SC+Alliance+for+Arts+Education+Conference

Please post any comments about the SCAAE conference here.. Beth Radford from Pine Street Elementary/ Focus 5 Consultant presented a session on Arts Integration and what it looks like in a school. If you would like to receive any information from this session, please let me know. Judy

__Handouts__ I had a BLAST!!! at the SCAAE conference. I've scanned in my handouts from the conference and am posting them here for anyone who's interested... This session focused on using arts integrated stations for a social studies "gallery walk," specifically focusing on the 1960s and 70s.

This sesssion focused on using concepts (big ideas) to teach across the curriculum.

This session focused on integrating music into math and science lessons. Most of the ideas are for younger grades, but the handout includes very specific activities and songs.

This was one of my favorite sessions. It focused on using music as a prompt for students to brainstorm and write. I like to do this around special ocassions, especially Halloween, and use music or sound effects to create a specific mood for students to convey in their writing.

This is a great resource for lesson plans that integrate the visual arts into all core subject areas. I really enjoyed this session by Windsor HIll, a local school, and got great ideas. In fact this session specifically inspired a social studies project that I used the very next week. At the end of our Standard 1 unit (Reconstruction) we studied images that showed how Reconstruction impacted the lives of African Americans. After analyzing the images, students planned and created their own multi media collage to represent ideas and views about Reconstruction. Some of the collages turned out to just be "pretty pictures," but others were very symbolic and explained very well through writing. I haven't taken pictures yet, but will post pictures of some of the collages & explanations when I get the bulletin board put together.

While this session was geared towards ELA, I intend to use the mop & broom puppets in my social studies class to help students remember key figures in history. This will be especially helpful when we get into the WWII and Civil Rights eras.

Samantha (Ellington) 10/31/12