Students examine how music unified labor movements during the Industrial Era by analyzing historical protest songs and creating their own using lyrical substitution.

Students explore the Harlem Renaissance through visual art, historical texts, and Blues music by composing and performing an original 12-bar Blues song from a historical perspective.

Explore civil disobedience and how artists use zines to respond to social issues. Students will create their own handmade zine on a government-related issue and share it through a See, Wonder, Connect peer evaluation.

Explore democratic and authoritarian systems and create a persuasive song about one of the government types.

Explore the 13 Colonies through designing a map & composing a free-verse poem.

Explore the Columbian Exchange through music, creating simplified instruments and analyzing how natural resources influenced musical development. Students will write a rap or poem on its impacts, culminating in a research project.

Explore asylum seeking through skits and visual art with these Social Studies Standards-Aligned resources from Arts Every Day. By acting out scenarios and analyzing refugee-themed artwork, students will better understand the refugee experience in Europe and reflect through discussion and a final exit ticket.

Create a visual timeline to illustrate key events of the Civil War and Reconstruction (1860-1896) and elaborate on main ideas by creating simple songs.

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.