Art Integration Ideas

1. Art Integration Ideas Map of Canada project with plasticine sculptures of points of interest, Grade 4, Jessie Hamilton P.S., Lively Totem pole (in progress), Grade 4, Jessie Hamilton P.S., Lively

2. Inukshuks, created from found stones and hot glue, Grade 4, Jessie Hamilton P.S., Lively Model of the precipitation cycle, Grade 7, Lansdowne P.S., Sudbury

3. Environment mural, North Bay Hydro, North Bay, by Grade 12 West Ferris S.S. students Close-up of mural in progress

4. Mobiles created for a Parenting class (Family Studies), Grade 10, West Ferris S.S., North Bay

5. Poem created within a copy of J.E.H. McDonald’s Tangled Garden, by Liana Blaskievich, Nipissing University

6. September 11, Liana Blaskievich, Nipissing University Models of ancient Roman architecture, Grade 9

7. Art Integration Activity: • Choose one of the subject areas listed below (preferably your elective) • and get together as a group. • Brainstorm and record ways in which visual arts can be integrated into • your subject area. • Hang your chart paper and share your ideas with the class. • Subject Areas: • Arts (Dance, Drama, Music) French • Language Arts Mathematics • Physical and Health Education Religious Studies • Science (including Computer Science) Social Studies

8. Set, prop, lighting design Costume design and masks Leotard design Figure drawings of dancers Draw/paint/sculpt to music Link music time periods to art history Advertising for shows (posters, tickets, programs) Musician sculptures, drawings, paintings Papiermache music notes Acoustics in architecture Dance step markers Face painting Band logos, web sites Make a music box Storyboarding Puppet-making Musical instrument design CD/album covers Music note posters Create music videos Photography of musicians, dancers, actors Tableaux (human sculptures) Lighting design Draw emotions in music Make sculptures from old instruments Illustrated timelines Music/art elements/principles Visual Arts in the Other Arts (Dance, Drama, Music):

9. French art history Design masks/historical French costumes Travel posters/ postcards of French-speaking countries Vocabulary diagrams Picture French dictionaries Carnaval (snow sculptures, weave belts, Mardi Gras masks) Flag design for French countries Posters for French history 3D maps of French countries Poster for French music group French café menus and invitations Create educational board games in French Create marionettes for French puppet show French comics French drama sets Flash cards Illustrate French literature Collage from French magazines Illustrated French cookbook French architecture Passport design Create art to French music Visual Arts in French:

10. Visual Arts in Geography: • Maps (2D, 3D) • Province collage • Models of 7 wonders • Cycles/habitat/ecozone/climate dioramas • Topographic models • Cultural arts and crafts • Landmark sculptures • Picture maps • Visual travel journals • Cultural clothing • Cultural textile patterns • Leaf relief sketches • Explosion boxes (variety of info) • Flag designs • Landscape designs • City design • Travel pamphlets • Stamp designs • Post cards • Board games and puzzles • Scrapbooks • Travel posters • Passport design • Natural disaster posters • Soil models • Art/Geocache (art locations and/or tasks)

11. Visual Arts in History: • Historical dioramas/models • Illustrated journal • Period costumes • Visual timelines • Depictions of historical events • Family trees • Coats of arms • Pioneer crafts • Propaganda posters • Election posters • War art • Brass rubbings • Ancient jewellery • Fossil sculptures • Battle maps • Art history as social commentary • Time capsules/memory boxes • Mosaics/tapestries • Architectural design • Political cartoons • Hieroglyphics • Artifact creation • Board games/puzzles • Scrapbooks • History on film

12. Illustrated stories Posters for stories they have read Literature content collages Link literature and art time periods Create literature puppets Title pages/book jackets Storyboards Literature comic books Book binding Words morphed into designs Plot map Setting maps / illustrations World wall quilt Literary device posters/models Photo essay “Shakespeare in a box” Character costumes and masks Dioramas Graffiti Character mobile Create picture books Create advertisements Written art critiques Literacy soul story Character cartoons Totem pole novel study Theme poster Idiom pictures Journalism Myth cartoons Research essay on an artist Literary scrapbook Author memorials Visual Arts in Language Arts (English):

13. Patterning (tessellations / M.C. Escher) Quilt pieces Perspective drawing Scale enlargements Geometry Architectural and engineering designs Computer animation Data Graphs Golden Mean / ratios Origami Kaleidoscopes Net mobile Proportions Mazes Tangrams Currency designs Fractals Fraction circles Fraction flags Number pyramids Symmetry Venn diagrams Puzzle making “Math-o-lanterns” Graph paper mosaics Visual Arts in Mathematics:

14. Posters for circuits Health pamphlets and collages Models Team logos and uniforms Banners Playbooks Tournament schedules Field and floor lines Trophies and plaques Sports photography Birth control mobile Ads for school sports Health and phys.ed. videos Stadium design Movement videos (slow mo) Quinzee snow sculpture designs Olympic flags Tournament t-shirts and posters Team web-sites Sports timelines Mascot costumes Mural in gym Nutrition food guide Sports cards Substance abuse posters Illustrated Healthy menus Equipment design Healthy menu design Visual Arts in Physical and Health Education:

15. Illuminated manuscripts Study religious art Tissue paper stained glass designs Mandelas Draw stories from the Bible Make rosaries Bible collages Comparative art – world religions Church architecture Religious murals Advent calendars Commandments scroll Religious holiday crafts Posters or sculptures for stations of the cross Palm crosses Sun catchers Illustrated prayers Bible comics Bible puppets Nativity scene sculptures Beatitude booklets Study church architecture Jesse tree Create a crucifix “Shroud of Turin” print Visual Arts in Religious Studies:

16. Models (cells, solar system, mitosis, DNA, food chain, motor, lever) Medical illustrations Cycle diagrams Dioramas of ecosystems Title pages, posters Science fair displays Flower, leaf, vegetable prints Papiermache volcano Lab/scientific drawings Sculpture of reproduction stages Environment posters Microscope drawings Sun dials Freezing point sculptures Light spectrum Photography (optics) Architectural and engineering designs Crystals Science murals Nature collages/leaf prints Mobiles Claymation Re-create historical inventions Safety brochures Weather vane sculptures Tornado pop bottles Art conservation Milk carton planter Animal tracks casting Visual Arts in Science: