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Grade Band:

Grades K-4
 

Integrated Subjects:
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Targeted Standards:

The National Standards For Arts Education:

Dance (K-4)
Standard 1: Identifying and demonstrating movement elements and skills in performing dance

Dance (K-4)
Standard 2: Understanding choreographic principles, processes, and structures

Dance (K-4)
Standard 3: Understanding dance as a way to create and communicate meaning

Music (K-4)
Standard 6: Listening to, analyzing, and describing music

Music (K-4)
Standard 9: Understanding music in relation to history and culture

Visual Arts (K-4)
Standard 1: Understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes

Visual Arts (K-4)
Standard 3: Choosing and evaluating a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas

Visual Arts (K-4)
Standard 4: Understanding the visual arts in relation to history and cultures

 

Other National Standards:

Grades K-4 History II (3-4) Standard 3: Understands the people, events, problems, and ideas that were significant in creating the history of their state

Grades K-4 History II (3-4) Standard 6: Understands the folklore and other cultural contributions from various regions of the United States and how they helped to form a national heritage

 

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Harriet Tubman Integrated Unit

 
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Unit Overview:

Harriet Tubman, a famous Civil War freedom fighter, is the focus of this unit that integrates the arts and history. Students use a variety of sources to research Harriet Tubman's life and accomplishments, then use this information to create a collage and and choreograph a movement piece.

 

Lesson Overviews:

Harriet Tubman Integrated Unit: Lesson 1

Students use a variety of sources, including photographs and artwork, to research and report on Harriet Tubman's life and accomplishments.

 

Harriet Tubman Integrated Unit: Lesson 2

Students depict a scene from the life of Harriet Tubman, in the style of Jacob Lawrence.

 

Harriet Tubman Integrated Unit: Lesson 3

In this lesson, students are introduced to the spiritual, an African American musical form that originated during the time of slavery.

 

Harriet Tubman Integrated Unit: Lesson 4

Students use movement to express the words and music of a song about Harriet Tubman.

 
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