A few helpful teaching links

I found this post a year ago and have used some of these strategies in my classroom. This is a list of ways to bring art into any lesson to add creativity and a hands-on approach to learning:
http://www.opencolleges.edu.au/informed/features/50-ways-to-integrate-art-into-any-lesson/

This next link is to a fantastic contemporary art blog: booooom- the specific post shows the work of an artist that uses flowers to create mandalas. I am putting together a mandala mural project for a grade 9 and 10 class, so I will be posting more about that project later. For now, here is some inspiration:
http://www.booooooom.com/2012/07/10/flower-mandalas-by-kathy-klein/

This last link is to a wonderful tumblr all about illustration:
http://artofnarrative.tumblr.com/page/102

- Patrick

Tree Mural Video

                                         

Last term, my Integrated Arts class painted a mural at our neighbouring Fun Community School. We enjoyed working on this project and I made the film above as an example of a high-speed movie for my grade 10 Communications Technology class.