nd_Grade_Language_Arts_Lesson_Plans.pdf&k=language arts lesson plans
http://www.folkloremusic.com/page4.html
Resources for teachers: Jim's free eBook... MEDIEVAL TIMES: Ontario Curriculum Resource Book contains 35 curriculum based lessons and 70 fun classroom activities. To download this book, go to... www.lulu.com and enter the title... the author Jim Arnold.
To get the free
eBook from Jim Arnold, click on the link or website is right below: http://www.lulu.com/shop/search.ep?keyWords=jim+arnold&type=Not+Service&sitesearch=lulu.com&q=
This site offers short lessons in
math, science and language through musical activities: http://www.philtulga.com/resources.htmlThe following links / website will connect you to information about most musical instruments: http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/instr.html
At the following website, you learn about the different families and different types of instruments: http://DataDragon.com/education/instruments/
On this following
website, you will see popular musical instruments, play their music, or have
fun learning about their origins: http://www.Lehigh.EDU/zoellner/encyclopedia.html
Thursday, March 27, 2014
Treasha Weatherspoon –ELA
Respons to AlishaMarch 16, 2014 at 9:16 AM
I visited the site that you suggested and agree 110percnt! i think that the students would love takign te photos and writing a poem about them. I am currenlty thinking of ways to integreate this into my classroom.
I also love how this website broke down the idea of arts integration into student friendly language. There was a great article i found on how art integrations is linked to student acievement, check it out if you have timehttp://www.artseveryday.org/uploadedFiles/Cultural_Organizations/How%20Arts%20Integration%20Supports%20Student%20Learning.pdf
Treasha Weatherspoon -ELa
Response to Kate Thurston LaRoach at 9:13 AM
By your request I visited the website and I FELL in LOVEE! I love the use of the music side of arts to integrate into my classroom!. Throughout this whole process, I have only really looked at ways to integrate arts ‘(painting,drawing ect) into my classroom! This website forced me to think of ways to incorporate music untl my class! I have thought of a lesson where my kids would take a part of the story that we are reading in our Hunger Games book, and write a piece of music that connects to the way that they feel after reading the part that they selected in the Hunger Games. I was also intrigued by the many opportunities for professional development that they had for teachers. Overall great site!.
Discussion 4a
o Marlo~ I like how you think! I was also encouraged to use BAM when I started with CCSD 16 years ago and yet I do not see or hear alot of teachers acting like they are using it. I think your point that if everything and most people agree that BAM and UbD are effective, then we should be able to do it more regularly.
Stephen Covey wrote in his 7 Habits of HIghly Effective People that Habit 2 is to Begin with the End in Mind. He wrote, "Sometimes people find themselves achieving victories that are empty--successes that have come at the expense of things that were far more valuable to them. If your ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step you take gets you to the wrong place faster." He states that to "Begin with the End in Mind means to begin each day, task, or project with a clear vision of your desired direction and destination, and then continue by flexing your proactive muscles to make things happen." This is what I think my students deserve so I am trying to give the preparation the time it needs to have effective units.
Discussion 4b
o Kathyrn ~ I liked the way you summed up UbD. I particularly appreciated your statement "the end goal of UbD is understanding and the ability to transfer learnings – to appropriately connect, make sense of, and use discrete knowledge and skills in context. Evidence of understanding is revealed through performance – when learners transfer knowledge and skills effectively, using one or more “facets” (explain, interpret, apply, shift perspective, empathize, and self-assess)." I always feel a sense of success when my students can connect one bit of learning to another situation. For instance a student was trying to solve an equation and another student explained it to her using symmetry from a geometry lesson.
I agree that planning with units is best done backwards just as with most trips. Once you know where you are headed, you can plan where to stop and what to see along they way with your eye always on the final destination. I have finally begun to put together the assessment I plan to use before I begin planning the lessons and activities to achieve the goal of the assessment.
Discussion 3c
o Math ~ Amanda LaTurner
Emmanuela, I will look at both of your viewed videos. Iwas thinking about using the Golden Ratio in one of my integrated lessons. It is good to have some ideas challenged. We need to challenge statements of students at times to give them the opportunity to "construct viable arguements and critique thereasoning of others".
Discussion 3b
• Math ~ Amanda LaTurner
I have visited this site a few times since becoming a part of Cadre 2 with PDAE grant. There are not alot of integrating math and an art lessons. I found two that I really enjoyed. I have used the Mandala lesson in my room this year and my class enjoyed it. Other teachers have visited the room and thought the artwork was wonderful. Another math teacher wants to use the lesson later this year. The other lesson I plan on using integrates music notation with fractions. I appreciate relative completeness of each of the lessons. There are handouts, assessments with rubrics, and many times videos to help with the teaching of the art curriculum.
One idea I had while viewing the site was to encourage students to use technology as a way of showing understanding. I can see many different creations made using different programs. Students could the xylophone site to share rhythms and/or melodies. They could create a flip book showing how different beats could combine to make a measure.
• Another idea would be to include performance as part of the assessment or as a part of the lesson. It might be good to allow groups to share with one another rather than have everyone do it in front of the whole class. This would encourage everyone (even those less comfortable in the limelight) to participate.
The music lesson could be a good one to help students learn to give constructive and precise critique. They could evaluate the counts of a piece as well as the feel of the offering. Sometimes students get hung up on a product as being nice or saying "I liked it" rather than identifying what was pleasant, unnerving, surprising, or soothing.
Discussion 3a
o Math ~ Amanda LaTurner
Marlo, I am glad you visited other sections of the site. I get so focused on the lessons and ideas for teachers that I miss some excellent insights. I will definitely go back and look into the other parts. I agree that the more we can include parents, the better the results for everyone. As students move from elementary to middle to high school, family involvement can fall off dramatically. As teachers we need to get even more creative with ways to stay in touch. I have gotten good success with a nightly emails to parents about the day's activities, content covered, homework assigned, and upcoming events (like tests). Our Family Nights have had mixed attendance depending on what else in happening in the community.
I am anxious to visit the student section. It would be very interesting to assign the poll and look at the results, I think I would probably get some very positive student responses to including more art into my academics.
I have found that I am providing more opportunities for students to show mastery using a variety of media, beyond pencil and paper. The more I close my eyes and jump instead of fear that the curriculum will suffer, the more I am pleasantly surprised at the mastery shown. I can see an increase it the depth of explanations when I let go of the reins a bit. So far I am more comfortable letting go during reviews than content presentation.
Discussion 4c
• Math ~ Amanda LaTurner
I enjoyed watching some of the videos on You Tube. The videos by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe were insightful. The video entitled Authentic Education was good at explaining Understanding by Design. I appreciated the effort to break it down into clear steps with some good examples. The entire concept is not new but it puts forth an effective way to put the concept in practice. I have always liked and tried to use the BAM (Backward Assessment Model) but the Understanding by Design model clarifies the flow better.
One of my favorite scenes in a book is in Alice in Wonderland. Alice comes to a fork in the road and looks both ways wondering which way to go. Then she looks up to see the Cheshire Cat in a tree. She asks the cat for direction and he asks her, “Where do you want to go?” Of course Alice answers that she doesn’t know. What the cat says next is a key to life. He says, “If you don’t know where you are going, then it doesn’t matter which way you go.” As teachers we are given standards and the responsibility to teach them. However, if we don’t take time to examine what is success at mastering those standards, we can go off in some unnecessary paths. We have worked with teachers who love an activity so much that they try to contrive a way for it to fit into their program. They are also usually the ones who say there isn’t time to get everything covered. Do our lessons match the goals we have set? I think that using Understanding by Design will help us meet that challenge. If a student is asked why are you doing _____ and can answer in such a way that the _____ ties into the Big Idea or Essential Question, then we are on the right path.
If you want to laugh out loud, watch the Robot Discussion. I would so like to say some of those things!
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