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Can Arts Integration Be a Powerful Advantage for Art Teachers?
Arts integration is a teaching strategy that blends the arts equitably with other subjects to create a more engaging and meaningful learning experience for students. As an art teacher, you can use arts integration to improve your instruction and highlight the importance of the arts in education.
3 Steps for Using Art Prints to Rigorously Address Standards and Meet Goals
In this post, we’ll explore 3 steps to using art prints to meet goals in your classroom through arts integration.
Cinderella Dramatic Colors
How to Beautifully Describe Porcelain Works of Art with Vivid Language
In this post, we will be using images of porcelain works of art as a prompt to help students discover vivid adjectives to describe art. Students often struggle to find words to describe art, but through this art activity, we can help them dig deeper and become more expressive.
How Principals Can Support the Arts and Arts Integration in Schools
Art is at the Core: Piet Mondrian
3 Easy Steps to Painting Lovely Spring Daffodils
How to Create Unique Textures in Mixed Media
If you’re interested in learning how to create unique textures in mixed media, you’ve come to the right place! I’m going to walk you through the process of mixing up a plethora of basic textures for your artwork. Remember to use these tips with your students and in your own practice. You will get return on your investment in this media by greater engagement in the learning process and retention of skills.
Arts Integration: Mixed Media Rainbows
This Rainbow mixed media art project is super simple to put together, and your students will create amazing pieces. I’ll give you ideas for kicking off the lesson, supplies, and directions.
5th Grade Science: Food Chain Agamographs
3 Advantages of Creating Works of Art with 6th Grade Geometric Figures
One Surefire Way to Turn Fractions into Percentages Using Beautiful Quilts
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.
How to Use the Grid Drawing Method Like Chuck Close
Want to teach your students about the grid drawing method? Chuck Close is known for using grids to draw. We will look at some examples, and talk about how he used grids - and how your students can, too!
How to Fund Arts Integration
Arts integration is a crucial component of joyful learning. Making arts integration training a priority in schools could immensely improve the experiences of students and teachers. Arts integration brings joy to students. After all, teaching is not effective if it's not joyful. Let’s talk about funding this option!
Art That Makes You Smarter : Guiseppe Arcimboldo's Fruit Faces
Have you seen Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s fruit face artwork? It’s a fascinating and unique style that your students will love. In this blog, I discuss the history behind his fruit face painting and how you can incorporate it in your classroom.
Deconstructing Arts Education
Arts integration can take a lot of different forms, but really it boils down to using art forms to teach alongside the other contents. So, the students are learning both the art form and the other content. At first, this can be a little difficult to integrate into the classroom, but that’s where I help make it easier. In a past podcast I was a part of, I had the opportunity to talk about this subject and use an example of what arts integration looks like in a math class.
Top 7 Most Artful Children’s Books of 2021
If you’re like me, you probably adore using children’s literature to introduce art projects and more. I love teaching students that the illustrations are actual works of art. You can find many, many art lessons on this blog that have been inspired by children’s books. In no particular ranking order, here are the most artful (as in art-filled, “likely to be a wonderful book for art lessons”) children’s books of 2021.
4 Benefits of Bringing a Teaching Artist Into a School
Arts Integration: How to Use It In Your Classroom
