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Units and lessons are to incorporate into existing curriculum the four strands of the grant: arts integration with a DBAE approach, technology integration, constructivist learning theory, and interdisciplinary curriculum.

 
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Special focus on subjects such as Posters, Latino Art, Storytelling, Folk Art, Public Sculpture, and Post Office Murals.

 
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Unit Topics


Acceptance
Africa
Alphabet
American History
Ancestry
Animals
Antigone
Application
Architecture
Art
art appreciation
Art expresses feelings
Art history
Asia
Asthetics
Asthma and Allergies
Battle of Little Bighorn
Beadwork
Beliefs
Biographies
Biology
Biomes
Body systems
Book project
Box Constructions
Brave New World
Careers
Castles
Catastrophes
Celebrations
Cells
Change
Changing views of women
Chemistry
Citizenship
Citybook
Civil War
Classicism
Colors
Communication
Communities
Conflict
Connections
Continuity
Creative Traditions
Creative Writing
Critical Thinking
Cultural Connections
Cultural Movements Since the 18th Century.
Cultures
Democracy
Descriptive Writing
Design
Development of early Latin American civilizations
Differences
Diversity
Dreams
early settlers
Earth Science
Earth, Animals and Habitat
Ecology
Ecosystems
Egypt
Electricity
Elements of Art
Emergent Reading
Emotions
Environment
Exaggeration
Exploration of the Interior Of North America
Expressive Language Arts
Fairy Tales
Families
Family Photos
Famous and Not So Famous Nebraskans
Farm Produce
Folk Art
Food
Forms of public sculpture
France in the Seventeenth Century
French
French Revolution
Genetics
Geographic and Historical Awareness
Geography
Geometry
German Artists in America
Glass Art
Global Connections
Global Interdependence
Grammar and vocabulary to communicate personal information
Grand Island History
hand made musical instruments
Harlem Renaissance
Heritage
Heroism
Historical Analysis
Historical figures
Historical Playwriting
History
History of masks and the mediums used to create them.
History of Sunset Hills neighborhood
HIV/AIDS
Holidays
Holocaust
Homes
Honoring historic people
How Water Flows (science)
Human rights
Identifying numbers and grouping objects.
Imagination
Immigration
Impressionist period.
Independent, Autonomous Novel Unit
Indians
Insects
Interdependence
Internationalism
Interpretation of Art
Interpreting
Invitations
Jacob Lawrence
Journey in Literature
Landforms
Landscape painting
Landscapes
Language Arts
Language Arts and math.
Language Arts, Oral & Written Communication
Language Arts,Oral and Written Communication
Language Arts/Performing Arts Expressions
Latin America
Leadership
Life Science
Life Skills
Life Structures - habitats
line, color, and pattern
Links between science and art
Literature
Logarithms
Making an art likeness from an original piece of art (found in a gallery).
Masks
Math-Proportion
Matter
Measurement and Geometric Figures
Measuring Weather
Media Literacy
Medieval Art History
Medieval Music
Meet the Author
Metric Measurement
Mexico
Micro-organisms
Microbes
Middle Ages
Monuments - Keeping History Alive
Multiculture Scientist
Murals
Music
Music composition (Students write and notate music)
Musical Composition
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Mythology
Napoleon
Native American Culture
Native American Masks
Native Americans
Natural resources
Nature Detectives
Nebraska Animals
Nebraska history
Noting details
Novel as Historical Reference
Novel Unit - LAST OF THE BREED
Novel: The Red Badge of Courage
Nuclear America
Nuclear America--Aztec, Inca, Maya Civilizations
Oceans
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Omaha history
Omaha study
Oregon Trail
Patterns
People
Perceiving
Personal decoration as cultural identity
Personal Safety
Perspective
physical and cultural geography of Nebraska
Physical Science: Properties & Forms
Picture Book Literature
Plant Life Cycles and Change
Plants
Plants
Poetry
Pointillism
Pop Art
Portraits
Present a message in visual artistic form.
Preservation
Presidential leadership
Printmaking
Problem solving
Public Sculpture
Public speaking
Pueblo Indian Culture
Quilt making and Winnebago Indian traditional artwork
Quilts and Early America
Ratio/Proportion and Scale
REACH- Respecting Ethnic And Cultural Heritage I Can Make My Neighborhood A Better Place
Reading
Recognizing geometric shapes and designs.
Recruiting
Regionalism
Relationships
Required reading and book project
Research and Presentation Skills
Respect for differences- Guidance curriculum
Revolutionary War
Rocketry - History and Rocketry Principles
Romanesque and Gothic Art and Architecture
Romeo and Juliet
Science
Science safety
Scientific Processes
sculpture
Seasonal changes effect natural activities
Self Concept and the Communities of School and Family
Shakespeare
Short Story
Similarities
Sixties
Social Skills
Social Studies
Solar System
Solar System and Space
Sound
Sound and Hearing
Sound and Sound Reproduction
Southwest Indians
Space & the Solar System
Space and Western Expansion
Spanish Grammar
Spanish Vocabulary
Spatial Awareness
Stamps
Stimulating learning activities for preschoolers (TL71)
Stop the Sun by Gary Paulsen
Story writing
Storytelling
Structures of Life: Origins of Seeds
Students will recognize change.
Studying literature of inclusion/exclusion
Studying the values and positions of math digits.
Stuhr Museum
Surrealism
Susan La Flesche Picotte and the Omaha Tribe
Symbolism
Symbols
Symmetry and Angles
Synthesizing information
Technology
Thanksgiving
The 1920s to World War II, the Cold War, and Beyond.
The 1930's
The 1960
The 20th Century: A Century of Conflict?
The 5 Kingdoms
The Art of Henri Matisse
The culture of the Latino community is reflected in their art.
The Development of Jazz
The HATS 1st Grade
The Hobbit - fiction
The Little Red Hen
The River
The Roman Military
The Six Traits of Effective Writing
The states of matter and elements
Time
Tornadoes and Weather/ Coping with Nature
Traditions
Transformations of cultures
Transportation
Traveling the Oregon Trail Through Nebraska
Trees
Uncovering the past--Language Arts
Underground Railroad
Understanding diverse cultures
Understanding Resources in Rural Communities
Universe
Using numbers
Utopia
Values
Vietnam
Washington, D.C.
Water
Water
Watercolor
Weather
Westward Expansion
William H. Johnson
Winnebago community culture
Words of Our Elders and Christmas on the Farm In The 1930's
Work and Machines
World Cultures
World History
World Music
World War I
Writing
Writing traits
Your Future