Music educators, Dan and Claudia Zanes, and Baltimore City educator, Arnelyn Viernes, created these materials for Wit & Wisdom "Resilience in the Great Depression" so that every student can learn through creativity and connection. Experience the Great Depression through photography and engage with the novel Bud, Not Buddy through band performances and campfire singalongs.

Baltimore City teacher Gena Proctor and Music Educator Murray Piper developed these resources to help students make deep connections between Ned from Code Talker and how he was impacted by WWII. Students will explore body percussion and visual art, learn about fluency and the connection to musical rhythms, and complete a simulation that puts them in Ned’s shoes as a code talker.

Through every resource and activity created by Baltimore City teacher Cheyenne Shongo and school-based Art teacher Sienna Mahoney, students find ways to use descriptive language and sensory language details, creating exploded moments, scripts, comic strips, and an illuminated manuscript.

Otis Eldridge, Music Educator and Sarah Aguda, Arts Integration Specialist, provide students with rich arts experiences that directly target the skills needed in poetry writing. These overlays are intentionally designed to partner with existing lessons, building student ability to read, understand, write, and speak their poetry aloud in a powerful, meaningful way.

These lessons by McKenna Meehan and Kelsey Sellmon are grounded in the belief that the arts spark curiosity, build confidence, and make learning memorable. Engage in Wit & Wisdom Grade 6 "Cultures in Conflict" through map analysis, portrait comparisons, vocabulary musical chairs, four corners freeze frame, and lyrical spoken word.

Through these art-integrated resources in alignment with the Wit & Wisdom Grade 8 "The Great War" by teaching artist Mitch Harris and Baltimore educator Shar Hampton, students not only experience WWI through the eyes of a soldier at the time of the text, All Quiet on the Western Front, but they also explore strategies, experiences, and artworks that make the lessons from 110 years ago relevant to their lives today.

These materials were created by Sam and Siobhan, Baltimore City Art Teachers, in support of students having a vivid and meaningful writing experience with Wit & Wisdom Grade 6 "A Hero's Journey." Engage with image analysis and visual annotation, map making, tableau, and archetype design to increase engagement in your classrooms and bring the monomyth genre to life.

Linda Whelihan and Sarah Aguda celebrate the many characteristics of animals in this arts-integrated exploration of the Wit & Wisdom Grade 1 Unit, "Creature Features." Using puppetry, movement exercises, and the creation of animal trading cards, this course will help students both engage deeply with the assigned texts and relish their roles as scientific explorers.

Rachael Barillari and Cori Dioquino, bring the novel Hatchet and the Wit & Wisdom grade 4 "Extreme Settings" to visceral and sensory life through theater strategies including scene sequence, sense embodiment, the power of punctuation, setting analysis, and improv.