1. Pick what you want to teach
Not every lesson needs to be an Arts Integrated lesson. Choose a lesson topic that you would like to use the arts to enhance, then select the objectives from the content your students need to meet.
2. Collaborate with Arts Teachers
Pick which arts medium you would like to use: art, music, theatre, dance, etc. Then, meet with that area teacher to talk about ways to incorporate the art medium into your lesson. Pick an arts objective that will work with your content objectives and write out a plan together. Make sure to use a common vocabulary that students will know from both classes.
3. Teach the lesson!
Jump in and get messy! Make sure that you are having students learn the lesson using content from the arts objectives so that they are learning your content area and the arts objectives at the same time.
4. Evaluate student Work
Make sure you evaluate what the students have learned in both the academic and the arts area. Give rubrics, design self-evaluations, use portfolios or a variety of other methods to indicate that the students learned and achieved both the academic and the arts objectives of your lesson.