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A Low-Prep Strategy to Cultivate Inquiry, Voice, and Choice
While allowing students to learn about their own interests seems like an impossible feat, there are actually simple ways to make it happen in all classrooms.
Arts Integration
Arts Integration ideas offer an approach to teaching and learning through which content standards are taught and assessed equitably in and through the arts.
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STEAM Careers for the 21st Century
Wondering what kind of jobs are emerging in the 21st century for students?
Educator PD
Making Learning Fun: A Very Fine Line
Making learning fun isn't always easy. Here are some ideas to help spice up engagement after the first weeks of back-to-school excitement have dissapated.
Classroom Management
7 Digital Icebreakers Using Google
Digital Icebreakers are perfect for the start of the school year.
Educator PD
Free Play & the Arts
This is about how arts integration and STEAM offer similar benefits as free play to the creativity of children.
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The Importance of Process
In the arts, the process is many times overshadowed by the product.
Resources
Microscopic: Science and the Elements of Art
Microscopic art integrates the Elements of Art with scientific observation.
Curriculum
Your Guide to STEAM Design Challenges
STEAM Design Challenges offer so many opportunities for hands-on learning and experimentation.
Curriculum
The Ultimate PBL Resource Guide
We all know that Project Based Learning can provide a deep and meaningful learning experience for students by allows the them to really drive their own learning.
Strategies
Visuals and the Classroom: A Winning Combination
Using visuals in the classroom is an easy way to get your students' minds going.
Strategies
Build A Classroom Community Through Singing
One of the best ways to build classroom community is by singing together.
Strategies
The Art of Writing
When a nearby art museum's program proved too cost prohibitive for one teacher's school, she took matters into her own hands and recreated the program with the help of the local high school.
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