The Activity Bank

The GIVE Activity Bank is a resource bank of short activities or skill-based tasks that already include supports and accommodations to meet a range of students’ needs. These activities can be easily added to your lesson—with small adjustments for your unique students and classroom—to make it more inclusive.

These activities have been submitted as is by New York City Teaching Artists from New Victory Theater, ArtsConnection, and Community-Word Project.

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  • Personalizing Your Notepad

    Ages: Upper Elementary (3-5), Middle School (6-8)
    Art Forms: Visual Arts, Literary Arts

    In this activity, students receive and customize a notepad for use throughout the residency, fostering a sense of ownership and creative freedom. Retrieving an…

  • Point of View

    Ages: Upper Elementary (3-5), Middle School (6-8), High School (9-12)
    Art Forms: Visual Arts, Media Arts

    Students will use photography or drawing to capture different points of view and reflect on the experience.

  • Quick Group Scavenger Hunt

    Ages: Middle School (6-8), High School (9-12)
    Art Forms: Visual Arts

    In this small-group activity, students learn about each other and build community by participating in a scavenger hunt.

  • Rhyme Time

    Ages: Early Childhood (PK-2), Upper Elementary (3-5), Middle School (6-8), High School (9-12)
    Art Forms: Theater, Music, Literary Arts

    This activity is a great introduction to or review of rhyme as a tool for poetry, music, and theater.

  • Self–Audio Description and Growth

    Ages: High School (9-12)
    Art Forms: Dance

    The purpose of this activity is to help each student start to develop their own self–audio description practice. There’s no best way to do it, other than to be…

  • Sensory Details

    Ages: Upper Elementary (3-5), Middle School (6-8)
    Art Forms: Literary Arts

    In this language-building activity, students will learn and practice using sensory descriptors in their writing.

  • Shape Transformation with Clay Animation

    Ages: Upper Elementary (3-5), Middle School (6-8)
    Art Forms: Media Arts

    Building on knowledge of three-dimensional shapes, students will practice basic clay molding and transformation techniques in animation. This activity assumes …

  • Snake Game Animation

    Ages: Upper Elementary (3-5)
    Art Forms: Media Arts

    Students will use sticky notes to create a stop motion animation version of a vintage phone game called Snake.