Curriculum
Arts Integration Unit: An Improvised Odyssey
This arts integration unit is called An Improvised Odyssey and it connects the speaking and listening standards with music focusing on improvisation.
Lauren LaFontaine
Lauren LaFontaine is a former Group Success Manager at the Institute. In this role, she provides implementation support for school groups who are leveraging the Accelerator as a tool for Arts Integration and STEAM. Lauren is a former middle school visual and computer art educator and lives in Plymouth, Massachusetts. As a mentor teacher and professional development presenter, Lauren is passionate about creativity and making art accessible for everyone. Her passions in STEAM and Arts Integration are at the root of her goal to collaborate with classroom teachers everywhere.
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Strategies
So You Want to Produce a Musical? Part III
These students were from the cast preparing to put on our elementary school’s first musical production, Disney’s The Jungle Book Kids, and they got an amazing chance to experience live theatre with their families, by going to see The Wizard of Oz.
Curriculum
Mastering Area and Perimeter by Creating Street Art
Students will calculate area and perimeter needed to create a collaborative or individual design in our playground's chain link fence.
Curriculum
Week 5: Profiling Yourself as an Arts Advocate
As we move into Week 5 of the Arts Appreciation Course, our goal is to start helping profilimg students as an arts advocate.
Educator PD
Driving Questions for Arts-Based Inquiry: Performing, Presenting, and Producing
In our Driving Questions for Arts-Based Inquiry series, we’ve been developing frameworks for inquiry based learning and project based learning.
Advocacy
SparkChasers Episode 46: Where Do We Go Next?
Today's SparkChasers episode makes a major announcement, so you'll definitely want to tune in to hear what we're changing up.
Strategies
Awesome Online Photo Editors
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Classroom Management
Celebrate Good Times! Why We Need to Celebrate in Schools
Why do we need to celebrate in schools? I find that too often schools and educators focus on what is wrong and what needs to be corrected.
Curriculum
Arts Integration Lesson: Lines of Giving
Our Lines Of Giving lesson is a perfect way to integrate reading, writing and visual art through one of the most loved picture books ever: The Giving Tree.
Resources
How to Roll Out Periscope For PD
After learning about Periscope platform, I thought this might be a useful tool for my school district to help teachers network and learn from one another.
Curriculum
Week 4: What is Theme?
We move into week four of our arts appreciation course this week to know what is theme.
Strategies
The Art of Mathematical Thinking
Mathematical thinking has a lot in common with the arts focusing on commonalities and intersections between science, technology, engineering, math and arts.
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