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Unrolling the Landscape
Young scholars create a landscape painting using traditional Chinese techniques. They review Chinese landscape paintings, paint an original landscape and write a poem to go with their picture.
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Let's Paint a Pioneer Song
Students listen to stories about and examine pictures of pioneers, and compose their own pioneer songs to familiar melodies.
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Comparing Time Periods in U.S. History: The Ashford Project
Fifth graders use a "fact book" comparing periods in American history then students create a picture to illustrate their assigned periods. # # students use their pictures and concept maps to write expository paragraphs about their...
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African American Heritage in Arkansas
Learners research and write about three African American composers from Arkansas: Scott Joplin, Florence Price and William Grant Still.
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Taming the Frontier
Students examine paintings by Thomas Cole and Jasper Francis Cropsey as windows into American frontier life. They consider the pioneer's relationship with nature and the role of Native Americans in the pioneer's lives and settlements.
San Francisco Symphony
Heritage Song
Learning how to compare and contrast is a core skill. Learners compare two music selections that showcase a specific heritage. They draw and discuss how each song and the composers of each song used their personal heritage as...
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American Indians and Their Environment
Learners create a storyboard of the three American Indian language groups showing the geography of where they lived and how they adapted to the environment. They compare European and American Indian views of nature and explain how these...
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I Search My Family Project
Students research their family's heritage. They follow a guide, document their family's history and put it together in report form.
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Living and Working Now and Long Ago
Students visit an online museum and storybook to examine what life was like for African Americans during and after the Civil War.
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A Guide for Community Living
Students use photography to help them become more knowledgeable about their communities, and to make a "community survival" book in which problems are solved by going to the right community agency.
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Social Studies: Micronesian Independence Day
Young scholars pretend that they are visiting a relative in Micronesia and compare its Independence Day with the U.S. holiday. They compare the two countries' flags while older students in grades three through five create travelogues....