Arts Integration

Arts Integration in Education 

Arts integration is a pedagogical approach that embraces multiple intelligences within students. Examples of these intelligences include: skillful use of body posture and movement, reading, writing, construction, etc. This approach engages multiple paths to learning.  

Arts experiences are incorporated into content areas such as mathematics, sciences, literature, and technology. 

Through the arts, students actively engage in the learning processes inherent in these content areas through dynamic activities, interactions and dialogue.

Some samples of arts integration activities include:  

1)  Rewriting a story as a dramatic dialogue or script and enacting it incorporating set design, props, costumes, and include written stage directions within the script; 

2) Using musical rhythmic patterns to teach fractions;

3) Teaching ratios and proportions by teaching students to develop scale drawings of floor plans for a stage set or a playground, keeping safety in mind; 

4) Learning about housing, the natural environment and the climate of a country by drawing a series of pictures; 

5) Writing scripts and performing skits about important moments in history.