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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Strategies
Reading Comprehension Strategies Using the Arts
Here are different arts techniques you can use for reading comprehension strategies.
Strategies
Tessellations Go Digital
Tessellations are mosaics using small squares to make repetitive patterns.
Curriculum
Founders Drama Lesson
Written for high school students, this lesson correlates 10th grade Speaking and Listening Common Core Standards with Drama processes
Strategies
Opening it up to the Forum
In this technique, students enact a scene and the audience can introduce new characters at any time.
Strategies
From Movement to Meaning: A Study of Synonyms and Antonyms through Dance
One idea was simply to give a word and have the students find a synonyms and an antonyms for that word and dance those words.
Strategies
Are you in the Hot-Seat?
The hot-seating strategy requires deep understanding of a subject, and the ability to improvise while at the same time remaining within character.
Curriculum
Weight in Words Lesson
This words lesson focuses on using dance to help guide vocabulary acquisition and an understanding of adjectives and verbs.
Strategies
The Geometry of Dance
Blend math & dance with this creative geometry of dance lesson plan, provided for you by The Institute.
Strategies
Equal Rhythms: Math, Music AND Movement!
Once you have read Susan Riley's Equal Rhythms Lesson consider using movement to deepen your students’ understanding and have them embody the rhythms.
Strategies
Dancing through Sound
Today's dancing through sound strategy is based in an old Dalcroze method that uses sound to provide a springboard for creativity and interpretation.
Strategies
Equal Rhythms Lesson
Equal Rhythms lesson for 4th Grade Common Core Math in the area of adding fractions and also works on musical notation and composition.
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