Affiliated with the national Young Audiences Arts for Learning network
Students will use a variety of non-traditional materials to create a sketchbook or scrapbook to explore their personal ideas. Students will continue to develop their unique point of view and identity as developing artists.
Medium: Visual Arts
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Construye Un Cuento (Build a Story) with Valentina Ortiz
Students will identify with the character of the story through basic research and body movements. There will be a closing reflection about how important it is that a person has unique authentic stories, how it is crucial to listen to other persons´ unique stories, and how listening to our different versions brings us together as a community.
Medium: Theatre
Creating a Story as an Ensemble with Francisco Garcia
Students will work together to notate the beginning, middle and end of a story or fable. Students will collaborate as an ensemble through tableau to show their understanding.
Medium: Theatre
Different Ways to Communicate with Rikki Jo Hickey
Students will be introduced to theatrical improvisation based on Viola Spolin’s Improvisation for the Theatre and Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed methodologies combined with classic literature and influenced by The Happy Child; Conscious Discipline; and Mental Health First Aid training.
Medium: Theatre
Drawings Using One Line DIBUJOS DE UNA SOLA LÍNEA with Christian Barrios
Students will create drawings using a single continuous line, focusing on visual engagement and following the line to develop an image or creature.
Medium: Visual Arts
Express Yourself with Animal Songs with Red Yarn (Andy Furgeson)
Students will identify their mood, choose a related animal, and then compose simple animal songs with original lyrics and rhythms that reflect their mood & their animal’s behavior. With partners, students will share their compositions and reflect upon how their feelings guided their creative choices, and how it felt to create.
Medium: Music
I can make a song! with Mo Phillips
Students will learn about patterns in art and in nature, and then create patterns themselves using their voices and/or their bodies. Throughout the lesson students will be creating patterns around both their present state of mind, and how they see themselves.
Medium: Music
Making A Dance with Subashini Ganesan
Students will learn a Sanskrit poem and matching hand gestures, then work together using these gestures to make a dance that includes the whole group.
Medium: Dance
Movement and Emotion with Rachael Brown
Students will learn how music affects quality of movement. They will also explore how movement and physical cues can indicate emotion in themselves and others.
Medium: Dance
Moving Like A Butterfly with Jill Giedt
Students will learn about the life cycle of a butterfly and use their observations to express themselves through their own dance movements. Throughout the lesson, students will develop a sense of individuality and learn what makes them unique.
Medium: Dance
Object Play with Barnaby King
After a physical warm up, students will explore how objects can say a lot about who we are and how we are feeling. Building on this, they will use a personal object to create and share a short improvised performance that expresses something about themselves.
Medium: Theatre
Shadows & Light-Shading with Andrea DiPalma Yansane
Students will learn techniques for observational drawing of simple, still-life objects. Students will be introduced to the value continuum/grayscale. Students will learn the techniques for simple shading.
Medium: Visual Arts
Songwriting Journey with Melinda Martinez
Students will use lyric templates to create their own collaborative songs. While identifying feelings, and ways to express them, students will explore the use of words in music.
Medium: Music
Taiko Drumming with Unit Souzou
Students will learn about rhythm, find their unique rhythm maker, and compose a taiko rhythm that tells a story about themself. Throughout the lesson, students will build a sense of mindfulness and respect for themselves, their peers, and their instruments.
Medium: Music