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20 Mar 2019

Debra Henning: What’s In A Word? Cross-Curricular Instruction and Assessment in the Arts

Debra Henning Leave a Comment adrian villar rojas, arts assessments, arts education, arts integration, cross-curricular connections, frank gehry, iwan baan, language arts, louis vuitton, MAEIA assessments, martin agryoglo, paris, social studies, visual arts, where the slaves live

The following post offers an example of the manner in which MAEIA’s “Cross-Curricular Connections Assessment,” V.T 312 for Grade 8, can encourage students to think deeply about connections between the visual...

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10 Jul 2018

Debra Henning: HUSTLE Opens Science Gallery Detroit

Debra Henning Leave a Comment arts integration, Hustle, International Science Gallery, project-based learning, Science Gallery Detroit, STEAM

  In 2008 science and art moved a step closer with the opening of

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27 Feb 2017

Museum Education and MAEIA: Support for Standards-Based Classroom Instruction by Debra Henning

Debra Henning Leave a Comment and Chocolate, Arts and Sciences, arts education, Bitter/Sweet: Coffee, Debra Henning, Detroit Institute of Arts, Getty Research Institute, Ivan Day, Mobile Tour: The Art of Food, Museum Education, Tea, The Edible Monument, The Story of Stuff

The Edible Monument: The Art of Food for Festivals, an exhibit on view at The Detroit Institute of Arts through April 16, 2017, offers a...

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19 Oct 2016

Debra Henning: Disappearing the Gulf between the Arts and Sciences

Debra Henning Leave a Comment Cosmopolitan Chicken Research Project, ENERGY/MASS, Glenn Kaino, Mara Hasseltine, Next Generation Science Standards, Vanmechelen, Wasserman Projects

“We are in a revival of a cosmopolitan renaissance where we make the combination again between imagination and knowledge. We need art and science to make a connection. Out of this we can create...

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