Friday, June 13, 2014

PDAE Arts Integration Blog: PDAE/CCSD ConFABulation!

PDAE Arts Integration Blog: PDAE/CCSD ConFABulation!

I am not sure if this is responding to the confab blog or not but here it goes... I truly enjoyed the conference in a way I never have! I was actually excited to go back the next day! I enjoyed boyh Layne's conference part! It will be exciting to see the results as I incorporate the tools taught by both- the contract, the tableaus, the critical thinking, and cooperative learning! I also am excited to try the storytelling learned from Stotts? I think creative and critical thinking are going to happen iny class if I incorporate the tools learned from this conference. It is exciting and I cannot wait!

PDAE/CCSD ConFABulation!


Sunday, March 30, 2014

KATHRYN FAULKNER
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

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:

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.html
The 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

I'm late in making a post for this topic. We had a family night at Valley on 2/28, and then I forgot to catch up. A site I looked at that fit our arts integration model was https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/teaching-ela-with-music .  The teacher is working with 4th and 5th grade students in a poor neighborhood. Her ELA objective was to have the kids practice using comparisons in writing, in this case similes. She approached it by integrating visual arts on a SmartBoard and the music of Duke Ellington. The text that she opened the lesson with was a children's book about Duke and abstract visuals that matched the beat of the music they were listening to. At various times she also had them snapping their fingers or clapping, so she was engaging several parts of their brains simultaneously. The video was not specific about the arts standards being taught, but I don't think it would be too hard to make this a fully integrated lesson.
A second website I found interesting was http://www.artseveryday.org/CulturalOrg/detail.aspx?id=182 . The opening page is a general discussion of why integrating the arts is worth our time, and there was nothing too new for us there, but one the links from this page took me to http://thewalters.org/integrating-the-arts/ .This site has a fair number of well-organized subject areas like Islam, China, Mummies and Madonnas. For each of the subject areas, they have catalogued many images that would apply to the teaching of that subject by many different content areas. For instance, if I chose Islam, I could find images about literature and about visual art or music or dance. It would be up to the teacher to decide how to use the images. It also has a section with ready-made lesson plans. I found one about comparing monsters with the "outsider" in lit. using visual art in the making of monsters that I would like to use this year.

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".

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