Arts Education Creative Activities
Introduction:
Arts Education includes four separate and distinct disciplines: dance, music, theatre arts, and visual arts – each with its own body of knowledge and skills. Arts education benefits both student and society, because students of the arts disciplines gain powerful tools for:
Assignment:
- Create a lesson plan the students age will range from 3-8 years old.
- Be sure it’s creative, age-appropriate, encourages the student to make decisions creatively and solve problems. This activity must consist of art (cutting, gluing, and pasting, marble painting, drawing etc.) or music/movement (making instruments, creating songs/music, dance).
- Tell how you involved this child’s family in this activity, what resources were provided for home learning?
Reflection:
Write a reflection on your learning from your activity by writing a 2-3 paragraph (5-7) sentences) summary by using the following questions.
- What form of art did you choose to do with the child (Art or music)? Why?
- What was the objective of this activity? Was the objective achieved, why or why not?
- Describe how this activity was conducted.
- Explain what materials were used in completing this activity, what adaptions, strategies or technology were used?
- Was this an individual activity or group activity?
- How did this activity support the designated child’s needs?
- How did you assess the child to determine that he/she would be able to participate in the activity?
Self Evaluation:
- What worked well for you doing this activity?
- What would you have done differently?
- In what ways did you encourage your designated student for a positive outcome?
- What did you learn from the classroom teacher?
- What are your plans for making improvements?
- What research in the area of Early Childhood did you use to support the appropriateness of this activity?
Grading Criteria:
See attached rubric