A focus on school reform within the field of elementary education has brought an arts-integrated approach to teaching and learning to the forefront. This is not a new approach, as integrating what many call "hands-on activities" in the classroom is quite common. The difference lies in the quality and depth of the approach to teaching and learning, as it has expanded beyond art-making activities to include art history knowledge, art criticism and analysis, and the process of aesthetics in the classroom. Another difference in this new wave of school reform as it addresses the arts in education, is the focus on the integrity of the arts form. For the purposes of this article, "arts integration" refers to a unit of study that focuses on the arts as a way of learning in other disciplines, involving creative, imaginative, experimental and purposive and collaborative interaction, and focusing on the integrity of the arts forms and life-centered issues. In this article, the author discusses arts integration and briefly maps out a possible arts integration unit of study that illustrates the definition described above.