Classroom Management
Name Ball: Helping Students to Use One Another’s Names
Having students understand the importance of using one another’s names can help them.
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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Strategies
Expanding Sentences with Seurat
The lesson I found, written by Bruce Stewart, uses Seurat's art to teach the skill of expanding sentences to create meaning and imagery.
Strategies
Practicing Procedures: Part I
This week we are going to take a look at some creative ideas for each of the practicing procedures listed in last weeks' article.
Strategies
Rock Dance: One Standard, Four Seeds
One of my favorite arts integrated lesson is the Rock Dance lesson.
Educator PD
SparkChasers Podcast: Evaluating the Creative Process
In today's SparkChasers podcast, we're looking at evaluating the creative process.
Strategies
Advice for Media Students from Actor Jonah Hill
Being an actor and not being able to write is one of the scariest things in the entire world.
Classroom Management
A Book a Day Keeps the Doctor Away?
Can reading fiction actually make us happier, healthier people?
Classroom Management
STEAMy Back to School Inquiry
Try using this STEAM inquiry to explore ideas surrounding color, light reactions, and trying ways to block these reactions from happening.
Strategies
Close Looking as a Strategy for Arts Integration
Arts integration encourages observation skills through artful thinking, but can help students access particular concepts.
Educator PD
Sparkchasers Podcast: Why Presentation is the Key to a Successful Creative Experience
Ever wonder why some great ideas and creative experience never get off the ground, but those cat videos go viral?
Resources
Creative Reflection
Time is precious we wanted to make sure there was no pressure to post a daily creation but we did have some beautiful creative reflection posted.
Resources
Harnessing the Power of Intergenerational Learning
Perhaps this is the year your school decides to harness the power of intergenerational learning and witness the benefits for everyone involved.
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