Strategies
The Geometry of Dance
Blend math & dance with this creative geometry of dance lesson plan, provided for you by The Institute.
Social Emotional Learning
In a time when schools are facing issues with bullying, poverty, and intense expectations, social emotional learning is more important than ever. As a tool for making meaning and communication, the arts can have a profound impact on the social emotional health of our students. In this section, you'll find resources and tips for integrating SEL with the Arts in your own classroom. Want more? Explore our online SEL and the Arts course for 25 PD hours.
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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.
Strategies
Equation Rhyme Time: Math through Music
Featuring two music techniques that can be directly tied to Common Core math and Common Core reading and writing.
Educator PD
Connect to Your Inner Artist and Transform Yourself
Connect with your inner artist, the richer your teaching will be and the more committed to Arts Integration you will become.
Strategies
Music Strategies for Every Classroom
You just need to find an access point of music with which you feel comfortable, try out new music strategies and communicate freely with your music teacher.
Resources
Science is Play
The process of making art and the process of doing science are both forms of play and important means of learning.
Curriculum
Reading the Art Lesson
Today's lesson combines Common Core literature reading standards and visual art standards.
Strategies
Transition Time: The Art of Successful Transitions
Time is a precious commodity in today’s classroom and transition times can cause us to lose some.
Approaches
Curriculum with Caution: Extension or Integration?
What I just described is extension, relevant connections or even a curriculum overlay.
Strategies
How to Connect Across the Curriculum
Connect theater, movement, music and science through the concept of color intensity.
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