The Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art is offer two arts integration workshops designed to introduce teachers and future teachers to the value and ease of using artworks and art projects as inspiration and departure points for teaching creative classroom lessons for language arts, science, and social studies.
Using artworks from the MGMoA collection as their motivation, the workshop presenters will demonstrate how art can serve as an effective learning tool, meeting the needs of diverse learning styles.
"We hosted the first workshop, taught by arts integration specialist Patrick Riley, on Oct. 4. It was a great success with approximately 35 teachers attending," said Donna Merkt, MGMoA curator of education. "We all had a blast - who wouldn't have a great time making a four-foot-tall paper mummy?"
While creating this masterpiece of paper sculpture, each teacher also learned how to use such a project to teach other curricula subjects. "The teachers learned about the mummification process, including the function and placement of the internal organs, to tie the lesson into science curriculum. We also discussed how the mummy could be used as a spring board for social studies, math, and language arts lessons."
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