Boston Arts Academy provides an example of how high schools can incorporate the arts into academics. Incorporating the arts into all high schools can benefit student learning because students are able to make connections and to apply their learning in concrete ways.

Best-selling author Marcia L. Tate brings her trademark "dendrite-growing" teaching strategies to this practitioner-friendly collection of brain-compatible methods for engaging K-12 students in social studies. Included are 20 proven strategies and more than 200 grade-leveled activities for applying them. Teachers will find concrete ways to…

Preservice student teachers engaged in a collaborative research initiative to examine the memory of the 1954 "Brown v. Topeka Board of Education" decision that culminated in a public performance. Ethnographic data were translated into performance texts through students' performances that confronted issues of privilege, race, and institutional…

The process of art-making is integral to the development of a child's fine motor skills, coordination, and concentration. Therefore, creating an ongoing project one or two weeks in length can benefit both teacher and students. The teacher can assess the children's skills by observing the way they handle materials. Also, after spending valuable…

Each August, third grade artists at Apple Glen Elementary in Bentonville, Arkansas, start the school year planning, creating, and exhibiting a clay relief mural. These mural projects have helped students to acquire not only art knowledge and techniques, but an even more important kind of knowledge: what it means to plan and successfully complete a…

Outlines a personalized sculpture project for high school students. (SJL)

Instructions are given for a beginning project in mosaic. (SJL)

Describes the process for etching designs onto mirrors. (SJL)

If you are interested in using sequential art forms such as comic books in your EFL classroom, this article is full of helpful advice. Reading sequential art is beneficial because students can work with authentic texts with real language and graphic support. Students can also apply research and cultural knowledge to the creation of their own…

Describes a student group's efforts in constructing a mural. (HOD)

Describes a high school student's growing involvement with a pottery project. (SP)

The zoetrope, ancestor of the motion picture, is a spinning cylinder in which a strip of drawings take on movement. This article provides instructions for building this device and outlines an animation project for third- through seventh-graders. (SJL)

Instructions are given for making inexpensive plaster face casts and decorating them as masks. This art project was used with a fifth grade class. (SJL)

Techniques are presented on the design and construction of paper mache masks. (EJS)