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Spring/
Summer 2007
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Volume 6, Number 2
Balancing the Equation –
Authentic Connections between the Visual Arts and Math
The terms ‘line, shape, space, parallel, intersection, balance,’ etc. are common to artists and mathematicians. The skills of sorting, measuring, sketching, and problem solving are also common to each subject area. These intersections of content knowledge, terminology and visualization provide the potential for rich integration, and also broaden the range of learning strategies available across a classroom of diverse learners.
This issue includes profiles of two elementary classroom teachers, a high school math teacher and a high school art teacher along with their inspired teaching practices that bring the arts and math together for their students.
Art Resource Review: Scott Foresman – Art; Harcourt – Art Everywhere; SRA McGraw-Hill – Art Connections; Davis Publications – Connections in Art; Glencoe McGraw-Hill – Fine Art Transparencies for each of the three middle school texts and Themes and Foundations for high school; Crizmac – Images of Commitment: 20th Century Women Artists and Island Worlds; Eyewitness Books – The Renaissance; Crystal Productions – Take 5 Art Prints – Art and Math, Perspective Posters, Tessellations Teaching Posters, and Bridging the Curriculum through Art; National Gallery of Art – Masters of Illusion and Islamic Art & Culture.
Website Reviews: California Department of Education Mathematics Content Standards; The Educators Reference Desk; Math Cats!; Web-Based Projects – University of Richmond; National Gallery of Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art; and Persistence of Vision Raytracer.
Featured Artworks and Lesson Plan: Sumerian Cuneiform Tablet (circa 2034 B.C.) and The Creation (1991) Harry Fonseca.
M.C. Escher |
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Fall/
Winter 2006
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Volume 6, Number 1
Understanding the World Around Us:
Connections Between the Visual Arts and Science
At the Kindergarten level, students are expected to ‘observe common objects by using their five senses’ and ‘communicate observations orally and through drawings.’ Would you know without checking whether these were Science Content Standards or Visual and Performing Arts Standards? Observing, describing, recording, investigating, interpreting, predicting, and drawing conclusions are skills common to both artists and scientists. These are skills basic to understanding the world around us.
In this issue a first grade teacher shares highlights from a unit that includes both artistic and scientific investigations along with a field trip to the Vic Fazio wetlands near Davis, CA. In addition, two high school art teachers share their rich lesson in observing, interpreting and drawing from natural forms. Then a high school photography teacher comments on the edge where science and art cross over in photography.
Art Resource Review: Harcourt School Publishers – Art Everywhere; Scott Foresman – Art; SRA McGraw-Hill – Art Connections and Science Art Connections: Art Activities for Science; Glencoe McGraw-Hill – ARTTALK and Exploring Art; Davis Publications – The Visual Experience, Connections in Art, and Art Careers videos; Crizmac – Art and Archaeology Lessons; The National Gallery of Art – The Birds of America and Art + Science = Conservation; Los Angeles County Museum of Art – The Visible World: Observation in Art and Science; Crystal Productions – Bridging the Curriculum Through Art: Interdisciplinary Connections and Take 5 Art Prints; Transforming Education Through the Arts Challenge – Grassy Lake and Art & Ecology: Earth Stories.
Website Reviews: National Science Education Standards: an Overview; The Enduring Relationship of Science and Art; Intersections of Art, Technology, Science and Culture – Links San Francisco State University; Art of Science Competition, Princeton University; Artist Jim McNeill; Maria Sibylla Merian at the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
Featured Artwork and Lesson Plan: Rippled Surface (1950) M.C. Escher |
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Spring /
Summer 2006 |
Volume 5, Number 2
Putting Art into Words – The Written
Response
A Critical Connection in Learning Through the Visual
and Language Arts
Using worksheets or other grade-appropriate
guidelines for writing through art helps students
to better organize their responses and to probe
for more meaningful statements.
In this issue, five teachers share their successful
and effective strategies for helping students derive
greater meaning through their artwork
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Art Resource Reviews: Glencoe /
McGraw-Hill – Introducing Art, Exploring Art
and Understanding Art; Davis Publications –
Connections in Art and The Visual Experience; Scott
Foresman – Art; Harcourt School Publishers
– Art Everywhere; SRA / McGraw-Hill –
Art Connections / Language and Reading Art Connections;
Crizmac – Images of Commitment, 20th Century
Women Artsits; Crystal Productions Take 5 Art Prints
– Art and Language Arts, The Artist as Storyteller;
and CCAE Print Portfolio Lesson Plan Packets.
Website Reviews: Tate Online; Destination
– Modern Art; Arts Curriculum Online; and
New York Times Learning Network.
Featured Artwork and Lesson Plan:
Spherical Discourse, (1993) Yoshio Taylor |
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| Fall / Winter 2005 |
Volume 5, Number 1
Enriching and Enlivening the Learning Experience:
Making Authentic Connections Between Art and History-Social
Science
The Arts provide ways to imagine, visualize
and empathize with the people and events of other
eras and cultures, thus making meaningful links
with History-Social Science. Studying History-Social
Science provides the necessary perspectives for
appreciating the context of time, place, people,
values and beliefs on the Arts. Integrating these
subjects provides powerful and sometimes surprising
ways to engage, enrich and enliven the learning
experience!
Art Resource Reviews: Harcourt
School Publishers – Art is Everywhere; Scott
Foresman – Art; SRA / McGraw-Hill –
Art Connections; Davis Publications – Connections
in Art and Art: A Global Pursuit; Glencoe/ McGraw-Hill
– Arttalk; Crizmac – Native American
Reproductions; Crystal Productions Take 5 Art Print
Sets – Interdisciplinary Connections: Art
and Social Studies, Bridging the Curriculum Through
Art and Scenes of American Life; and Davis Publications
– Rethinking Curriculum in Art.
Website Reviews: Thirteen ed online;
Gilbert Stuart: Making Faces; The Metropolitan Museum
of Art’s Timeline of Art History; Portrait
Detectives; Cloth and Clay: Communicating Culture;
and 19th-Century America in Art and Literature.
Featured Artwork and Lesson Plan:
Indo Arch, (1976-1979) Gerald Walburg |
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| Spring 2005 |
Volume 4, Number 2
The Value of Arts to Critical Thinking:
The Value of Critical Thinking to the Arts
Art-focused lessons provide extraordinary points
of departure for developing higher-order thinking
as long as students are given time to examine works,
and to explore their responses and reasoning, in
deep and meaningful ways. Critical thinking is not
unique to the arts, but the arts do engage thinking
in unique ways.
Art Resource Reviews: Davis Publications
– The Visual Experience; Glencoe / McGraw-Hill
– ARTTALK; Harcourt School Publishing –
Art Express; SRA / McGraw-Hill – Art Connections;
Scott Foresman – Art; Crizmac Art and Cultural
Materials – Island Worlds; Smithsonian American
Art Museum / Crystal Productions – Pubic Sculpture:
America’s Legacy, Land & Landscape: Views
of America’s History and Culture, Scenes of
American Life, and Latino Art and Culture in the
US.
Website Reviews: The Critical Thinking
Community, Apple Learning Interchange, net.unl.edu/~swi/arts/tnpolicy.html
and the Torn Notebook web site, Learning @ Whitney,
Arts Connected / Arts Net Minnesota, and Eyes on
Art.
Featured Artwork and Lesson Plan:
The Creation, (1991) Harry Fonseca ). |
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| Fall 2004 |
Volume 4, Number 1
Student and Teacher Reflection
Assessment is not just about testing or measuring
how well a student performs relative to stated criteria,
but it is also a way of informing and improving
both the learning process and teaching practice.
One particularly potent form of assessment is Reflection
– a teacher’s commitment to examine
his / her practice – a student’s effort
to examine and monitor his/her progress.
Art Resource Reviews: Scott Foresman
– Art; Davis Publications – The Visual
Experience; Harcourt School Publishing – Art
Express; SRA / McGraw-Hill – Art Connections;
Glencoe / McGraw – Hill – ARTTALK and
Understanding Art; Crizmac Art and Cultural Materials,
Inc. – Art and Archeology Curriculum.
Website Reviews: The Apple Learning
Exchange, www.thirteen.org, Discovery School, San
Diego City Schools’ Technology Challenge Grants,
and New Mexico State University Learning Technologies
Program.
Featured Artwork and Lesson Plan: Untitled (Horse),
Deborah Butterfield (1983)
Featured Artwork and Lesson Plan:
Untitled (Horse), (1983) Deborah Butterfield |
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Volume 3, Number 2
Creating a Culturally Rich Curriculum:
The arts offer a uniquely rich vein of experiences
to tap in developing a culturally rich curriculum
for our increasingly diverse population of students.
A culturally rich curriculum references issues,
archetypes and symbols that speak of – and
across – time, geography, race, ethnicity,
language, religion and gender.
Art Resource Reviews: National
Gallery of Art – Circa 1492 – Art in
the Age of Exploration; Crizmac Art and Cultural
Education Materials, Inc. – Arts of Mexico
and Native American Reproductions; Davis Publications
– Art from Many Hands, Brown Bag Ideas from
Many Cultures, Discovering African Art, Discovering
Native American Art and Discovering Oceanic Art;
Pearson Scott Foresman – Making Music; Glencoe
/ McGraw-Hill – Music! Its Role and Importance
in Our Lives; SRA / McGraw-Hill – Art Connections;
Harcourt – Art Express; Crystal Productions
– Days of the Dead, Aboriginal Art, Mask Prints,
Ceramica y Cultura: the Story of Spanish and Mexican
Mayolica, Printmaking Take 5 Art Print Set and Art
and Social Studies Take 5 Art Print Set.
Website Reviews: National Museum
of African Art, Museum for African Art, Portal to
Japanese Art, Brooklyn Expedition, Metropolitan
Museum of Art, World Myths & Legends in Art.
Featured Artwork and Lesson Plan:
Joseph Fitzpatrick Was Our Teacher, (1991)
Raymond Saunders
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Volume 3, Number 1
Inquiry Learning: Acting on Wonder, Drawing on Questions
process – takes time, often more time
than most teachers feel that they have available
to them when concerned with skill-building, content
mastery and standardized test results for their
students. And yet, Inquiry Learning is the most
natural and effective way for humans to acquire
knowledge about their world
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Art Resource Reviews: Pearson Scott Foresman’s
Portfolios, SRA/McGraw-Hill’s Art Connections,
Davis Publications’ Connections in Art and
Art: A Global Pursuit, Glencoe’s ARTTALK,
Crizmac’s Stories of Art, Crystal Productions’
Getty Multicultural Art Prints and America Past
and Present sets from the Smithsonian American Art
Museum, and Disney Learning Partnership’s
The Creative Classroom Series.
Website Reviews: ARTICULATION:
Learning to Look at Art; The Metropolitan Museum
of Art; San Francisco Museum of Art; and ArtsEdNet.
Featured Artwork and Lesson Plan:
Sunday Morning in the Mines, (1872) Charles
Christian Nahl . |
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Volume 2, Number 2
Interdisciplinary Education: Making
Connections with and through the Arts
Interdisciplinary education is enjoying a resurgence
of support, encouraged by interest in systemic school
reform, collaborative planning, inquiry-driven learning
and concept-centered curriculum.
Art Resource Reviews: Theater:
The Big Little Theater, Center Stage: A Curriculum
for the Performing Arts and Live on Stage! Performing
Arts for Middle School (Spotlight™). Music:
Music! Its Role and Importance in our Lives (Glencoe/McGraw-Hill)
and Making Music (Silver Burdett). Interdisciplinary:
Connections in Art (Davis), Take 5 Art Prints (Crystal
Productions), The Natural Palette: The Hudson River
Artists and The Land (Crizmac), A Teacher’s
Guide to Lessons and Activities for Fifth and Sixth
Grade, Art &, (National Gallery of Art, Washington,
D.C.) and Unit of Study: William Grant Still: Symphony
No. 1 (Southeast Center for Education in the Arts).
Website Reviews: The Kennedy Center,
George Catlin and His Indian Gallery, Jacob Lawrence:
Exploring Stories, About Life: the Photography of
Dorothea Lange.
Featured Artwork and Lesson Plan Preview:
A Time to Cast Away Stones, (installed
in 1999) Stephen J. Kaltenbach . |
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Volume 2, Number 1
Making the Most of Museums as Resources
for Learning
Museums are centers of learning, with enormous
potential for expanding the intellectual, emotional
and social experiences of their visitors, and especially
for expanding the educational experiences of K-12
teachers and their students beyond the classroom
environment.
Art Resource Reviews: Art to the
Core (Davis), Resources to accompany the National
Museum of Women in the Arts (McGraw-Hill), Art Connections
(SRA/McGraw-Hill), Telling Images: Stories in Art
(Art Institute of Chicago).
Website Reviews: ArtsConnectEd,
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Dallas Museum
of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Featured Artwork and Lesson Plan Preview:
I, (1973) Robert Arneson
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Volume 1, Number 2
The Big Idea and Curriculum Development:
Lessons Learned form Transforming Education Through
the Arts Challenge and Beyond….
Curriculum is at the core of teaching and the
blueprint for unifying a school’s strategic
plan for its administrators, teachers and students…
What then is at the core of curriculum? Curriculum,
whether commercially produced or teacher-developed,
has to be tied to ‘Big Ideas’ or ‘Enduring
Understandings.’
Art Resource Reviews: Online Professional
Development from Davis Publications, Adventures
in Art (Davis), Introducing, Exploring and Understanding
Art (Glencoe/McGraw-Hill), Art in Focus and Themes
and Foundations in Art (Glencoe/McGraw-Hill), The
Big Little Theatre (Spotlight Enterprises, Inc.).
Website Reviews: ArtsEdNet, Chicana
and Chicano Space: A Thematic, Inquiry-Based Art
Education Resource, North Texas Institute for Educators
on the Visual Arts, The Ohio Partnership for the
Visual Arts.
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Featured Artwork and Lesson Plan Preview:
I, (1999) Hung Liu |
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Volume 1, Number 1
Teaching Practice and Resources for Teaching
Beyond the Curriculum
Systemic change involves every level of the educational
culture: students, teachers, classrooms and their
institutional hierarchy. Furthermore, for those
who have participated in authentic reform efforts,
it becomes clear that reform does not conclude at
a certain point in a linear progression, but rather,
evolves through several… stages of implementation.
Art Resources Review: Crizmac,
Art & Cultural Education Materials, Inc.
Website Reviews: Eyes on Art, Art
Room, NGA Kids, ArtEdventures
Featured Artwork and Lesson Plan Preview:
An American Picnic with 21 Figures (1962)
by Roland Petersen. |
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