Educator PD
Week 9: Designing the Theatre Performance Season
In this lesson, the main focus is solidifying the theme for each student's theatre performance season, and determine the theatre pieces.
Flipped Classroom
Have you explored the flipped classroom model yet? In this approach, students review instruction at home (usually using pre-recorded videos from teachers) and use class time to work on their projects. This can be particularly engaging when used with Arts Integration and STEAM. Use these resources to help you with the flip!
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Educator PD
Driving Questions for Arts-Based Inquiry: Responding
We will look at the anchor standards in the responding strand, and how to put them to good use in the classroom through Arts-Based Inquiry.
Resources
3D Art Cart
Why would someone decide to push around a 3D Art Cart printer on it all day long?
Resources
Are You Using Projects or Project-Based Learning?
Sometimes, we're using project-based learning and other times, we're just doing projects.
Curriculum
Composing Order: STEAM Lesson
This STEAM lesson is for K-2 students and focuses on composing order in objects of various sizes.
Strategies
“You Can’t Use Fiction and Say You’re Teaching Science.”
My school district is in the beginning stages of updating our K-8 science curriculum.
Educator PD
Week 8: Viewing and Discussing Theatre
In week 8 of our Theatre unit, we move from talking and discussing theatre by looking at it from an arts perspective and its fundamentals.
Classroom Management
Expository Writing with Van Gogh
Need a way to engage your students in expository writing?
Classroom Management
Books for Personal and Professional Development: Volume 3
As educators, we are always putting our best foot forward for our students.
Assessment
ENOUGH?
As we came to the close of Youth Art Month, Matt and I had a conversation about how we spent the month of March, it was a bit of a whirlwind.
Resources
Wait, Why Are We Doing This Again?
I have been working on a project for the Visual and Performing Arts Department in my district to revise some theater lessons.
Curriculum
STEAM Lesson: Coloring Sound
Integrating science and visual art through this synesthesia lesson called coloring sound.
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