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Creative Learning
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Professional Development Program
Bringing Joy to Learning Though Creativity
- joy2learn has created a dynamic six-session 30-hour asynchronous online course to help you unlock your own creativity and give you the tools to help your students do the same.
- The content for the course, facilitated by online professional development experts, is centered around joy2learn’s online artist video presentations plus other resources and culminates in a project you design for use in your classroom.
- Joy2Learn has been approved as a professional development provider by the New York Department of Education, the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Texas State Board of Education. Check with your state or district to see if you can earn professional development credits.
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Lesson Plans By Educators for Educators
Engage your students by grade level and subject with lesson plans developed by past Creativity course participants.
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Visual Arts Lesson Plans
Colors and Lines
Learning Through Play PreK, NYC PreK students will learn to create colors, from primary colors to white, and explore lines.
Visual Arts Lesson Plans
Should I Share My Ice Cream
Students will use language from the story, and begin to understand what reading with expression means. Students will take on the character they are pretending to be.
Visual Arts Lesson Plans
I Am Awesome
Kindergarten students will create a book about themselves using drawing, writing, and visuals to tell their story.
English Language Arts
Professional Development — Creativity, Improvisation, Problem-based Learning
K-12 teachers will work in teams to brainstorm, plan, reflect on creativity, improvisation and problem-based learning and exchange visits following the project.
English Language Arts
Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type
Students will act out a story by Doreen Cronin and read grade-level text with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
Math Lesson Plans
Creating with Shapes
This project is designed to foster individual creativity and independence and enable students to integrate creativity into the common core aligned curriculum.
Visual Arts Lesson Plans
Discovering an Unfamiliar Pennsylvania Artist
Using a 3rd grade Pennsylvania arts standard, students will research a Pennsylvania artist in an art form that they are most uncomfortable or unfamiliar with. Teachers will create two illustrated pages for a digital class book about their artist.
English Language Arts
The Case of the Gasping Garbage
Students will pick one of the two main characters from the text, “The Case of the Gasping Garbage.” Students will be asked to create a new scene to add to the book and be given the choice of how to present their assignment. They will pretend they are their chosen character. Then they will choose either to: create a diorama or scene; act out a scene from the text; create a written script in the form of a play; create a book of illustrations.
Science Lesson Plans
The Night Sky
Students will learn to understand constellations, the brightness of stars, and patterns/visibility in the night sky.
Math Lesson Plans
The Locker Problem
Students try to answer a Math problem following these rules: The 1st student opens every locker door. The 2nd student changes the state of every 2nd door. The 3rd student changes the state of every 3rd door. The 4th student changes the state of every 4th door, etc. ‘Changes the state’ means that the student opens the locker door if it is closed and closes the door if it is open. “What Math problem do you think students are trying to answer?” To present their solution, students can: create a story book; make a video simulating the situation; create a powerpoint presentation; create a song describing the process in finding the answer.
Visual Arts Lesson Plans
Creative Critical Thinking Through Line Drawings
Students will learn to create drawings from three creative sources: direct observation, the mind's eye and the intuitive subconscious and a combination thereof. The students will create line drawings that will help to unleash their creative thought processes through divergent thinking and improvisation.
English Language Arts
Fahrenheit 451
Students will engage in an interactive multi-modal character analysis of Fahrenheit 451. Students will analyze how complex characters develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme.
Visual Arts Lesson Plans
Re-interpreting Fast Fashion
Students will study the “fast fashion” industry to better understand the detrimental effects on the environment, on labor markets, and on the American psyche.
Math Lesson Plans
Using Math for Fun
Students will use drawing, doodling, interpreting diagrams, and creative expression to demonstrate learning.
English Language Arts
Moving Research-based Writing to Creative Writing
Students will use the Next Generation English Language Arts standards to conduct research into authors’ text, ideas, and stories, and write analyses, reports, presentations.
Visual Arts Lesson Plans
Product Design: Construction Technology Engineering
In this industrial design project, students will research and design a device or product for physical or mental illness or disability.
English Language Arts
The Character of a Place
Students will perform tasks and activities focused on revealing “the character of a place”, leading to a greater understanding of the environment’s impact on world-building and character-building onstage. The project culminates in a performance or presentation of an independent project that creatively synthesizes individual work on a chosen place (e.g., writing/ performing short play/ video about said place, bringing the class on a virtual or onsite tour, designing a mise-en-scene to reproduce or improve upon the “character” of the place, creating a site-specific performance project or art installation).
Math Lesson Plans
Understanding Trusses
In this civil engineering project, students will learn about the different types of trusses, strength of materials, and the behavior and force of truss members; students will then design and build a bridge from soft balsa.
Visual Arts Lesson Plans
Writing with Creativity
Students will understand creativity as a muscle that everyone can develop. Students will apply multimedia skills as a final product.
How to Use Lesson Plans
Some examples of how to use Joy2Learn’s Lesson Plans
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Research Highlights – The Impact of the Arts on Learning
Learn what research has revealed about the impact of the arts on student learning. joy2learn provides access to just some of the many research studies on this topic. You may be motivated to learn more and apply research findings to your teaching.
Videos From Our Artists
Every renowned artist was once a child – you and your students can explore their journey and learn more about their craft to see how it informs and enriches all subject areas.
Alan Gampel
Wynton Marsalis
Richard Serra
Frank Gehry
Elizabeth Murray
Gregory Hines
Hector Elizondo
