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Arts Now Learning: Steady Beat
A teacher demonstrates how she uses the concept of steady beat along with movement with young students to help them read sight words smoothly and eventually develop reading fluency. [3:05]
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Arts Now Learning: Peer Teaching (Implementation)
This video shows groups of students presenting their interpretations of the four phases of the moon using body movements. [3:49]
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Arts Now Learning: Dinner Dilemmas
A teacher models how to conduct an improv lesson, beginning with the rules to follow. She presents the problem and conflict situation which students must resolve through their improvisation. [4:33]
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Arts Now Learning: Stop Motion
In this video, a teacher explains how she did a stop motion project with her class and the steps involved. [7:12]
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Arts Now Learning: Rondo Ostanato
In this video, a lesson is modeled where students keep a rhythmic beat along with the instructor as they read a chant together about money denominations. [2:34]
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Arts Now Learning: Tableau
In this video, a teacher conducts a science lesson where students create a tableau of an ecosystem. As the teacher calls upon them, each student explains where they get their energy from and where it goes in the ecosystem. The teacher...
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Arts Now Learning: Tableau
In this video, a teacher conducts a science lesson where students create a tableau of living and non-living things based on their reading of a book called "The Tiny Seed." [7:07]
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Arts Now Learning: Leaf Rubbing and Leaf Prints
Create rubbings and prints with simple materials at home. [5:47]
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Arts Now Learning: Marbling Paper at Home
Create marbled paper at home with simple supplies. [3:32]
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Arts Now Learning: Map Skills
Using levels and shapes in dance to explore topography and cardinal directions. [3:07]
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Arts Now Learning: Peer Teaching (Planning)
A video showing a peer teaching lesson with junior students where they are planning a presentation. [4:34]
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Arts Now Learning: Scientific Sketching
In this video, a teacher conducts a science lesson where students are sketching plants they are growing and recording their observations in journals. They are told the next stage is that they will add pollutants to the plants'...
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Arts Now Learning: Scientific Sketching
In this video, students actively participate in a science lesson where they are sketching plants they have been growing and recording their observations of the changes they see in their journals. [2:59]
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Arts Now Learning: Rube Goldberg Machines
In this video, we see students building Rube Goldberg machines and troubleshooting how to make adjustments when the chain reaction they set up doesn't work. [3:11]
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Arts Now Learning: Recycle Rap
In this video, students read and recite a rap song about pollution and recycling. [2:12]
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Arts Now Learning: Collaging
In this video, a teacher conducts a lesson in paper collage where students create pictures showing an animal in its habitat. They discuss the difference between living and non-living things. [1:32]
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Arts Now Learning: Acting Out Vocabulary
In this video, a teacher models how she does vocal warm-ups with young students to prepare them for reader's theater. [2:58]
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Arts Now Learning: Board Game
In this video, students sit around a poster board and state stages in the life cycles of a butterfly and then a frog, placing pictures and other elements on the board that represent each stage. [2:44]
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Arts Now Learning: Physicalizing a Thinking Chart
In this video, students state facts about frogs and butterflies as they each place themselves in hula hoops laid out to organize the similarities, differences, and commonalities between the two organisms. [2:46]
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Arts Now Learning: Tableau / Human Paragraph
In this video, students perform tableaux of the life cycles of a butterfly and then a frog while a classmate announces the stages they are demonstrating. [3:02]
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Arts Now Learning: Dramatization
In this video, students perform dramatizations of the life cycles of a butterfly and then a frog to music and sound effects by classmates. [2:52]