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Carole Storro * Laura Gallagher Byrne Jillian Pohl * Alyssa Greenler Nikki Palmer * Meg McLean
Kirsten Mohring
Kirsten Mohring
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In this handbook you will find many valuable resources for teaching across the curriculum. It was our goal to create a unique resource where the arts are celebrated with diversity, creativity, innovation and Social Emotional Learning. This unique fusion has the power to dramatically shape the landscape of education. Integration is essential element to a well-rounded education that is representative for all students. Teachers who make arts integration an important part of their classroom instruction continue to be strong voices for arts education for our students. The Educational Theater Collaborative is a crucial part of helping inspire teachers to continue the strong tradition of arts advocacy in the state of New Hampshire. Additional sections in this handbook promote the power of the arts through research, Social Emotional Learning, The Little Mermaid and lessons that integrate skills, attitudes, and behaviors, that effectively and ethically with daily tasks and challenges that represent all leaners in our ever changing world through SEL, the arts and beyond. This handbook and conference would not be possible without the continued voice of collaboration. An extraordinary number of people have worked behind the scenes and we would personally like to thank Deb Stalnaker, Pam Irish, Robb Dimmick, Pat Kelly, Julianne Gadoury, Marcia McCaffrey, and especially Trish Lindberg. Trish consistently shows a collaborative spirit in every endeavor. Her support, passion, and infectious enthusiasm have always made all feel valued and appreciated. We deeply thank you for compassion, commitment, and the unique ability that encourages others to shine. This is a Trish’s voice, which is brilliantly reflected in her work and all she encounters. May we all embrace this stance and make the arts part of our world!
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Placing the Arts at the Heart 7 The Value of the Arts is Simple as ABC 15 Integrated Arts Teacher Resources 16
What is SEL? 20 Additional SEL Resources 21 The Little Mermaid Synopsis 27 Inspired and Inspirational Fun Facts About Disney’s The Little Mermaid 30 The Little Mermaid Resources
In the Classroom – Archetypes 32 Little Mermaid Teaching Guides and Resources 32
Integrated Arts Lesson Plan Template 35 Lessons
“Look at This Stuff, Isn’t It Neat?” Creating Toolboxes to Guide Student Behavior Regulation 40
“Storm at Sea” Science of Sound in the Sea 46
Who Says That My Dreams Have to Stay My Dreams?” Working
Through It to Reach Success 52
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“If Only” Imagining a Deep Sea Creature 58 “Fathoms Below” Ocean Murals and Social Emotional Learning 81 “Les Poissons” Rainbow Fish: A Discussion and
Integrated Arts Lesson 90 “Beyond Our Wildest Dreams” Keeping Our Oceans Clean 96
“Under the Sea” Contributions from Conference Presenters Social Emotional Learning Articles 105 SEAL; Social-Emotional Artistic Learning, Elizabeth Peterson 106 Using Drama and Theatre to Improve Learning, Bethany Nelson 110 Origin of the Species 111 Predators, Prey 114 Maya Angelou, I Rise 116 Still I Rise 117 Using Theater in the Classroom, Jule Finley 118 Drama Games for the Classroom 125 Theater in the Classroom 151
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Placing the Arts at
the Heart
Why All Students Need the Arts
Kirsten Mohring
Plymouth State University
24th Annual Integrated Arts Conference
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The Power of the Arts The Key to Unlock Success for the 21st Century Student
First and foremost the arts are necessary and
contribute to our survival as human beings. There has
never been a culture on this planet that does not have
art. Arts are literately centuries of humans interacting
with their environment. They are a collection of skills
and thought processes that transcend all areas of human
engagement. They enhance cognitive growth, emotions,
and psychomotor pathways. The arts are how children
develop and interact with their world: singing, drawing,
acting, and dancing. Learning about different art forms
provides a higher quality human experience throughout
a person's lifetime (Kagan, 2009; Sousa, 2011).
The whole child needs to be educated which
includes the arts. An arts education is essential for
becoming an educated citizen (Baker, 2012). Students
are engaged at the highest levels when the curriculum is
relevant, integrative, and exploratory. Therefore the arts
are an effective tool to motivate students. Studying the
arts contributes to the development of 21st century skills such
as: imagination, creativity, problem solving, critical thinking,
communication, self-direction, initiative, and collaboration.
These are skills that children need in school and life
(Cornett, 2012; Sousa, 2011). The 21st century student must
frequently utilize their divergent or higher-order thinking
skills instead of convergent or lower-order thinking skills
(Sousa, 2011). Therefore, schools should be dedicated to
helping students think rather than just know.
The 21st century student needs to think beyond the
parameters of the three Rs, and include the three Cs:
creativity, communication, and collaboration. The arts can
effectively teach these skills, which involve communication
among the brain regions that do not normally interact with
each other during noncreative thinking. They allow students
to think outside the box, foster spontaneity, and self-
expression (Sousa, 2011). Thus, the arts can teach the whole
child; the hands, heart, and the mind (Cornett, 2011).
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“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.
Art is knowing which ones to keep”. Scott Adams
10 Reasons why the arts are necessary for
every students
The arts have intrinsic value.
• Music, visual art, theatre, and dance help children
develop their creativity and ability to reflect. This
creativity and reflection go beyond the scope of
what core school subjects can provide (NAfME,
1994).
• Students become more perceptive of their world
by studying the arts. The arts foster human
development, expression, and communication
(Cornett, 2011).
• The arts create objects of beauty, persuading
students to invest their time to study and celebrate
all art forms (Kagan, 2009).
• Experiences in the arts nurture imagination and
creativity, both hallmarks of great thinkers and
leaders (Upitis, 2011).
The arts enhance the study of other
subjects. • To have knowledge in the arts is to have
knowledge in other areas of a standard
curriculum. Music concepts such as rhythmic
values and time signatures are equal to fractions.
Patterns happen in music, visual art, science,
dance, drama, and nature (Geist, Geist, & Kuznik
2012; Sousa, 2011).
• Arts integration creates a deeper understanding of core
academic content by allowing the student to fully
embrace and explore the complexities of an idea,
conflict, or situation. Where arts programs exist
overall academic performance is improved (Cornett,
2011).
• Researchers from Teachers College Columbia
University found significant relationships between
rich in-school arts programs and creative, cognitive,
and personal competencies needed for academic
success. Their research found:
o There was a need for pupils to figure out or
elaborate on ideas on their own.
o There was a need to structure and organize
thinking in light of different kinds of
experiences.
o Knowledge needed to be tested or
demonstrated in new and original ways.
o Learning involved task persistence,
ownership, empathy, and collaboration with
others (Burton, Horowitz, & Abeles, 1999).
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“We have only begun to invent what will be possible…Science
has opened the door, but artistry and imagination will take us
through it”.
Arts increase student achievement. o Participation in the arts can reduce /
eliminate discipline problems – these
problems diminish because students are
actively engaged. The arts then create a
positive and engaging school environment.
Attendance for students and teachers rise,
and parent involvement increases (Cornett,
2011).
o The arts foster a joy of learning, creating a
tangible and powerful experience. The arts
require students to imagine, create, and
reflect. Students develop verbal and
nonverbal abilities needed for success and
progress in an academic environment
(NAfME, 1994).
o The process of linking and generating knowledge
appears to be the critical factor that enhances
relationships between the arts and academic performance
in the Common Core generative disciplines (Baker,
2012).
o The arts require intellectual demands and problem
solving abilities that need higher-order thinking
skills such as: analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.
The arts help students decode, perceive, and
interpret our current technological world that uses
images and symbols to express ideas (Kagan, 2009;
Goldberg, 2006).
o Arts instruction complements basic reading
instruction, spatial reasoning, and organization.
Planning, self-direction, and self-assessment
improve. The arts boost the self-confidence among
the children who are behind in mastery of reading
and arithmetic (Kagan, 2009; Goldberg, 2006).
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Arts involve areas of the brain
that utilize working memory,
cognition and emotions (Sousa,
2011).
Creativity involves
communication among
the brain regions that
do not normally
interact with each other
during non-creative
thinking (Sousa, 2011).
How the Arts
Develop the
Young Brain
“The arts are just not
expressive and affective,
they are deeply cognitive.
They develop essential
thinking tools, pattern
recognition and
development; mental
representations of what
is observed or imagined;
symbolic, allegorical and
metaphorical
representations; careful
observation of the world;
and abstraction from
complexity” (Sousa,
2006).
“Success and achievement in the arts demands
engagement in the four fundamental creative
practices of imagination, investigation, construction,
and reflection in multiple contexts. These meta-
cognitive activities nurture the effective work habits of
curiosity, creativity and innovation, critical thinking
and problem solving, communication and
collaboration, each of which transfer to all aspects of
learning and life in the 21st century”(National
Coalition for Core Arts Standards, n.d.).
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“In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than
the heart can imagine”.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Prepare students for success
in life and the workplace.
o Arts produce students that are
comfortable using a symbol
system, and create children that
can problem solve, use
analytical skills, work
collaboratively and have a
critical voice (Cornett, 2011).
o The intellectual methods of the
arts are precisely those used to
transform scientific discovery
into technology (NAfME,
1994).
o Employers and teachers look
for people that are imaginative
and creative, a tenant or
fundamental in any field. The
arts allow students to practice
those skills (NAfME, 1994).
Studying the arts can have
effects on the brain. o Early music training begins to
build the neural networks that
will later be used to complete
numerical and mathematical
tasks (Cox & Stephens, 2006).
o An interest in a performing art
leads to a high state of
motivation that produces the
sustained attention necessary to
improve performance and
attention in other cognitive
domains. Additionally, training
in acting appears to lead to
memory improvement through
the learning of general skills
for manipulating sematic
information (Gazzaniga, 2008).
o During the brain's early years,
neural connections are being
made at a rapid rate. Much of
what young children do:
singing, drawing, and dancing
are natural forms of art. These
activities engage all the senses
and wire the brain for
successful learning (Sousa,
2011).
Arts develop humanity o Dance, music, drama and visual
arts are basic, fundamental needs
to the human experience (Baker,
2012; Sousa, 2011).
o The arts are imbedded in history
and define the unique quality of
being human. The arts have been
part of us from the very
beginning. Since nomadic people
first sang and danced for their
ancestors, since hunters first
painted their quarry on the walls
of caves, since parents first acted
out the stories of heroes for their
children, the arts have described,
defined, and deepened human
experience (NAfME, 1994).
o Arts can offer a perception of
truth about a culture and
different periods of history. They
are a language of expression and
communication for people
throughout the world (Goldberg,
2006).
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Arts utilize creative practices that teach the whole child
Achievement in the arts demands four creative practices: imagination,
investigation, construction, and reflection. These skills are needed to be college
and career ready. The arts are the cornerstone to unlocking this success, not the
supporting role. Engaging in creative practices is the bridge to link each child
with tools needed to be a creative, innovative, autonomous person that can
achieve mastery and purpose in school and life. The environment created by
using the arts to teach higher-order thinking and creative practices can develop a
dynamic fusion that will give extraordinary opportunities for students to exercise
their creativity through the artistic processes that will create synergistic, highly
cognitive, motivated, dedicated, and inspirational 21st century citizen (National
Coalition for Arts Standards, n.d.). Arts create and demand desirable character traits
Educators and future employers want students to use Creative Problem Solving
(CPS) in their endeavors in regards to their educational and professional
journey. The arts can inspire discipline, dedication, perseverance, creativity, and
technique. The arts develop self-esteem, self-discipline, cooperation, and self-
motivation. Students gain coping mechanisms, and resiliency when faced with
stress or adversity and can develop the persistence to overcome fear, frustration,
and failure that can accompany creative endeavors (Burton, Horowitz, Abeles,
199; Kagan, 2009; Sousa, 2011).
a. Students gain coping mechanisms, and resiliency when
faced with stress or adversity.
Arts create active engagement.
Arts based learning provide opportunities for metaphor, and creating personal
and practical applications of knowledge. The arts allow critical thinking and
imagination to emerge; this requires not only an active mind, but also a trained
one. The arts enable students to make decisions in situations where there are no
standard right answers. The arts are a vehicle to reach, motivate and teach all
students regardless of their abilities. They are not reserved for the talented (Arts
Partnership Education, 2005; Kagan, 2009; Goldberg, 2006).
The arts enable students to make decisions in situations where there are Arts empower teachers and students.
The arts provide a wonderful environment for inclusion. The arts can help to
deepen a teachers’ awareness of the abilities of her students, and provide various
methods of assessment Studying the arts can teach social skills, teamwork, and
cooperation through clubs, choirs, ensembles, neighborhoods, etc. The arts then
create a community of learners. Thus, the arts give students the desire to learn,
creating a society of life long learners (Cornett, 2011; NAfME, 1994; Sousa,
2011).
“The purpose of art is washing the dust of
daily life off our souls”.
Pablo Picasso
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“This world is but a canvas
to our imagination”.
Henry David Thoreau
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In the publication Thirds Space: When Learning Matters, from the Arts Education Partnership, researchers conducted a 3-year study that examined the impact of an arts-centered curriculum on school improvement. Here are their findings:
Learning in the Arts is - Studying the arts contributes to the development
of academic skills, including reading and language development and mathematics.
Learning in the Arts is - Arts learning experiences contribute to the
development of certain thinking, social and motivational skills that are considered basic for success in general capacities of the mind, self-perceptions and social relationships.
Learning in the Arts is - The arts create a learning
environment conducive to teacher and student success by fostering teacher innovation, a positive professional culture, community engagement, increased student attendance, effective instructional practice and school identity. A. (Ed.). (2005). Making a case for the arts: How and why the arts are critical to
student achievement and better schools. Arts Education Partnership. Retrieved from: http://www.artsdel.org/ArtsEducation/MakingaCaseforArts.pdf
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ArtsAlive.ca is a performing arts educational website produced by the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The goals of ArtsAlive.ca are:
• To engage younger generations of Canadians in information, multimedia resources and
activities pertaining to the performing arts, and
• To provide free performing arts-related primary and secondary resources to students,
parents and teachers to aid them in learning about and teaching the topics presented.
http://www.artsalive.ca/en/
Dedicated to securing high-quality arts education for every young person in America. http://www.aep-arts.org/
Resources for classroom teachers who use arts integration for academic success. Sort and find lessons by grade level, academic subjects, or art integration form. http://artsintegration.com http://artsintegration.com/portal/
Arts at the Core: Empowering educational leaders particularly in under-resourced districts, to implement rigorous arts programming in their schools. http://advocacy.collegeboard.org/preparation-access/arts-core
The Common Core strongly believes that works of art should play a starring role in every child’s education and in CCSS implementation. Free resources include professional development programs, curriculum guides, lessons, articles, blogs, and videos. http://commoncore.org/art
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A comprehensive site about UDL. Find videos, advocacy pieces, guidelines, suggestions for implementation, research, resources and community outreach. http://community.udlcenter.org/
This a free source that contain many integrated arts lessons. Can search by grade levels, subjects, standards, and collections. http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/
Many integrated arts units and lessons plans can be found on this site. http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/collection/strategies-arts-integration
Integrated arts lessons plans are sorted by level: elementary, middle, and high school. http://thewalters.org/integrating-the-arts/
Arts Edge is the Kennedy’s Center free digital resources for teaching and learning in, through and about the arts. http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/educators.aspx
The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent federal agency that funds and promotes artistic excellence, creativity, and innovation for the benefit of individuals and communities. http://arts.gov/
The President’s Committee bridges the interests of federal agencies and the private sector, supports special projects that increase participation and excellence in the arts and humanities and helps incorporate these disciplines into White House objectives under our Honorary Chair First Lady Michelle Obama. http://www.pcah.gov/
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Their mission is to inspire young people and expand their learning through the arts. http://www.youngaudiences.org/