Active Learning Through Drama, Podcasting, and Puppetry (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781591584025)

Contrary to the trend to do away with arts education as an unnecessary expense in schools trying to boost student test scores, this book promotes and explains the value of integrated arts instruction in furthering the accomplishment of curricular objectives and fostering student achievement. Accomplished library media specialist and arts instructor Kristin Fontichiaro discusses how drama, shadow puppetry, and podcasting can be used as tools to meet curriculum objectives in the K-8 media center. By concentrating on the process of creating a piece of drama or puppetry or a podcast, as opposed to the goal of performance, and by infusing the arts with curriculum objectives in story or research, these techniques can intensify a child's learning and provide context for classroom curriculum objectives. A discussion of the affective and academic benefits of this process-based work as well as sample lessons are included. Photographs and examples of student work illustrate the oechniques. Grades K-8.

Author: Kristin Fontichiaro
ISBN-10: 1591584027
ISBN-13: 9781591584025
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
Language: English
Published: 03/30/2007
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.49lbs
Size: 10.92h x 8.48w x 0.60d