In the Kaleidoscope Summer Camp this last week one of the creative crafts projects was called “Footsteps into the Future” which totally caught the imaginations of the participants. You may find it valuable.
The activity is to trace both feet (one slightly ahead of the other) on a half sheet of poster board. (First in [...]
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Children powerfully identify with animals. No matter where you are in the world, young human beings feel strongly about animals. It is a deep primordial sympathy.
Children folk tales around the world abound with animal characters as vehicles of proverbial wisdom, caution and counsel. The courageous leadership of the lion; the work ethic beaver; the [...]
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The “Math-a-magic philosophy” really comes out from the heart of Arts Integrated Education - which in part, is about left/right brain hemisphere crossover and integration.
It’s like learning to play music: The left brain picks up repetitive patterns, sequences, musical ‘syntax’, meter, and certain rhythmic elements and can translate musical notation; whilst the right brain [...]
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Arts Integrated Education is a way of thinking; a way of life; it is an approach to just about everything! Before “teaching” anything, it asks the question of oneself: What is the value and relevance of this subject? It causes you to search for a meaningful context. Then you and your students have a [...]
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The Human Body School Tri-Pak 1 for 1st and 2nd grade students is now ready!
It includes the songs: Good for Your Body, Song of the Senses and Human Bodyland with accompanying dance instruction video and lesson plan.
This song trilogy touches on a variety of subjects from nutrition and physical fitness (Good for Your Body) [...]
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Green is the color of new birth, new beginnings. Like the young shoots and leaves of spring, it is a vibrant yellow green which signifies emergence and regeneration.
Green is the color of beginners! It contains all the virtuosity and enthusiasm of “firsts”; first timers and first time events.
Green is the engine of innovation and [...]
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Arts Integrated Education involves both hemispheres of the head brain working in alternation and firing simultaneously!
Here is a good example of how it works:
If you have ever learned and become fluent in a foreign language, you have probably experienced the following.
Language is ultimately learned by assimilation and immersion. That’s when it truly switches on [...]
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We’ve always encouraged children from an early age to have an affair with numbers. The best encouragement as always happens by live demonstration.
This is not talking about equations or computation for starters. That naturally follows. This is referring to the mind livening act of simply counting! Yes, just counting.
Numbers themselves are one of [...]
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The Green Green Green Kit is now available!
It includes the song, performance/instructional video, lesson plan, lyrics, chords and dance notes.
This is an easy and dynamic way to open up this subject.
Here is an excerpt from the lesson plan:
Green Green Green
Teaching ‘sustainability’ can be a challenging task. The song Green Green Green cuts through to [...]
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The song Home Planet Earth is a beautiful teaching tool. Essential human values can be explored and expressed using this simple, profound song and its video.
The song travels from A to Z through fifty six countries around the world. The video highlights folk dances from each country in sync with the verses. These are [...]
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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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