For this week you will read:
Textbook: CH 4 & 5 (19 pp)
In the textbox -- or in a Google Doc where you are keeping your reading reflections (on professional sources -- not on children's books), Craft 3-5 statements inspired by the book that capture your thinking about how Arts Integration can promote Literacy Learning. (If you want to share a quote from the book as one of your statements, add a brief commentary to explain why.)
In the section, " Using The Arts to Scaffold Science Lessons," was really interesting to read because this was something I wanted to ask the Music guest speaker, "How do you use music within a science space," but we ran out of time right when I got the question how I wanted it. It's using more of a visual and performing acts to aid students in learning science terms, you can easily make this into a dance or a song that the students can make. And you can also add Inqury-based learning ideas within this idea too by asking questions to the students as they are making a song based on the terms or on the concepts. Deep thinking questions!
In the part, "Making Concepts Memorable Through Music and Movement," really answered the question I held because science and math were hard for me when I was younger because it just wasn't memorable. But if I had a rap song to go with an aquarium, I feel like it would be so much more engaging, because students learn from being engaged and not from boredom. I also think, making a small play to show how the ecosystem works, could be fun too. A play that the students could make in a small class period in groups of 4.
The part where it talked about how to introduce history with the arts, was really interesting too because one of the books I had read in the Lit groups was about the holocaust and I think it would be a great way to introduce the holocaust in higher grades like 4th or 5th. It's an easy-to-read book with pictures and the students can read it in class with groups or by themselves. And you can have them make art like the book did and write a paragraph on how it relates to the book, within history class.