Strategies
How to Boost Literacy with Music and Art
Boost literacy with these fun, engaging, and versatile ideas using the magic of music and visual art.
Project Based Learning
Project Based Learning (also known as PBL), is an approach that connects inquiry, solving real-world problems and meaningful hands-on experiences. This is a perfect opportunity to integrate the arts! But be careful - there's more to this than just fun projects. In this comprehensive area, you'll find everything you need to connect PBL and the arts with integrity. Want to learn more? Try our Project Based Learning in the Arts online class in our Accelerator membership and build a PBL lesson while getting 25 PD hours.
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Assessment
Higher Order Thinking Questions for Your Next Lesson
Use this list of higher order thinking questions from Blooms, Costa, and Webb to support higher cognitive demand in your lessons with students.
Classroom Management
Researching the Magic behind The Nutcracker
Researching the Nutcracker is a surefire way to harness the energy of our students and the season through an inquiry-based, arts history project.
Curriculum
Broadcasting Your Classroom
Broadcast journalism is a real-life career that we can share right in our classroom - AND it's a fun and exciting way to multiple standards together!
Student Groups
Playing with a Practical Purpose
When we hear “learning through play”, our mind goes to an early childhood classroom, but even the older kids need this creative outlet of play!
Resources
The Importance of Process
In the arts, the process is many times overshadowed by the product.
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.
Educator PD
PBL and Arts Integration at its Best
There is no doubt that PBL (Project-based Learning) is a hot topic in the world of education these days.
Educator PD
Junk Art: Project Based Learning Lesson
This early childhood project based learning lesson connects science and art through recycled materials.
Resources
Could AltSchools Be the Future of Education?
AltSchools embrace technology as a tool for educators, not a replacement for them.
Educator PD
Art in the Garden
May is the perfect month to use a teaching garden to integrate the arts.
Curriculum
Carving Out Time for Arts Integration
With a little creativity & flexibility, art integration would be easily and effectively fit into a structure and will successfully be figured it out a way.
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