I am very encouraged that both the book and our professors endorse using the arts when teaching social studies.\u00a0 I definitely believe in incorporating music and the arts into all areas of study.\u00a0 The book pointed out in Chapter 8 that it is essential to integrate the arts into classroom curriculum whenever possible.\u00a0 It encouraged using music, drama, paintings, and photos.<\/p>\n
I wonder why the arts are not used more?\u00a0 It is such a great way to connect students to the material and help them retain information.\u00a0 I can count on one hand teachers that incorporated the arts into our curriculum while growing up.\u00a0 And I can honestly say I still remember some of the things I was taught.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I am very encouraged that both the book and our professors endorse using the arts when teaching social studies.\u00a0 I definitely believe in incorporating music and the arts into all areas of study.\u00a0 The book pointed out in Chapter 8 that it is essential to integrate the arts into classroom curriculum whenever possible.\u00a0 It encouraged … Continue reading Week 11-Visual Arts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies-07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies-07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies-07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies-07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies-07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies-07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies-07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies-07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies-07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}