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Teaching Nonfiction Content Through the Art of Story
Stories are an effective teaching tool for nonfiction content because they help make new concepts more personal, more memorable, more meaningful.
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Alive, Alert, Awake, Enthusiastic!
The song with movements I am going to share with you today can be a great tool for enlivening the class' energy or make an uplifting transition activity for your students!
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Now That’s Getting Personal!
When something is getting personal, we care deeply about it; it carries meaning for us.
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Intention…That’s What’s Missing!
There is something that you feel your students lack, or your lessons lack?
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The Beauty of Simple Structure
This simple structure allowed their own ideas to be channeled and freed and allowed me the opportunity to really observe each child.
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Reading Comprehension Strategies Using the Arts
Here are different arts techniques you can use for reading comprehension strategies.
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Tessellations Go Digital
Tessellations are mosaics using small squares to make repetitive patterns.
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Opening it up to the Forum
In this technique, students enact a scene and the audience can introduce new characters at any time.
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From Movement to Meaning: A Study of Synonyms and Antonyms through Dance
One idea was simply to give a word and have the students find a synonyms and an antonyms for that word and dance those words.
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Are you in the Hot-Seat?
The hot-seating strategy requires deep understanding of a subject, and the ability to improvise while at the same time remaining within character.
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The Geometry of Dance
Blend math & dance with this creative geometry of dance lesson plan, provided for you by The Institute.
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