Session #2 - 11:15 am - 12:45 pm

Creative Movement + Curriculum = FUN! Grade: TK-8 | Dance

Create an atmosphere of joy using the imagination and creative movement centered on curriculum.

Animation Integration! Bringing Learning to Life! Grade: 4-5 | Media Arts

How can you integrate art, technology, and core curriculum in meaningful and engaging ways? Discuss and explore through a hands-on interactive workshop with educators from The Walt Disney Family Museum and learn how to animate your classroom!

Bringing Social-Emotional Learning with Music into the K-5 Classroom Grade: K-5 | Music

Social Emotional Learning sets up expectations of your students’ behaviors, helps them develop empathy, assertive voice, and gratefulness. Then students are able to communicate their feelings and navigate the complex social world. Help students improve and grow their Emotional-Intelligence Quotient so they can regulate their feelings, thoughts, and reactions to the challenges that education brings.

Meaningful Movement: Connecting dance with Reading, Writing, & Learning Grade: 1-5 Dance

Explore dance as text through participatory activities that engage body and mind in fun and unexpected ways. In the process of communicating meaningful movement, participants learn how dance uses reading strategies, and performing dance uses writing skills.

Rise Up! An American Curriculum Grade:4-8 | Theater

Rise Up! uses creative inquiry to explore Hamilton: An American Musical. Lessons help students to understand and critically examine Hamilton themes and artistry, and to express their own personal narrative through writing and performance.

Sowing Creativity: Visualizing Math with Art! Grade: 1-3 | Visual Arts

Explore one of the 25 S.T.E.A.M. lessons developed by the San Jose Museum of Art for their signature program, Sowing Creativity intended to "Sow" creativity across disciplines. Learn how SJMA artists have helped hundreds of students to think more creatively, observe more deeply, and gain creative confidence across subjects.

The Recipe of Me: Exploring Culture Through Creativity Grade: K-2 | Visual Arts

Participants will explore cultural identity through creative play and identifying various components of culture. A dialogue about culture will begin by using a variety of cultural culinary tools to share each individual’s cultural identity and personal experiences while creating an identity “recipe” book.

What’s the Story?: Narrative Writing Around Artworks Grade: 1-8 | Visual Arts

After viewing and discussing a painting by artist Martin Wong, participants will apply elements of narrative writing to create a story around Wong’s artwork in alignment with Common Core standards for English Language Arts.

Art Across the Curriculum Grade: TK-1 | Visual Arts

Cut, Paste & Paint! Spend this session enjoying hands-on projects that will translate into challenging and creative opportunities for your young learners. All projects will cite curriculum standards.

Color-Food-Politics Grade: 1-8 | Visual Arts

The use of color theory with an emphasis in complementary colors as creative expression, will lead to drawings inspired by artist Enrique Chagoya. Participants will experiment with color pencils, markers, and Crayola crayons to produce a conceptual project that encompasses Food Politics, cartoon appropriation, and message delivery.