This document provides examples of art integration lessons for different subject areas, including reading/writing, science, social studies, and math. It also includes more details about a sample "timeline collage" lesson where students create a collage showing important events from each year of their life. The document emphasizes that art integration helps build students' art skills while also teaching other subjects, and that the arts should be incorporated into every classroom each day. It also notes how lessons can be adapted for different age groups and discusses how student work could be assessed without grading artistic ability. Overall, the document promotes art integration across curricula to enhance learning.

2. Why Art Integration?
Teachers like art integration because it ..
Is hands on,
enables children to be creative,
works with technology,
helps students be self-expressive,
..and it boosts children’s self-esteem.

3. Art Integration: Reading/Writing
Some examples:
• Share a story aloud and have the students
create the illustrations.
• Can a child’s favorite song lyrics be poetry?

4. Art Integration:
Science
Some examples:
• The Science of Color (color wheel)
• Create a constant video of a plant growing, then
speed it up to see the process.
• Study your favorite animals habitat and recreate
it using a variety of art materials.

5. Art Integration:
Social Studies
Some examples:
• Have the students draw a map of the US and
color in the states they have been to. If they
have never left their home state let them color in
where they would like to go.
• Create a timeline of their life with important
events on it using pictures.

6. Art Integration: Math
Some examples:
• Create a picture using only
geometric shapes, or
recreate a famous artist’s
picture using only geometric
shapes.
• Create a stamp and make a
picture using a repeated
pattern.

7. The Lesson…
The lesson I chose to elaborate on is a variation of one
that I, as a student, have actually done before. In a
previous class, I created a timeline of important events
that have occurred during my lifetime. This lesson
usually fits in well with Social Studies or Current
Events. This gives the children a chance to do some
research and helps keep them up-to-date on what’s
going on with the world around them. Instead of doing
a timeline, I decided to find a picture for each event and
create a collage.

8. The Project…
The collage I created shows events in my life that are either
important to me directly, or have impacted my life in some
way. Some of the events I’ve illustrated are:
• the birth of my baby sister (personal/family event)
• Obama became president (U.S. history event)
• Rock and Roll hall of fame opened (music history)
• first Harry Potter book released in the U.S. (entertainment)
• Colts win the Super Bowl (sports)

9. … and the Process
To carry out this project I first decided that I wanted to create a timeline collage of
my whole life using an event for each year giving me 23 events total counting the
year I was born.
Next, to help me find something relevant for each year of my life, I used a website
called “Info Please”. It listed hundreds of things to jog my memory of what
important happened that year or told me what happened for the years I wasn’t
able to recall anything because I was too young.
Lastly, I found a picture that would represent each event I picked and then cut and
pasted them to a poster board with the years underneath them.
If I were to have my students do this project, they would have to do a short
presentation in front of the class to explain what they picked for each year.
*Note: this project would mainly be good for older students because they would
have to use technology and also would have more years to add to the college. An
adaption you could use would be to have them do all things from the month they
were born no matter what year it was from.

10. The Grading…
For this project there are a number of things you can assess
the student on without actually grading the student’s
artwork. Some of the things I would grade students on are:
• use of color and creativity
• having an event for each year of your life
• using a mixture of different types of events (ie, not all
sports, or not all history, but both)
• time used wisely (ie, using class time appropriately)

11. My Philosophy:
I believe art integration is very important for a lot of
reasons.
It helps build student’s art skills without them realizing
they are even doing an art project. Using scissors
properly and holding a pencil correctly are all things
learned through art.
Art doesn’t have to be a subject all by itself, it should be
present in every subject during at least one period a
day.

12. Connections:
READINGS:
• Like in Oreck, this class has shown us how to integrate arts in the
general education classroom and shows us that even though we, as
teachers, are working hard to improve test scores, the arts are a way
of doing so.
• Also from our readings, Goldberg uses the example of the student in
nature who was observing and his poetry turned out better than
previous ones. This just shows how much of an art poetry is and
where observing can only help your piece.
CLASSWORK:
• This specific project connects to our class because it shows media
exploration, technology integration and collage work all of which we
have talked about or experienced first hand in M333.

13. Text Resources!
Scholastic Website (majority of lesson plans- unless specified below):
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/collection/strategies-arts-
integration
Info Please Website (timeline website):
http://www.infoplease.com/yearbyyear.html
Education Closet (fractions/decimals with art lesson plan):
http://educationcloset.com/arts-integration-lesson-plans/
Crayola Website (habitat lesson plan):
http://www.crayola.com/lesson-plans/detail/a-special-place-lesson-
plan/

14. Visual Resources!
• http://mrscoonthirdgradeclass.blogspot.com/2009/09/examples-of-timelines.html
• http://pulse.pharmacy.arizona.edu/9th_grade/from_global/world_geography/human_migration.html
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• http://www.thehealingatelier.com/magicalmusic.php
• http://sewnnatural.com/blog/2011/04/tissue-paper-vegetable-stamps-little-kid-fun-oh-and-a-new-look.html