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Arts & music Common Core RH.6-8.7 cultural activities
Create a Culture Collage Project with Rubric | Cultural Traits PBL | Microsoft
Create culture collages! This project challenges students to showcase a culture & its unique traits in a fun way. The activity can be adapted to a student’s own culture or any world culture. Directions, brainstorm charts, rubric & project examples are included! Choose whether students make digital or paper collages. Finished projects are always super creative! Print & interactive, digital versions of the materials are included. Made for traditional in-class learning or digital 1:1 cl
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3rd - 12th
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Integrated Arts Writing Prompts: Symbolism / Jean Michel Basquiat distance learn
Integrating the arts into Language Arts is such a powerful way to engage visual learners and pique interest in your students. This bundle includes 6 of Jean Michele Basquiat's paintings with corresponding prompts centered around symbolism. Why does he include words in many of his paintings? What would you title his most famous work, Untitled? Some of his life story is provided to give context. My students have gone bananas for Jean Michele and will write away about anything involving his "edgy"
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4th - 12th, Higher Education
Byzantine Icon Art Research and Activity
This is a FUN and ENGAGING activity to do within your Byzantine Empire unit study! This activity takes students through a detailed Power Point on the icons of the Byzantine Empire. Then, students will have the opportunity to complete an art project on an icon of their choice! There are 10 different formats to choose from! You can have your students choose their medium...Colored pencils, oil pastels, water colors...Either way, they will turn out GREAT and makes for a CREATIVE classroom wall d
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4th - 11th
Create a Culture Collage Project with Rubric | Cultural Traits PBL | Google
Create culture collages! This project challenges students to showcase a culture & its unique traits in a fun way. The activity can be adapted to a student’s own culture or any world culture. Directions, brainstorm charts, rubric & project examples are included! Choose whether students make digital or paper collages. Finished projects are always super creative! Print & interactive, digital versions of the materials are included. Made for traditional in-class learning or digital 1:1 cl
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3rd - 12th
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Frida Kahlo: La Casa Azul Virtual Field Trip
Take your students on a virtual field trip to learn about Mexican artist, Frida Kahlo. A great addition to your Women's History Month learning, your students will deepen their understanding of her life, artistic works, and contributions through this tour of her home and studio, La Casa Azul. This trip combines Google Earth™ 360° views, websites, informational text, video, and visuals, with everything set up in Google Slides and ready to go!This virtual field trip covers::: Who was Frida Kahlo?::
Grades:
5th - 7th
Also included in: Latin America Virtual Field Trip Bundle (Google Earth Exploration)
Mayan Empire Hieroglyphic City Emblem Activity
Mayan Empire Hieroglyphic City Emblem Activity* Art * Social Studies-History * Writing *This quick and fun activity teaches students what Mayan hieroglyphics are and how the Mayas used them to create city emblems. After the reading, students will sketch their own city emblem glyph based upon their own city using their own creativity! If you need help with this product, please contact me.I hope you enjoy!Spedtopia© 2021
Grades:
4th - 8th
How to Make Papel Picado (Day of the Dead, Halloween, Cinco de Mayo)
In Mexico, cut tissue paper or papel picado is a traditional decoration for Cinco de Mayo, the Day of the Dead, national holidays, weddings, funerals, and many other celebrations. These festive, brightly colored sheaths of paper hang from banners strung along balconies, across streets and buildings, homes, and squares.
In this activity, students create papel picado banners using colored tissue paper. This is a good activity for the art room, for holiday units, or to complement Spanish language
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K - 12th
African-American Art - A History of Black artists and styles (Slideshow)
Students can probably name some famous visual artists but can they name even one Black artist? This eye-catching slideshow presents some of the most prominent African-American artists to emerge during the long struggle for equality, discussing influences and different art styles in mostly chronological sequence.Starting with art in African cave paintings to ancient tribal art, slideshow covers rare examples of known Black artists in early America and Europe, major artists of the Harlem Renaissa
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Not Grade Specific
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Creating a Five Themes of Geography Travel Brochure
CREATING A FIVE THEMES OF GEOGRAPHY TRAVEL BROCHURE provides students with the opportunity to apply their knowledge of the five themes to a country. Students will develop research skills as they find applicable information for each theme as well as photos and graphics, practice the skill of writing in the content area as they write captions for photos, graphics, and maps, and foster creativity as they assemble a travel brochure that interests and informs. In addition, students will share their b
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5th - 7th
Staten Island History through Art
Compare and Contrast/ Question and Discussion with themes of modernization/ urbanization using images of Staten Island NY (paintings)
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Not Grade Specific
Also included in: Urbanization and Modernization (Turkey) FULL BUNDLE
Frida Kahlo Lesson
Detailed lesson plan for Global Studies,Integrates history and art. Engaging and interactive for all students.Includes appropriate accommodations.
Grades:
6th - 10th
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Hola, Flamenco – An Introduction to Spain's National Art
History, Music, Dance, Cultural Studies and adventure come together in a high-spirited, melodious romp through the rolling hills of Andalusia – all filmed in gorgeous high definition 1080p. Welcome to the next generation of educational movie!‘Hola, Flamenco’ is a historically-themed documentary short dedicated to Spain’s UNESCO-recognized national art. Featuring performances, demonstrations and interviews with some of Flamenco’s most renowned and charismatic figures, it provides a striking, vibr
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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MLK Day - remembering the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King
Slideshow presents a history of Dr. Martin Luther King through photographs, showing his progression from a church pastor to become America's greatest civil rights icon, touching on landmark moments in his life and the ongoing struggle for racial equality, including a detailed look his assassination and the aftermath (users may want to customize slideshow depending on grade level). This resource was created with eye-catching images to show students why Dr. King is important and why a national hol
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6th - 12th, Not Grade Specific
Puerto Rico is More than just Salsa – A Mini Curriculum
In cultural terms, Puerto Rico is unique among Caribbean islands for two reasons: first, it contains a post-colonial music form (Jibaro) that is completely free of African influences. Second, its most famous music form - Salsa - was not actually invented on the island itself.How did Brooklyn's Nuyorican community create a traditional music form while living so far away from the rhythms and melodies of home? Where can these influences be found among the throbbing beats of San Juan's current night
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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National Portrait Gallery Scavenger Hunt Activity
Here is the perfect activity for your students while visiting the National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC. There is also a teacher answer sheet attached!Inclusive, diversity of pictures and people, and critical thinking!Have students explore the different figures and answer these questions:1.What is a portrait? What feelings do the portraits reflect about the person in the portrait?2.What do these pictures have in common?3.How do you want to be reflected in the world?
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
The Banjo and its Relationship to Slavery (slides, videos, music, questions)
The mini-lessons on these slides trace the history of the American banjo - students will go back to its African roots, wade through its complicated relationship with slavery, and discuss the irony of today's generalizations of "who" plays the banjo. As one editorial article will say, "How did the banjo go from black to white?" (that article is included in the BUNDLE). The Essential Question for students is: What is the relationship between the banjo and slavery, and how did music making by slave
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Grades:
9th - 12th
Also included in: English 8 - Entire Year: Activities, Projects, Rubrics, Exams, Homework
Visual Literacy: John Henry's Hand
This is much more than an analysis of a visual. In addition to the art analysis worksheet to go along with Frederick Gerhard Becker's wood carving "John Henry's Hand," the unit contains a drawing assignment and a fill-in-the-blank writing assignment for students to explain what symbolizes them. This unit also contains a brief list of symbolic meanings of colors and lots of links to additional resources. I have used Visual Literacy: John Henry's Hand in ELA classrooms and social studies classroom
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6th - 11th
Hola, Flamenco – A Mini-Curriculum Devoted to Spain's National Art
History, Music, Dance, Cultural Studies and adventure come together in a high-spirited romp through the rolling hills of Andalusia!‘Hola, Flamenco’ is a historically-themed mini-curriculum dedicated to Spain’s UNESCO-recognized national art. Featuring performances, demonstrations and interviews with some of Flamenco’s most renowned and charismatic figures, it provides a striking, vibrant introduction to Spain, to European History, and to one of the world’s most beloved cultural genres.***An exci
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Destination Caribbean – The Historical Roots of Reggae, Calypso, Salsa + Tambrin
'Destination: Caribbean’ is a seven-part essay series dedicated to using the region's most popular music forms – Reggae, Calypso, Salsa, etc. – like a time machine, transforming rhythms, lyrics and melodies into a vehicle for understanding the historical conditions that created them. Many of the Caribbean's traditional dance steps, costumes, instruments and religions evolved as methods for slaves to preserve their culture and undermine their captors. As we discover through reading, a Rastafaria
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
The Romany: Centuries of Discrimination (Complete Mini Curriculum)
If you are lucky enough to have traveled in Europe, you’ve probably seen members of the Romany ethnic group gathered outside of popular tourist sites, Known variously as Roma, Gypsies, Tsingani, Boyash, Zingari, Kipti and, in Spanish, Gitanos, the Romany rank among Earth's most marginalized ethnic groups.'The Romany, Centuries of Discrimination,' is a 400-word informational text that can help teachers supplement their lesson plans for a variety of subjects - from History to the Arts to Ethnic St
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Jamaica's Reggae, Rage & Redemption – A Mini Curriculum
The spirit of the Islands comes alive! 'Destination: Music' is a seven-part essay series that follows one Musicologist's journey into Caribbean History.'Jamaica's Reggae, Rage & Redemption' is the powerful 3200-word climax of the series. Incorporating all the lessons learned in previous essays, it discusses the uniquely miserable conditions endured by Jamaica's slaves, and the unique cultural output that emerged as a result. Included in the analysis are the theories of repatriation theories
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Reggae, Calypso, Salsa & ‘Tambrin – An Introduction to Caribbean Music
The spirit of the Caribbean comes alive! 'Destination: Caribbean' is a seven-part essay series that follows one Musicologist's journey into Caribbean History.'Reggae, Calypso, Salsa and 'Tambrin' is the series's 700-word introduction. It provides a brief survey of the historical conditions that gave rise to the Caribbean's modern music forms. This primer is an excellent resource for History, Social Studies and Geography teachers, or for instructors of the Fine Arts, looking to provide their stud
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Hola, Flamenco (Documentary)
History, Music, Dance, Cultural Studies and adventure come together in a high-spirited, melodious romp through the rolling hills of Andalusia – all filmed in gorgeous high definition 1080p. Welcome to the next generation of educational movie!‘Hola, Flamenco’ is a historically-themed documentary short dedicated to Spain’s UNESCO-recognized national art. Featuring performances, demonstrations and interviews with some of Flamenco’s most renowned and charismatic figures, it provides a striking, vibr
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Ancient Egypt: Art and Architecture of Luxor Temple (Full 3D scan of Temple)
Take your students on an exclusive all-access field trip to Luxor Temple with a guided tour, lesson plan, activities, discussion questions, in-depth articles, and more. Students will be in awe of the ancient temple and learn about Ancient Egyptian religion, festivals, and daily life in Luxor. More than just 360-degree views, this is an exclusive guided tour and walkthrough of a brand new 3d scan of the entire temple. In recent news, Luxor Temple has been featured by the Egyptian Ministry of Tour
Grades:
4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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