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 : Social Studies Guiding Question : What can we learn about the values of colonial life through a comparison with current life? Artistic Discipline : Performing Arts Unit Topic : Colonial America
Grade Level : Grade 5 Content Area : Science Guiding Question : How do we use attributes to classify things? And how can we use movement studies to understand these attributes, by emboding the different kinds of movement patterns and body structures of various creatures of different species? Artistic Discipline : Performing Arts Unit Topic : Animal Classification
Grade Level : Grade 4 Guiding Question : How might movement be used to explore how simple machines affect the use of energy? Artistic Discipline : Performing Arts Unit Topic : Simple Machines
Grade Level : Grade 4 Guiding Question : How might dance moves be used to express power words? Artistic Discipline : Performing Arts Unit Topic : Power Words
Grade Level : Grade 5 Content Area : English Language Arts Guiding Question : How might elocution and theater skills help someone speak persuasively and confidently? Artistic Discipline : Performing Arts Unit Topic : Persuasive speaking
Grade Level : Grade 4 Content Area : Character Education ,Social Studies Guiding Question : How are the positive qualities of the Woodland Indian leaders relevant to today’s leaders of our country? Artistic Discipline : Visual Arts Unit Topic : Character Education, Native Americans, Leadership
Grade Level : Grade 5 Content Area : English Language Arts,Science Guiding Question : What are the persuasive elements of a powerful campaign? Artistic Discipline : Visual Arts Unit Topic : Adaptation, Leadership
Drama Teaches Anti-Bullying and Other Life Lessons
Grade Level : Grade 4 Content Area : Character Education Guiding Question : How can dance be used to express values? Artistic Discipline : Performing Arts Unit Topic : Character Education
Grade Level : Grade 5 Guiding Question : How can the inhumane treatment of people in the past influence one's beliefs and actions today Artistic Discipline : Performing Arts Unit Topic : Underground Railroad
Where in the World Do Things Increase/Decrease? Everywhere!
Grade Level : Grade 4 Content Area : Mathematics Guiding Guiding Question : Mathematics Guiding Question: Where do we find things increasing and decreasing in school and life? Artistic Artistic Discipline : Performing Arts Unit Topic : Mathematics
Grade Level : Grade 4 Content Area : English Language Arts Guiding Question : How can mythological characters' personalities and physical attributes be represented in sculptures? Artistic Discipline : Visual Arts Unit Topic : Mythology
Grade Level : Grade 5 Content Area : Science Guiding Question : What are the differences and similarities among plant and animal cells? Artistic Discipline : Visual Arts Unit Topic : Biology, Cells
Grade Level : Grade 5 Content Area : Social Studies Guiding Question : How can principles of the United States government be expressed through dance? Artistic Discipline : Performing Arts Unit Topic : US Government
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