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.

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.

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.