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Walmsley, Sean A. – Instructor, 1996
Strategies for choosing themes for theme teaching include limiting subject areas, integrating skills, balancing teacher- and student-generated themes, avoiding cutsey activities, drawing from various arenas, avoiding overly long themes, avoiding yearlong or schoolwide themes, understanding the themes, repeating themes, and borrowing themes from…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Interdisciplinary Approach, Teaching Methods
Walmsley, Bonnie Brown; Camp, Anne-Marie – Instructor, 1997
This special section describes one elementary school's Art and Artists theme, which allows students to study art across the curriculum. Various types of projects are described, including a classroom art museum, self-portrait painting, writing about art, scientific drawing, and a study of shapes. A pullout presents examples of student work. (SM)
Descriptors: Art Appreciation, Art Education, Creative Teaching, Interdisciplinary Approach
Novelli, Joan – Instructor, 1993
A Chapter 1 school motivated students using technology and the arts. A partnership with the Pennsylvania Academy of the Arts helped students develop cognitive and creative skills while working in concrete ways. Using computers, each class chose an artist, developed a class museum, and exhibited at the student-staffed museum. (SM)
Descriptors: Artists, Computer Assisted Instruction, Creative Teaching, Disadvantaged Youth
Walmsley, Bonnie Brown; Camp, Anne-Marie – Instructor, 1997
Presents a cross-curricular theme unit on colors that includes a pullout poster and a resource list. Social studies activities highlight flags of the world. Science activities teach about colors of animals and the science of color. Language arts activities describe colorful language. Mathematics activities involve sorting and graphing colors. (SM)
Descriptors: Activity Units, Class Activities, Color, Interdisciplinary Approach