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.
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Math Mural: A Whole Lot of Learning
Grade Level : Grade 5 Content Area : Mathematics Guiding Guiding Question : How might the concept of 'parts of a whole' be expressed visually? Artistic Discipline : Visual Arts Unit Topic : Parts of a Whole
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 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
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 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
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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