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Creative Mindfulness: Using Visual Art to Cultivate Zen in the Classroom
How do you know where to start? Try these 3 tips for bringing more creative mindfulness into any project, lesson or unit.
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1×5 Strategy for Creative Thinking
The 1x5 strategy is a creative thinking strategy that provides 1 object or idea and has students alter it 1 time for 5 rotations.
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Making Musical Connections
Looking to make meaningful musical connections with your students?
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Oil Pastel Arts Integration Technique
Try using these cool oil pastel techniques to paint in your science and art classrooms.
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Animal Collective Noun Book Illustration Idea
Animal collective nouns can be surprising and delightful.
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Mastering Geometry Concepts With Dance
Bringing movement and dance into the math classroom is a fantastic way to help students deeply understand geometry concepts and vocabulary.
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Upcycling Wearables STEAM Lesson
Integrate engineering into your classroom with this STEAM lesson plan designed for high school students.
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Art Gems in the Oscar Short Film Nominees
Spoiler alert! If you are planning to see the films that were nominated for an Oscar in the Short Film category this year, don’t read this article.
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Using Maps to Inspire Arts Integration
Maps is used to inspire arts integration and it's the lessons that seamlessly align with math, social studies, science, and visual art.
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Using the “Evidence For, Evidence Against” Strategy
"Evidence For Evidence Against" is a teaching strategy that helps students read a piece of text.
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Keep It Simple! Maximizing the Joy in Learning
One lesson I seem to have to keep learning no matter how long I’ve been teaching is to keep it simple in order to maximize the joy in learning.
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From Pictures to Tableau: An Arts Based Strategy
Need an effective instructional arts based strategy for students?
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