Art Integration Ideas

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Art Integration Ideas
Map of Canada project with plasticine sculptures
of points of interest, Grade 4, Jessie Hamilton
P.S., Lively
Totem pole (in progress), Grade 4, Jessie
Hamilton P.S., Lively
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Inukshuks, created from found stones and hot
glue, Grade 4, Jessie Hamilton P.S., Lively
Model of the precipitation cycle, Grade 7,
Lansdowne P.S., Sudbury
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Environment mural, North Bay Hydro, North Bay, by
Grade 12 West Ferris S.S. students
Close-up of mural in progress
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Mobiles created for a Parenting class (Family
Studies), Grade 10, West Ferris S.S., North Bay
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Poem created within a copy of J.E.H. McDonalds
Tangled Garden, by Liana Blaskievich, Nipissing
University
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September 11, Liana Blaskievich, Nipissing
University
Models of ancient Roman architecture, Grade 9
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• Art Integration Activity
• Choose one of the subject areas listed below
  (preferably your elective)
• and get together as a group.
• Brainstorm and record ways in which visual arts
  can be integrated into
• your subject area.
• Hang your chart paper and share your ideas with
  the class.
• Subject Areas
• Arts (Dance, Drama, Music) French
• Language Arts Mathematics
• Physical and Health Education Religious Studies
• Science (including Computer Science) Social
  Studies

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Visual Arts in the Other Arts (Dance, Drama,
Music)

• Set, prop, lighting design
• Costume design and masks
• Leotard design
• Figure drawings of dancers
• Draw/paint/sculpt to music
• Link music time periods to art history
• Advertising for shows (posters, tickets,
  programs)
• Musician sculptures, drawings, paintings
• Papier mache music notes
• Acoustics in architecture
• Dance step markers
• Face painting
• Band logos, web sites

• Storyboarding
• Puppet-making
• Musical instrument design
• CD/album covers
• Music note posters
• Create music videos
• Photography of musicians, dancers, actors
• Tableaux (human sculptures)
• Light design
• Draw emotions in music
• Make sculptures from old instruments
• Illustrated timelines

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Visual Arts in French

• French art history
• Design traditional historical French dress
• Travel posters/ postcards of French-speaking
  countries
• Vocabulary diagrams
• Picture dictionaries
• Carnaval (snow sculptures, weave belts, Mardi
  Gras masks)
• Flag design for French countries
• Posters for French history
• 3D maps of French countries
• Poster for French music group

• French café menus and invitations
• Create educational board games in French
• Create marionettes for French puppet show
• French comics
• French drama sets
• Flash cards
• Illustrate French literature
• Collage from French magazines
• Illustrated French cookbook
• French architecture
• Passport design

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Visual Arts in Geography

• Maps (2D, 3D)
• Province collage
• Models of 7 wonders
• Cycles/habitat dioramas
• Topographic models
• Cultural arts and crafts
• Landmark sculptures
• Picture maps
• Visual travel journals
• Cultural clothing
• Cultural textile patterns

• Flag designs
• Landscape designs
• City design
• Travel pamphlets
• Stamp designs
• Post cards
• Board games and puzzles
• Scrapbooks
• Travel posters
• Passport design

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Visual Arts in History

• Historical dioramas/models
• Illustrated journal
• Period costumes
• Visual timelines
• Depictions of historical events
• Family trees
• Coats of arms
• Pioneer crafts
• Propaganda posters
• Election posters
• War art
• Brass rubbings

• Fossil sculptures
• Battle maps
• Art history as social commentary
• Time capsules/memory boxes
• Mosaics/tapestries
• Architectural design
• Political cartoons
• Hieroglyphics
• Artifact creation
• Board games/puzzles
• Scrapbooks
• History on film

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Visual Arts in Language Arts (English)

• Illustrated stories
• Posters for stories they have read
• Literature content collages
• Link literature and art time periods
• Create literature puppets
• Title pages/book jackets
• Storyboards
• Literature comic books
• Book binding
• Words morphed into designs
• Plot map
• Setting maps / illustrations
• World wall quilt
• Literary device posters
• Photo essay

• Character costumes and masks
• Dioramas
• Graffiti
• Character mobile
• Create picture books
• Create advertisements
• Written art critiques
• Literacy soul story
• Character cartoons
• Totem pole novel study
• Theme poster
• Idiom pictures
• Journalism
• Myth cartoons
• Research essay on an artist
• Literary scrapbook

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Visual Arts in Mathematics

• Patterning (tessellations / M.C. Escher)
• Quilt pieces
• Perspective drawing
• Scale enlargements
• Geometry
• Architectural and engineering designs
• Computer animation
• Data Graphs
• Golden Mean / ratios
• Origami
• Kaleidoscopes
• Net mobile

• Proportions
• Mazes
• Tangrams
• Currency designs
• Fractals
• Fraction circles
• Fraction flags
• Number pyramids
• Symmetry
• Venn diagrams
• Puzzle making
• Math-o-lanterns
• Graph paper mosaics

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Visual Arts in Physical and Health Education

• Posters for circuits
• Health pamphlets and collages
• Models
• Team logos and uniforms
• Banners
• Playbooks
• Tournament schedules
• Field and floor lines
• Trophies and plaques
• Sports photography
• Birth control mobile
• Ads for school sports
• Health and phys.ed. Videos
• Stadium design

• Quinzee snow sculpture designs
• Olympic flags
• Tournament t-shirts and posters
• Team web-sites
• Sports timelines
• Mascot costumes
• Mural in gym
• Nutrition food guide
• Sports cards
• Substance abuse posters
• Illustrated Healthy menus
• Equipment design
• Healthy menu design

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Visual Arts in Religious Studies

• Illuminated manuscripts
• Study religious art
• Tissue paper stained glass designs
• Mandelas
• Draw stories from the Bible
• Make rosaries
• Bible collages
• Comparative art world religions
• Church architecture
• Religious murals
• Advent calendars
• Commandments scroll

• Religious holiday crafts
• Posters or sculptures for stations of the cross
• Palm crosses
• Sun catchers
• Illustrated prayers
• Bible comics
• Bible puppets
• Nativity scene sculptures
• Beatitude booklets
• Study church architecture
• Jesse tree
• Create a crucifix
• Shroud of Turin print

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Visual Arts in Science

• Models (cells, solar system, mitosis, DNA, food
  chain)
• Medical illustrations
• Cycle diagrams
• Dioramas of ecosystems
• Title pages, posters
• Science fair displays
• Flower, leaf, vegetable prints
• Papier mache volcano
• Lab/scientific drawings
• Sculpture of reproduction stages
• Environment posters
• Microscope drawings
• Sun dials
• Freezing point sculptures

• Light spectrum
• Photography (optics)
• Architectural and engineering designs
• Crystals
• Science murals
• Nature collages
• Mobiles
• Claymation
• Re-create historical inventions
• Safety brochures
• Weather vane sculptures
• Tornado pop bottles
• Art conservation