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.

Making the Revolution Relevant

Making the Revolution Relevant

Grade Level : Grade 5
Content Area : Social Studies
Guiding Question : How does the American Revolution affect how we live today?
Artistic Discipline : Performing Arts
Unit Topic : American Revolution

Musical Journey through the Cell

Musical Journey through the Cell

Grade Level : Grade 5
Content Area : Science
Guiding Question : How do the parts of an animal or plant cell act as a single unit?
Artistic Discipline : Performing Arts
Unit Topic : Cell Life, Biology

Exploring Checks and Balances in Government…and Dance

Exploring Checks and Balances in Government…and Dance

Grade Level : Grade 5
Content Area : Social Studies
Guiding Question : Why was there a need to separate/divide the powers of government?
Artistic Discipline : Performing Arts
Unit Topic : US Government

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