Presents background and directions for an elementary-level activity combining art and language in which students study verbs and animation techniques. To understand how verbs suggest the passage of time, students visualize action sequences. (AM)

This schools fourth-grade language arts curriculum includes two stories that deal with blindness. The stories prompted Carol Vincent to invite one of her students' parents, who participates in a guide dog program by raising puppies, to bring one of her dogs to school and explain the training of guiding-eye dogs, and the ways in which they can be…

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Focuses on how and why the systematic incorporation of the arts into the language-arts curriculum improves special needs children's learning and encourages them to become confident, creative, and enthusiastic learners. Discusses visual arts, creative drama, and movement and music. Suggests enriching remedial programs with the arts develops…

This handbook contains ideas for basic visual arts production in grades K through 6, and gives suggestions for using the ideas in art and interdisciplinary lessons. The book is organized into 5 sections. The Introduction provides a Table of Activities that serves as a reference to the art elements addressed by specific activities. Section 2,…

This guide provides teachers with background information and teaching activities to prepare students for a visit to the Spanish Quarter Museum in St. Augustine, Florida. It is designed to familiarize students with some of the concepts and words they will encounter in the open-air living history museum where interpreters in period clothing re-live…

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Provides an annotated bibliography of 10 ERIC documents and journal articles that focus on the interdisciplinary approach to elementary school social studies curriculum development and instruction. Specifically includes information on integrating language arts, art education, and global education in social studies. (CFR)

This book provides biographical information about 19 stylistically different illustrators of children's picture books. The illustrators and illustrations selected for representation demonstrate the many changes and styles in book illustration that have occurred during the past 50 years. Focus is upon how and why these individuals became children's…

Integrated art history and language arts activities are presented in this curriculum guide. The art history content is chronologically organized by units: (1) "Art of the Ancient World"; (2) "Arts of the East and Africa"; (3) "Art of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance"; (4) "Five European Masters"; (5) "Impressionism and Post-Impressionism"; (6)…

This book is a comprehensive and practical guide to the use of computers across a wide age range. Extensive use is made of photographs, illustrations, cartoons, and samples of children's work to demonstrate the versatility of computer use in schools. An introduction by Rob Crompton placing computer use within the educational context of the United…

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Presents a variety of educational resources with ordering information. Resources include reading programs, literacy posters and bookmarks, communication skills, integrated art activities, science books and hands-on activities, environmental activities, classroom management, disability awareness, mathematics contests, science contests, and…

Presents an interdisciplinary lesson that combines art and language arts. Explains that third and fourth grade students explored the meanings of different idioms and created a picture showing the literal meaning of an idiom. Includes a list of art materials. (CMK)

Uses a teacher's thematic unit on endangered species to share how technology can help to make meaningful connections across the curriculum. Shows how the unit includes science, social studies, mathematics, art, language arts, and music. (SR)