Todd Pierson's List: Atomic Learning Arts Integration Ideas

Learn to use Google Sketchup for a modeling project.

Integration ideas: Science studies around Ecology or energy and Geography studies around adaptations to climatic regions.

Using KidPix Deluxe 4, students create an alphabet book around Egyptian terms and vocabulary.  

Art integration:  Creating images with online drawing tools related to a story or topic.

Using iMovie on an iPad, students document a science experiment and then edit it with titles and audio.

Arts integration: this media arts tech tool and technique could be integrated in similar fashion into any number of classroom activities that have involve active inquiry

Using Garageband student explore music notation using different note values.

arts integration: sequential music skills lessons could lay the foundation for music being used as an integral component in other student projects.

Digital graphic organizers (kidspiration) are used to organize ideas around a project related to writing about a personal event.

arts integration: digital graphic organizer could be used to scaffold student knowledge and organize planning steps around arts integrated projects.