Name of the activity: Art from waste
Grade Level : III
Subject: Tamil
Arts Integrated: Best out of Waste
Topic/ Chapter: Manavargal ninaithal
Learning Outcomes:
1. Save our environment.
2. know to avoid plastics.
3. Reuse
Name of Activity: Make a snake puppet
Grade Level: V
Subject(s): EVS
Art(s) Integrated: Puppet Making
Topic/Chapter: A snake charmer’s story
Learning Outcome(s): Children can creatively make a snake puppet by using old socks
Description: The students of grade 5 did this activity. They made a snake puppet by using old socks. The aim of this activity is to nurture the creative skill of the students and to make use of the old waste materials.
School: Ridge Valley School Gurgaon
Name of Activity: Poster on “how to brush our teeth”
Grade Level: III
Subject(s): Science
Art(s) Integrated: Poster Making, Drawing, Paper Craft
Topic/Chapter: Our Teeth
Sub- Topic- Steps to brush our teeth
Learning Outcome(s): To identify steps of brush our teeth properly.
Ideated by: Srishti Seth
Description:
“Learning is a Lifelong Process”
Students with the help of this activity were able to identify the steps to clean teeth in right manner.
NAME OF THE ACTIVITY- Poster Making
GRADE LEVEL : Grade XII
SUBJECT : Political Science
ARTS INTEGRATED -Drawing, Sketching and Poster making
CHAPTER -New centres of Power
LEARNING OUTCOMES -To Abreast students with China’s role in International Politics
IDEATED BY - Ms. Shreya Ahuja
EXECUTED BY - Ms. Shreya Ahuja
DESCRIPTION - In this activity, the students were task of Poster making where they depicted the China’s role in International politics.The detailed role of china in international politics was discussed in the class and accordingly students were given the task of poster making on the current position of China in world Politics.
Name of Activity: Making bird feeder
Grade Level: 2
Subject(s): EVS
Art(s) Integrated: Art and craft (cutting and decorating)
Topic/Chapter: More about animals
Sub-Topic/Concept: Caring for birds
Learning Outcome(s): Through this activity, the learners construct bird feeders to know about the bird behaviours such as the types of food they eat etc.. Students may be able to see different types of birds as they come to eat.
Ideated and Executed by: Grade 2 teachers
Description: In this activity the students were instructed to construct bird feeders and hand to a tree near their house. Here children use different materials like water bottles, nuts and seeds for feeding birds, popsicle sticks, paint colours and decorative items to construct their bird feeder. They were shown a video as demo by the teacher. Then, they were suggested to make their own bird feeders to their creativity.
Name of Activity: Writing chemical formulae
Grade Level: IX
Subject(s): Chemistry
Art(s) Integrated: paper craft
Topic/Chapter: Atoms and molecules
Sub-Topic/Concept: Formulae of simple compounds
Learning Outcome(s): writing chemical formulae using valencies and symbols of elements.
Name of Activity: Reading Aloud
Grade Level: 3
Subject(s): English
Art(s) Integrated: Role Playing
Topic/Chapter: Let’s study an author
Sub-Topic/Concept: Reading aloud, Character portrait
Learning Outcome(s): Reading aloud builds many important foundational skills, introduces vocabulary, provides a model of fluent, expressive reading, and helps children recognize what reading for pleasure is all about. Students also get print awareness.
Ideated by: Language department
Executed by: English teachers
Description: Students were given with speech topics on famous educationist of our country. They were trained in punctuation and expressions while reading.
Grade Level: IV
Subject(s): Science
Art(s) Integrated: Poster making
Topic/Chapter: Water and life
Sub- Water conservation
Learning Outcome(s): To explore the ways and create awareness on importance of water in our life
Ideated by: Srishti Seth
Executed by:
Description:
It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. - Carl Friedrich Gauss
Students with the help of this activity were able to identify the ways of polluting water They were able to through light on water conservation and its importance in our lives.
Name of the Activity: Dynamic wave model
Grade: XI
Subject: Physics
Art integrated: Making a model to illustrate transverse waves
Topic: waves
Sub topic: Transverse wave
Learning Outcomes:Learners will be able to understand in waves how disturbances is transferred
Ideated by Mr. Amit Jain
Executed by: Kushagra 11B
Name of the Activity- Making Angles Easy
Grade Level- 5
Subject(s)- Mathematics
Art(s) Integrated -Craft (Origami)
Topic/Chapter- Geometry
Sub-Topic/Concept- Types of Angles
Learning Outcome(s)- Identification and Classification of different types of angles ( Acute angle, Obtuse angle, Right angle and Straight angle)
Ideated by- Team DPS, Gwalior
Executed by- Ms Shweta Agarwal
Description- Finding a way to make mathematics appealing to all students is an important step for educators. Integrating the arts in the mathematics classroom is an incredible means to engage all students and ensure they are connecting with the mathematics curriculum. Making paper fan is an interesting way to introduce the concept of angle to the students and also to learn about various angle types and the measurement of angles (In degrees). Educator make use of a simple art form (Origami) in the classrooms which helps the students to learn and articulate the core concept of types of angles. In this way they are experiencing beauty of arts and apply it in daily life.
Variations possible: In place of ice-cream sticks, broom sticks or straws can be used.
Idea Courtesy: Billabong High International School, Noida
School: De Indian Public School
Name of Activity: Pronoun Pizza
Subject : English
Arts Integration
Class Level: Class 3
Name of Activity: Puppet show
Subject(s): Hindi
Arts Integrated: Puppetry
Class Level: Class 8
Description: Students were told to present a story with moral value using puppets made at home.They were guided to explore some famous Hindi writers and their creation.Time limit for the actvity was 3-4 mins.
School: Silver Line Prestige School, Ghaziabad
Name of Activity: Life cycle of a butterfly
Subject(s): Science
Arts Integrated: Visual Art
Class: 4
Description: Students were told to create an edible 3D model to show the life cycle of a butterfly. Children used lotus seeds (eggs), peas (caterpillar), coconut (Pupa), orange and chillies ( butterfly) and other materials to create the life cycle.
School: De Indian Public School
Name of Activity: Multiplication Facts
Subject(s): Maths
Arts Integrated: Lap book
Class Level: Class 4
Description: Students were told to present Multiplication Facts or tables using a lap book.
Integration of art through story telling and puppetry sessions
Name of Activity: Turning Poetry into Painting:-Visual Poetry
Subject(s): English Poetry Class 12
Arts Integrated: Literature and Visual Art (Poetry and Painting)
Description: After reading and understanding Keats’ Poem- A Thing of Beauty; the students are asked to convert it into a painting depicting various elements of beauty in nature that are described in the poem.
The objective is to explore the interrelation between poetry and visual art – and think about poetry in new and exciting ways.
Name of Activity: Dress Designing
Subject(s): English Literature class 10 ( Prose: The Hundred Dresses)
Arts Integrated: Literature and Dress Designing
Description: The students are asked to get creative like the protagonist Wanda Petronsky of the story “ The Hundred Dresses” and create an original dress design
School : The Study l'ecole Internationale School ,Kalapet, Puducherry.
Name of the activity: Tools used by early humans
Grade Level : 6
Subject : Social Science-History
Arts Integrated: Clay Modelling
Topic/ Chapter: Early Humans
Sub topic: Early tools
Name of the School- The Senior Study2, Amritsar
Name of the Activity- Types of polygons
Grade level- VIII
Subject- Mathematics
Art(s) Integrated- Drawing different pictures and colouring them
Topic- Polygons
Learning Outcomes- Children will be able to recognise different polygons such as triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons etc.
Ideated by- Madhu Gupta
Executed by- All Maths teachers
Description- Students were asked to draw pictures on A4 ivory sheets with the help of different polygons. They used their creativity and drew beautiful pictures using polygons, coloured them and finally detailed the kinds of polygons used along with their count.
Subject: Science
Lesson: Fibre to Fabric
Sub- Topic: Types of fabrics
Arts Integrated: Sikkim paintings (Thankas)
School: The Study Lecole Internationale
Name of the activity: Making a Clinometer
Grade Level : 10
Subject: Mathematics
Arts Integrated: Art
Topic/ Chapter: Application of Trigonometry
Sub topic: Heights and Distance
Learning Outcomes: 1. To understand concept of Trigonometry.
2. To measure height of building using clinometer.
School- DAV Public School Ashok Vihar
Name of the Activity- Paper craft animals
Grade- 2
Arts Integrated- paper cutting, drawing, paper folding, hands printing, decorative materials.
Lesson- Animal World
Sub- Topic- wild animal (lion 🦁), water animal (octopus 🐙), bird (peacock 🦚).
Learning Outcome- Through craft activity, children learn to value and appreciate and experience first hand. They learn to act and think intelligently and creatively.
Ideated and Executed by- class 2 teachers
Description- the students made craft activities related to wild animal, water animal, bird using very simple materials such as paper plate, blue coloured papers, glue, sketch pens etc. They were shown first how to make it. Then, they were suggested to make it using their own creativity and imagination.
