ELA- Emily Campbell

http://youtu.be/ymDnDjm30_E

http://youtu.be/4lwaeg7L81U

If you want to be inspired about arts integration, then watch these two videos! The first video shows the influence art integration has on students and even students parents. It gives first hand examples of what kids and parents think about art integration through interviews. This video showed me truly how important and what an impact integrating the arts has in the classroom! The second video explained 10 things all art educators should know about art integration. It was also inspiring. It’s so refreshing to know that what we are working so hard to accomplish really does matter.

http://educationcloset.com/category/common-core-and-the-arts/

When I was searching around the web, I found the Education Closet and I instantly knew it was a great find. Education Closet is a professional development website for integrated and innovated teaching techniques. It has multiple integration ideas through classes, lessons, strategies, and many resources for art integration! I know I am going to continue to come back to this website for lesson plan ideas. The best part of the website that I noticed were the lesson plans. You can pick any grade level you need and have multiple integrated lesson plans at your fingertips. The lesson plans are more of a guideline and not necessarily a great UBD, but it is a great start and resource. I think it is worth everyone’s time to check it out.  

Read, Write, Think, Draw, Eat, Sleep. Repeat.

Natasha LeRutte- HS ELA

I am so excited to share some of the resources I found for all of us! 

1.) ReadWriteThink is an absolutely amazing resource tied to the NCTE.  On the site there is a gallery of lesson plans tied to English and loosely to history, but more importantly there are lessons with great potential to be transformed into arts integration lessons!  Some of the lessons are ripe with arts components that just need a little modification to truly be an arts integrated lesson.  For example, one of the lessons introduces Pablo Picasso to students (Picasso Lesson).  One of the listed resources with this lesson is the Picasso Head website.  Picasso Head site can be found by clicking here. This site is incredibly fun and can be used to introduce the components of Picasso’s style.  You must visit this and create a little something for fun.  

2.) I can’t give enough credit to the free Ted Talks that spark so much creativity and thought.  During my research time, I wanted to explore something new, something that I could potentially tie in with an upcoming arts integration lesson.  I stumbled upon a Ted Talk by Sheikha Al Mayassa (Click here for her Ted Talk).  She ponders some wonderfully thought provoking questions like, “What should culture in the 21^st century look like?” as she states, “Art becomes part of a culture’s identity. “  I thought immediately of my students and how they must reflect on who is creating their identity as a community and how art is one way to express their culture and identity.  To add, Sheikha Al Mayassa introduces the Picasso of her community.  The artist is one that I had never heard of named “Baya”.  More information on her can be found here: http://www.galerielmarsa.com/site/en/artist_details.php?id_article=42 .  I began to think about how I could tie the arts into a multicultural lesson to truly expose my students to artists who aren’t household names, but have every right to be. 

PDAE Lesson #5 exploring the web

Science Specialist- Lai Lum
Some surprising places for art integrated lessons (or for ideas to develop UBD units):
      Crayola =  www.crayola.com/lessons-plans/
                      (they have around 55 lesson plans for Arts Integration)
      Scholastic = www.scholastic.com/teachers/collection/strategies-arts-integration
      PBS.org
                      (this site has more enhancement and arts appreciation lessons
                          that can be included in a UBD unit.)
      Utah Education Network
                      (this site has K-12 lesson plans that are structured for the 4 art forms
                          and can be modified for arts intergration)
 Collages / Universities: K-12 lessons attached to state or core standards
      ASU Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts =    
                      artswork.asu.edu/resources/lesson_plans/integrated_arts/
      Yale = Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute
      University of Missouri = Music materials
other sites: Lessons for K-12 connected to core curriculum
      AskEric = Lesson Plans
      educationcloset.com/arts-integration-lessons
                      (this has only a few lessons that are pretty easy to get and use but you have to
                        click on the lessons a few times before you get to the screen with the lesson on it)
      www.edutopia.org
                      (this site had a few that are PDF format and is set up like a unit per grade level)
      http://artsintegration.com/portal/lesson-planning/
                       (this site was neat because it had a template for the lessons, basic tools to understand
                         arts integration and what to do to help a teacher start using arts integration.)

In exploring these sites I found almost all sites for arts integrated lessons would refer back to the Kennedy Center Website or they would list some of the lessons found there.
I got great ideas from all of these sites that could enhance or show examples that I can use in some of my arts integrated lessons that I am currently trying.  Most sites are a work in progress and are collecting/ developing lessons to add to their web page. I loved the ones that were more like Arts edge lessons (organized and teacher friendly)!

     

ELA - Joy

Here is one of the better places I found -http://www.edutopia.org/stw-arts-integration  This shows how arts integration is working with Wiley H. Bates Middle School, a public school in Annapolis, Maryland. This follows a school that began its journey in integration in 2009.  They are listed as a "School that Works".  I thought this might help those of you in a secondary setting.

Believe it or not, there are some great examplars for arts integration in Pinterest. http://www.pinterest.com/edutopia/arts-integration/  They have some great arts work that you could use with your lessons.  You will also find ideas of how this will work together.

The best however is still ARTSEDGE - The lesson on All Around the Baseball Field is fablous!  It itegrats art, ELA, Math and movement.  This lesson could be used in any grade level.  There is so much that could be done within this lesson.  It has a step-by-step lesson outline with any essential questions along with reflective writing journal starters.http://www.softchalkcloud.com/scorecenter/lit/Qav3yRkbCz2Hzl. 

Arts Integration Solutions

http://artsintegration.com/

I explored Arts Integration Solutions which did the presentation on February 7 and 8. I found a research paper, “Champions of Change”, in the teacher’s section. It is a compilation of several research studies involving teaching with the arts. One of the articles starts with a quote from a middle school principal which states, “I couldn’t work anymore in a school that wasn’t totally immersed in the arts.“ . I thought about our schools and how nice it would be to have a school climate where all teachers thought as this principal did.

The study I read involved exploring the effects of arts education on students. Arts education for the purposes of the study included the arts taught by arts educators, or classroom teachers, or teaching artists. There was a high correlation between the amount of exposure to the arts and the students increased creativity, fluency, originality, elaboration, resistance to closure, expression, risk taking, and imagination.  The greater the involvement in the arts, the more likely students believed that they did well in school, particularly in language and math. Teachers and administrators confirmed the children’s perceptions. School climate was also reviewed in the study. Schools with greater involvement in the arts had better student-teacher relationships, increased professional development experiences for teachers, more innovative teaching practices, and increased collaboration between teachers.

One of my favorite statements from the article is: In such cross - disciplinary conversations involving the arts, young people are given permission to go beyond what they already know and to move toward s new horizons for their learning.

Kotas-ELA Lesson 5 posting One site that I found was at http://www.ehow.com/info_8205479_elementary-integrated-art-lessons.html and it was titled Elementary Integrated Art Lessons. I tried to veer away from the sites we already went to as everyone knows about them and find alternate sights that might be useful. One this particular site, it shows a short paragraph on Language Arts, Math, Social Studies and Science and a quick "how to" guide. It may be more of an enhancement but we now know how to add to those types of lessons to make them more integrated. Another site I went to was http://www.pnwboces.org/ssela/sample_lessons/sample.htm and it was titled Sample Lessons Social Studies/English Language Arts Curriculum. It had this intro "The Integrated Social Studies/English Language Arts Curriculum for Grades K-6 was developed by teachers during curriculum development workshops over the last seven years. The project received its impetus from the Putnam/Northern Westchester BOCES Curriculum Council." It had sample lessons, units and materials needed for grades K-6. I reviewed the first grade lesson and I think the integration of the arts is up to the teacher but the lesson DOES focus on: integrated with best practices in instructional technology and 21st Century Skills which include: encouraging higher order thinking skills involving collaborative learning using informational sources that cannot be found elsewhere or are not as rich engaging the research spirit infusing video clips utilizing real-time data utilizing interactive whiteboards effectively having real world connections allowing for online publishing or input from others I found an Arts Integrated lesson plan of Moby Dick for third grade at http://mdk12.org/toolkit/vsc/arts_lesson_seeds/share/Puppetry_Moby_Dick.pdf. After reviewing this lesson, it seems to be more of what we are looking for. It states the visual arts objectives with the content objectives and I believe someone could use this in their classroom with little adaptations. Phil Tulga (?) had some music activities and arts integration lessons at http://www.philtulga.com/resources.html which looked promising. He divides his page up into LA and Math/Science and lists lessons underneath. I do not know much about art but the Incredible Art Department at http://www.incredibleart.org/lessons/elem/integration.html had a PAGE of red lined elementary art lessons that appear to be integrated and there are many tabs to explore, such as preschool lessons, elementary lessons, junior high lessons, high school lessons, college lessons, sub lessons, art/drama lessons, Art gallery, activities, art lesson links, and cartoon lessons. The last link I looked at was from the Herberger Institute for design and the arts from ASU http://artswork.asu.edu/teachers/lesson_plans/integrated_arts/. It had some integrated lessons listed on it related to dance, music, drama, visual arts and integrated arts. I looked at some lessons and this one seemed integrated: Me and My Body: Music and Science (2 days) Science Standard: Students will recognize that component parts make up the human body systems (e.g. muscular, skeletal, circulatory, respiratory) Music Achievement Indicators: Students will: sing independently, on pitch and in rhythm, with appropriate timber, diction, and posture, and maintain a steady tempo use appropriate terminology in explaining music and music notation I hope these are useful to someone!!!

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Many thanks to Kathryn for setting up this new way to continue to communicate about the PDAE grant.  I look forward to working with you all in this exciting arts integration opportunity for the district, your school and classroom, and students.
Barb

Remember that Professional Development #2 starts tomorrow, Tuesday, Nov. 26th.  We will meet in art room 512.  I sent a map with the location marked.  Park on Eastern side, and before walking out of the cafeteria, turn left and go into the courtyard.  You will find room 512 a few doors down.  :)  Bring what you need to eat and drink.  See you there.  Remember this is mandatory and is paid at $30.00 an hour.  :)
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