Seikilos epitaph, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The Seikilos Epitaph When did music become a part of education? Music has been an important part of daily life for humans for thousands of years. African tribes have been performing songs and dances for hundreds of years, kept alive through aural tradition rather …
Your Destination: Learn why we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on MLK Day and make a collaborative poster to commemorate his legacy. Travel Kit: I Have a Dream by Kadir Nelson large foam board or poster board, in a color light enough to write on plain white or manila …
Making music provides unique opportunities for students to express their emotions. Often through music we realize how we are feeling and name those feelings. It also allows us to release emotions by making our own music, listening to it, or singing and dancing. For our Music, Mindfulness and Motion through …
Picture of classroom activity Your Destination: As a class, create a large-scale color wheel collage with pieces of construction paper. Travel Kit: colored papers in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple scissors (optional) glue sticks large-scale (at least 24”x36”) drawing of blank color wheel on poster board, foam …
Lesson Helps students celebrate one another’s birthdays, teaches geometric shapes, radial design and symmetry, and ties into an inspiring poem which can lead to discussion. Recommended Ages Middle-school through high-school age youth Directions Step 1 Identify each student’s birth month and stone. Step 2 Show students gem stones or pictures …
Photo by Pixabay Your Destination: Mandalas have been used for meditation in Eastern Cultures for centuries. Circular in shape and usually containing geometric patterns, they are ritualistic symbols of the universe in both Hinduism and Buddhism. Their often complex and intricate patterns also make them a great mindfulness tool. Travel …
Image by David J. Boozer, via Pexels Your Destination: The world is a wonderful, noisy, sensational place, filled with overflowing sensory input. A person’s brain has to work hard in the moment to filter out all of the incoming stimuli in order to be able to focus and function. However, …
Photo source: Eberhard Grossgasteiger “I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.” – Vincent Van Gogh. Your Destination: Our dreams can sometimes send us messages that can get jumbled as we walk through our daily lives. This activity has students capture a dream that embodies who they want to …
