ArtsCore

Melissa Fields, General Music Teacher, Highlands Elementary, Appleton Area School District

Francis Scott Key dealt with his experiences aboard an enemy ship during the War of 1812 by writing down his thoughts and feelings which would one day become our national anthem. We can learn from his coping and explore other ways in dealing with our own future stresses in life. And, by learning the intent of his words, the singing of our national anthem can find a new, richer meaning to enhance our performance.

Amy Westphal, 5^th Grade Teacher, Johnston Elementary, Appleton Area School District

Summarizing their book, students created a God’s Eye to represent the main character’s core emotions, in the order in which the character felt those emotions. The students then wrote a short paragraph accompanying the art piece to describe the significance of each color and how it connected to the events that took place throughout the story. 

Kelsey Raschke, Museum Educator, The Paine Art Center and Gardens

At the Paine Art Center and Gardens, on a small stage in the Studio, all Oshkosh 3rd Graders experience performing in the story of the Nutcracker. In just under 30 minutes students learn theatre basics, dress in simple costumes, and command the stage without any speaking roles. Hear how Kelsey, Educator at the Paine, took a story students were familiar with, translated it into basic narration, and how students brought the performance to life. You will then be invited to take a story book and create the beginnings of your own classroom performance.

Becki Hendrick, K-6 TAG Educator, Horizons, Johnston, and McKinley Elementary, Appleton Area School District

Learn and practice improv (background, examples, and a few games) and connect it to how improv helps build our executive functioning skills (1) Inhibit behavior 2) Make a plan 3) Stay focused 4) Follow directions 5) “Read the room” 6) Manage your time 7) Follow through 8) Listen) and the five core competencies of SEL (1)Self-Awareness 2)Self-Management 3)Social Awareness 4)Relationship Skills 5)Responsible Decision-Making).

Heather Vieth, 7^th Grade Special Education, Kaleidoscope Academy, Appleton Area School District

Students are introduced to adding and subtracting integers on a number line and then the value scale and how it correlates with the number line. Students learn to relate positive numbers with shaded values and negative numbers with tinted values. They complete a math worksheet, create the value scale, and then complete a “paint by integers” painting.

Stephanie Aronson, 4^th Grade Teacher and Teresa Moucha, Art Teacher, Carl Traeger Elementary, Oshkosh Area School District

Want students to become more engaged in Math, especially during a post-assessment?  We will go over the lesson plan that we used to engage students in a collaborative way between tech (Google Drawings/Cricket), art, and math (geometry). See how our students were able to create a unique lantern in replacement of their post assessment to show their growth and understanding. You will be creating a similar 3-D lantern using a paper template and tealights.

Teri Meylink, K-6 Talented and Gifted Educator, Badger Elementary, Appleton Area School District

Students have learned about patterns and symmetry in math, using shapes and visual representations. They have completed and created patterns. They have identified examples of symmetry, drawn lines of symmetry, and completed symmetrical drawings. Now students listen for patterns and symmetry in music. They will work as a class to create patterns with boomwhackers and use Melody Maker to notate the music. The class will use the patterns they create to build a symmetrical music piece, notating in Melody Maker and performing the music together.

Brittany Saugstad, 6^th Grade Humanities Teacher, Kaleidoscope Academy, Appleton Area School District

Use graph paper and small pony beads to help students make small keychains that represented symbols of their families and themselves. Prior to the lesson, students learned about different Native American cultures, different types of beads, and how the Europeans influenced Native Americans with the introduction of glass beads. This lesson also incorporates color symbolism, the use of numbers and patterns, and teaches students how to use hemp string to make a keychain that they can keep and take home.

Mary Pleiss, Museum Educator, The Paine Art Center and Gardens

Automata are sculptures that move! Learn how you can use the process of creating automata to teach your students about kinetic energy and the transfer of energy. You will begin building automata and go home with instructions and materials to complete one of your own.

Patricia Merrifield, K-6 Talented and Gifted Educator, Edison & Franklin Elementary, Appleton Area School District

Sixth Grade Social Studies Curriculum includes an Inquiry Unit which focuses on and explores various aspects of Ancient Mesopotamia.  Learn how students can design, create, and perform tableaux to demonstrate their understanding of Mesopotamian Innovations.

Matt Bonson, 5^th Grade Teacher, Highlands Elementary, Appleton Area School District

During this activity students will be learning about famed artist Joaquin Torres-Garcia and his use of ideagrams within his art.  Students see how symbolism can be found in art and design and connect that same idea to symbolism within literature.  At the end of the activity students will decorate a painting that uses some of the symbols from Joaquin Torres-Garcia ideagrams.

Katherine Baumgart, Art Teacher, Fox River Academy & Jefferson Elementary, Appleton Area School District

Samantha Behnke, Instructional Support Teacher, Vel Phillips Middle School, Oshkosh Area School District

This session will cover how to use Canva to have students gain an understanding of digital design to be able to create an infographic. Infographics can be used as an assessment tool for any content area. This session will feature it being used as a final project for a literary nonfiction unit.

Kelly Quiroga, 6^th Grade Science Teacher, Merrill Middle School, Oshkosh Area School District

Participants will create models of atoms using watercolor and collage techniques. Learn techniques such as oil pastel resist, wet on wet, and wet on dry techniques to create the base and background of the atom. Then participants will cut out and glue images that represent protons (p+), electrons (e-), and neutrons(n0) in their own lives and place them in the correct locations on the atoms. Then, use science vocabulary to write out how each image represents the part of the atom and the charge.

Schuyler Pietz, K-6 General Music Teacher, Stevens Point Area School District

Explore the history of radio shows and the use of jingles for advertising, then develop your own unique product and create a fun, catchy jingle to promote it! Next, discover the use of foley for sound effects and see how students can integrate music, social studies, and English Language Arts as they create their own class radio show.

Kimberly Groenjes, K-6 EL Teacher and Sarah Phelps, Music Educator, Badger Elementary, Appleton Area School District

Arts Integration and CLR (culturally and linguistically responsive) teaching fosters many pathways to understanding, particularly as learners acquire academic language.  Participants will integrate creative movement with math comparisons and place value over grade levels K-6.

Leigh Marmes, E-Academy & Amanda Stachowicz, Media Specialist, Traeger Middle School, Oshkosh Area School District

Collaboration is a key component to arts integration. Finding people to collaborate with can be hard, stressful. and may even seem impossible. Join us to learn about strategies for finding the right people to collaborate with on any project. Sometimes it may not always be what you think fits.