Using the Arts as a Teaching Tool

Description:

This lesson will give an overview of how using these teaching tools help children develop physically and cognitively. It also discusses how including the arts in education contributes to the social, physical, creative, and intellectual development of children.

Objectives:

RECALL differences between left-brained and right-brained learning.

IDENTIFY ways to incorporate the arts into an integrated curriculum.

RECALL benefits of using the arts to teach children.

RECALL how an integrated curriculum incorporating the arts helps children with different learning styles.

IDENTIFY learner-appropriate arts activities.

IDENTIFY potential hazards in arts classrooms.