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Building Trust in the Classroom
This article explores a strategy to help student cope with insecurity in their artistic processes and build trust in the classroom.
IB/PYP/MYP
International Baccalaureate, Primary Years Programme and Middle Years Programme (IB/PYP/MYP) are approaches grounded in asking meaningful questions. Many of these questions are the same as ones that artists have been asking for generations. Who are we? Why are we here? How do we effect change? By connecting IB/PYP/MYP and Arts Integration, students are able to bring their unique point of view to any complex issue.
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A Summer of Creative Experiences
Looking to recharge your batteries after a long school year?
Strategies
Visual Arts Activities for Mindfulness
Cultivating awareness in the classroom can positively impact our students.
Organization
K-5 Arts Integration Curriculum Planning Kit
Are you ever frustrated with the lack of time for arts integration curriculum planning?
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.
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.
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