Arts & Activities

General

  • Jessica recommends watching "Fly me to the Moon", an animated feature about three young flies who catch a ride on Apollo 13. This movie can be found on Netflix, or rented.
  • Use this site for great pictures when making lapbooks. Contributed by Sue.
  • A vast resource on 20th-Century Art. Click on General, Early, or Later 20th-Century Art.
  • Recommended by Carol, this art history project book can be used in all four year-plans, as it goes through the 1980's. There are 80 projects in this book entitled Great Studio Projects in Art History, and is written by William Reid. ISBN 0825138523
  • Here's real help with Feast Nights: food timeline and recipes galore! Enjoy!
  • "Don't know if you've heard or participated in the Home Depot Kids' Workshops yet or not. But they are a blast. They give the child a complete project kit which includes everything they need for materials to build something. They have work tables set up with hammers, wood glue, screw drivers and anything else needed. Plus they give them a work apron & pins for completing the project. I took all three this morning with DH & he worked with the older two while I helped (big time) the younger. They were so proud of themselves." --From Susan in Florida
  • Brenda, another user, wrote: I wanted to pass along a great site to everyone...www.puzzlemaker.com You can put in a list of words,etc, and it will generate puzzles....everything from wordsearches, to crossword puzzles...codes, etc!!! They also have some really cool mazes which my younger ones love!! I have used it a lot for something fun to go along with what we are studying.....
  • Barb shared a great alternative to salt dough maps: cookie dough maps! Materials: dough recipe, waxed paper, blue icing, green sprinkles, clear sprinkles, small chocolate chips, red candy strips (licorice strings), M&Ms.

    Use these symbols:
    blue icing - lakes and oceans
    green sprinkles - plains
    clear sprinkles - deserts
    chocolate chips - mountains
    red candy strips - rivers
    M&Ms - capitals

    Dough Recipe:
    2 c. smooth peanut butter
    2 1/2 c. powdered milk
    2 1/2 c. powdered sugar
    2 c. white corn syrup
    Mix all ingredients together and put small portions on waxed paper. Makes about 25 small maps.

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Unit 1

Week 1: Dawn of the Twentieth Century

Week 2: The Progressive Era

Week 3: Wilson's Reforms & Europe's War

  • This site contains photographs of eight different real submarines, six model submarines and a large number of plans of old and modern boats. Submarine video clips and two virtual submarine tours are also presented.
  • Submarine models BBC 3-D reconstruction
  • Paper airplanes: Scroll through to find easy, medium difficulty, and hard to make varieties.
  • Periscope project: extended directions to supplement those given in the Student Activity Pages.
  • World War I cartoons: large enough to print as color pages
  • Frederick Delius and his music
  • Architecture in early 1900
  • Cubism Art
  • Pablo Picasso

    Week 4: Deadlock and Death

    Week 5: America Mobilizes & Russia Revolts

    Week 6: Winning the War & Losing the Peace

    Week 7: Postwar America

    Week 9: American Ballyhoo & Hitler's Early Career

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    • Unit 2

    Week 10: Bull Market and Black Market

    Week 11: Crash! The Great Depression in America

    • Stock Market Information from Nasdaq

    Week 12: FDR and the New Deal

    Week 13: Aggression and Appeasement

    Week 14: Blitzkrieg!

    Week 15: World-Wide War

    Week 16: Unconditional Surrender

    Week 17: Hot War to Cold War

    Week 18: A Jewish Homeland

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    Unit 3

    Week 19: India's Independence

    • The history of salt making. GREAT site for UG-R's. It's hyperlinked and interesting. Enjoy!
    • Making salt in your home. There is a brief description here, and you can get more details by subscribing to this website and paying $10/month. (If you have many smaller children and are looking for great ideas for science projects, this might be worth the fee for you. Otherwise, you can still gather enough from this page to make salt at home with your little ones. Make sure you supervise!) Though this project is designed for the study of crystals, you can explain to young children that the poor people of India would have started with sea water and then used a similar process to make salt for use with food or simply to swallow in order to retain vital body functions in the hot climate in which they labored.
    • Making salt
    • Making salt- a you tube video
    • Making salt sculptures
    • Coloring pages about India
    • Recipes from India- for kids
    • A History of Indian clothing
    • Frances Poulenc's music and biography

    Week 20: China's Revolution

    • Chinese propaganda posters. Fascinating jump-off discussion starters, especially after our in-depth study of propaganda in World War II. Compare/contrast, enjoy! Dialectic and up.
    • Coloring pages about China
    • PBS Documentary for use with discussion this week: Great Leap.  Don't miss associated ideas for follow-up teaching using this film. Click here.
    • Anton Webern

    Week 21: Truman: Korea & the Red Scare

    Week 22: Eisenhower's Oasis

    Week 23: Conformity and Change

    Week 24: Kennedy's New Frontiers

    Week 25: Camelot and Crisis

    Week 26: Johnson's Great Society

    Week 27: A Nation in Distress

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    Unit 4


    Week 28: Nixon: Détente and Watergate

    Week 29: Ford's Integrity

    Week 30: Carter's Malaise

    Week 31: Reagan's Revolution

    Week 32: G.H.W. Bush's New World Order

    Week 33: Clinton's Lost Opportunity

    Week 34: George W. Bush: War on Terror

    • For your mini-poster: George W. Bush
    • Crafts for your overview of Asia: Japan
    • Read about Edward Knippers here or here. (Beware of nudity in some artwork.)

    Week 35: Obama: Hope and Change?

    Week 36: Reflections and Revelation

    • Have fun playing games in which you put the Presidents in order: here or here.
    • Joel Sheesley
    • Makoto Fujimura
    • CIVA – Christians in the Visual Arts. Check out the kinds of exhibitions that this group sponsors, the artist directory for perspective art collectors

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