"Play with Purpose"

arts in education student workbook to accompany teachers manual Teaching Curriculum Through the Arts

"Have Fun While You're Learning;
Learn While You're Having Fun"

A Student Workbook
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"Dear Ronn,
The book "Play with Purpose" is perfect! Carole (Nussbaum, school principal, PS 203) adores it.
Many thanks,
Debra Halpern, parent coordinator
PS 203, Queens, NY"


This Workbook is our response to what we perceive as the dire need for this world's students to learn to engage in "high quality thinking!"

Play With Purpose, based on the principles of Howard Gardiner's "Theory of Multiple Intelligences," offers a treasure trove of activities and techniques to help make connections between what is in this Workbook, with their entire academic curriculum, and with their daily lives by doing the workbook's exercises. Play With Purpose will:
  • help students learn to "think outside the box"
  • teach students to innovate
  • help students solve problems creatively
  • allow students to approach any academic subject through their own dominant learning style
  • help students use their intellect, intuition, imagination, and even their feelings to really understand what they are learning.
It is the understanding of what they are learning which will make a difference in your students' lives and their very survival ability. It will give them
  • tools to practice good citizenship in a democracy
  • the ability to develop lasting relationships
  • the chance to develop tolerance and compassion and strength of character... to be a better person
  • the foundation for developing a passion for lifelong learning.
Give your students the opportunity to expand their minds, to see their education as more than merely drill and memorization and tests; rather to actually have fun while they are learning and learn while they're having fun!

Buy the hard copy:
$15
(plus shipping and handling)

Play with purpose drama student workbook

or get a discount and avoid shipping charges and get your play script downloaded right to your desktop for
just $11!

Buy arts-in-education teachers manual
You will receive a Zip file containing a Word document.

(Why buy an ebook? Many reasons: Click here.)



This workbook contains 60 pages of activities in a wide variety of academic subjects, black and white pictures and even humor. It is 8 1/2" x 11" in size, and costs only $11. This workbook is ideal for elementary and middle school aged students, and we have tested it, with adaptations, on students as young as the third grade, and as advanced as adults. The principles apply to anyone and all of us. In fact, you'll even enjoy doing it yourself!

Please Note: Although Play With Purpose is designed to supplement the teachers manual Teaching Curriculum Through the Arts, this very special student workbook may be used effectively solely on its own!

The contents of Play with Purpose include:
  • The In-High Game, a simple and effective strategy to improve student concentration.
  • Being Smart: a description of Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences in age-appropriate terms.
  • A Multiple Intelligences Inventory-self evaluation tool for children.
  • Stretching Your Imagination exercises.
  • The Word Poem: A Linguistic Verbal strategy.
  • The Teddy Bear Technique: A Visual Spatial strategy.
  • Language Arts strategies utilizing all intelligences.
  • The Poetry of Perception: Improving writing skills strategies utilizing all intelligences.
  • History strategies utilizing all intelligences.
  • Index.
  • 60 pages. Pbk. plastic comb binding.


Buy the hard copy:
$15 (plus shipping and handling)

Play with purpose drama student workbook

or get a discount and avoid shipping charges and get your play script downloaded right to your desktop for
just $11!

Buy arts-in-education teachers manual
You will receive a Zip file containing a Word document.

(Why buy an ebook? Many reasons: Click here.)

Other ways to order than by credit card:
(click here)

Click here to go to the Classics in the Classroom page and see how a Master Artist Teacher can work with your class with these principles.

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