You can integrate art into your classroom in several different ways. I really enjoyed the readings this week. I felt like our textbook gave a lot of great ideas in integrating art into the classroom.
1- 3 domains
A- Cognitive: There were many ideas in the readings this week of integrating art into math, science, and language art. With integrating math, (Ch. 9), I found an awesome art piece (pg. 118) that was created using a computer. It teaches children about symmetry, scaling, and proportion. Proportional scaling can be taught through shrinking or enlarging the sizes of images in specified percentages. In science (Ch. 10), I liked the ideas in the section on botany (pg. 130-131). Botany has always interested me. How can we teach something if we aren’t interested in it? I like the three-dimensional collage of leaves shown on page 131. I especially like the different geometric and organic shapes, and the use of color. With integrating language arts (Ch. 7), I especially liked the part where it was talking about vocabulary development in language arts. (pg. 100-103) As I was reading this passage, certain things kept popping out at me: I liked how they pointed out that lines make up the shapes of letters. I also liked how they pointed out that shapes are the building blocks of letters forms. I liked how this chapter stressed the importance of letting the child draw a picture of something FIRST and THEN writing about it. It mentioned that a lot of teachers have the kids write a story first, and then have them “decorate” their story with a picture.
B-Psychomotor: I liked how Chapter 6 in the book discussed this area, especially Bloom’s Taxonomy. I also believe that children spend way too much time sitting, and not enough time moving. Art is not only a visual thing. Art IS movement. I liked the suggestions given on page 72. My favorite suggestion was to become human sculptures, and use free movement to re-create the essence of the picture.
C-Affective: The part that I liked most about this section is the meeting needs part. I liked what it said on page 73: “Emotion is a state of aroused feelings or agitation, as people go about trying to get their needs met.” In expressing these emotions, children are sometimes frightened of what they have expressed, but the emotions are important, and should not be dismissed.
2- The Visual Cultural Approach: On page 8, there is a list of 10 social studies themes, and ideas to integrate the visual cultural approach into the classroom. This chapter is full of ideas. Here are a few of my favorites: (Time, Continuity, and Change via Art, pg. 85) “Have students volunteer to pose and also to illustrate the activities that men and women perform and the objects used at various times of the day and in different seasons.” (People, Places, Environments via Art) “Working in a group, students sewed and quilted the individual states into our United States of America, e pluribus unum.” (pg. 86)
3- I have already discussed how you can integrate a core subject into art.
4- I definitely believe that integration is important. As a teacher, you have so many other things to teach, and I believe it is important to try and integrate as much as you can. Turn a discussion about dinosaurs into an art/writing/science activity. As a teacher, you have to use your time wisely, and if you can kill two (or three or four) birds with one stone, do it! I’m all for integration!
References: http://www.cyberbee.com/intclass.html
This website is a wonderful site that gives a TON of ideas for integrating art into the classroom. It gives ideas for integrating art with core subjects like math, LA, science, social studies, This is my favorite idea: “Transform your classroom into a virtual art studio and museum. Have students create their masterpieces with free online drawing, painting, and sculpting tools.”
http://www.ehow.co.uk/how_7860034_integrate-arts-classroom.html
This website was a great way to integrate art into the classroom. This website gave suggestions on how to use up those spare minutes by turning them into ways to use art in the classroom. “Integrate the arts into daily writing lessons. At the beginning of each class period, play music.” I love this idea! Music has always calmed me, and I think children are definitely calmed by music! The website is full of ideas. Check it out!
http://www.teachhub.com/news/article/cat/14/item/297
This website gives 12 suggestions to keep art in your classroom. I LOVE the first idea, have students write a script. First of all, since we live in Utah, we have a wealth of examples to choose from. When my little sister was in third grade, her class got to participate in an Opera By Children. She spent the better part of the year helping to write the script, music, create costumes, practice her part, etc. If that is not an example of integrating curriculum, I don’t know what is! The teachers were able to integrate every subject into their opera, and the kids had a blast doing it! I know that I would love to do an Opera by Children in my own classroom.
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