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ARTSENSE Elementary Art

"Whoever produced this program knows the reality of today's classrooms and the demands placed on teachers!"

The ARTSENSE Story

ARTSENSE Author, Carolyn Crouse, first recognized the need for an easy elementary art program in 1987. Her ten-year old son arrived home from school one day and declared, "Mom, I hate art!" Determined to discover the problem and find a solution, Mrs. Crouse asked classroom teachers at her son's school to describe an art resource that they would really use.
Here's what they said:

MAKE IT FAST AND MAKE IT EASY!
"The resource better magically deliver the art content, because I'm not going back to school to learn it."
"Art intimidates us and we're not willing to study teacher manuals and dispense textbooks to teach art."

Quick ARTSENSE videos deliver art instruction.

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MAKE IT INTEGRATED!
"I don't have any extra time in my class schedule, so if I'm going to teach art, then it must be integrated with other subjects."
"I want art projects to help teach reading, writing and social studies."

Over 600 ARTSENSE projects and activities integrate art.

KEEP IT SIMPLE!
"The art projects must use simple materials that I can easily find at school or accumulate from parent donations."

ARTSENSE projects require simple, easy-to-get materials.

And so began the ARTSENSE story. The author first asked teachers what they would realistically use and then created the most popular and easiest-to-use art resource today. After fifteen years, it remains the top multimedia art program in the country. Classroom teachers prefer ARTSENSE over textbooks for its ease-of-use and integrated activities. Art specialists praise the program's high level art content and art history connections. Students like the program because it's fun to watch the video lessons and even more

fun to create the easy projects. After 18 years, ARTSENSE is teaching well over a million students across the country. And it all began with a little boy named Robert who "hated art."

About the author:
	Carolyn Crouse author of The Original ARTSENSE Series and the new ARTSENSE Elements Series, holds a BS/SED in Education, with majors in art and English from Auburn University and an MED/Art Education from the University of Florida. A certified art specialist K-12, she has taught art, English and journalism in middle school, junior high and high school. She taught Art for Elementary Teachers at the college level.
Mrs. Crouse is a nationally recognized consultant to public and Catholic school districts across the country on the integration of art and literature with the traditional curriculum. She is a popular speaker on art integration at state conferences and has twice been a featured speaker at both National ASCD Conferences and Core Knowledge Conferences. Mrs. Crouse continues to work with teachers to provide instruction in the elements and principles of art and to motivate them to make art the center of the elementary curriculum. In the words of a teacher who attended an ARTSENSE inservice... *Carolyn Crouse could make anyone love art!*

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