1. Arts Integrated Lesson Plan
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Arts Integrated Lesson Plan
EDU 244 ~ Spring Arielle Boland

2. Introduction: Purpose & Benefits of Team Collaboration
Although I did this project by myself, there are definitely great benefits of team collaboration with lesson plans:
Able to get multiple ideas and perspectives about lesson integration ideas
Able to edit one another’s work
Able to assist one another in finding resources
“Teaching in a collaborative environment allows educators to divide up the tasks at hand, making classroom activities more manageable. Additionally, according to the Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt University, teaching collaboratively provides a means for the exchanging of ideas. For example, teachers can share lesson planning ideas or specific classroom activities during weekly meetings or discuss the positive and negative parts of a project for the other educators to learn from.”
from The Advantages of Collaboration in Education by Erica Loop, studioD html
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3. Lesson Plan: Boston Tea Party!
Music  Create & perform a song about the event & aspects leading up to it
Theatre  Create the scenery and props for an enactment of the event
Dance  Create & perform a dance about the event
Visual Arts  Analyze artwork over the years of the event
Although I made my lesson plan focusing on music, this Boston Tea Party theme can be integrated with all the arts.
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4. Music: Create a song!
Competencies: 5.H.1 Analyze the chronology of key events in the United States.
5.H.1.3 Analyze the impact of major conflicts, battles and wars on the development of our nation through Reconstruction
5.ML.3.1 Use improvisation to create short songs and instrumental pieces, using a variety of sound sources, including traditional and non-traditional sounds, body sounds, and sounds produced by electronic means.
Learning Objectives:  
Objectives for Students
Students will be able to analyze the text about the Boston Tea Party
Students will be able to create a short song about the Boston Tea Party
Students will be able to add sound sources to enhance and compliment their lyrics.
Objectives for Teachers
To speak confidently when working with students
Facilitate group collaboration within students
Encourage integration of music and history in song creations
Assist students to think about how their music connects with the lyrics
The Competencies are assessed by the following
1) 5.H.1 & 5.H This standard is specifically being assessed through the part of analyzing the impact of a major conflict, specifically the Boston Tea Party during the American Revolution.
2) This standard is being assessed by the creation of short songs with students using their vocals, instruments, body parts, or electronic sounds from

5. Music: Create a song! Resources Needed: Paper & Pencil to record song
Resources Needed:
Paper & Pencil to record song
Print or display song lyrics (lyrics at end of document). Full text from:
Lyrics with music notes: volutionarytea.gif
Videos with the song Revolutionary Tea
safeshare.tv/w/ss577daee43e791  this one has pictures that correlate with the meaning
safeshare.tv/w/ss577daf68e9da0  this one has drawings of the mother and the daughter
Musical Instruments
Maracas
Drums
Drum Sticks
Paper, Plastic boxes, other random objects
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6. Activity & Rubric

7. Conclusion
As teachers, we CAN integrate the Arts into any of the four subject area State Standards!
Integration of the arts (music, theater, visual arts, and dance) not only provides more breadth of content learned, but also depth into the level of activities and information students learn. As students use the arts in math, reading, science and social studies, they are elevating their learning into the higher levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy, where they are creating and evaluating ideas and content, leading to higher retention and understanding of information.
I plan to integrate the arts into my lesson as much as possible with my elementary students!
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8. The End!