CREATE Arts Integration Lesson Assistant

Students will study 2D shapes through collaborative movement.

Students will study citizenship and create art that reflects their plan for being a good citizen.

Students will use theater and puppet play to orally retell walrus facts.

In this lesson, students will recognize that people celebrate different special days in their community (content), using discussion and examples (process), and will demonstrate their understanding with a card (drawing + oral explanation) (product). (Lesson in Spanish)

This lesson is for students to explore how light changes direction when it bounces off a mirror (content) using a hands-on investigation with flashlights and mirrors (process), and will demonstrate their understanding with a drawing showing the path of light (product). (This lesson is in Spanish)

This lesson allows first graders to explore that the past and present has things that stayed the same and things that changed. Students launch into drawing what they imagined life looked like 100 years ago in a classroom. Then we compared them to real images of what life really did look like then.

Students explore artistic arrays to learn about the commutative property of multiplication, create fact families, and draw their own artistic arrays based on a given multiplication fact.

Students research two climates in different regions of the world and perform collaborative small-group theatre scripts to describe them.

Students will use playwriting techniques to support themselves in narartive writing.

Students will discover patterns and textures through printing leaves.

Students will study animal adaptations by placing an animal in a new environment than its regular environment and designing new adaptations for it which will help it survive.

Students create their own found poems based on observations of their surroundings in a nature walk.

Students will study the elements of storytelling using a storybook and acting out the "beginning, middle, and end" of the story.

This lesson plan involves trade-offs, students will buy their own arts materials and create a piece of art that has a focal point and a pattern in the background. They will then complete an artist statement where they name their piece and share what the piece costs and how much they're charging.

Students will learn about where generally most products come from around the world and using prop-making techniques to develop their products and roleplay international trade.

Students create collaborative maps of their school and its surrounding area with legends, compasses, and labels.

This lesson is specifically written for multiplying by 8's but can be adjusted based on multiplication goals. In this lesson students complete a directed draw of an octopus (8 tentacles) that they will use to guide their multiplication practice.

This lesson focuses on recognizing parts of a narrative text as a launch to writing narrative texts. Theater arts is used to engage students with content. The lesson is written using the mentor text "The Gingerbread Man" but could be adjusted accordingly depending on chosen mentor text.

Bird on Wire

This lesson combines an art lesson on patterning and color matching with a lesson on heredity and animal adaptations. After learning about moths that camouflage to survive, students will design their own camouflaging moths using art elements.

US government with arts integration in theatre

Learning about Light and Reflection. Arts integration with visual arts and creating a reflection.

Podcast Production Resources

Dust Bowl song. Creating a dance to the words and vocab to help them remember their vocab.

Division. Working on Area Model and creating their own soccer field.

Integrating Math, Art, and Creativity

Use of Mandalas to explain parts of a whole. Writing fractions. Fractions adding to 1 whole.

List poem. Third lesson in poetry unit. Focus: Poetry about American identity & Perspectives on America.

Launch of U.S. Geography unit covering names of states and capitals; Pacific region.

Unit Launch: Introduction to plant and animal cell structures. Similarities/differences and basic components.

Students will create their own myth narrative and then create a mosaic artwork based on a scene from their myth.