Arts Integ Final
Canada is a large, diverse nation with many similarities to the United States. It has local school boards, no federal control over public schools and powerful teacher unions. Yet, Canadian students placed 3rd on the 2015 PISA reading test taken by students in 73 nations around the world, while the U.S. placed 24th. What aspect of the way reading is taught in U.S. & Canada may have caused this difference in achievement?
During the 1990s, literacy research led by Harvard professor Jean Chall gave rise in the U.S. to the oversimplified idea that in K-3, children are learning to read, whereas after grade 3 children are reading to learn. So, after 3rd grade, teachers turned their attention to other tasks.
Which element talks about the overall structure or plan of a piece of music and describes the layout of a composition as divided into sections (which can be discussed in terms of repetition and difference)?
FORM
Which of these terms refers to two or more notes sounding at the same time?
HARMONY
What are dynamics?
HOW LOUD OR SOFT A SOUND IS
Which of the following is NOT true?
Haiku always uses complete sentences
In what way did the poet Longfellow simplify what happened during the real-life ride of Paul Revere?
He gave Revere sole credit for the achievements of three rider
Musical terms are written in what language?
ITALIAN
The "speed" of music is described with words like adagio, largo, andante or presto, which are taken from which language?
ITALIAN
When Adeline and her siblings lived with her grandfather YeYe in Tianjin, before the Japanese invasion forced the family to move to Shanghai, grandfather YeYe employed seven maids, a cook, a chauffeur, and a rickshaw puller. But, once they moved to Shanghai, the gentle YeYe had no money of his own. Although YeYe received outward respect from his son (Adeline's father) he received neither empathy nor concern. What happened to undermine YeYe's finances and his place in the family?
In Tianjin, YeYe headed his family and was responsible for its well-being. After YeYe failed to foresee and prevent his son's attempt to grab control of the family's finances, the hierarchal sense of order that had served the family well in Tianjin fell apart. YeYe's five older grandchildren—along with his daughter Aunt Baba and YeYe himself—were miserable, Adeline most of all.
How does author Adeline Yen Mah's short novel, Chinese Cinderella,differ from the archetypal Cinderella story and the modern story of Harry Potter?
MY: Chinese Cinderella focuses on individual choices that can lead to various consequences that may result in good or bad opportunities as well as the overall opportunity to grow. Meanwhile, the archetypal Cinderalla story and Harry Potter show very little to no change in the development of the characters, with the exception of Harry Potter himself. They don't get the same chances to grow across the stories. THEIR: Instead of presenting supporting characters as stereotypes, it shows how the choices of individual family members shape their personal evolution and the future opportunities open to them.
How does arts integration expand student understanding?
MY: Arts integration helps to expand upon helping children create representations of what they are learning in order to explore the consequences and possibilities of their actions. This can help both in the classroom as well as their world outside of school. THEIR: Insights derived through language and the arts interact, providing a more complete picture of the world. This enables students to (1) perceive what may be hard to see and (2) express what may be hard to put into words.
Unlike static templates, concept maps can be expanded when students' knowledge and understanding grows. Which of the following is NOT an advantage of students using a concept map when preparing a report?
Concept maps do not provide students a way to represent, through symbols, insights they had not been able to verbalize.
The benefits that children who attend K-12 schools in low-income neighborhoods are likely to receive from lessons delivered by teaching artists and writers-in-residence at schools and museums include all of the following EXCEPT
Diminished support for exploring their unique capacities as individuals.
How does the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC define "arts integration"?
My Answer: Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts defined "arts integration" as the act of students combining an art activity or area with an academic subject to gain knowledge while using the art method to solidify what is learned. Their answer: Arts integration is defined as an approach to teaching in which students construct and demonstrate understanding through an art form. Students engage in a creative process which connects an art form to another subject area and meets evolving objectives in both. BOTH CORRECT
For children who speak a language other than English at home to learn to read and write in English, they must first learn
Oral English
Which element of music best describes how 'high' or 'low' notes sound?
PITCH
Which of the following is NOT a benefit associated with writers-in-residence taking students on a tour of a museum and discussing the meaning of works of art as mysteries to be solved?
Students learn that there is only one correct interpretation of a work of art.
Rhythm, stripped down to its basics, has a choice of which two of the following?
TEMPO PULSE
The difficulties facing novice writers can be addressed by including writing as part of a broader dialogue that includes both oral and written components.
TRUE
When students write stories, they often focus on the plot and forget to add the kinds of details that bring their characters to life. How might a teacher help them to correct this?
Teachers can take advantage of students' familiarity with movies and encourage them to revise the story, imagining that a costume designer was advising them on how the characters were dressed and a movie director was advising them on how the characters might speak and move.
The development of executive function appears to peak
as children are beginning elementary school
The newest element of music is
bass
Asking students in the upper elementary grades to collaboratively create lists of nouns, adjectives and adverbs may not seem like an exciting activity, but it can
become highly engaging when the varied lists of random words are combined in unexpected ways to create poems.
Writing essentially consists of
figuring out what information a reader will need and deciding how best to provide that information
Executive function has been defined as an overarching term that refers to mental control processes that 1) enable physical, cognitive, and emotional self-control and 2) are necessary to maintain effective goal-directed behavior. Which of the following is NOT a key dimension that the National Education Goals Panel has identified as essential for school readiness?
freedom from control of one's attention, behavior, thoughts, and/or emotions so as to override a strong internal predisposition or external lure
Which aspect of music has often been associated with cooperation, human warmth, and the motion of the planets?
harmony
The immediacy of arts-based prompts can provide a pivotal advantage when teaching persuasive writing because
there are no "right" answers when describing on's own aesthetic experience; so students don't have to worry about whether their answer is "correct" and can focus on the effectiveness of their arguments
The name for the qualities that make Western music unique—keys and chords—is
tonality
If children can sound out the words in a sentence, it is clear that they understand that sentence.
false
Japanese Haiku is a form of poetry that has how many lines per stanza?
3 lines
A "Form" has three dimensions, height, width, and depth. Which of the following could NOT be called a "Form".
A SHAPE
When writing a book report, what simple visual tool might students to use to compare and contrast the goals, backgrounds and/or personalities of characters?
A Venn diagram, made up of over-lapping circles, could be used. The descriptors that uniquely describe Character A could be on the left side and the descriptors that uniquely describe Character B may be placed on the right side. What the characters have in common would be listed where the two circles overlap in the middle.
Which of the following is NOT an advantage of using a concept map to plan a report on a subject with which one initially has limited familiarity?
A concept map enables teachers see if a student has interpreted evidence in the way that academics have traditionally done.
Line can be defined as a path made by a moving point or as a mark on a surface that describes a shape or outline. It can be thick or thin -- or actual, implied, vertical, horizontal, or diagonal. Which of the following could NOT be called a line?
A shade or highlight
Which of the following is NOT an advantage of puppet theater?
A shy child cannot portray a bold, brash character; a child who has difficulty keeping still in class is unable to manipulate a puppet to portray a slow-moving, timid creature.
Which words for tempo mean fast and very fast? (Select as many as you need)
ALLEGRO AND PRESTO
The original Chinese version of the Cinderella story, the Tale of Yeh-Xian, was written almost 1,000 years before the first European versions of the Cinderella story appeared (at a time when trade with China was increasing). Like the western Cinderella, the Tale of Yeh-Xian involved an elegant pair of shoes and ended with marriage to a powerful man. However, in the modern novel Chinese Cinderella, Adeline's happy ending was different. What constituted Adeline's happy ending?
Adeline achieved her goal of attending a university in England.
Students in grades 3-5 are in what Piaget called the "concrete operational" stage of cognitive development. At this age, a student is mature enough to use logical rules but can apply logic only to physical objects (hence the use of the term "concrete"). Students this age typically have difficulty applying logic abstractly (without visible cues). Why does this make arts integration a valuable tool for teaching science concepts at these grade levels?
Arts activities like drawing, painting, and dancing can provide children who are not yet abstract thinkers with concrete ways of envisioning phenomena that they cannot directly observe.
The book Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter introduces students to a real-life Cinderella story. It is the autobiography of Adeline Yen Mah, who grew up in China during World War II, when Japan controlled much of China's territory . This book looks at the development of an unwanted child who is able—without magic—to gain the strength, skill, and confidence to overcome difficult circumstances. Which of the following was NOT part of Adeline's story?
As a child, Adeline feels lonely and neglected at home. She escapes through literature and becomes an outstanding student. This causes the attitude of her bossy stepmother to change, so that Adeline's relationship to her stepmother becomes warm and loving as time goes on.
The fiddle, banjo and guitar found in most country music bands originally came from
Asia, Africa and Europe.
Texture is the surface quality of an object that we sense through touch. It can be real or implied by different uses of art media. Which of the following is NOT an adjective that would be used to describe texture?
BRIGHT
In earlier historical eras, when people could not simply hire a construction company to build a house or a barn, the whole community would come together for events like a "barn raising". How might a 5th grade teacher recreate the sense of close collaboration associated with a "barn raising"?
By using color-coded sets of handbells to play melodies, with each student responsible for a particular note, students are able to experience what it is like to participate in a complex—yet satisfying—group activity.
Well-designed arts integration lessons in science provide students in grades 3-5 with experiences that enable them to reach developmentally appropriate, evidence-based conclusions. A lesson described in the text was designed to deepen student understanding of how the time of day is related to the rotation of Earth and the position of the sun. What did students do in this lesson?
Children in a 3rd grade class stand an arm's length apart, each pretending to be the Earth. They follow their teacher in rotating slowly, in a counterclockwise direction, to slow music. When the children directly face the yellow paper "Sun," at the front of the room, the teacher pauses the music and asks, "If you were on the surface of the Earth, looking up at the sun directly overhead, what time would it be?" She reminds them that, when the sun is directly above, it is noon. The music starts again and they again rotate slowly. When they are facing away from the Sun, the teacher asks "What time is in now?" "Midnight!" They rotate until facing half-way between midnight and noon.
In what respect do standardized tests resemble political polls?
Just as pollsters survey a small number of potential voters who are chosen to be representative of the voting public, standardized tests are made up of a limited number of questions chosen to estimate students' mastery of a large area of the curriculum.
Which two words for tempo mean slow and very slow? (Select as many as you need)
LARGO ADAGIO
"Color" is an element of visual art that can described in terms of two qualities. Which of the following is NOT one of these qualities?
Lightness, the degree of light and dark in an image.
How do the unborn baby's exposure to the mother's heartbeat and the rhythm of humans walking on two feet help explain humanity's visceral attraction to rhythm?
Long before infants are able to see the light of day, their world is dominated by the comforting beat of the mother's heart. After emerging into the outside world, the act of walking gives us a feel for a regular, repetitive beat: left-right, left-right, left-right. As a result, rhythm is the part of music that interacts most immediately and spontaneously with our bodies.
In which element of music do pitches go up, down, or stay the same?
MELODY
Which arts discipline has been linked by research to increased cognitive abilities and general intelligence?
MUSIC
In the early grades, children learn how to compare and contrast, explaining how two concepts or situations are alike or different. This can be difficult for children with a limited vocabulary. How might visual art make such lessons more accessible for diverse learners?
MY: An example of how visual art helps make such lessons more accessible for diverse learners by showing children to compare/contrast through sets of pictures instead of words. The teacher can start out by describing the picture, and then bring in the concepts of why the two are different from each other. Although there may be children who struggle with English, most children will be able to see the pictures and tell the difference without knowing or fully understanding the words displayed or spoken. THEIR: Using visual images to reinforce verbal discussions will make compare/contrast lessons more accessible to diverse learners, especially when exploring fundamental binary oppositions like hot/cold, old/young, fast/slow, ocean/land.
Which element of music contains beat and no beat?
RHYTHM
How did Einstein's thought experiments demonstrate the crucial role that visual images can play in helping people to understand the laws of nature?
MY: Einstein's thought experiments demonstrated the crucial role by emphasizing that having visual images help to create representations of a situation or area of interest to investigate and go over within that experience. THEIR: In his thought experiments, Einstein created a mental representation of a set of circumstances he wanted to explore. He imagined the consequences of changing this set of circumstances in specific ways . Einstein's thought experiments led to scientific breakthroughs.
How does Sir Ken explain the unusual success of Finland on the international PISA test?
MY: Finland has a broad approach to education, its curriculum is larger and has more subjects. There are no huge standardized testing that dictates what is taught in schools. There is also no drop-out rate due to the support they provide for those who may want to. THEIR: There is also very little standardized testing in Finland. Also, Finnish schools have a broader curriculum than U.S. schools, which focus disproportionately on language arts and math.
To what does Sir Ken attribute the steep rise in the number of children diagnosed with attention deficit/ hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in recent years?
MY: He attributes the rise in children diagnosed with ADHD with the classroom structure of sitting still and learning for hours, specifically, they "are suffering from childhood." They need a broader curriculum that touches more than the small range of topics and talents that are now discussed in school. THEIR: Too many of the assignments that children are asked to do in school resemble low-grade clerical work. Preparation for standardized tests demands that teachers drill students on a narrow range of skills. Students get bored and start to fidget instead of paying attention. The school then assumes that there is something the matter with the students.
In the featurette from the Sundance Film Festival, how does Henry relate to his daughter and other people when he has not been listening to music? How does Henry react to music after listening to the iPod?
MY: Henry seems to shut down, depressed, and unresponsive. He could barely answer yes or no questions. However, when listening to music, Henry lights up. His eyes are wide, he starts to rock his arms, he sings, and he comes alive. THEIR: Henry does not remember his daughter when she visits him. He sit alone and does not interact with other people unless they approach him when he has not been listening to music. However, when he listens to his favorite music, he becomes animated and can remember the circumstances under which he heard the music as a young man.
To what does Oliver Sacks credit the effect music has on Alzheimer's patients?
MY: Sacks credit the fact that music has the ability to activate more parts of the brain than any other stimulus. THEIR: Music has more ability to activate more parts of the brain than any other stimuli.
Neurologist Oliver Sacks describes the reaction of Alzheimer's patients, who have lost the ability to access most of their memories, when they hear a song they had once sung. What change does Sacks describe happening in these patients?
MY: Sacks describe how the music touches strings of memories and emotions that are inaccessible to them due to their disease. First, they will smile, then keep time, and eventually join in with the music therapist. The past is embedded in the music, they regain a sense of identity. THEIR: Even Alzheimer's patients who are confused and have almost lost language respond to music, especially songs they had once known. This can put them in touch with streams of memory and emotion that had been inaccessible to them. They will smile, start to keep time and join in. Then, they start to regain access to that part of their lives when they first heard the song. That lucidity and pleasure can last for hours afterward.
What does Sir Ken believe caused the failure of standardized testing to improve education?
MY: Sir Ken believes that the cause of the failure of standardized testing is that they are the main diagnostic of education and obstruct the learning. Standardized testing should really be just the support of learning, not the main point of teaching the information. It's a culture of compliance. THEIR: Human beings are naturally different and diverse, but standardized testing focuses on a very narrow spectrum of knowledge and skills. An adequate curriculum has to focus on a much broader range of knowledge and skills. This makes it possible for society to build on the strengths of all students. As things stand, many students feel bored and frustrated--not motivated--in school.
When students listen to a story or read aloud in a group, they may become so focused on what the characters are doing at the moment that they lose comprehension of the overall plot. What can teachers do to provide extra support for students in comprehending a complex narrative?
MY: Teachers can provide extra support to students for comprehension by using storyboards for the students to recreate the story that helps them analyze and remember the elements and important plots of the earlier parts of the story. These can be looked at later as an added tool to help the students remember or even connect ideas they had from the beginning to the end of the story. THEIR: Teachers can have students re-create the plot of a story using storyboards to summarize events. Storyboards that use simple stick figures and spare text (just a few key words) can offer a rich synthesis of information, showing students a summary that helps them understand the narrative.
What does Sir Ken say currently stands in the way of student learning in schools?
MY: Teachers that don't bring creativity or foster the creativity of students currently stand in the way of students learning in schools, as the main focus is the information that will be needed for the standardized testing. It's a culture of standardization instead of actual learning. THEIR: Schools have developed a culture of compliance that undercuts students' curiosity. Students are supposed to supply the right answers to questions, as opposed to following their natural urge to explore the world and try to understand it.
Which of the following is NOT an element of visual art?
RHYTHM
Why does Sir Ken think the United States has been unable to raise student achievement, despite the large investments that the U.S. has made in school reform?
MY: The United States has been unable to raise student achievement because education runs like an industrial process with data. Education should be about the human system instead of a mechanical or industrial system. He mentions that the alternative school idea should be the entire educational structure, instead of the "alternative" for those who don't fit in with the data-driven education. THEIR: The attitude of U.S. policymakers seems to be that schools are like a machines. If you have the right data and everything is adjusted just right, the system will hum along perfectly into the future. But it is the students who either put effort into learning or do not--for reasons rooted in that students' life story. In education, as in the medical profession, each individual's unique needs must be addressed if that person is to thrive. That means individualizing education at the school level.
In the trailer for the movie Alive Inside, what is the healthcare system described as imagining human beings to be?
MY: The healthcare system treats humans like they are complicated machines. THEIR: The healthcare system described as imagining human beings to be very complicated machines. Medicines are seen as having the power to adjust the dials—turning down blood pressure, turning down blood sugar, etc. But these treatment do nothing to touch the heart and soul of the patient.
The Visual Thinking Strategies technique uses details of artworks to enhance student understanding through discussion and nurture their verbal language skills. First the teacher selects an interesting painting or picture and shows it to the class. Then, students are asked to "Please look at the picture silently for a minute and think about what you see. What's going on in the picture?" After a minute, the teacher asks student volunteers to tell the class: "What do you see in the picture?" What role does the teacher play once the discussion begins?
MY: The teacher is the facilitator in the conversation by providing questions that help to push the student towards critical thinking with the necessary evidence to support their claim. They also link together the ideas of the room in each student's answer and between the other students to show the connection of ideas across the room. They create an open sense of community for the students to share with the support of everyone in the room. THEIR: When a student offers a descriptive statement, the teacher asks for more information, For example: "You said the picture looks old. What makes you say that?" The teacher then summarizes, without adding information. Next the teacher asks, "What more can we find?" The discussion goes on until the students have shared all they can about the picture.
Describe the three main components of executive function and why each is important.
MY: The three main components of executive functions is inhibitory control, working memory, and cognitive flexibility. Inhibitory control is behavior that overrides their focus to act out or stray away from the task at hand. They are often the students who will talk out randomly in class, or exhibit a behavior that is inappropriate for the moment. Working memory is the capacity to remember information that is stored in their brain. This area is involved in the connection of ideas, which is especially important in learning and analyzing material. Cognitive flexibility is how students focus in life in school as well as in life in general, especially when considering the distractions that are present while they are trying to focus. It's important as the lack of focus could severely hurt their learning, especially if they have trouble in that area. THEIR: The three main components of executive function are: inhibitory control, which gives us the ability to override internal predispositions or external lures; working memory, which gives us the ability to store, retrieve and work with information; cognitive flexibility, which gives us the ability to ignore distractions, shift perspectives, and adapt to different demands.
What three things do the world's high-performing educational systems do?
MY: The world's high-performing educational systems individualize teaching and learning, the teachers are at a high status, and they give the schools the authority to decide what to teach. THEIR: First, these systems individualize teaching and learning, realizing that it is the students who are learning and that the system has to engage their curiosity, their individuality and their creativity. Second, these systems give high status to the teaching profession, realizing that you can't improve education if you don't get great people to teach and give them the tools they need to succeed. Third, the government does not closely regulate what the teachers do. Teachers are responsible for instructional decisions. When teachers are not given discretion to adjust instruction to the students' needs, the system stops working.
How much musical knowledge and talent must an Alzheimer's patient have had in order to react to music in the way that Dr. Sacks describes?
MY: They do not have to have any musical knowledge or talent in order to react to the way Dr. Sack's describes. Music uses the same part of the brain as emotion and mood, so it brings back those memories. THEIR: One does not have to be especially musical to respond to music, to recognize music emotionally. Virtually everyone does this and they will continue to do so despite severe dementia. The parts of the brain that respond to music are very close to those that that are concerned with memory and with emotion and mood. So familiar songs bring back memories, perhaps of when the music was originally heard or another experience.
What makes arts integration a uniquely useful tool for K-5 teachers is how easily .....
MY: What makes art integration a uniquely useful tool for K-5 Teachers is how easily the concepts within the activities can be turned into harder concrete ones for the use of future learning that the students can draw upon to remember what was learned. THEIR: a wide range of abstract concepts can be made concrete, so that children can mentally represent and remember what they have learned.
Which of the following is NOT true of poetry?
Poetry is literary work that rhymes.
The Common Core standards in English language arts focus heavily on close reading and the asking of questions that elicit text-dependent responses. Students must cite evidence from the text to justify each observation they make about what they have read. However, students in grades 3-5 may still be struggling with decoding skills, making such analysis difficult. What arts-based strategy did the Getty Museum's Education Department design to help teachers with close reading instruction?
Teachers have their students practice analyzing visual art, using "close looking" instead of "close reading." When students first look at a painting, the teacher says, "What is going on the picture? When you answer, point to specific things we can see." Next, students are invited to focus on why the artist might have made specific choices so as to get a particular response from viewers. Last, the teacher asks students to describe their overall response to the painting. This prepares students for the 3-part analysis they will carry out in "close readings".
How do consultants hired to help boost the standardized test scores of students in struggling schools often undermine the accuracy of the test results?
The consultants analyze the tests to see what questions were asked, then coach teachers on what parts of the curriculum to focus on and what they can skip without hurting students' test results.
As science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke once noted, "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Like the technology of our own world, the magic in Harry Potter's world is treated as a tool that can be used for either good or evil, depending on the goals of the people using it. What role do the magical elements in the Harry Potter books play?
The magical elements provide a fresh perspective. In an era preoccupied with standardized tests, schoolwork can seem lifeless and predictable, causing students' motivation to learn to diminish. Fantasy fiction can feed students' imaginations and bring classroom discussion to life, helping students develop a sense of the complexity of human motivations.
When a teacher has students do a quick-write in class, as preparation for a class discussion,
The quick-write requires each student to arrive at an individual solution to the problem posed by the writing prompt before the discussion starts.
One way that teachers can help students to learn to write engaging original stories is to
encourage them to describe a meaningful personal experience and use that description as the foundation upon which they build a fully fleshed-out story.
Many of the stories favored by children in the primary grades have a structure similar to traditional myths. The action unfolds as dictated by the character of the hero, mentor and villain. Such simplicity makes the story accessible to young children. But if more complex stories are not offered in the intermediate grades, children can get the impression that individuals are born either good or bad. How does the story of Harry Potter, a male version of Cinderella, help to correct this impression?
The way the Harry Potter stories combine fairytale structure with character development provides plenty of room for discussion of how the characters' choices drive the plot. Each book traces the events of one school year and the development Harry achieved during this time.
Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin points out that social tension is the primary reason that nonhuman primates rarely travel in groups larger than a few dozen; their social order simply cannot be maintained in larger assemblies. How might humans have overcome this limitation on group size?
Through synchronous, coordinated song and movement, strong bonds may have been created within human groups, eventually allowing for the formation of larger groups and the complex societies we have today.
"Imagery" refers to vivid descriptions that produce mental pictures
True
Many teachers in the elementary grades have received little training in encouraging meaningful verbal interactions in the classroom.
True
The development of Western harmony over the last 700 years has similarities to the development of modern science. The hierarchies of notes were there all along, before humans discovered them. But, once they were discovered and harnessed by composers, they gave immense energy and drive to Western music. What were musicians and composers trying to figure out?
What chords sounded best for what purposes and in what order?
How does writing help to extend the range of human thinking?
Writing makes it possible to preserve one's ideas and revisit them later. This allows one to explore areas of uncertainty, discard notions that do not stand up to scrutiny, and build on those that do.
When children feed a make-believe situation into their own knowledge base,
children arrive at feelings and utterances appropriate for playing the role of a character in that story.
When imagining the hopes and fears of famished goats trying to cross a bridge guarded by a hungry troll -- or of three little pigs trying to escape a big, bad wolf --
children can bring to bear their life experiences and their abilities, no matter what their level of facility with oral English.
Haiku poets primarily write about
common, everyday experiences, usually involving natural objects
Children's ability to mentally picture a situation--whether encountered through art (for example, as part of a story) or in real life--enables them to...
create a vivid mental representation that they will be able to remember.
Tribes of the Sioux Nation (among other Plains Indians) maintained historical calendars composed of winter counts. Tribe historians would
depict a significant event for each year on a buffalo or deer skin
Tribes of the Sioux Nation (among other Plains Indians) maintained historical calendars composed of winter counts. Tribe historians would
depict a significant event for each year on a buffalo or deer skin.
In the 12th century, Western harmony began splitting off in a different direction from the rest of the word's music. What was so revolutionary?
development of 3-note chord progressions
When children improvise scenes from stories, they
immediately bring their own experiences to bear, helping them to understand the feelings of the characters.
In the "Freeze Game," the children and teacher dance to music. During the dancing, the teacher holds up a picture of a stick figure in a specific pose. When the music stops, the children model that particular pose. What is the most obvious executive function skill that this activity teaches?
inhibitory control
The first instrument capable of playing a true bass line was the
organ
Artistic endeavors have been linked to a wide-awake quality of awareness, which stimulates active attention as opposed to....?
passive involvement
Verbal interactions in the classroom have waned because of
pressure to prepare students for written tests.
By integrating historical songs into the United States history curriculum, teachers can
recreate the musical "soundtrack" of American history and help K-12 students feel a connection to the experiences of people who lived in an earlier era.
The bass line in a piece of music is its
root
Timbre, also known as tone color, refers to .....
the quality of the sound
Storytelling skill is correlated with success in English language arts classes. However, teachers have in recent decades found it difficult to teach narrative writing because
students' constant exposure to the electronic media makes them more likely to reproduce versions of stories they have seen on TV or online than to create their own original stories.
Child puppeteers often wear black shirts and black gloves when manipulating their puppets on-stage because
the audience sees the puppet and doesn't notice the puppeteer when the puppeteer is wearing black.
Leo Tolstoy, who is considered to be one of the world's greatest authors, argued that great art has a contagious quality that makes it accessible to every person. He argued that the power of a work of art lay in its ability to...
unite people in the same feeling.
Which of the following is NOT a component of working memory?
vocabulary
Writing differs from conversation in that
when people talk, they can change the direction of the conversation as often as they like