Strategies
Process Drama Ideas to Try
Process drama is an integrated theater technique that allows students to experience events and topics from the curriculum in an authentic way.
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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Arts Integration Student Placemats
Help students refer to arts elements, literacy strategies, math practices and the engineering design process with these student placemats.
Educator PD
Junk Art: Project Based Learning Lesson
This early childhood project based learning lesson connects science and art through recycled materials.
Strategies
Simple Ways the Arts Can Help Make Algebraic Concepts Easier
Not sure how the arts and algebra add up? Try these tangible strategies to help create a solid mathematical foundation in algebraic concepts!
Classroom Management
Keep Holiday Art Projects Real!
Holiday art projects do not need to dilute the focus of art integration in your classroom.
Strategies
Telling Stories with Sound
There are countless opportunities to turn a wordless book into a multimedia extravaganza at any grade level with sound stories.
Strategies
Mapping Pattern: A Trepak Listening Map
) and to allow students an interactive experience with a piece of music.
Curriculum
3 Ways to Integrate ISTE Standards for Students
You may not believe it, but you can use the ISTE Standards with little - or no - technology.
Classroom Management
A STEAM Gift for your Budding Engineer
Did you know that only 14% of engineers are female?
Organization
How to Create a Classroom STEAM Library
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