This workshop focused on naming strategies, ideas, and projects that would keep students engaged in class, help them learn and retain information, and refocus.
Presenters: Nicole Hunter nicole_hunter@ralstonschools.org
Sarah Brogren-Haynes sarah.brogren-haynes@ops.org
Class Procedure & Management Ideas:
-Take a break and have everyone walk around the classroom looking at everyone's project and looking for something specific in the projects.
-Read aloud while students are working; they work quietly and get more work done.
-Create a "Name that Artist" Game in a binder for students who finish early and have extra time.
-During clean up and transitions, have students echo their jobs or count down with a dance.
-Have students repeat vocabulary words, definitions or information in a sing-song manner.
-Echo! The teacher begins a sentence or phrase and students finish.
Example: Teacher: Symmetry is..... Students: the same on both sides!
-Call and Response
Hand Movement: Create a Hand Triangle
Song:
"Primary colors..... Red, Yellow, Blue"
"Primary colors..... You mix to make new..."
-Piggyback Songs (Parodies) Use a familiar melody and change the words to fit your lesson.
Movement Ideas:
-Use hands motions and movement to demonstrate.
-Brain Breaks & Movement Activities: Website: gonoodle.com
-Add actions to Words.
-Act out art.
-Create/Draw different kinds of lines with your arms.
-When discussing, drawing, or demonstrating landscapes, have students jump when talking about objects that go in the sky, and have students touch the ground when discussing objects that can be found on the ground.
-Strike a Pose while sitting or standing in response to art or the subject at hand.
Project Ideas:
-Create a Mola with Colored Popsicle Sticks
-Art Project Idea: Underwater Painting
-Homes around the World: Design your dream home.
Integration Ideas:
-Book: How Artists See Cities
-Art Print: "Radiator Building" by Georgia O'Keeffe