Workshop Sessions

Teachers have access to highly differentiated curricula and learn the Elephant Sculptures project that they can implement with their students. Students explore the elephant anatomy through books, videos, and discussions, which strengthens their literacy skills. They then create elephant sculptures using fine motor skills to manipulate, tear, bend, and sculpt materials. The project builds skills in reading, writing, vocabulary development, speaking, listening, observation, and scientific inquiry, while integrating visual art skills to create a sculpture of an elephant.

Teachers have access to highly differentiated curricula and learn the Musical Elephant Poem project that they can implement with their students. Students create a musical poem about an elephant using instruments they make, incorporating movement and sound to represent different body parts and functions. The project builds academic skills in listening, sequencing, descriptive language, vocabulary, and sentence development, while introducing musical concepts such as dynamics, tempo, pitch, and melody.

Teachers have access to highly differentiated curricula and learn a Geometric Patchwork Quilt project that they can implement with their students. Students create collaborative paper quilts to explore shapes based on color and orientation. The project builds academic skills, including shape identification, spatial reasoning, and patterning, and introduces geometric concepts of composite shapes and partitioning. Students also develop fine motor and artistic skills by arranging, overlapping, and adhering materials, while exploring color theory, balance, symmetry, and overall design.

Teachers have access to highly differentiated curricula and learn the Geometry Orchestra project that they can implement with their students. Students design and build geometric-shaped instruments — such as square cymbals, triangle tambourines, and rectangle kalimbas —using craft materials. They explore concepts of shape, size, color, and composition, including composite and partitioned shapes. Students learn basic music skills like rhythm, tempo, and collaboration as they rehearse and perform a class composition using a geometric shape graphic score. The project supports academic growth in geometry, problem-solving, creative expression, and music performance.