VAPA and PE Educational Resources
My name is Daniel McCloud and currently I am an 8th grade U.S. History teacher at Frank Augustus Miller Middle School in Riverside, California. The purpose of this website is to provide teachers of the social sciences with resources to incorporate both Visual and Performing Arts (VAPA) and Physical Education (PE) aspects to their classrooms. This will help your students to gain an understanding of the VAPA and PE standards that they are supposed to have mastered in each and every grade level. Like I stated earlier, I am an 8th grade U.S. History teacher so much of this website will be geared towards an 8th grade U.S. History class, but think of this as just an outline that can be tweaked and adjusted to fit your classroom. I think that all teachers can agree that lessons that involve the arts and any form of physical movement are the lessons that are most enjoyable to teach and most effective for students to learn. Remember that you have an awesome job and you need to be creative in order to best teach your students. Use the VAPA and PE frameworks/standards to help you in this endeavor.