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.

Music in the classroom is a powerful tool and it should be more than just having music as a special once a week. Learn why music is important and different ways you can integrate music into your lesson plans seamlessly. Blog post at Mrs. D's Corner.

Using MoveNote in the Classroom to record presentations. GAFE integration. Technology in the Classroom

*Also available in the Everything Art Bundle**Also available in the Art Integration for the Elementary Classroom Bundle*Students can help the homeless pet population in their community by sharing their pet-themed art creations - a great community service project for any age!This guide has helpful ti...

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Including art therapy in the classroom can help students with self-expression, emotional regulation, and confidence. Here's how to do it.

In this blog post, I'm going to give you 5 Social Emotional Learning Art Ideas that you can use in your Art Classroom! As well, I'll tell you about what Social Emotional Learning (SEL) is, how to instruct it, and how to encourage students to engage in the lessons. I'll give you lesson ideas that you can use right away with your students, and I will also give you links to Art Projects that are ready-to-use! Before we begin, let’s understand what Social Emotional Learning, or SEL is and what it can look like in the art classroom or through art!

Geometric Art

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.

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.

15 simple and effective strategies to use in the classroom for students diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Differentiation is something every teacher integrates into their classroom. As all teachers know, it’s not an easy job to differentiate learning; considering that there are all types of learners. Most classrooms have a unique blend

Need some elementary art integration ideas for your elementary school? Here are some lessons that I co-taught with a classroom teacher.

Today’s show is a little bit different y’all. I spent some time with 10 educators talking about 10 awesome ways to use Flipgrid in your classroom [LIVE from ISTE] at the Flipgrid booth. You won’t want to miss the big updates Flipgrid announced at ISTE that Adam “Short-Shorts” Goldberg shares! The educators that stood up to speak shared some amazing tips on how to get the most out of Flipgrid in your classroom. From using it to encourage collaboration on projects, creating global classrooms, and giving students a way to practice giving feedback, the tips were fantastic and unbelievably actionable.

Spring is finally here! I love finding ways to integrate art into content areas such as language arts and math. I cannot think of a better project to welcome spring than by creating echo art flowers through a directed drawing exercise. After completing our flowers, we measured with paperclips since we are working on measurement this week. Each student added a sentence under their artwork that stated how many paperclips tall their flowers were. These flowers definitely make an awesome statement for Open House!

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.

A theatre teacher's guide to education, theatre, and life.

Making inferences is the focus of this art observation activity that integrates Art with Language Arts and addresses visual literacy skills. Students identify details in an art work, then use their prior knowledge to help them make inferences about the content of the work. Using observed visual details in art work can lead to making inferences about what the artist intended to communicate. Students often jump to making inferences first; this lesson asks them to start with the visual details and use them to make inferences about the artists’ purpose, thoughts or communications. GET THE BUNDLE This lesson supports the National Core Visual Arts Standards and is bundled with similar lessons in Art Integrated Language Arts Strategies BUNDLE The lesson includes - suggested art works especially suited to making inferences - summary of the general procedure - list of materials needed and preparation required - step-by-step directions for looking at art - suggested questions for art observation - suggestions for extending the lesson with art and reading - list of related resources to enhance the lesson and - a student response worksheet that can be used for making inferences using art This comprehensive lesson is designed to address language arts skills along with art appreciation and art analysis. Extensions can expand the lesson into art technique and art history. ********** PLEASE NOTE *********** This lesson is one in a series in which students are engaged in art observation activities that focus on specific skills including compare and contrast, fact and opinion, main idea and details, making generalizations, making inferences, vocabulary learning strategies, and more. Get the complete BUNDLED collection here: Art Integrated Language Arts Strategies BUNDLE Related resources to use with this activity: Artist Biographies Volume One and Artist Biographies Volume Two are selections of one-page artist biographies with accompanying ‘draw and write’ student response worksheets. Looking at Art with Kids a free resource with additional ideas and suggestions for using art observations across the curriculum. Related art lessons to use for exending this lesson: Geometric People Whimsical People For more art-integration ideas and suggestions, download my free resource: Making Time For Art Need art lessons to last an entire school year? Save money with my Art All Year MegaBundle! ••••• I am a retired elementary classroom teacher, a former art teacher, an artist and a writer. I have a Multiple Subjects credential, a Single Subject credential for Art and English, LDS/ESL certification, a Master’s Degree in Elementary Education with a Mathematics focus, and Montessori certification. I have worked with all elementary grades, and with special groups including ELL, GATE, and At-Risk students. Creating Art With Kids and Share2Learn lessons and resources are designed to foster student creativity, choice, and independence, and to encourage authentic art-making. Consideration is given to developmental appropriateness, differentiation possibilities, and teacher individuality. For this reason, directions are general, expectations are open-ended, and clip art on student pages is kept to a minimum. ••••• Terms of Use: Permission is granted to copy for single classroom use only, including homeschool classrooms, for use with classroom students. Additional licenses may be purchased for a reduced price. Electronic distribution is limited to single classroom use. Public and/or online display are not authorized; this resource may not be posted on district or classroom websites, or on any teaching resource websites, without permission of the author. Please do not give away my work.  ••••• Connect With Me: Creating Art With Kids Facebook Group Pinterest: Renee Goularte Blog: Creating Art With Kids ••••• Find out about new products, discounts, and freebies! Look for the “follow me” link near the store logo at the top of the page. Become a follower to receive updates about my resources. Get TpT credits! Provide feedback on purchased products for TpT credits toward future purchases. Look in your “My Purchases” page for the “Provide Feedback” button. Enjoy!

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Benefits of Art Integration in the Upper Elementary and Middle School Classroom. Includes tips and activities for Arts Integration.

Getting ready for Back to School in your art classroom can sometimes be stressful. There is a lot to think about and remember since you've been away for 2 months. As well, the kids that left you knew your routines and now you have to re-teach them to the new set of kids. Or, you might be in your first years of teaching and are still learning how to effectively teach classroom routines in your art classroom. Or in later years and looking for some fresh ideas to allow your back to school run smoothly. I'm going to share with you how to efficiently set up your Back to School routines and systems to allow you to effectively teach rules and routines and create classroom community.

The students write about their experience or about the project itself. Check out three ideas for integrating kindergarten arts!

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.

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!

An exploration of conceptual art with a focus on Sol LeWitt instruction installations. Students create their own version of a LeWitt wall drawing or write their own instructions to be interpreted by classmates.

We have been in school for almost a month. (I can't believe it either!) So far, this is the BEST year yet! My kids love art and I love teaching through the arts. I am always on the look-out for amazing art resources to use with my kiddos, but they are hard to come by. This summer, I found an incredible resource that was created by Whimsy Workshop. She does ALL of the work for you! There are background information sheets for each type of art that she includes. There are 3 art projects for each country, and each project has step-by-step directions with pictures! Not only are we learning about cultures from around the world and geography, we are also creating lots of art and learning about different techniques. Here are some of the projects we have completed already this year. Surfers from Australia Boomerrangs Chinese Dragons Chinese Flower Blossom Fans (before we folded them) Koi Fish Pretty amazing, huh?! The techniques that Whimsy Workshop shows, are easy enough for kids of all ages and abilities to be successful! My kids are so proud of their work! Check out her product, Art Around the World.

This article explores a strategy to help student cope with insecurity in their artistic processes and build trust in the classroom.

Keep your students engaged and get them up and moving with these 5 fantastic movement ideas you can use right away and over and over again!

I'm so excited to be guest posting for Rachel Lynette over at Minds-in-Bloom! I know most of you are either already out enjoying the summer, busy packing up your classroom, or counting down the days! But it is never to late (or to early) to think about ways to enhance your curriculum with art. I hope you'll take a moment to hop on over to Minds-in-Bloom and read about my ideas for 5 simple ways to integrate the arts into your daily curriculum! Be sure to visit the Literacy Loves Company blog later this week for a post on "Stained Glass Selfies", another great, simple, integrating art idea for you to use in your classroom! Have a great day!

I first fell in love with kids’ art long before I ever became an art teacher…. I think I’ve always been attracted to it. Truth be told, I prefer kids’ art to most of the art that adults make! I love its spontaneity, its expressiveness, and its honesty.

One of my favorite topics to teach in my art class, no matter what the age or skill level, is divergent thinking. What is divergent thinking? One of my favorite videos to introduce divergent thinking to my students is the lecture by Ken Robinson. Divergent thinking is the ability to come up with multiple solutions

A free virtual art museum field trip assignment for your students to complete at home or in the classroom! A complete assignment with links to art museums and four engaging activities!

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.

Benefits of Art Integration in the Upper Elementary and Middle School Classroom. Includes tips and activities for Arts Integration.

There's room to allow for open-ended, creative expression through the arts center media arts. With that in mind, we’d like to offer some parameters.

In this "Walk a Day in my Shoes" Activity, you will teach your students empathy, compassion and kindness, an integral part of education, as well as an integral part of a teenager’s life.  Teaching a student to “walk in another’s shoes” is an essential part of perspective and character. In this DIGITAL & PDF activity, “Walk a Day in my Shoes”, students will complete journal entries, watch a few short videos on empathy, compassion, and kindness, and complete a shoe activity.  This activity will change their mindset and how they look at others.  They will learn what it is like to “walk in someone else’s shoes”. In this "Walk a Day in my Shoes" Activity, you will receive: 1. Pre-Assignment Activity (Digital & PDF) - Journal Entry & 3 Videos with Response Questions 2. Walk a Day in My Shoes Activity - Directions, 4 Shoe Templates & an Example 3. Teacher Suggestions - 4 PDF Shoes for Paper Activity **Because part of this is DIGITAL, you can add questions or edit the questions on the Google Slides.** ☆The students are to write down ten things their teacher would never know about him/her unless they told you. These items can be funny, hobbies, serious, interesting facts, family items, etc. ☆ Following, the students choose a shoe (wedge or sneaker) they would like to write down 10 of their items on, decorate and cut out! These look awesome when they are hung up for Parent/Teacher Conferences and Open House! ******************************************************************************* ☆ How would you like 5 English Language Arts & Classroom Resources for ABSOLUTELY FREE???☆ ⭐Grab these ABSOLUTELY FREE PRODUCTS RIGHT HERE: FREE PRODUCTS ⭐ Become a Follower for the Latest Products & Freebies ⭐ Look for the green star near the top of any page within my store, and click it to become a follower. You will then receive customized email updates about this store. Terms of Use: Purchasing my teaching resources allows you to: ⭐ make copies for your own classes only. ⭐ place this file on your own password-protected class page or server (Blackboard, Google Drive, etc) ⭐ AS LONG AS no other teacher has access to that class webpage. This resource is for you, the purchaser, alone. By purchasing my teaching resource, you ARE NOT ALLOWED TO: ⭐ make copies for other teachers or their classes. ⭐ distribute this digital resource to other teachers. ⭐ post this resource on any webpage or server that is available for public view, for other teachers. If you and a team of teachers would like to use this resource together, please purchase additional licenses on the resource purchase page. Failure to comply with these terms of use is a copyright infringement and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Clipart and elements found in this PDF are copyrighted and cannot be extracted and used outside of this file without permission or license. ✯Did you know you receive credits for leaving feedback on items you purchase on Teachers Pay Teachers?✯ That’s right! Leave feedback on this product, and you will receive credits for your next purchase. I would greatly appreciate it if you contact me first if you have an issue with the product before leaving feedback. I will be more than happy to accommodate you! Just e-mail me at [email protected]. FOLLOW ME! Instagram Facebook

A fun, processed based Fibonacci art project for kids. Great for S.T.E.A.M. learning at home or at school.

A super simple tessellation for young students: translation tessellation! Kids are given a square. They cut a piece off of the left and tape or glue it on to the right. Next, they cut a piece off of the top and add it to the bottom (see image below). Then, they use their imagination and create a creature out of their irregular polygon. Once their creature is made they trace it, learning about the transformation: translation (slide)! Their pattern piece should fit perfectly (interlocking) creating a pattern with no overlaps or gaps! They can create an AB or ABC pattern with the colors they use! You can also talk about parallel lines. Their tessellation pattern runs in horizontal parallel lines! Click here to see how to create a rotation tessellation!

A round up of over 15 great STEAM projects – where math concepts are used to make pieces of art!