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Our Children Thrive
In Arts Based Learning
Our Children Thrive
In Arts Based Learning
The arts are powerful connectors. Learning core content through the arts engages our entire body and brain together, and deepens our understanding and connection with the content.
The arts are powerful connectors. Learning core content through the arts engages our entire body and brain together, and deepens our understanding and connection with the content.
The resources below have been selected to help our teachers continue to engage the creative expression of our keiki in the classroom and at home.
The resources below have been selected to help our teachers continue to engage the creative expression of our keiki in the classroom and at home.
Let's create joyful learning and empower student voice through the arts!
Let's create joyful learning and empower student voice through the arts!
Resources From Local Artists & Organizations
Resources From Local Artists & Organizations
Visual Arts
Instructional Videos
Visual Arts
Instructional Videos
Maggie Sutrov is a professional artist and teacher on Maui. During the 2020-2021 school year she is creating weekly video art lessons! Check out her website to find a plentiful selection of instructional videos for all ages using simple materials to paint, draw, collage, and more.
Music
Instructional Videos
Music
Instructional Videos
Music Instructor Beth Fobbe-Wills (of Kahului School) offers these 9 instructional videos on beat, rhythm, and meter that students can learn and play at home using items they already have in their houses.
Drama
Instructional Videos
Drama
Instructional Videos
The Honolulu Theater for Youth Drama Education staff offer a variety of simple, engaging games and activities for for teachers, parents and kids. Anyone can play, even through video chats!
Super Relevant
Entertainment Videos
Super Relevant
Entertainment Videos
If you haven't seen The HI Way yet, you have been missing out. This 8 episode series of humorous sketches and original songs from the creative minds of Honolulu Theater for Youth are super entertaining and super relevant. Each episode is based on what families in Hawaii are going through right now during the Covid19 Pandemic.
They use puppets, acting, comedy, and more to majorly entertain while suggesting and instructing fun things to do and try at home.
Kids Create 808
Instructional Videos
Kids Create 808
Instructional Videos
Kids Create 808 is a growing collection of instructional videos designed as LESSONS for KIDS of all ages to ACTIVELY follow along and stretch their “creativity muscles” during these challenging times of social-distancing.
These lessons, featuring the talents of teachers and artists across the state, are designed for students to explore movement and even mo'olelo through dance, to draw paint, and collage, to feel connected to self, the world, and nature, to learn to read art, and to inquire, wonder, and feel inspired.
Virtual Field Trips,
Videos & More
Virtual Field Trips,
Videos & More
Maui Huliau Foundation and their program partners have created a virtual classroom featuring free resources for teachers and students focusing on climate literacy & local ecosystems. Designed for grades 8-12, these distance learning activities include videos, virtual field trips, pre-recorded (or live) presentations, student readings, hands-on experiments, art projects, guided outdoor activities, and/or online games and quizzes
Resources From National Organizations
Resources From National Organizations
Resources for Creative Engaging Learning
Resources for Creative Engaging Learning
Arcademics combines the excitement of video games with educational content. Boost student engagement & fact fluency with free multiplayer educational games, math games, language arts games, and more! (for ages 5-11)
Explore the best free distance learning activities for preschool—grade 12. Wide Open School, created by Common Sense Media, hopes to help make learning from home an experience that inspires kids, supports educators, relieves families, and restores community. More resources are added regularly. Subjects include - arts, movement, science, math, social studies, emotional well-being, reading/writing, life skills and more
An incredible, large, useful list of online resources for young people, parents, and educators to find grounding during this unprecedented moment and engage in rich distance learning experiences.
Examples of creative ideas to improve engagement with young learners who have mental and/or physical disabilities. (Article is from (St. Joseph’s University)
Engages 14 million kids every month with movement and mindfulness videos created by child development experts. Available for free at school, home, and everywhere kids are! Their whole child approach benefits kids’ physical wellness, academic success, and social-emotional health.
Resources for Arts Integrated Learning
Resources for Arts Integrated Learning
• Visual Arts •
• Visual Arts •
Interested in the presidents and the role of the presidency in the United States? Want to learn more about the lives of remarkable Americans, past and present, who have contributed to the nation’s history and culture? Want to engage your students curiosity using visual arts? The Portrait Gallery has a variety of resources for the classroom that have been developed to complement National Portrait exhibitions.
Lessons and activities for grades preK-12 that use visual arts to teach core content such as math, science, history and ELL.
• Music •
• Music •
This organization offers free art rich resources for every age and classroom. These fabulous distance learning resources integrate music culture and other art content to teach a variety of subjects. The lessons are practically plug and play. Find learning packs ready for K-12 student instruction for all subjects. Click on a lesson, look at the slide show and instruction ideas, get inspired, and use the free resource to teach your students.
• Multi-disciplinary •
• Multi-disciplinary •
This carefully curated collection from the Kennedy Center provides educators and parents with ideas and strategies for addressing the needs of students who need to study and learn online. The collection includes: resources for remote learning, arts education resources, special education & the arts resources, and ready-to-teach lesson plans for remote teaching.
The creative classroom ideas and arts integration strategies and methods found on this website are proven winners in any class. Subjects include: dance, literacy, math, music, media, science, social studies, theater, and more.
Resources for Inspired Engagement
Resources for Inspired Engagement
An online community for and led by teenagers worldwide to share their coronavirus stories and take action, COVID-TV is designed and led by young people. Teenagers can submit their stories and read others—joining a community that currently represents six countries, 25 cities, and 41 schools.
Peace First empowers young people [ages 13 - 25] to create a just and peaceful world by providing digital tools, community support, start-up funding, and stories that celebrate their journeys and impact.
A great list of 15 exciting virtual field trips
Resources for Arts Education
Resources for Arts Education
Quaver Music offers PreK-8 general music teachers a platform to stay connected to their students, no matter where they are. All music teachers and students are also invited to explore video and printable resources free of charge.
An art educator from Virginia shares a table of ideas for enjoying art at home including: art contests, virtual museum field trips, art games, digital art experiences, and other art-at-home opportunities. (by Caroline Velazquez)
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