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Strategies to Integrate the Arts

4 total works

Cover of Integrating the Arts Across the Content Areas
Integrating the Arts helps bring the arts back into the classroom with strategies for arts integration to use in language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies instruction. Developed in conjunction with Lesley University, this invaluable resource helps teachers gain a better understanding of why and how to integrate the arts to reach and engage students beyond traditional arts courses. Developed to help motivate disengaged students, this resource helps teachers meaningfully incorporate artistic expression throughout the curriculum by using poetry, music/rhythm, storytelling, dramatic movement, and visual arts. It includes activities, concrete examples, stories from teachers who are already implementing art-based curriculum, and assessment tools. Provide students with well-rounded instruction across all content areas to help develop critical thinking and analytical skills. This K-12 teacher's resource supports College and Career Readiness Standards and includes strategies for language arts integration, social studies integration, science integration, and math integration.

Cover of Strategies to Integrate the Arts in Mathematics
Gain a better understanding of why and how to use the arts to reach and engage students beyond traditional arts courses! This teacher-friendly resource for integrating the arts into curriculum provides practical, arts-based strategies for teaching mathematics content. Overview information and model lessons are provided for each strategy and ideas are provided for grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12. The strategies for arts integration addressed in the book allow teachers to make math integration and instruction come alive. Teachers will gain a clear understanding of the arts influence in making content-area instruction meaningful and relevant for all students to best meet their needs.

Cover of Strategies to Integrate the Arts in Language Arts
Gain a better understanding of why and how to use the arts to reach and engage students beyond traditional arts courses! This teacher-friendly resource for integrating the arts into curriculum provides practical, arts-based strategies for teaching language arts content. Overview information and model lessons are provided for each strategy and ideas are provided for grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12. The strategies for arts integration addressed in the book allow teachers to make language arts integration and instruction come alive. Teachers will gain a clear understanding of the arts influence in making content-area instruction meaningful and relevant for all students to best meet their needs.

Cover of Strategies to Integrate the Arts in Social Studies
This teacher-friendly resource provides practical arts-based strategies for classroom teachers to use in teaching social studies content. Overview information and model lessons are provided for each strategy and ideas are provided for grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12. The strategies addressed within the book allow teachers to make social studies instruction come alive and best meet students' needs.