Bergstrom-Mahler Museum School & Group ToursCurriculum Connections to Wisconsin Model Academic StandardsContent Standard: Art and Design EducationVisual Memory and Knowledge: Students in Wisconsin will know and remember information and ideas about the art and design around them and throughout the world.
Art and Design, Standard A
A.4.1Â Develop a basic mental storehouse of images
A.4.2 Â Learn basic vocabulary related to their study of art
A.4.3Â Learn about basic styles of art from their own and other parts of the world.
A.4.6 Know that art is a basic way of thinking and communicating about the world.
Art and Design, Standard B
B.4.1 Understand that artists and cultures throughout history have used art to communicate ideas and to develop functions, structures, and designs
B.4.2 Recognize that form, function, meaning, and expressive qualities of art and design change from culture to culture and artist to artist
B.4.3 Know that works of art and designed objects relate to specific cultures, times, and places
B.4.4 Know that art is influenced by artists, designers, and cultures
B.4.8 Learn that art historians, cultural anthropologists, and philosophers of art contribute to an understanding of art and design
J.4.8 Know that different cultures have different concepts of beauty
Art and Design, Standard K
K.4.1 Connect their knowledge and skills in art to other areas, such as the humanities, sciences, social studies, and technology
K.4.4 Use a variety of tools, such as words, numbers, sounds, movements, images, objects, emotions, technology, and spaces, to help understand and communicate about the visual world
K.4.6 Know about some of the similarities and differences of world cultures by studying their fine arts: music, dance, theatre, literature, and architecture
Art and Design, Standard L
L.4.3 Explore the role that personal traits, such as independent thinking, courage, integrity, insight, dedication, and patience, play in creating quality art and design
L.4.4 Understand that art is created by people and changes our time and culture
Art and Design, Standard C:
C.4.1 Explore the elements and principles of design
Art and Design, Standard D
D.4.4 Learn about basic concepts in art, such as orm follows function,less is more, balance, symmetry, and originality
D.4.5 Learn basic language used in art
Art and Design, Standard G
G.4.1 Know that art communicates ideas
G.4.2 Know that artwork has meanings
Art and Design, Standard I
I.4.3 Talk or write about feelings in a work of art
I.4.4 Recognize their own feelings when they look at work of art
I.4.5 Understand that art is made by people from different times, places, and cultures
I.4.6 Realize that creating or looking at art can bring out different feelings
Art and Design, Standard J
J.4.1 Explore the purposes and functions of art
J.4.2 Understand that the choice of materials and techniques influences the expressive quality of art
J.4.3 Learn that different cultures think about art differently
Content Standard: ScienceStandard B: Nature of Science
Content Standard: Students in Wisconsin will understand that science is ongoing and inventive, and that scientific understandings have changed over time as new evidence is found.
B.4.1 Use encyclopedias, source books, texts, computers, teachers, parents, other adults, journals, popular press, and various other sources, to help answer science-related questions and plan investigations
Science, Standard C: Science Inquiry
Content Standard: Students in Wisconsin will investigate questions using scientific methods and tools, revise their personal understanding to accommodate knowledge, and communicate these understandings to others.
C.4.1 Use the vocabulary of the unifying themes to ask questions about objects, organisms, and events being studied
C.4.2 Use the science content being learned to ask questions, plan investigations, make observations, make predictions, and offer explanations
Science Standard D - Physical Science
Content Standard: Students in Wisconsin will demonstrate an understanding of the physical and chemical properties of matter, the forms and properties of energy, and the ways in which matter and energy interact.Natural events are the result of interactions of matter and energy. When students understand how matter and energy interact, they can explain and predict chemical and physical changes that occur around them.
PROPERTIES OF EARTH MATERIALS
D.4.1 Understand that objects are made of more than one substance, by observing, describing and measuring the properties of earth materials, including properties of size, weight, shape, color, temperature, and the ability to react with other substances
D.4.3. Understand that substances can exist in different states-solid, liquid, gas
D.4.4 Observe and describe changes in form, temperature, color, speed, and direction of objects and construct explanations for the changes
Content Standard English Language Arts–Book Illustration ExhibitMyth & Magic: The Illustrations of Gerald McDermott and Telling Stories Out of School: Midwest Illustrators is a temporary exhibition at Bergstrom-Mahler Museum, April 11“June 21, 2009. This exhibition allows for many cross-curricular connections. The following is a list (but not limited to) of connections made with Wisconsin's Model Academic Standards for English Language Arts.
Great Authors and Literary Works
Human beings have produced a rich treasury of great writing. The language arts standards, like those of most states, do not specify a list of authors or works that must be read by all students. Selection of authors and works is left to language arts specialists who create the curriculum in each school district.
What is most important is that students learn to read well and read enough to meet their various needs and interests, that they have opportunities to read quality literature, and that they love to read. Exactly which works are read may vary from community to community. Selected resources are listed after the reading/literature standard.
English Language Arts Standard B (Writing)
Content Standard: Students in Wisconsin will write clearly and effectively to share information and knowledge, to influence and persuade, to create and entertain.
B.4.1 Create or produce writing to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes.
B.4.2 Plan, revise, edit, and publish clear and effective writing.
B.4.3 Understand the function of various forms, structures, and punctuation marks of standard American English and use them appropriately in communications.
English Language Arts Standard A
A.4.1 Use effective reading strategies to achieve their purposes in reading.
A.4.2 Read, interpret, and critically analyze literature.
A.4.3 Read and discuss literary and nonliterary texts in order to understand human experience.
Content Standard Social Studies Book Illustration Exhibit
Myth & Magic: The Illustrations of Gerald McDermott and Telling Stories Out of School: Midwest Illustrators is a temporary exhibition at Bergstrom-Mahler Museum, April 11June 21, 2009. This exhibition allows for many cross-curricular connections. The following is a list (but not limited to) of connections made with Wisconsin's Model Academic Standards for Social Studies. Content Standard Social Studies Standard B - History: Time, Continuity, and ChangeContent Standard: Students in Wisconsin will learn about the history of Wisconsin, the United States, and the world, examining change and continuity over time in order to develop historical perspective, explain historical relationships, and analyze issues that affect the present and the future.
B.4.1 Identify and examine various sources of information
that are used for constructing an understanding
of the past, such as artifacts, documents, letters, diaries, maps, textbooks, photos, paintings, architecture, oral presentations, graphs, and charts
B.4.3 Examine biographies, stories, narratives, and folk tales to understand the lives of ordinary and extraordinary people, place them in time and context, and explain their relationship to important historical events
B.4.4 Compare and contrast changes in contemporary
life with life in the past by looking at social, economic, political, and cultural roles played by individuals and groups. |
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