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The Integration of Art

in the

Elementary Curriculum

Donna McNeece

Art For Teachers

Ryan Curry

20 April 2007

The integration of art into the standard core subjects taught in elementary school is an effective way to capture and retain the attention of students. Creative teaching methods using art will help add enjoyment and increase interest in the subjects. In turn, students will be more likely to desire to learn more. This desire will motivate the student to continue the learning process. Keeping a child’s interest and provoking the thirst for more knowledge is a superb way to ensure students will want to continue the education process. Art can be successfully incorporated into every aspect of elementary education.

Art can be easily added into reading instruction by either reading a story to the children or having children read a story orally in class, depending upon the age group, and asking them to illustrate an action from the story. Providing children with a coloring sheet and having them color pictures of items beginning with a certain letter also helps them enjoy learning phonics.

Language arts can be enhanced by art by using a work of art such as a painting. The children can be asked to list as many adjectives as possible to describe the artwork. They can also be asked to list all the nouns in the painting. Another use of art in language arts could be to have the children draw pictures illustrating their vocabulary words. A third way to incorporate art would be to have them create sentences containing certain language components, such as nouns, verbs, etc., representing an illustration.

Math is usually a distressing subject for most elementary students. However, with the inclusion of art, some of the apprehension can be eradicated. One idea to incorporate art into mathematics is to give each student a small bag of M&M candies and have them sort the candies into groups by color. The children could then create a line graph to show how many candies of each color is in their bag by coloring the correct number of boxes on the graph. In addition, the dreaded fractions could be taught by creating a colorful pie chart to represent the fraction.

Science can benefit from using art by having the children create drawings of animals in the different classifications such as birds, mammals, reptiles, etc. The structure of the earth is also more interesting and easier to understand if learned by creating a model on paper and painting the individual layers to show their distinction. Painting a model of the solar system would also help children to understand the arrangement of the planets and show their relationship to the sun.

Social studies can sometimes be a monotonous subject for elementary students. Art can help generate interest in social studies by adding an element of hands-on experience to the subject matter. Students can color maps to illustrate many different concepts such as the time zones of the United States, population density, and the locations of the continents and oceans of the world. Art can also be used in the study of the numerous cultures. Children can be asked to choose any culture studied in class and create an artifact from that culture on paper with pencils or paints.

The importance of art, as well as music and other non-core subjects, is often overlooked in our public school systems today due to the lack of available funds, the shortage of qualified teachers, etc. The bright side to this situation is that elementary teachers have the ability to incorporate some degree of art into the classroom with a little effort and creativity. The exposure to art, including its importance and many uses, can be invaluable to the students in their later education and throughout their lives. Educators should encourage the study and inclusion of art in all core subjects of elementary school.

Works Cited

http://www.enchantedlearning.com

Lesson Plan

Subject: Reading

Skills: Phonics

Materials: Letter ‘M’ worksheets, crayons

Method of Teaching: Teach children the phonological sound of

the letter ‘M’. Example: Mr. ‘M’ with the

munching mouth

Integration of Art: Have children express the recognition of the

phonological sound of the letter ‘M’ by

coloring the items on the worksheet beginning with the letter ‘M’.

Subject: Language Arts

Skills: Recognizing nouns

Materials: A painting

Method of Teaching: Have children identify the nouns represented

in the picture.

Integration of Art: Use a painting such as a work of art by

Norman Rockwell or Thomas Kinkeade.

Subject: Mathematics

Skills: Counting and graphing objects

Materials: Individual bags of M&M candies, graphing

worksheets, crayons

Method of Teaching: Teach children how to classify objects by

color, count these objects, and illustrate

these amounts on a graph.

Integration of Art: Have children color the graphs to

correspond with the numbers and colors of

the candies.

Subject: Science

Skills: Classification of animals

Materials: Classification worksheets, crayons

Method of Teaching: Teach children the characteristics used in

determining the classification of animals.

Integration of Art: Have children draw pictures of animals in

the correct classification area on the

worksheet.

Subject: Social Studies

Skills: Identifying the oceans and continents of the

world

Materials: Maps, Map worksheets, crayons

Method of Teaching: Teach the geographical locations of the

oceans and continents of the world. Have

students be able to label with the correct

names.

Integration of Art: Have children color the oceans and

continents of the world.