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An Elementary Art Curriculum For Private/Parochial Schools, Linda Porter Allison Jan 1983

An Elementary Art Curriculum For Private/Parochial Schools, Linda Porter Allison

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This project is written with the hopes of offering assistance to the private/parochial schools that either have not committed themselves to an art program or that are floundering within stagnating commitments or those that need stimulus to think about the benefits of an art curriculum. The seed thoughts for this project were first planted when the author began teaching in a private school and observed first hand curriculum deficiences in local private/parochial schools. The author conducted a survey of similarly founded schools which led to suspicions that art curriculum of the private/parochial elementary schools in the State of Washington are …


Creative Arts Activities For Elementary Students, Linda Rozella Linn Jan 1981

Creative Arts Activities For Elementary Students, Linda Rozella Linn

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A study has been made to select arts activities that will help enhance creativity. All children possess some amount of creative ability. Children, if encouraged, can develop this potential; if they are discouraged they tend to draw inward and thus their creativity is stifled. Ways for teachers to help increase and encourage creativity are discussed. Activities in the areas of art, music, and drama are presented in the project portion of this paper and will be used as a handbook for elementary teachers.


Time Tunnel Of Art: An Art Curriculum Guide For The Teaching Of Art History/Art Appreciation With Related Art Activities, Valerie J. Malella Jan 1977

Time Tunnel Of Art: An Art Curriculum Guide For The Teaching Of Art History/Art Appreciation With Related Art Activities, Valerie J. Malella

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The main purpose in the formation of this curriculum guide for the teaching of art in the elementary school is to offer the elementary teachers of Longview School District additional teaching ideas, suggestions and activities for the art program. The intention, too, is to interweave the art activity itself with historical development and origins of art along with the concept of the basic art elements. In presenting this guide, the writer hopes to foster opportunities for increasing aesthetic awareness among teachers and students as art relates to our environment.


Building The School Entertainment Day By Day: Expressing Class Activities In Exhibits, Jennie Moore Feb 1930

Building The School Entertainment Day By Day: Expressing Class Activities In Exhibits, Jennie Moore

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An exhibit of children's school work should be the natural outcome of class activities carried on throughout the school year. Its chief characteristic should be a childishness of conception and execution that marks it as a creation of boys and girls and not an imitation of a pattern set by taskmaster or textbook.