Arts Integration is the idea of integrating "The Arts" (Music, Art, Technology, Physical Education) into the general education classroom and the thought is that this method is a far more effective and engaging way for students to learn. I never really thought about its benefits or even the method itself when I first started teaching, but last year I transferred to a school that focused heavily on integrating "the arts" into their classrooms. This method of teaching intrigued me so much that I decided to go to a Arts Integration Conference at The University of Maryland. Attending this conference got me thinking of various ways in which I could incorporate my area of expertise (Physical Education) to the general education classroom and vice versa. Below is a list of ideas I've come up with and used in my classroom thus far. Some have been successful and others have been...how shall I say it...a learning experience. Either way my hope is that through this blog site I will be able to share some of my ideas and thoughts about Arts Integration as well as other Physical Education related topics.
Arts Integration/ Physical Education Ideas:
- Bowling Unit in P.E. relates directly to Math and Fractions and can easily be associated with converting fractions to decimals.
- Rope Jumping can easily incorporate Math skills such as probability, addition, subtraction, and multiplication through the use of dice.
- Cup stacking is an extremely popular sport with students at the Elementary and Middle school levels and it also happens to directly correlate with timed trials and graphing those trials.
Sunday, January 29, 2012
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