Units have been uniquely designed for individual classrooms through the collaboration of classroom teachers, specialty teachers and the teaching artists. Each project integrates grade level curriculum, a teaching artist's residency and a live performance or cultural organization site visit. The goal of these units is to promote artistic exploration by the students as well as strengthen their 21st Century skills and core subjects of ELA and mathematics.
Since the start of the 2015-16 school year, five-week units of study have been designed and implemented in Grade 4 and 5 classrooms during the fall and spring semesters. The projects' live performances or cultural organization site visits have served as a springboard for the study of a curriculum-based theme or topic.
Grade Level : Grade 4 Content Area : English Language Arts,Science,Social Studies Guiding Question : How can social studies, science, visual art and music lessons inspire the writing of folktales? Artistic Discipline : Visual Arts Unit Topic : Folktales
Grade Level : Grade 5 Content Area : Character Education ,English Language Arts Guiding Question : How does a writer use figurative language (a tool of the author’s craft) and a choreographer use energy, time and space (tools of a choreographer’s craft) to express the theme of standing up for oneself? Artistic Discipline : Performing Arts
Grade Level : Grade 4 Content Area : Character Education ,English Language Arts Guiding Question : How can dance and fairy tales be used to reinforce anti-bullying behaviors? Artistic Discipline : Performing Arts Unit Topic : Social-Emotional Literacy
Grade Level : Grade 5 Content Area : English Language Arts,Social Studies Guiding Question : What do great leaders look and sound like? Artistic Discipline : Performing Arts Unit Topic : American Presidents, Leadership
Grade Level : Grade 4 Content Area : English Language Arts,Social Studies Guiding Question : What Presidents Helped to Shape the United States? Artistic Discipline : Visual Arts Unit Topic : American Presidents
Grade Level : Grade 5 Content Area : Social Studies Guiding Question : What was the impact of the Manifest Destiny on Native Americans and American settlers? Artistic Discipline : Performing Arts Unit Topic : Westward Expansion
Grade Level : Grade 4 Content Area : English Language Arts Guiding Question : How might someone use his/her body and voice to embody a poem? Artistic Discipline : Performing Arts Unit Topic : Poetry, Drama
Grade Level : Grade 4 Content Area : English Language Arts Guiding Question : How do power words impact our lives? Artistic Discipline : Visual Arts Unit Topic : Power Words
Grade Level : Grade 4 Content Area : Science Guiding Question : How do we use attributes to classify things? And how can we use movement studies to understand these attributes? Artistic Discipline : Performing Arts Unit Topic : Animal Classification
Grade Level : Grade 4 Content Area : English Language Arts Guiding Question : How might images be used to tell a legend? Artistic Discipline : Performing Arts,Visual Arts Unit Topic : Legends, Creative Writing
Grade Level : Grade 5 Content Area : Social Studies Guiding Question : How might the 50 states' diverse physical features and the impact the those features have on populations, resources, land more be expressed through dance? Artistic Discipline : Performing Arts Unit Topic : Geography
Grade Level : Grade 4 Content Area : Character Education ,Social Studies Guiding Question : How can we use what we know about past and present leaders to develop our own strong character? Artistic Discipline : Performing Arts Unit Topic : Character Education
Grade Level : Grade 5 Content Area : Character Education ,Social Studies Guiding Question : What are the character skills of a good president? Artistic Discipline : Performing Arts Unit Topic : Social-Emotional Literacy
Grade Level : Grade 4 Content Area : Character Education Guiding Question : How can dance be used to express values? Artistic Discipline : Performing Arts
Drama Teaches Anti-Bullying and Other Life Lessons
Grade Level : Grade 5 Content Area : Character Education Guiding Question : How does one actor become many different characters? Artistic Discipline : Performing Arts Unit Topic : Character Education
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