Integrating Visual Arts

1. Integrating Visual Arts By Shelley Durling

2. What is arts Integration? We need a shift in our attitude towards instruction in the arts as a part of the curriculum and not an “add on”.

3. Why Integrate the Arts ? Critical Thinking Problem Solving Motivation Differentiation Right Brain Creativity Curriculum Interpretation Learning Styles Self Assessment Articulation Increases Attendance Management Increased Test Scores Teacher Engagement Gradual Release Model

4. Ideas to Integrate the Visual Arts • These ideas all came from Artsedge. I have printed out some lessons from the site. Each lesson has links to related sources. • When writing haiku poetry, also look at Chinese • culture and illustrate the poetry with Chinese • inspired art works. • Compare versions of the Cinderella story • (Egyptian, Chinese, and American) and integrate • the visual arts. • Make a rain stick and accompany a traditional • rain making song when studying Africa.

5. Listen to the wind Nature flows over and past People standing still Haiku Poetry

6. African culture

7. Cinderella Comparisons

9. Quick and easy ways to add art to lessons ... 5 W’s and an H Artworks are primary resources in the same way that letters, diaries, and other textual sources are. Historical context is extremely important to the “reading” of these resources. To get the whole picture, select a work of art and assign your students to research the answers to the simple questions: who, what, when, where, why, and how. George Catlin Máh-to-tóh-pa, Four Bears, Second Chief, in Full Dress 1832

10. Teaching the skill of observing details and then inferring to interpret and formulate a conclusion is key to critical thinking. Observation vs. Interpretation

11. Inquiry Planning for Integration • Great for split grades. • Original question generates new questions and new learning opportunities. • Can be done as whole group to start. • With the gradual release model, small groups then work on specific questions and become the “experts”. • Jigsaw approach and addresses all learning styles . • Questions often begin around social studies or science expectations but can also focus on the arts. • Integration of the arts has been proven to improve engagement and raise testing scores.

12. Grade 2/3 Social Studies Example This inquiry was co-designed with Erin Poulin

13. Pioneer/Traditions & Celebrations HAIR ART Melanie Bilenker

14. Pioneer/Traditions & Celebrations CORN HUSK ART

15. Examples From Book 365 Things To Do With Paper and Cardboard MAPS

16. Examples From Book Classroom Art

17. These could both generate new questions and more learning

18. ASSESSMENT IDEAS

21. What if we used the same idea for art assessment or even added another row to integrate art assessment into our current progressive walls.... Use of elements and principles of design.

22. Example Lesson Resource Package Using the Artsedge Lesson Plan (Cinderella Trilogy) as a resource I made a lesson plan called Paper Shoe Design with templates, activity cards, and assessment options. I would do the activities in their lesson plan first to make sure they have the necessary prior knowledge to make connections. Check out the Artedge site with this link to begin other integrated lessons. It has built in web links, resources and lesson plans with templates and sometimes assessment rubrics. You can adapt the expectations to meet the Ontario visual arts curriculum. http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/educators.aspx One more thing.... Smart history has wonderful videos with art professors about many art periods. Check out Contemporary Chinese Artist Al WeiWei, who is in jail for his “Message Art”. He was one of the inspirations for my seed. http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/

24. “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” ― Pablo Picasso

25. Bibliography and Resource List Curriculum Documents • The Arts Ontario Curriculum Gr.1-8 2009 Revised • Elementary Years Principles of Design Lessons Grades One through Eight Resource to Support the 2009 Revised Ontario Arts Curriculum Policy Document Lead Writer: Beryl Cohen, Writer: Neil Ritchie, Reviewer: Irene Jarosz Books 365 Things To Do With Paper and Cardboard Classroom Art by Amelia Ruscoe Engaging the Adolescent Mind by Ken Virth

26. Articles Why Arts Integration? Two Big Reasons Writers Lynne B. Silverstein Senior Program Consultant The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Sean Layne Kennedy Center Teaching Artist and founder of Focus 5, Inc.Relevant Literature What are some sources for research and current thinking about arts integration? by Joan Isenberg and Jennifer McCreadie with Jennifer Dunham and Bernadine Pearson George Mason University Arts Integration and 21st Century Skills What knowledge and skills do students need to be successful in the 21st century? Arts integration provides answers.Lynne B. Silverstein Senior Program Consultant The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts OAEA Visual Literacy 2008 by Bob Phillips

27. Websites NAEA www.arteducators.org Nationahttp://oaea.ca/index.htmll Art Gallery OAEA http://oaea.ca/index.html Artsedgehttp://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/educators/lessons Artsonia.com http://www.artsonia.com/museum/aotw/ Smart Historyhttp://smarthistory.khanacademy.org.html

28. Video Links Why Art matters: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjgQ58sRU3o&feature=related The Right Brain Initiative: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSU5g1Bye9w&feature=related What is Arts Integration?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d9r7duU_Cc&feature=related