Both a practitioner's guide and a school reform model, the new edition of this popular book shares exemplary arts-integration practices across the K-8 curriculum. Rather than providing formulas or scripts to be followed, each chapter carefully describes how the arts offer an entry point for gaining insight into why and how students learn to assist…

The Exploring Engagement Fund provides risk capital for arts nonprofits to experiment with innovative ideas about how to engage diverse Californians. In order to understand the variety of Californians engaged in arts experiences, this guide is intended to support current and future Fund grantees in collecting participant information. Exploring…

Describes seven ways to use ordinary materials to create masks to wear or hang. (JMB)

In a short article the author described a technique for using corrugated paper to create art pieces. (RK)

Describes an interdisciplinary urban studies project for third graders, in which the children created, ran, and built a model of an imaginary city. (SJL)

Presents a selection of egg carton craft ideas. (SJL)

Briefly describes one teacher's approach to integrating art activities into the curriculum. (JMB)

Technique of tie dying is explained. (RW)

Making and using masks can be a fun classroom project. Directions for creating many styles of three-dimensional masks are presented. Suggestions for using masks in the classroom are offered. (MT)

A color-blot exercise is described as a way of getting students involved in abstract thinking by a low risk, confidence-building activity. Students are asked to combine poetry and art. (CL)

Drawing teaches children to see and to describe their worlds in more detail, to see new perspectives with more clarity. Activities involving drawing are suggested. (MT)

Experimental printmaking can be exciting, rewarding, and inexpensive. High school students explored four different ways to create relief prints from odds and ends and scrap materials. (RM)

Secondary students utilize a simplified technique to make silk screen prints, which can be printed onto T-shirts. The only materials needed from art suppliers are a few squeegees and a few yards of polyester screen mesh. (RM)

One kind of printmaking that offers nice results with little complication and a minimum of materials is monoprinting with masks. The process is described. (RM)

The basics of four processes--serigraphy, intaglio, lithography, and relief--can be taught with low-cost tools and materials. A secondary-level semester course is described. (RM)