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Jaime Patterson is the Director of Content for The Institute. She understands educators need practical, time-saving ideas for bringing creativity into their classroom. These articles offer resources on the top issues facing educators today.
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Books To Move To: Integrating Literature and Dance
I have never taught this book before, but I thought it would be such fun to create a lesson integrating literature and dance using this book, so I did.
Curriculum
Is Imitation Wrong?
After reading the Guiding Principals of the Arts, the concept of imitation sparked a great discussion between our art teachers and music teachers.
Curriculum
Week 6: Introduction to Theatre Arts
As we move forward in our Arts Appreciation Course, we enter week 6 through introduction to theatre arts which discuss the key components of theatre arts.
Curriculum
Arts Integration Lesson: Life Cycle Theatre
A free downloadable lesson plan about the life cycle is inspired by Paul Fleischman’s book, Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices.
Curriculum
Arts Integration Unit: An Improvised Odyssey
This arts integration unit is called An Improvised Odyssey and it connects the speaking and listening standards with music focusing on improvisation.
Strategies
So You Want to Produce a Musical? Part III
These students were from the cast preparing to put on our elementary school’s first musical production, Disney’s The Jungle Book Kids, and they got an amazing chance to experience live theatre with their families, by going to see The Wizard of Oz.
Curriculum
Mastering Area and Perimeter by Creating Street Art
Students will calculate area and perimeter needed to create a collaborative or individual design in our playground's chain link fence.
Curriculum
Week 5: Profiling Yourself as an Arts Advocate
As we move into Week 5 of the Arts Appreciation Course, our goal is to start helping profilimg students as an arts advocate.
Educator PD
Driving Questions for Arts-Based Inquiry: Performing, Presenting, and Producing
In our Driving Questions for Arts-Based Inquiry series, we’ve been developing frameworks for inquiry based learning and project based learning.
Advocacy
SparkChasers Episode 46: Where Do We Go Next?
Today's SparkChasers episode makes a major announcement, so you'll definitely want to tune in to hear what we're changing up.
Strategies
Awesome Online Photo Editors
Instead of spending way too much money on those expensive personal photograph editing softwares, check out these free online photo editors.
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