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Art In History provides a rigorous comprehensive hands-on, project-based supplemental curriculum with activities that bring students inside the culture and historic time period being studied. Students are taught critical thinking skills, problem solving skills, and synthesizing skills through thematic content that is tied to different cultures, time periods, and genre's of the world. Instruction occurs through a variety of modalities including; timelines, maps, vocabulary sheets, essays, reading exercise, research projects, critiques, scoring rubrics, word splashes, T-charts, Venn diagrams, creative writing exercises, and both individual and group learning initiatives.

Students decorate historic replicas to reflect the time period and the culture from which they originated, while at the same time being introduced to a rigorous content-based curriculum program that is thematically connected to the replica. For example: As students are reading William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" they can be actively engaged in Art In History's curriculum project, "Oil Lamp", while studying important facts on Ancient Rome Including Geography, Early Settlement, The Roman Republic, Rome Expanding Its Control, and The Roman Republic Becoming an Empire - all while re-creating a replica of an Ancient Rome - Oil Lamp. Students are placed inside history itself which allows teachers to foster an environment of learning through a cross-curricular approach.

Through Art In History, students experience culture, historic time periods, and take a piece of history home with them as a constant reminder of the learning experience. The students will concurrently gain developmental knowledge and reinforcement of selected state and national standards in a variety of subject areas while enjoying themselves in a creative environment. The cycle of learning is truly a Discovery Through Creativity!

Art In History's curriculum projects are perfect for Reading, Writing, Speech, Literature Studies, Foreign Language Courses, and Title I programs.