The Social Studies/ Visual Arts Connection

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TheSocial Studies/Visual ArtsConnection
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Social Studies Standards

• Responsible citizenship found in the Civics
  (Government) standards.
• Spatial awareness found in the Geography
  standards.
• Economic literacy found in the Economics
  standards.
• Historical analysis found in the World and U.S.
  History standards

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• The social studies teacher aspires to
  provide instruction in the standards through
  meaningful, challenging, integrated, and active
  lessons. The foundation of these state standards
  is designed to foster responsible decision making
  that benefits the local and tribal community,
  state, nation, and world. Responsible citizens
  are informed and active. They recognize their
  roles in connection with the world. Students in
  South Dakota should actively apply this knowledge
  through projects, classroom involvement, and
  volunteerism.

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Visual Art Standard 3

• Students will understand the relationship between
  visual arts and history, culture, and society.

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Paleolithic Period
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Ancient Egypt
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Rome
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China
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Medieval
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Africa
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Native American
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Renaissance
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Impressionism
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Expressionism
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Abstraction
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Realism
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Couldnt Resist-ism
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Social Criticism
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Post WW II
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Pop
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Technological
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Environmental
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As an artist, I see how history infuses my work.
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• The standards give us the following examples
• Create a class big book about American
  figures.Color the land and water on a simple
  map.Create a booklet using magazine pictures to
  show wants and needs.Build a Native American
  village for Native American Day.Create and
  explain a personal timeline.Create a big book of
  holidays celebrated in other countries.Create a
  map of the perfect playground for your
  school.Invent a new American symbol.Write and
  illustrate a group story about good
  citizenship.Create a chart showing how farming,
  schools, or communities have changed over
  time.Illustrate past dwellings (tipestola,
  hogan, longhouse, pueblo) and present-day
  housing.Make a paper quilt illustrating various
  holidays.Design an aerial map of a new classroom
  arrangement.Create an original map of an
  imaginary country including map key/legendDesign
  a safety poster illustrating a law being obeyed
  and a law being broken.

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Students remembered

• Rainforest project
• People of the Past
• Suitcases and postcards
• Popsicle stick houses
• Maps
• Paper mache globes
• Pinatas
• Mummies
• Pyramids
• Masks
• Clay relief maps
• Posters
• Brochures

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Boston Globe Winner and Hetland

• The arts teach vital modes of seeing,
  imagining,
  inventing, and thinking.
• Seeing new patterns
• Learning from mistakes
• Envisioning solutions

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Building tubano drums
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As Ive gotten older

• Collecting Books
• Attending Workshops
• Inviting Speakers
• Taking Risks
• Planning Fieldtrips
• Letting the Students Lead
• . Be passionate about what you do!!!

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Books

• I particularly like books on various cultures.
• I pick up discarded books.
• I frequent the used book store
• I order a few books every year.
• The library orders me new books every year!
  
  
  
  
  Build your own library.

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Workshops

• World Drumming- Gloria Brandt Harrison
• Book Making- Connie Herring
• Surface- Lynn Verschoor
• Lakota Arts- R. D. Theisz
• 3-D shapes- Dick Termes
• Arts Education Institutes

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Speakers

• World travelers
• Students
• Parents
• Immigrants
• Elders
• Specialists

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Risks

• Dont be afraid to try something and fail. The
  students wont care- theyll immediately go into
  problem solving mode.
• Tell people what you need. The supplies may be
  out there.
• Write a grant, put on a workshop, be a presenter,

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Students leading

• When studying a topic, dont be afraid to ask the
  students how they want to learn about it. Let
  them search for information.
• Let them investigate, recreate, and discuss the
  process.
• SG story

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Some ideas

• Books- multicultural paper
• Styrofoam prints- petroglyphs
• hieroglyphics
• social criticism-
  current events
• Face proportions- famous historical figures
• trading cards
• Drums
• Polyhedrons- collage, current events
• Grid Art (Remember, an imagined scene or abstract
  concept is difficult to grid)

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Websites

• Smithsonian
• ARTSEDGE Lessons
• making percussion instruments
• Louise Wells Cameron Art Museum