National Humanities Center
Teaching The Great Gatsby: A Common Core Close Reading Seminar
The 41 slides in a professional development seminar model how to use close reading techniques to examine the many layers of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. In addition to passages from the novel, slides provide biographical...
Missouri Department of Elementary
R-E-S-P-E-C-T: A Basic Skill
Imagine seventh graders developing a school wide plan to promote respect in their school. That's the vision behind the second lesson in the R-E-S-P-E-C-T series. In preparation for designing a school-wide media campaign, class members...
EngageNY
TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 12
How can opinions slant facts? Workshop participants learn how to examine primary and secondary sources and identify the author's point of view. They also examine how visual art impacts the meaning and rhetoric of sources. Full of...
West Virginia Department of Education
Technical Writing: Real-World Writing in the 21st Century
Wondering how to respond to the age-old question when will I ever use this? The answer is very simple when discussing technical writing. Teachers and administrators gain an understanding of using technical writing in the classroom....
New York State Education Department
TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 10
How have educational standards evolved? Educators of adults examine expectations in the 10th workshop out of 15 to better determine how standards have grown. Participants respond to a variety of sample questions to determine how they...
US Department of Education
The Wolfsonian Inc.: Artful Citizenship Project: Three Year Project Report
This is a PDF report on an arts-integrated social studies curriculum project designed to provide third- through fifth- grade students and teachers with the tools necessary to: develop visual literacy skills; implement social science...
Other
Reading Quest: Making Sense of Social Studies
Teaching students to read well in areas other than language arts requires teaching and reinforcing the kinds of reading strategies taught here. There are 27 strategies, ranging from brainstorming to word mapping. The site includes PDF...
Other
Kodak: Social Studies Lesson Plans
This Kodak site has twelve lesson plans submitted by teachers from every grade level. Each activity integrates photography into the lesson.
University of South Florida
Usf: A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust Art
Art and music were not exempt from receiving Hitler's influence during the holocaust. Here you can view Nazi approved art, art considered "degenerate," art from inside the camps and ghettos, and art inspired by the holocaust. This is a...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Art From the Holocaust
An exhibit in the Yad Vashem museum highlights art made during the Holocaust. Click on each piece of artwork to read background information on the artist. An external link takes you to a PDF explaining how the collection was curated.
Columbia University
Columbia University: Project Portfolio: Art and Understanding
Website offers a video e-seminar from Columbia University artists and theorists on the question, "What is art?"
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Pop Art in the Us
This collection uses primary sources to explore Pop art in the US.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Sfmoma: Art Think
ArtThink lessons and activities show how interrelated art is with other disciplines, such as language arts and social studies, and teaches us that there are many way to look at and understand a piece of art. The glossary does more than...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Teaching About Auschwitz Through Art
Examining art from the Holocaust helps us to deepen our understanding of the Holocaust and view it as a human experience. You do not need to be an expert in the field of art to use it in the classroom. This site will give you guidelines...
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Minneapolis Institute of Art: Book of Multicultural Images
Pictures of people, clothing styles, spiritual deities, places, and animals from around the world to color, to paint, and to use as inspiration. Different historical periods and cultures are represented making this a good resource for...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Arts and Humanities: Art of Asia
A landing page for a course on the art history of Asia.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Arts and Humanities: Art of Africa
A landing page for a course on African art found in regions and in individual countries.
Crayola
Crayola: Birth of Islands (Lesson Plan)
This site is a lesson plan that incorporates language arts, social studies, science, and art. After studying islands, and how they're formed, students create their own models using clay. Also provides resources and adaptations. (To...
Crayola
Crayola: Bold and Bright in Harlem (Lesson Plan)
This lesson plan incorporates art into a social studies or language arts class. Students create their own pictures, using the work of Harlem Renaissance artists as inspiration. Also provides resources and adaptations to try with this...
Other
Asia Art: Chinese Brush Painting
This online resource is for an art or social studies teacher looking for ways to explore the fundamentals of Chinese art with their students. The site provides information on techniques, composition, calligraphy, color, and much more. At...
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Lesson: Navajo Weaving
Intergrating dance into your social studies lesson on the Navajo culture will give your learners a glimpse into another way of life. They will use their knowledge of loom weaving, Native Americans, and creative dance to express these...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Social Realism
This collection uses primary sources to explore social realism in American art.
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: The Anguish of Liberation as Reflected in Art
The liberation of concentration camps after WWII was another struggle to overcome for the Jewish people. Many were starting over and were lost and frightened. Art helped give them a sense of control and freedom that they had not...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Visual Art During the Harlem Renaissance
This collection uses primary sources to explore visual art during the Harlem Renaissance.
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