Purchase and download the Artistic Teaching Arts Integration Lesson Plan and Reflection Document. This resource assists teachers in effectively planning arts integrated lessons and engaging in reflective practice to improve student outcomes. The document includes examples and fillable PDF pages that...
Looking for a lesson plan on symmetry? Why not bring math and art together! Inside this blog, I’ll explain how teaching symmetry with art can be achieved, plus pass along a free resource.
Though many teachers grumble when perspective time comes along, the experience can be enjoyable. Using these 3 ways to teach 1-point perspective and allowing students to make choices, can energize your curriculum and make it a more enjoyable way to teach one of the most important concepts in art and math.
“Math is a language through which we tell specific stories about the world.” Students use paper-craft techniques and interactive sculpture to explore ratios. They use a variety of combinations of paper strips to create equivalent ratios and solve a variety of mathematic equations.
Looking for Constitution Day activities for your elementary classroom? These lesson ideas, read aloud and projects will engage your students
Benefits of Art Integration in the Upper Elementary and Middle School Classroom. Includes tips and activities for Arts Integration.
Geometric Art
Try these middle school drama lessons and ideas.
Want to teach students how to turn fractions to percentages…while also engaging them? In this blog, I’ll show you how you can use an art quilt lesson to help your students with fractions and converting to percentages.
I recently found this cool fraction picture book in my mom’s old teaching files. I don’t have directions, but the pictures seem pretty self-explanatory. Using different common fractions…
Do you know about the power of arts integration? How it can level the playing field for your struggling students and challenge your gi...
Calvert’s 4th Grade Language Arts integrates writing, spelling, vocabulary, reading, and grammar into one fun-filled homeschool course. This comprehensive language course contains colorful workbooks that are filled with lessons on parts of speech, punctuation, fiction and nonfiction, research writing, literary forms, and reading skills. Since each self-paced unit can be completed in as little as three to four weeks, students experience a sense of accomplishment at the completion of each one! In addition, regular self-tests and an end of unit test provide assessment of student progress. An essential teacher's guide is included to provide important teaching supplements, such as instructional notes and answer keys, as well as additional resources and activities. Set includes 10 workbooks and 1 teacher’s guide. 11 softcovers. Grade 4.
Microscopic art integrates the Elements of Art with scientific observation. You can use it with patterns, math, science and more. Start with this download.
Integrate art and literacy with no prep or background knowledge with step by step tutorials for art history and art around the world!
Start with a square. Cut the top and add to the right (90 degrees). Cut the bottom and add to the left (90 degrees). Trace your design on ...
In an era of high stakes testing, art is sometimes the first thing to go but we as teachers need to find ways to continue providing art experiences for our students. Not only is art just plain fun, and let's face it, kids do need fun, but it's much more than that. Art is beneficial in so many ways! Find out ways to incorporate art in this post by The Teacher Next Door.
5 Activities to Teach Angles
I am always looking for a way to add some art and creativity into my math class, my class this year LOVES to draw so I knew they would love an opportunity to draw and be creative in math class. We just finished a unit on angles and lines. We studied all the classifications of angles (acute, straight, right, obtuse, reflex) and worked with measures of complementary angles, supplementary angles, angles formed when parallel lines are cut by a transversal, angles around a point and more! For their end of unit project they had to create their own city map using a variety of angles. I gave the kids a checklist with everything they needed to include. They had to plan where to place the specifics I laid out in the project: the types and amount of angles formed by the roads, what buildings needed to be located on different angle intersections, all the buildings that they must include, etc.. First I had them sketch out a rough draft so they could easily move streets/buildings around to get everything to meet the exact specifications required. Once they were happy with their draft they transferred their map to a 11 x 17 piece of white paper. For their final copy they had to include color, a city name, the city population, street names, building labels, and it needed to be neat and organized. They totally got into this project! It was so fun to see them figuring out how to make the roads meet to form obtuse angles, and where to place buildings. Many of them also got very creative and based their city name and street names around a theme (space, the ocean etc..) I was very impressed with the final projects they turned in! Here are some pictures of some of their finished designs. Do you do any fun and creative projects in your math class? I would love to hear about them!
The connection between social studies and art includes different cultures while using art to explore history in new ways. Read more!
Integrate art and literacy with no prep or background knowledge with step by step tutorials for art history and art around the world!
Are you looking for creative ways to incorporate arts integration into your secondary ELA classroom? Read through this quick post for some creative and practical tips to integrate the arts and increase student engagement in your classroom.
A round up of over 15 great STEAM projects – where math concepts are used to make pieces of art!
Use this collection of Paul Klee teaching resources and complete Klee Famous Artist Unit lesson plans to teach elementary art class.
Projected based learning using quadrilateral robots to engage and teacher students about quadrilaterals while they invent their own robot.
This is an amazing art and math lesson that I got from a teacher at a conference who did teach a district over from me, but is now getting her PhD. She always had amazing stuff to present at conference. (You're amazing, Mary Franco!) Anyway, this lesson involves Paul Klee and multiplication. I made a little three page Smart Notebook lesson about Klee's work "Once Emerged From the Gray of Night" (where I used to show a poster of it) and have the students talk about what's more important--the words of the poem or the colors and composition? Then we talk about putting two things (like writing and art, or math and art together). It's SUCH an amazing lesson, here's a sneak peek: So, students get a little background knowledge of Klee, then we talk about tessellations and multiplication (and practice on the Smart Board). Then, students get a page of one-inch graph paper and write out a one digit by one digit multiplication problem with a two digit answer. I tell them to choose one that's hard for them to remember, or their favorite one. They then repeat that problem seven times, dropping down and over one square for 4 times, then down and back a square for three times, making them into interlocking tessellation shapes: After they've drawn it all out in pencil and I've checked it, they choose ONE color of fine-tip marker to trace it with, then use colored pencil or watercolor pencil to color. The coloring is a bit of a challenge for them, because they need to forget that they're numbers and only look at the space. They then color it in patterns/designs to make it visually interesting and play with people's minds ('math? I dont' see any math!') It's an awesome lesson that really challenges their thinking. This one really shows the patterns and designs. Oh, it's also important that their numbers COMPLETELY fill the one inch box of the graph paper. I always try to do this lesson at a time of the year when classroom teachers are complaining about students not remembering their math facts. I usually do it with fifth grade, but I did it with sixth one year at the teachers' request.
Amazing things can happen with just one dot.
Telling Time with Salvador Dali: A Surreal Art Activity for Classroom Teachers for telling time! Learning to tell time can be boring for kids...so spice it up and teach telling time in a way they will never forget! Introduce students to the surrealist artist Salvador Dali and his famous painting "The "Persistence of Memory," where Mr. Dali portrays clocks in a very unusual way while teaching or reviewing telling time. This lesson works great all on its own or can be perfectly paired with my collaboration poster of Dali's famous artwork. You may also like my Meet the Master Artists lessons. In this telling time lesson, students will paint a surreal/unusual landscape as well as surreal/unusual clocks using Dali and his famous artwork as inspiration. There are telling time handouts, visuals, and telling time worksheets included in this lesson. If you are an art teacher, I'm sure one way or another you teach about Salvador Dali (I've got a large collaborative poster of Dali if that would help!)---what better way to teach about him than to help reinforce students telling time ability. They will never forget this! If you are a classroom teacher, this is a really unique way to either teach telling time or to reinforce it with lasting results. Students will have so much fun they will forget they are learning (or practicing their telling time abilities)!! I hope your students enjoy this project! Please click the "Follow Me" button on this page to keep updated on all my new offerings! Thank you for supporting my work and infusing your classroom with art! Jenny K. Let's Connect My BLOG Pinterest Instagram Facebook Twitter FREE eBOOK: The Benefits of Directed Drawing for Kids Sign up HERE to join my email list, and I'll send you a copy of my free eBook, The Benefits of Directed Drawing. Not to mention, after you join, you'll be invited to enjoy my "Subscribers Library" of freebies. TERMS OF USE: The purchase of this product is for one license and is for PERSONAL USE ONLY. ©Copyright 2014 Art with Jenny K.® ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Permission is granted to copy pages specifically designed for student or teacher use by the original purchaser or licensee. The reproduction of any part of this product is strictly prohibited. Copying any part of this product and/or placing it on the internet in any form (even a personal/classroom website) is strictly forbidden. Doing so violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). If you like my work, please help me keep the price low by purchasing additional licenses for any teacher with whom you would like to share this lesson. Extra licenses are discounted.
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Here is a silly drawing games that is a lot of fun for kids to play. In this drawing game, you use dice to decide what parts of the drawing you will draw. We have included a face drawing game and a landscape drawing game. This is a lot of fun and it helps children who might not be able to draw freely and creatively...this will help them draw more freely and creatively. This will also increase silliness.
These awesome science and art activities are a great way to teach science by using art. The science topics include the sun, space, leaves, sound, and more!
Are you a fan of Pop Art? Look no further than our Pop Art Worksheet! This worksheet is designed to engage and educate individuals who have an interest in the iconic art movement. With its vibrant colors and bold patterns, Pop Art is sure to captivate the artistic minds. Get ready to delve into the world of Warhol, Lichtenstein, and other influential Pop Artists as you analyze their works and explore the concepts behind this popular art style. Get your creative juices flowing and have fun while learning about this fascinating subject!
You can grab these geometric art printable...and let your kids imaginations run wild! A perfect free printable to let the creativity flow.
Take your students on an exhilarating journey through history with our Document Analysis Graphic Organizer, meticulously designed to foster a profound understanding of historical documents. This interactive graphic organizer employs the HIPPO acronym, offering a structured approach to document analysis. It serves as an indispensable asset for educators, providing the flexibility of digital or print usage. Crafted using Google Slides, this resource seamlessly adapts to diverse teaching methods and can be assigned digitally or integrated into various interactive teaching platforms. Key Features: Structured Document Analysis: The graphic organizer embraces the HIPPO acronym, expertly guiding students through a comprehensive examination of historical documents. Format Versatility: This versatile resource supports digital or traditional teaching methods, making it accessible to all educators. Enhanced Critical Thinking: Encourage students to dive deep into historical context, intended audience, purpose, point of view, and the incorporation of external historical information to cultivate a profound understanding. How to Use: Elevate Historical Understanding: Incorporate this graphic organizer into your curriculum to empower students to unveil the complexities of historical documents using the HIPPO approach. Format Flexibility: Assign the graphic organizer digitally, print it for traditional use, or seamlessly integrate it into interactive teaching platforms for heightened student engagement. Comprehensive Analysis: The HIPPO acronym systematically leads students through a meticulous examination of historical documents. Breaking Down HIPPO: H - Historical Context: Dive into the time and place of the document's creation, consider significant concurrent events, and explore how they influenced its meaning. I - Intended Audience: Investigate the document's original target audience and its potential impact on the document's meaning. P - Purpose: Scrutinize the motive behind the document's creation, comprehending the objectives it aimed to achieve. P - Point of View: Unearth the identity of the document's creator, uncover their personal perspectives, and recognize the potential influence on the document's content. O - Outside Information: Establish connections between the document and specific historical information beyond the document itself, enhancing comprehension. Why Choose Our Document Analysis Graphic Organizer: Deeper Historical Understanding: The HIPPO approach facilitates a thorough examination, enriching students' comprehension of historical documents. Format Adaptability: Whether digital or print, this resource seamlessly integrates into your teaching style. Critical Thinking Enhancement: Encourage students to explore historical context, intended audience, purpose, point of view, and the incorporation of external historical information, fostering in-depth understanding. Empower your students to embark on a historical exploration with the Document Analysis Graphic Organizer - HIPPO Approach to Historical Understanding. Transform your classroom into a hub of critical thinking and profound historical insight. Get a Google Slide deck for student instructions here!
Pop Art Rosa Parks. Learn about Rosa Parks using this fun, easy and FREE Pop Art Rosa Parks art project for kids.
Revised Blooms Learning Objectives for Art & Design that facilitate progression.
" International Dot Day ", a global celebration of creativity, courage and collaboration, began when teacher Terry Shay introduced his cl...
As Spring Break approaches, I find that my fifth graders are in need of some reminders as to what it means to be kind to each other. In general, they are sweet kids, but at times the words they use and actions they take, particularly on the playground, aren't the kindest. Our read aloud for the month is Wonder by RJ Palacio so the theme of kindness fit right into our room. It just so happens that a new book, We're All Wonders by RJ Palacio, a picture book intended for younger readers to access the story, came out this week as well. So the timing was perfect. (the two links above are my affiliate links and will take you to Amazon to buy the books.) I began by asking the students what kindness is. We brainstormed a list of ideas and created an anchor chart. Then I read the picture book to the students. Because we had just finished Wonder, they were so excited to read this new version. When we finished, I asked the kids to think of all the ways, in both the picture book and the novel, that people were not very kind to Auggie (the main character). The kids were able to fill our entire circle map in no time. It was easy to recall how people would scream in his face, recoiling at the way he looked. They remembered the names Auggie was called and the no-touching game that was played. The instantly told me about all the awful things that happened to him. I then asked the kids to brainstorm ways that, if they were in the novel with Auggie, they could be kinder to him. Again, they had no problem thinking of ways they could be kind to Auggie. Next, I asked the students to think about their own real life. I asked them to reflect upon how they personally treat others and how they personally could make better choices when speaking to others. Here is where things got a little challenging. You see, when students are talking about fictional characters, or reading news stories about OTHER kids they don't know being treated unfairly or unkindly, they know exactly what they would do if they were there. Because they aren't there. They know they never will be there. But when confronted with their own lives, and real possibilities for what they would have to do to step in or change situations, it is a bit harder for them. So I asked them to brainstorm 15 different ways they PERSONALLY could show kindness to our classmates. (I drew a lot of inspiration for this next part from Study All Knight's FREE Kindness unit, which you can grab here.) The students then used tempra paint and painted 15 (or so) rainbow sunshine rays. They also drew their own Wonder-Inspired portrait. (I have previously done this before, but had them focus on precepts and writing....if you would like to do that, click here. It is one of my fav lessons too!) The students then glued their Wonder portraits into the middle of the rays, used Sharpie to outline and write the 15 ways they could show real kindness in their lives (one way per ray) and were done. They came out amazing. (See the picture at the top of the post!) What is better though, is that the past two days, my students are actively trying to be kinder to each other. They are watching their words. I have seen people purposefully go up to those who tend to wander during group time and invite them into the group. I have seen students smile at others just a bit more. It truly has been a Wonder. Right now, for a limited time, Amazon has the book available for $3.99!!! Snag up to 4 copies at that price. Use my affiliate link here to get your copy ASAP before they are all gone!! SaveSave
