Week 2 Discussion

 TEXTBOOK BELOW:

Handbook for K-8 Arts Integration : Purposeful Planning Across the Curriculum (Subscription)

By Nan L. McDonald

1st EDITION

PUBLISHER: Pearson

ISBN-13:9780133064032

Please consider the following “big ideas” in our curriculum that our students need to know:

 

What “big ideas” in our curriculum do our students need to know and be able to do? Why?

·         Which of these needs seem to lend themselves to arts inclusion linked to content area instruction? Why

·         Which arts should we seek to include? Why?

·         What are some of the ways we think we might use/link arts activities within a selected lesson? List a few ways.

·         How do we imagine that these kinds of arts activities might enrich teaching and student learning based on what students need to know? How? Why?

·         By the end of an imagined lesson using the arts within a content lesson, what will students be able to know and do?

·         Finally, what do we hope to accomplish or have happen during this lesson?