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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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Standardizing the Creative Process
In this series, we look at the first three National Core Arts Standards give students parameters for exploring their creative process and ideas as well.
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Compare and Contrast: A Tried and True Technique
Today, we're talking about a tried and true technique I use dubbed as compare and contrast, taking something in one context and applying it elsewhere.
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Arts Integration Lesson: Tangram Shape Art
Looking for a cool new lesson? Well, here is an arts integration lesson incorporating visual art with the use of tangram shape art, based on the book Grandfather Tang's Story by Ann Tompert.
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STEAM Lesson: Movement Batteries
This free STEAM lesson for grades 3-5 is all about bringing dance to science.
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Arts Integration Lesson: Character Pitches
Need a lesson to introduce character analysis for grades K-2?
Strategies
Integrating Visual Art into Instrument Design
Instrument design is a great arts integrated project and a natural pairing of music and science, but how do we integrate visual art as well?
Strategies
Team 20: Cooperative Learning Strategies Using Play
If you need some fresh cooperative learning strategies, this game is a great way to build positive behaviors in your classroom through play.
Strategies
Unpacking the National Standards: Standard 10
We have spent time unpacking the National Standards, and this month we will explore Standard 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences.
Curriculum
Driving Questions to Guide Inquiry in the Arts
The essential questions in the National Core Arts Standards are a great place to begin looking at how to develop driving questions in the arts.
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Sparkchasers Podcast: Innovation Looks a Lot Like Hard Work
In reality, innovation is a process, the more you put into it, the more you get out.
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Facilitating Creative Process in the Classroom
Everyone can learn. Everyone has an artist within.
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