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This song, video and lesson plan explores the invaluable ways of living we learn from Mother Nature: biodiversity, conservation, recycling, sustainability. It is designed for children ages 9-12 but younger children will also love [...]
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Teachers and Parents! Find the courage to defy the absurd pressures of the achievement culture. What are we pushing our children into? Seriously!
Do we realize the stress associated with education is now systemic?
Do we then realize that stress shuts down higher learning capacity, reducing our attention and awareness to a narrow biological focus?
What’s the [...]
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The Water Cycle Kit is now available
Sprinkle young minds with the natural wonders of water!
Give children the gift of NOT taking for granted this extraordinary element and its phenomenal properties. After all, water is the foundation of physical life on earth!
Teaching the water cycle in 3D (to music!) is a brilliant introduction to the [...]
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Seven years ago we planted a young maple tree in our front garden. It was skinny and frail so we supported it with stakes and rope thinking it wouldn’t be able to resist the winter and spring winds otherwise. But a wise gardener friend told us to remove the stakes so the tree could [...]
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Songs to Educate is a response to a need.
The need, simply stated, is for teachers (of any background) to be able to bring the arts back into the classroom. Stated better, it is to be able to integrate the arts in the academic curriculum!
It is easier than one might think. It doesn’t require [...]
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These songs are seeds. The hope is that they may fall on fertile ground. “Keep your head in the heart of the matter” is written especially for 4th, 5th and 6th grade girls and boys (‘tweens), to encourage the self-trust, inner strength and self-respect to NOT get caught up in the endless empty distractions [...]
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A new song arose from the Kaleidoscope Summer Camp. It came in response to a need that appeared in the young teen participants as the week unfolded.
The need is a deep cry from the lives of young people to have real hope for the future.
When you ask young lives: What do you think about [...]
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We are often asked about our children, our boys, who are now young men emerging into the world. We are asked how it is they are such extraordinary human beings? How is it so? What did we do as parents?
If you met them you might ask the same. And yes! There is a response [...]
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Our oldest son is a couple years from going to college. So every other day there’s a marketing brochure from one college or another aiming to appeal to a bright young candidate such as our boy. Consequently, the question of majors and careers comes up a lot with he and his peers and it’s [...]
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True experiential learning includes what we experience on the inside!
Everything we think, intend, feel and do INSTRUCTS our inner lives. It is inescapable. In fact, our internal balances and stability, our internal health and well-being determine so much more that happens ‘on the outside’ than is generally given credit. So much of the world’s [...]
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Paul A. Zeir is co-founder and creative director of Talking Hands Talking Feet. He composes, performs and orchestrates the music theater aspect of the programs. Human development and education combined with human theater arts are Paul’s background and training. He has spent many years living with and visiting indigenous communities in South, Central and North America and South Africa where he discovered the rich tapestry of natural human theater endemic to native peoples around the world. He studied at Northern Arizona University, Colorado University, the Global Academy of the Institute of Cultural Affairs and continues vital research to this day. His passion for Arts Integrated Education stems from his belief that true education cannot be separate from the arts and a deep understanding of the human potential. Talking Hands Talking Feet began with becoming a father in 1995. His primary wish as a parent was to provide a rich and loving multi-layered learning ecology in the home and family life which included natural human theater arts. Thus the adventure into children’s education began! With great passion and a love and gift for engaging children he has developed this valuable body of work furthering Arts Integrated Education internationally.
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