Instructors

Linda Whelihan

Linda Whelihan is an artist and educator who specializes in engaging individuals and building community through shared art experiences. Her background as a teacher, museum educator, and artist informs her practice and she excels at creating art-full experiences that make lasting impressions. In her studio, she employs a variety of media and art-making techniques including puppetry, creative bookmaking and recycling. She is a natural facilitator and thrives on creating connections through whimsical pieces that charm and delight. She has exhibited and conducted art-making workshops for teachers and students in the Baltimore/Washington area and in Vermont where she has lived since 2007.

BAIP Classroom Teaching Specialist Sarah Aguda

Sarah Aguda is a 22 year veteran of City Schools, with experience teaching Prek-4th grade and general vocal music in an elementary setting. In the summer of 2010, she had her first experience with teaching through the arts and has never looked back! Sarah has served as Arts Integration Coach and Mentor for her school for the last 6 years. She loves the joy and excitement her students feel when engaging with Arts Integration. This fall, Sarah is thrilled to begin a new journey as her school's full time Arts Integration Coach!

Course curriculum

    1. About this Course

    2. Meet Your Instructors

    1. Course Introduction

    2. Meet Sarah Aguda

    3. Meet Linda Whelihan

    1. Our Approach to 'America, Then and Now'

    2. The Unit's Essential Question

    3. Key Student Understandings

    4. Video Lesson

    1. Brain Target 1: Creating Emotional Connections

    2. Brain Target 2: Setting Up Your Physical Space

    3. Teacher Task

    4. How Has Transportation Changed?

    5. What is that Thing?

    6. EOM Task Options

    1. Video Introduction

    2. Focus Question 1: Two-Voice Poems

    3. Focus Question 2: Image Transfer Technique

    4. Focus Question 3: Talk-Show Interviews

    5. Focus Question 4: Zines

    6. Ben Franklin's Inventions

    7. Focus Question 5: Invention Stations and Spokespuppets

    8. Teaching for Extension

    1. Evaluation Options

    2. Conclusion

About this course

  • 33 lessons