Strategies
The Geometry of Dance
Blend math & dance with this creative geometry of dance lesson plan, provided for you by The Institute.
Holly Valentine
Holly Valentine is the Director of Curriculum and Assessment for the Institute for Arts Integration and Steam. Prior to joining the Institute, Holly worked as an Arts Integration and Classroom Teacher for 20 years in a suburb of Rochester, NY. She is a certified Arts Integration Specialist and has served as an Arts Standards Writer for the New York State Education Department. Holly has been a recipient of the NYC Broadway League's Apple Award for her work in Arts Education. She also serves as the Director of Education for the Rochester Broadway Theatre League, where she has created nationally recognized programs and develops standards-based curriculum for touring Broadway shows in order to bring the theatre to classrooms and classrooms to the theatre. Holly holds both a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre and Psychology as well as a Masters degree in Education from Nazareth College in Rochester, NY, where she currently lives.
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Strategies
Equal Rhythms: Math, Music AND Movement!
Once you have read Susan Riley's Equal Rhythms Lesson consider using movement to deepen your students’ understanding and have them embody the rhythms.
Strategies
Dancing through Sound
Today's dancing through sound strategy is based in an old Dalcroze method that uses sound to provide a springboard for creativity and interpretation.
Strategies
Equal Rhythms Lesson
Equal Rhythms lesson for 4th Grade Common Core Math in the area of adding fractions and also works on musical notation and composition.
Strategies
Equation Rhyme Time: Math through Music
Featuring two music techniques that can be directly tied to Common Core math and Common Core reading and writing.
Educator PD
Connect to Your Inner Artist and Transform Yourself
Connect with your inner artist, the richer your teaching will be and the more committed to Arts Integration you will become.
Strategies
Music Strategies for Every Classroom
You just need to find an access point of music with which you feel comfortable, try out new music strategies and communicate freely with your music teacher.
Resources
Science is Play
The process of making art and the process of doing science are both forms of play and important means of learning.
Curriculum
Reading the Art Lesson
Today's lesson combines Common Core literature reading standards and visual art standards.
Strategies
Transition Time: The Art of Successful Transitions
Time is a precious commodity in today’s classroom and transition times can cause us to lose some.
Approaches
Curriculum with Caution: Extension or Integration?
What I just described is extension, relevant connections or even a curriculum overlay.
Strategies
How to Connect Across the Curriculum
Connect theater, movement, music and science through the concept of color intensity.
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