5th Grade

American Revolution: Sybil Ludington's Ride, April 26, 1777

Describe the contributions of France and other nations and of individuals to the outcome of the Revolution. Identify the different roles women played during the Revolution. Understand the personal impact and economic hardship of the war on families, problems of financing the war, wartime inflation, and laws against hoarding goods and materials and profiteering.

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Equality of Rank

Small groups of students will first speculate on a chronology for these three selected paintings. Then each group will explore one of these three paintings, looking closely at the artwork, discussing it and finding out about the artist and its context. Students next speculate about what the painting tells about the past and how people lived at this time. After small groups present what they discovered and speculated, class as a whole returns to the original speculated chronology and corrects it if needed. To conclude lesson, each student selects two of the three artworks about which to write. Each student will compare and contrast and reveal what each tells the viewer about the past and how people lived at that time.

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Journey to America: Immigration Increase from 1789 to 1910

Through discussion and reflection, student will explore the experience of immigrants to the United States , drawing conclusions about their motivations and challenges they may have faced.

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Poetic Portraits

Students will learn how artists communicate through portraiture, about the literary term, allegory, and then they will write a poem applying these communication strategies. They will also learn about facial proportions.

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Still Life with Femme au Coq #2

Students will learn about what makes an artwork abstract. Students will also learn how to objectively evaluate their own artwork. In addition, students will learn how to research and deliver an oral report based on abstract art.

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The Rancho

Students will gain an outsider’s perspective of California before it became a part of the Union.

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Which Way to California?; The Manifest Destiny and Art

Students will gain a broad understanding of the experiences people had as they traveled to California and draw conclusions of what lengths prospect miners were willing to go to reach the gold fields.

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Ordered Pairs

Students will improve their understanding of algebraic expressions. This lesson is intended to supplement and reinforce existing math curriculum for the corresponding reporting clusters for California CST and STAR testing. Students will gain an understanding of 16th century Italian art techniques, perspective, the use of a grid to enlarge an image, shading, texture, and volume.

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Chemical, Physical Reactions & Periodic Table

Students will improve their understanding of elements, compounds, physical reactions, chemical reactions, and the periodic table. This lesson is intended to supplement and reinforce existing science curriculum for the corresponding reporting clusters for California CST testing. Students will gain an understanding of mixed media and texture in art.

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