How can opinions slant facts? Workshop participants learn how to examine primary and secondary sources and identify the author's point of view. They also examine how visual art impacts the meaning and rhetoric of sources. Full of...

The six instructional shifts in this workshop definitely move math and science teachers' understanding of instruction. The workshop, 13th out of a series of 15, asks participants to examine sample tests and to look at how the six...

Lesson on creative expression and dance in light of the social, cultural, and political climate in Russia.

Intergrating dance into your social studies lesson on the Navajo culture will give your students a glimpse into another way of life. They will use their knowledge of loom weaving, Native Americans, and creative dance to express these...

Explore color distribution of M&M candies using this detailed lesson plan. An engaging integrated lesson that requires understanding of spreadsheets and formulas, and logical reasoning. Links to related websites.

One of the finest sites of its kind on the Internet, ArtsEdge is dedicated to supporting arts education through such initiatives as curriculum development, cross-curricular teaching, and technology integration. Find arts-related...

Take a virtual field trip and use these lessons while exploring wildlife art collections online. Utilize these lessons to integrate art with writing, problem solving, and other activities that may already be taking place in your classroom.

This cross-curricular middle school unit integrates mathematics and visual art. Through the study of the M.C. Escher?s work, middle schoolers explore tiling from both a mathematical and artistic point of view. Points for discussion and...

Young scholars learn how forces are used in the creation of art. They come to understand that it is not just bridge and airplane designers who are concerned about how forces interact with objects, but artists as well.

A 7-day unit of lessons integrating art with drama. Artists covered include Filippo Brunelleschi, Leonardo Da Vinci, Vincent Van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri Matisse, and five Indiana artists.

The main page for this site's section on lesson plans. It describes how to build an art lesson plan and has links to lesson plan collections for all grade bands, for substitute teachers, integration with drama, cartoon drawing,...

Looks at tessellation artists, including M.C. Escher, Robert Fathauer, and Roger Penrose. This is followed by a discussion of fractals and their similarities and differences to tessellations, and links to lessons and resources on...

In this lesson, students will incorporate information from the U.S. Census Bureau's QuickFacts data access tool into an advertisement for a city of their choice. They will use persuasive and advertising techniques to convince others to...

An integrated math and language arts lesson focusing on statistics. Students explore the concepts of estimation, data collection, data analysis, classification, graphing, and counting through the reading of the Button Box by Margarette...

The objective of this instructional activity is for students to, "explore spatial relationships by determining the area of various shapes and creating tessellation patterns." Using a variety of hands-on activities, students apply...

An introductory lesson in probability for students in grades three to five. The concepts presented in this lesson are interwoven, over time, into a current unit of study. Kids examine closely the "language" of probability as used in...

Site for teachers who are seeking to integrate art and printmaking with language, communication and social studies. It is based on Chicano and Mexican use of the print to make social statements.

This Kodak site has twelve lesson plans submitted by teachers from every grade level. Each activity integrates photography into the lesson.

A lesson plan that has students creating simple images to represent different emotions. Also includes ideas for integrating language arts and social studies topics into the arts.

Kodak's site has five lesson plans integrating photography into math lessons. Activities involve geometry and other math concepts for fourth grade on up.

In this lesson, students work in groups with each acting as a predator, prey, or family member in a particular habitat. They present their habitat performance to the class and students identify the habitat and animal relationships. Then,...

Using an artistically integrated approach in teaching literary themes helps students to explore more fully the universality of those themes. Rock music is a form of cultural expression which, because of its mass appeal, can become a...

This lesson plan is based on the "America Responds" series where students explore the concepts of valuing diversity and appreciation of cultural differences. An integrated art, social studies, and language arts lesson plan that is...

This site from Kodak is overflowing with lesson plans to use in your language arts classroom. Teachers from every grade level have submitted activities integrating photography into their lessons.