A 6th grade teacher plans an activity where students draw and
label each component of a plant cell. What advantage is the
teacher gaining by integrating visual arts?
a. developing a basic communication vehicle
b. engaging emotions and providing motivation
c. giving confidence to be unique
d. promoting attention to detail Ans✓✓✓-D
A classroom teacher has made modifications to the learning environment to allow
for creative expression for all students in the class.
Match each description with the modification that supports the creative
expression of diverse learners.
A. Allow students to work with a partner
B. Build in more repetition through choral response
C. Allow different solutions as demonstration of comprehension Ans✓✓✓-A.
assistance
B. instruction
C. response
A fifth grade teacher would like to strengthen students' understanding of creating
perspective
in drawings while building upon the Visual Art standard: understanding and
applying media,
,techniques, and processes. She/he understands that at this age students begin to
see and
understand the application of multiple perspectives in drawings and paintings.
What lesson
would best accomplish her goals? Ans✓✓✓-Apply the approach of Henri
Rousseau's jungle scenes by using a foreground,
middleground, and background in a drawing of a jungle scene of their own.
A fourth-grade teacher wants to integrate a visual arts instructional strategy with
reading.
Which two instructional strategies would be recommended to accomplish this
goal?
24 Ans✓✓✓-Read a short biography of Pablo Picasso and draw a cubist
illustration
Examine the symbolic details in a painting by Jan Van Eyck and discuss how both
artists and writers use symbols
A Kindergarten teacher decides to integrate more music into her daily instruction.
In
consideration of the students' development level, the teacher should consider
that primary age
groups of children are able to Ans✓✓✓-b) See one point of view, or one aspect
at a time.
A kindergarten teacher develops a lesson to teach the following standard:
,Students will learn varied letter sounds.
Which arts-based learning activity can be used to meet the content standard?
Ans✓✓✓-Teach students a song that incorporates consonant letter sounds
A kindergarten teacher wants to prepare students for first grade cognitively and
socially while making each day fun.
How could the teacher support this goal? Ans✓✓✓-By having students make up
rhyming games together using the names of letters, numbers, or colors
A natural development of drawing corresponds with cognitive, physical and socio-
emotional
growth outlined by theorists such as Piaget, Maslow and Gardner. At what age
does artistic
development peak and will generally remain unless further arts education is
included in the
school curriculum? Ans✓✓✓-d) Pre-Adolescent Age 11-12
A student with minor speech difficulties is hesitant to
participate in music integration during class. What
strategy can the teacher use to encourage the student to
take part in the activities?
a. Meet with the student to describe the impact of the music
on learning.
b. Create warm ups that allow the child to listen to friends
, sing.
c. Meet with the student to make posters for the song topics.
d. Create warm ups that provide activities with rhythm
instruments. Ans✓✓✓-D
A teacher observes that the students are happiest and most engaged when they
are given the opportunity to engage in creative role playing, art projects, and
music. The teacher includes these creative activities every few weeks as a
supplement to the lesson plans.
How does this teacher's attitude affect the creativity of his students? Ans✓✓✓-
The teacher's treatment of creative activities as extra, not essential, will
undermine the development of students' creativity
A teacher promotes taking breaks in instruction where students jump up and
down, shake their limbs, and mimic animal voices.
How does this play contribute to children's development? Ans✓✓✓-It alleviates
stress.
A teacher wants to encourage creativity and divergent thought while also
covering required content about Colonial America.
Which would be an appropriate strategy? Ans✓✓✓-Have students brainstorm a
list of important people in Colonial America, conduct research on them, and then
plan a classroom party where the students dress up as and play the role of their
historical person