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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.
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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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.
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.
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.
Resources
40 STEAM Apps and Websites
We've found 40 of the best STEAM apps and websites that you can use to integrate the arts everywhere.
Curriculum
Proportionate People STEAM Lesson
What's exciting about this middle school STEAM lesson is how changing proportion can alter perception, just based on the way imagery is presented.
Educator PD
Top Ten Tips for Attending an Arts Conference
Ten Tips for Attending an Arts Conference. Be sure to get some hints and tricks for your next conference by following our guide!
Strategies
The Rule of 18 – It’s Something to Fret About
Luthiers use a mathematical formula - the Rule of 18 - to calculate the placement of the frets that can easily be turned into an exciting STEAM project!
Educator PD
Art in the Garden
May is the perfect month to use a teaching garden to integrate the arts.
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