Arts Integration

Here are a few ways middle school teachers use films in literature lessons to help students learn to delve deeper into the texts they’re reading.

Creating a vision board guides students to contemplate their life goals and work on the target language.

From full-fledged lesson plans and virtual field trips to expansive digital archives and opportunities for professional learning, museums have so much to offer beyond the in-person experience.

Combining simple exercises with math instruction can help ensure that elementary school students remember these lessons.

To reap the benefits of music on learning, kids need consistent and abundant musical practice, according to the latest cognitive research.

Structuring a school around the arts can help students excel academically and develop social and emotional skills.

Visual note-taking allows information to be processed by the brain in three different ways.

Lesson plans for Ava DuVernay’s films and television series guide students to explore social justice issues in the classroom.

Students can participate in collaborative and engaging activities that promote critical-thinking skill development.

A visual technique developed in a museum can boost students’ classroom discourse, critical thinking, and evidence-based argumentation.

Young students can apply language skills to learn to 'read art,' including their own work.

When kids study music—intensively and over long periods of time—they become better readers. Here’s what’s at play.

Does doodling boost learning? Do attendance awards work? Do boys and girls process math the same way? Here’s a look at the big questions that researchers tackled this year.