Strategies
Visual Arts Activities for Mindfulness
Cultivating awareness in the classroom can positively impact our students.
Rob Levit
Rob Levit, an acclaimed musician and artist and 2013 Innovator of the Year from the Maryland Daily Record, has created award-winning innovative "Life-Skills Through The Arts" programs for adults with mental illness, the homeless, adults in drug and alcohol recovery, youth in domestic/sexual abuse counseling, foster children, hospital patients, veterans and many more. He is currently Executive Director of Creating Communities and was the first Artist-In-Residence at Hospice of the Chesapeake, where he created and infused healing activities for the well-being of staff, families and patients. Email Rob.
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K-5 Arts Integration Curriculum Planning Kit
Are you ever frustrated with the lack of time for arts integration curriculum planning?
Classroom Management
The Power of Letting Go
With accountability being heaped on teachers, many are worried about "getting it right” and about "being on task".
Resources
How to Cultivate a Mindful Classroom
In this month's article, I interview Mary Kay Connerton, a Yoga instructor, who uses yoga to engage students and cultivate a mindful classroom.
Strategies
Insect Art: Chalk and Glue Technique
Identifying these scientific characteristics can be visualized using this glue and chalk technique that allows students to create their own insect art.
Strategies
Arts Integration Inspired by Paul Klee’s Once Emerged from the Gray of Night, 1918
Learn how to use artist Paul Klee to inspire an arts integration lesson using search and find.
Strategies
The Brilliance of Integration: Making Music for the Deaf
Think music can't be enjoyed if you can't hear it?
Strategies
Historical Figures Mashup Lesson
This free high school arts integration lesson uses mashups to connect social studies, literature & media arts with historical figures.
Advocacy
A Hashtag Changed My Life
Thinking about using Twitter? There's so many possibilities on that platform for education.
Strategies
Listening Maps as a Means for Understanding Music
Listening maps are a visual representation of a piece of music, with the essential elements of that piece organized in graphic form.
Organization
“Note to Self” Lesson Plan Tip Before Summer
The end of the school year can be filled with absolute craziness!
Curriculum
Constellation Dance STEAM Lesson
During this STEAM lesson you can focus on the idea that constellations are stars that form a shape in the sky which can change depending upon the season.
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