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.

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.

Students explore the theme of nationalism by analyzing powerful propaganda images and national anthems with teaching artist Mitch Harris and Baltimore City teacher Courtney Young. They then create “fandom” propaganda, write class anthems, & more; engage in a revolutionary role-play game to bring history to life!

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.

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.

Baltimore artist Alyssa Fenix and city teacher Vesna Grujicic worked with the Springboard grade 10 unit, "Voices in Synthesis," creating arts integrated activities that guide students to advocate for themselves, others, and issues of importance to them. Students will be empowered to see their voices as essential in making change, and use them in visual art activities to state claims and arguments.

Baltimore artist Alyssa Fenix worked with Vesna Grujicic to integrate arts into Odell grade 9, "Who Changes the World?." Students will about change agents and activism through creating one pagers, concept maps, collage poems, word art, blackout poetry, political cartoons, and murals.

Teaching Artist Cori Dioquino and BAIP Manager Rachael Barillari use theater strategies create a culture of belonging through the grade 3 Wit & Wisdom unit "The Sea." Students will learn how to physicalize sea creatures, their traits, and environment, bringing this vibrant unit to dramatic and joyful life.