1. Who, what, when, where & why?
Arts Integration
Who, what, when, where & why?

2. What is arts integration?
Arts Integration is an APPROACH to TEACHING in which students construct and demonstrate UNDERSTANDING through an ART FORM. Students engage in a CREATIVE PROCESS which CONNECTS an art form and another subject area and meets EVOLVING OBJECTIVES in both. (Kennedy Center, 2010.)

3. What does it look like? Drawing on students prior knowledge
Providing active hands-on learning with authentic problems for students to solve in divergent ways
Arranging opportunities for students to learn from each other to enrich their understandings
Engaging students in reflection about what they learned, how they learned it, and what it means to them
Using student assessment of their own and peers’ work as part of the learning experience
Providing opportunities for students to revise and improve their work and share it with others.
Building a positive classroom environment where students are encouraged and supported to take risks, explore possibilities, and where a social, cooperative learning community is created and nurtured.
(“Defining Arts Integration” by Lynne B. Silverstein and Sean Layne © 2010, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts 3)

4. Arts & Common Core – Natural Connections
Create
Perform/Present/Produce
Respond
Connect

5. The arts:
Art, Music (Band, Chorus, Orchestra), Dance, Drama, Creative Writing
Elements of Visual Art: Line, Shape, Color, Texture, Value, Space & Form
Principles of Design: Balance, Proportion, Pattern/Rhythm, Movement, Unity, Variety, Emphasis
Elements of Music: melody, harmony, rhythm, tone, form, tempo and dynamics.
Elements of Drama: plot, character, setting and staging, dialogue, and theme (Very similar to Language Arts)

6. Arts Integration Lesson “seeds”
Art Critiques! You already have them analyze, use it through an arts form!
Illustrate! Applies to all classes, forms & ideas!
Art & Literacy – use artworks, musical pieces, dramatic readings/musicals as writing starters
Art, drama, literacy & kinesthetic learning – tableaux!

7. Arts Integration Lesson “seeds”
Use historical scenes & artworks as writing starters or ways to discuss histrocal events from a different perspective.
Music & History – “We didn’t start the fire”
Art & Math – fractions, ratios, proportion, enlarging, Chuck Close
Art & Science – Topography, density & insoluble, color/light, etc

8. Music & Drama Overall ideas – Use tableaux
Write a song, rap, monologue, dramatic play
Close reading using music or scripts/plays
Compare & contrast through songs, scripts/plays
Use readers theater

9. Resources! There are SOOOooooooooo many!
Kennedy Center! THE place for arts information/arts integration
Edutopia – lots of arts integration ideas
South Carolina Arts Based Curriculum (ABC schools)
Pinterest is always awesome, I have a board dedicated to arts integration
Your Visual & Performing arts teachers!
Art: Katie Dumouchelle & Jeanne Freibert
Band/Music: Jay Matheney
Chorus/Music: Kristin Jones
Drama: Gavin Osborne
Orchestra/Music: Cory Zilisch
Donorschoose – excellent place for requesting supplies, coming up with brilliant ideas and getting them funded. Ask Mrs. D all about her success!

10. Activity 1: be an art critic!
Let’s walk through the basic steps of an art critique
Describe (just the facts, what is known/truthful?)
Analyze (use the facts & dig deeper)
Interpret (what does it mean to you?
Judge (I like it/don’t like it because… or It’s successful/not because…)

11. The Scream, Edward Munch

12. The Creation of Adam, Michelangelo

13. American Gothic,
Grant Wood

14. The Fountain, Marcel Duchamp

16. Activity 2: Explore
Find someone with the same content (same grade level or not) and think about the topics/big ideas for your 1st 6 weeks
Are there any concepts you might like to explore with the arts or add an arts component to?
Please use the remaining time to explore the resources to connect to your lesson or explore existing lessons
Please ASK QUESTIONS! Brainstorm with a partner or ask me/other arts teachers how they might incorporate an arts form.

17. Big ideas you want to connect?