Grades 3rd-5th
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3rd-5th Grade
Arts-Integrated Math
| Episode | Watch Here | Watch on Vimeo | Connected Objective | Academic + Arts Standards and Extensions | SEL Connections |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acting as Architects and Artists: Let's Create Cityscapes! | WATCH ON VIMEO | The Commutative Property of Multiplication is taught through the Visual Art Element of Value. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness | |
| Pixelating Our World: Designing Robots Using Color and Multiplication Concepts | WATCH ON VIMEO | Area and the Distributive Property are demonstrated through the use of Color and Pixelation in Visual Arts. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness | |
| Tiling it On: Area and Tessellation | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will use Visual Arts to create a tessellated tile pattern to discover that area is the multiplication of side lengths in a rectangle. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness | |
| Math Mappers | WATCH ON VIMEO | Technical Drawing is used to teach the Area of rectilinear shapes. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness | |
| Chants for Change: Using Fraction Parts on a Number Line | WATCH ON VIMEO | Fractions are shown to be a portion of a whole, just as Music is a part of human culture. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness, Social Awareness, Making Responsible Decisions | |
| Beyond the Whole: Rhythmic Sounds and Fractions Parts Beyond 1 | WATCH ON VIMEO | Fractions greater than one are explored through Music notation and rhythm. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness | |
| Amazing Equivalents: Equivalent Fractions and Beats in a Measure | WATCH ON VIMEO | Equivalent Fractions are discovered through different rhythms in a measure of music. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness | |
| The Factors of Dance: Breaking It Down as We Break Down Whole Numbers | WATCH ON VIMEO | Multiples and Factors of Whole Numbers are determined through simple Dance patterns. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness | |
| Swinging through our Math Facts: Using Dance to practice the 6, 7, 8, and 9 Facts in Multiplication | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students learn simple Swing Dance steps to help remember Multiplication Facts. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness | |
| Syncopated Fractions: Adding Fractions on a Number Line! | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students learn how Dancers break a unit of time down into syncopated steps. Putting those steps together is a form of Adding Fractions | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness | |
| Acting Out Word Problems: Using Theater Elements to bring Division Word Problems to Life | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will adjust their bodies and voices to become the characters in a division word problem. Using acting techniques, they will discover what to solve for. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Social Awareness | |
| Warming up for Geometric Tableaux: Combining Yoga with Math to prepare our bodies and minds. | WATCH ON VIMEO | Theatre elements of tableau and physical warm-ups are used to identify and express geometric vocabulary. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self-Awareness, Mindfulness | |
| Club Quarantine: Making Music with Fractions | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will identify fractions on a number line, understand the musical notes that correspond with the fractions, and write their own songs using notes and fractions. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self-Awareness | |
| Tap Dancing with Fractions | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will use tap steps, choreography, and visual fraction models to review fractions as part of a whole. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self-Awareness | |
| A-cute Story about Angles | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will identify acute, obtuse, right and straight angles through their bodies, their names, and a puppet show. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self-Awareness | |
| Solving Math Problems Through Song | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will create a song to identify the steps to solving a word problem and use that song to solve fraction word problems. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self-Awareness, Self-Management | |
| Math-Inspired Mobiles | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will identify and draw two dimensional shapes in order to create an Alexander Calder inspired mobile. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self-Awareness, Self-Management |
Arts-Integrated Literacy
| Episode | Watch Here | Watch on Vimeo | Connected Objective | Academic + Arts Standards and Extensions | SEL Connections |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pieces of Our Journeys | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will annotate one portion of Grandfather’s Journey to answer the 5 W’s and will annotate a second portion of the story through the eyes of an artist to summarize their understanding through art. Students will share their own journeys, organized by who, what, when, where, and why and expressed through collage. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self- Awareness, Self-Management, Social Awareness | |
| Salty Self Portraits Inspired by Sulwe | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will identify the theme of a story and incorporate it into self-portraits using watercolor paint and salt. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self-Awareness, Social Awareness | |
| Zines and Beans: What Will We Grow in our Garden? | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will explore how various characters in Seedfolks grow and make an impact in order to consider the ways that they personally can grow and make an impact through the creation of a mini zine. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Social Awareness, Self-Awareness | |
| Dancing Around Our Way: Connecting Poetry and Point of View to Movement | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will identify how point of view impacts the content and style of a text and explore dance movements that bring these texts to life. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Social Awareness, Self-Awareness | |
| Inferences: Lyrics Are the Clues We Use | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will identify details in the lyrics of a song in order to explain its meaning and write a song to help them remember the process that they used. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self-Awareness, Self-Management | |
| Exploring the Art of Jean-Michel Basquiat: Creating Crowns of the Royalty Inside of Each of Us | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will look closely at the details for Jean Michel Basquiat’s artwork to determine themes in his work before creating their own Basquiat inspired crowns. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self- Awareness, Self-Management, Social Awareness | |
| From Athlete to Artist: Lyrics to Help Us Learn | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will analyze song lyrics and a short text to identify facts and traits about characters in order to write a song. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness, Social Awareness | |
| From the Pen to the Stage: Writing Original Scripts | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will use the elements of a story to write a script, using well-chosen details and event sequences AND act it out. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Social Awareness | |
| Creating, Revising, Performing, OH MY! The Power of Revision in the Creative Process | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will take criteria connected to theme, structure and intent and apply it to both poetry and dance in order to make revisions that improve the work. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self-Awareness, Social Awareness | |
| What Matters to You? Lifting Our Voices through Visual Art, Audio, and Written Word | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will reflect on and respond to poems and visual art with a central theme of cultural strength. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self-Awareness, Social Awareness | |
| #ITSAWHOLEMOOD: In Music, Texts, Illustrations, and US! | WATCH ON VIMEO | Sudents will explore two stories to see how illustrations contribute to the meaning and mood of a text, and identify songs that match the same moods. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self-Awareness | |
| Beauty in the Eye of the Owner: Exploring Theme through Song Lyrics | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will explore how similar themes are approached in different ways by two authors and write a song that captures their learning. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self-Awareness, Social Awareness | |
| Acting and Activism! Playgrounds or School Lunches? Finding Evidence to Support YOUR Point of View | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will listen to two characters’ monologues, representing different points of view, and will use evidence from those texts to determine which issue is more important to them. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Community Awareness | |
| Lights! Camera! Action! Exploring, Comparing and Staging Stories | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will analyze and compare a Greek myth and a West African folktale and will see how one scene can be brought to life using several elements of theatre. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self-Awareness, Social Awareness | |
| Traits of Everyday Superheroes | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will actively listen and do a close read of everyday heroes to identify the elements of character: traits, motivation, challenges, posture and voice. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self Awareness, Social Awareness | |
| Breaking Barriers in Athletics and the Arts! | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will paraphrase informational text about athletes who broke barriers and use the essential elements of drawing to illustrate them. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Social Awareness, Self-Awareness | |
| Bringing Myths to Life: Animating from Annotation! | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will annotate myths from different cultures in order to design and create flipbook animation that tells the stories. They will then compare and contrast the similar themes and topics from these two myths. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self-Awareness, Social Awareness | |
| Plotting to Become Writers! | WATCH ON VIMEO | Students will identify story elements and performance elements in order to write their own stories that they can bring to life through performance. | VIEW STANDARDS + EXTENSIONS | Self-Awareness |