Building Community through Arts-Integration and Creative Dramatics (Sample Lesson)
Building community within a learning environment is an invaluable experience that will engage, surprise, and inspire students. Utilizing drama/theatre strategies (pantomime and improvisation) strengthen your classroom community and is an excellent catalyst for demonstrating collaboration, effective communication, and joyful learning. The basic structure of this lesson consists of a warm up, main activity, and closing reflection.
Art that Moves: Expression and Problem Solving through Kinetic Sculptures
The process of creating our Kinetic Sculptures showed what can happen when you get art moving: artistic expression and problem solving at its finest!
The Systems that Make Us: Integrating Art into Science
Science lessons were presented to the students over the course of two months, during which we implemented varying methods of Arts-Integration into Mrs. Auzout’s lesson plan. Through teaching highly complex bodies work at a first-grade level. They were then able to recall the previous body parts that help the brain function and called upon the various creative and social emotional skills they learned along the way through Arts-Integration!
Prioritizing the Purpose: Creating Engaging and Enriching Arts-Integration Lessons
I have found that when there is intention embedded in the way I design my activities, and I am open to accepting that intention does not equal impact, it opens the door for authentic, powerful and completely unpredictable student expression. When I perceive that an activity isn’t working for a student the way I expected, I have found that asking myself, “what is the purpose of this activity?” is a great way to re-calibrate.
Question Everything: Arts-Integration in Social Studies and Theater
5th grade is learning about the Middle Ages. At first thought, you might think, “What fun! Knights, and castles, and dragons, Oh, my!”, but what’s really happening is as unexpected as it is welcome. What’s happening in these 5th Graders doesn’t usually occur until college. These 10 year-olds are questioning. Everything.
Breathing Life into Art: Arts-Integration Across Different Subjects (History, English, Physics)
In these classes, I collaboratively implemented Arts-Integration into African American History, Physics, and English. Through this process, I learned so much. As a self-proclaimed “forever student”, Arts-Integration was a wonderful educational refresh for me!
ReNEWing with Art
See how students at ReNEW “renewed” an old discarded bench into a show-stopping artpiece
Rhythms in CoTeaching: Storytelling, Line, and Reflection
How collaborative storytelling can create something even better together
A Movable Classroom: Observation through Field Drawing
The benefits of taking students outside
ART- Helping Us Understand Our World!
How does ART help us better understand the world around us?
Arts Integration: PERFORMANCE
Discover the captivating journey of Mr. Mike's 3rd grade class as they blend music, drama, and English Language Arts to bring 'The Tortoise and the Hare' to life at Jazz Fest 2023, showcasing their newfound knowledge of dynamics, tempo, timbre, pantomime, tableau, improvisation, dialogue, and stage performance.
The Moton Art Wall
The "Moton Art Wall" blossomed from a small section into a vibrant gallery stretching all the way down the hallway
KID smART, BeLOUD, and Being Heard- Recording a Podcast!
Elevating student voice and expression in arts integration
Joy in the Process
Step into Ms. Bates's vibrant 2nd Grade class, affectionately known as "Over the Rainbow," where dreams are brought to life.
Learning Colors Through Number Bonds
Ms. Wapner teaches color blending through number bonds in Kindergarten