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Our Town: An Arts Integration Activity
You don't want to miss out on this informative, engaging and fun arts integration activity that connects across so many different content areas, your head will spin!
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Pat Klos taught middle school foreign languages and served as an arts integration specialist in MD. She shares how to connect literacy and the arts through visual thinking strategies.
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IntegratED Lesson Library
Looking for an integrated lesson sample? This comprehensive lesson library for grades K-5 provide you with full lesson samples in each grade and content.
Curriculum
Design Challenge: Understanding STEAM vs STEM
Just adding the paint does not make this a STEAM challenge.
Educator PD
3 Fun Ideas to Lay Dead Words to Rest
Here are 3 fun ideas to finally lay those dead words to rest in your classrooms!
Assessment
Creating Assessments to Demonstrate Student Growth
If you want to give your students ownership of their learning, you'll definitely want to keep these things in mind when creating assessments that demonstrate student growth.
Curriculum
Energy and Dance Ideas
Teaching dance or movement can be pretty intimidating, so I’d like to share with you some fundamentals that I hope will help you become more comfortable.
Educator PD
Understanding Culture through Arts Integration
When teaching about archaeology and the stories artifacts tell about people in the past, we depend on art to be a way of connecting modern culture to ancient and historical cultures.
Strategies
Place Value Picnic STEAM Lesson
Ah, place value. Such a challenging concept for some elementary students.
Resources
Arts Integration: Art Musical Chairs
Art Musical Chairs is different from the original in that no one gets eliminated and everyone is painting to the beats, harmonies, and emotions of the music.
Strategies
Where They’re From: A Media Arts Project
Connecting with students can sometimes be difficult but connecting with those for whom English is not their first language and it can be even more daunting.
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