With lots of examples and color images, this resource is both a foundational text and a practical guidebook for bringing contemporary art into elementary and middle school classrooms as a way to make learning joyful and meaningful for all learners. The author shows how asking questions and posing problems spark curiosity and encourage learners to think deeply and make meaningful connections across the curriculum. At the center of this approach is creativity, with contemporary visual art as its inspiration. The text covers methods of creative inquiry-based learning, art and how it connects to the "big ideas" addressed by academic domains, flexible structures teachers can use for curriculum development, creative teaching strategies using contemporary art, and models of art-based inquiry curriculum. Book Features:Provides research-based project ideas and curriculum models for arts integration.Shows how Project Zero's flexible structures and frameworks can be used to develop creative inquiry and an arts integration curriculum.Explains how contemporary visual art connects to the four major disciplines—science, mathematics, social studies, and language arts.Includes full-color images of contemporary art that are appropriate for elementary and middle school learners.Demonstrates how arts integration can and should be substantive, multi-dimensional, and creative.
Julia Marshall is professor emeritus of art education at San Francisco State University and coauthor of Art Centered Learning Across the Curriculum. Contributors: Ann Ledo-Lane is director of arts programming at the Creative Arts Charter School in San Francisco. Elizabeth McAvoy is a middle school visual arts teacher in San Francisco, California.
Foreword by Connie StewartPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPART I: Foundations of Creative Inquiry1 Learning Through Creative Art-Based InquiryCreative Art-Based Inquiry LearningThe First Grade Community InquiryOther Key Aspects of the Creative Inquiry Approach2 Curriculum Integration Through Creative InquiryThe Disciplines: Overlaps, Intersections, and HybridsCurriculum IntegrationArt as an Integrative DisciplineArt and Integrated Creative InquiryPART II: The Academic Disciplines and Related Art3 The Natural Sciences: Understanding the Natural WorldFour Dimensions of the Natural SciencesComparing Science and ArtExamples of Art That Explore Cross-Cutting ConceptsExamples of Art Inspired by ScienceIntegrating Science and Art in the Classroom4 Mathematics: Logic and Abstraction Meets Application and AestheticsFour Dimensions of MathematicsIntersection of Math and ArtExamples of Art Inspired by Concepts in MathIntegrating Math and Art in the Classroom5 Social Studies: Understanding Ourselves and OthersFour Dimensions of Social StudiesIntersection of Social Studies and ArtExamples of Art Exploring Concepts in Social StudiesIntegrating Art and Social Studies in the Classroom6 Language Arts: Creative Writing and StorytellingFour Dimensions of Creative WritingKinds of StoriesArt That Tells StoriesLiteracy Through Visual ArtPART III: Art-Based Strategies for Creative Inquiry7 Learning Strategies for Creative InquiryKinds of Creative ThinkingCreative Strategies in Contemporary ArtStrategies for Thinking, Inquiry, and LearningThe Research Workbook8 Frameworks and Strategies for Curriculum and PedagogyUtilizing the Project Zero FrameworksCreative Curriculum Development9 Inquiry Trails: Examples of Creative Inquiry-Based Art IntegrationPatterns and Mathematics in Natural FormsAnimal Structures and ArchitectureAn Imaginary Island WorldMedicinal Plant to Treat a Social Issue or ProblemMe and My WorldConcluding RemarksReferencesIndexAbout the Author and the Contributors