This workshop introduces AI image generators and their potential to enhance creativity across subjects, including art, literacy, science, and math. Participants will explore various tools, engage in hands-on experimentation, and brainstorm classroom applications. They will gain firsthand experience with this technology and develop strategies for integrating it into their teaching practices. The session aligns with […]
This workshop guides students through adapting a book into a media production using Scratch (a visual programming language) to program a Scratch Play. Developing a literature adaptation requires students to not only comprehend a story, but also to closely study an original work and to be creative in retelling the story. Students will need to […]
A 4-Day experience of creating and storytelling with puppets, focusing on developing social emotional skills. Students create puppets using materials easily found in the classroom or home. Exercises in elements and principles of design introduce the language that students use to create interesting characters and tell a visual story. Students then develop a story for […]
In this professional learning program with visual artist Molly Gaston Johnson, teachers will learn how to use basic elements and principles of design as a means of communicating ideas. Through designing their own artworks in a series of exercises that build from simple and quick, to more intentionally social-emotionally driven, and then curriculum-driven, participants will […]
Lessons in Tolerance is an examination of the causes and social costs of the Holocaust, and other examples of genocide and persecution, followed by the development of positive artistic and intellectual responses to these events. As part of the Lessons in Tolerance program, students make a commitment to practicing the ideals of tolerance while the […]
In Gargoyles: From Gothic to Grotesque, a 3-D artist shows how to create gargoyles using pinch-pot construction and basic hand-building pottery techniques. A storyteller recounts medieval legends and contemporary children’s fiction that inspire the students to write and perform their own myths based on their gargoyle creations. Please fill out this inquiry form or call 866-500-9265 for more […]
Are your students inventive? Through hands-on engineering with simple materials, Molly Gaston Johnson helps students explore cause and effect in artistic sculptures, simple machines, and elegant design. Problem-solving in teams, competitive challenges, and the consequences of economics add to the excitement, along with introductions to Ancient Rome, Leonardo da Vinci, and the ever-popular idea that “form […]
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