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How to Catch a Shark – Getting Your Students To Use Descriptive and Specific Language
At every opportunity ask students to dig deeper into their observations and rationales by using descriptive and specific language.
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Structuring Dance
It’s all about structure. Here are a few pointers that may help you with structuring dance, a piece based on a story or a process.
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Touchpoint Ideas for Effective Classroom Experiences
Discover the educational benefits of an effective classroom layout.
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BEST: An Integrated Teaching of the Elements of Dance
By looking at each of those 4 dance elements, you may find some natural points of integration with core content.
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Define through Doing Strategy
Define through Doing Strategy. This provides the learner with an opportunity to explore a key question through the use of a chosen artform.
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Drama Adds Up to Literacy with CBRT
Do you want to integrate drama into your classroom in a simple but highly effective way?
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The Shape of Cause and Effect
Discover how this cause and effect activity integrates the arts into curriculum.
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Visual Analysis: Writing to Source
How can visual analysis benefit our students in an arts integrated classroom?
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The Act of an Artist’s Statement
What is the purpose of an artists statement? Whether you already know the answer or not, it has its perks for student learning in arts integration.
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The Master Class Approach
A Master Class approach is extremely valuable to students for numerous reasons in their arts education.
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Math + Visual Arts = Connection
Have you ever tried teaching your students math using the visual arts?
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Bubble Solution Arts Integration Lesson Plan
This free downloadable lesson connects Common Core math (geometry) standards with dance and visual art standards to help make shape identification and transfiguration more concrete for students.
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