Grades 1st-2nd
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1st-2nd Grade
Arts-Integrated Math
Episode | Watch Here | Watch on Vimeo | Connected Objective | Academic + Arts Standards and Extensions | SEL Connections |
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Tap Dancing Our Way through Two-Digit Numbers! | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will use tap dancing steps to express 10s and 1s and connect movement to place value charts, number bonds, and math manipulatives. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness, Self Management | |
Singing Solutions: Music and Word Problems | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will use music dynamics to help identify key words in math problems. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness, Self Management | |
Singing is Commutative (and Associative!) | WATCH ON VIMEO | Addition Properties are explained and reinforced through song lyrics. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness, Self Management | |
Coin Designers: Change is Gonna Come | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students design coins representing 10s and 1s to further their understanding of skip counting and bundling to make 10. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness, Self Management | |
Ones, Tens, and Hundreds: Show Me the Money | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will create math manipulatives by making play money and use it to understand the place value chart up to 100. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness, Self Management | |
Singing Scales and Number Paths | WATCH ON VIMEO | The progression of notes in a major scale is compared to a number path. The number path is used to understand how subtraction and addition fit together when a number is broken into parts. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Mindfulness | |
Emoji Math | WATCH ON VIMEO | Connected Objective: By drawing simple shapes, students will design icons and use illustrations to solve for unknown factors in word problems. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness, Self Management | |
Improv Games and Creating Characters | WATCH ON VIMEO | Using improv Ti the builder becomes a character who can measure objects using smaller objects. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness, Self Management | |
Using Improv to Solve Math Problems: Making 10 Friends | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will use improv techniques to improve their math skills with number bonds and the arrow method. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness, Self Management | |
Using Improv to Measure and Compare! | WATCH ON VIMEO | Improvisational techniques and character traits are employed to measure objects and compare lengths. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness, Self Management | |
Going to Great Lengths! | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students learn how to use their measuring skills to frame and display art work, and consider how measuring a line is similar to the concept of line in visual art. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness, Self Management | |
Constructive Costumes! | WATCH ON VIMEO | Through Visual Art techniques, students will create dinosaur costumes by using measurement and addition. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness, Self Management | |
Acting out Numbers: Forming Characters, Forming Numbers | WATCH ON VIMEO | Improv games, using voice, body, and dialogue to create characters that practice writing numbers in word form, unit form, and standard form. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Social Awareness | |
Array City | WATCH ON VIMEO | "Students will create their own city using drawing, and collage by building arrays and splitting their arrays into component parts." | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness, Self Management | |
Word Problem Detectives | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will use improv to explore the character traits of a good detective use them to decode word problems. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness, Self Management | |
Learning Math Through Shadow Puppets | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will use puppetry to add and subtract on a number line. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self-Awareness, Self-Management | |
Acting Out Number Signs | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will learn about greater than, less than, and equal to and use puppetry to compare two digit numbers. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self-Awareness, Self-Management |
Arts-Integrated Literacy
Episode | Watch Here | Watch on Vimeo | Connected Objective | Academic + Arts Standards and Extensions | SEL Connections |
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Ruby Bridges: The Strength of Character | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will learn how to connect frozen dance poses to character traits of themselves and Civil Rights leaders. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Social Awareness, Responsible Decision Making | |
There's a Time for Work and a Time for Play | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will use theatrical storytelling as a basis for analyzing text. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self- Awareness, Self-Management, Responsible Decision Making | |
Dig Deep: Finding the Virtues in All of Us | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will use theatrical storytelling as a tool to pull out key details and the central message of a story. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Relationship Skills | |
What Just Happened? Finding the Central Message | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will use theatrical storytelling to identify the sequence of a story and determine its central message. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self- Awareness, Self-Management | |
Superhero Comics & Parts of a Story | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will create comics with illustrations that represent parts of the story including characters, setting and events. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness, Self Management | |
Your Words Matter: Playing with Words and Art | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will engage in a word and illustration game where they learn how word choice and artistic choices can change the meaning of the piece of writing or art work. Students will learn about abstract expressionism, illustrative text and descriptive language. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness, Self Management | |
What’s Your Point? | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will explore and understand Point of view in photography and writing. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness, Self Management | |
Friendship is Everywhere! | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will contrast and compare songs and texts about friendship and find the common theme. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Social Awareness, Relationship Skills | |
Tableaus, Songs and Octopi! | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will build tableaus to retell the sequence of events in songs and stories. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness, Self Management | |
Dogs and Cats we Love to Love! | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will learn about the components of strong writing in composing a letter or a song. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness, Self Management | |
What Goes Around Comes Around: Lessons in Fables and Folktales | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will use theatrical storytelling to identify the central message in two traditional fables from different parts of the world. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Relationship Skills, Responsible Decision Making | |
Using Your Words: Expressing Big Feelings with Appropriate Language | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will use dialogue and voice to express themselves differently based on the audience and the setting. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness, Self Management, Relationship Skills | |
Arguably the Best Show Ever! How to Make Your Point | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will use theater warm up and exercises to explore the components of a well reasoned and supported argument. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Relationship Skills, Responsible Decision Making | |
Creative Cinderella | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will create a story map to outline the story of Bigfoot Cinderrrrella and use the information to design and create a board game. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness, Social Awareness | |
Everyone’s a Critic: Looking at Van Gogh and Picasso | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will compare and contrast two paintings and use the collected observations to create and perform a short theatrical play. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness, Social Awareness | |
How Was Your Day? | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will analyze text describing the lives of children in Mexico and Canada and use theater techniques to compare and contrast their observations. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness, Social Awareness | |
Virtual Feast! | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will analyze a fictional text and use theater and props to examine how meals create community. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness, Social Awareness | |
House Party | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will create, write, and act out different rhyming sentences by using their bodies, knowledge of isolating beginning sounds, and imagination. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness, Social Awareness | |
This Because of That: Acting out Conjunctions | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will use conjunctions to create sentences and use theater techniques to act them out. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness, Self Management |