Students will use the elements of visual art to create a composition inspired by painter Piet Mondrian that models and solves addition problems within 10, with an optional extension of adding within 20.

Students analyze a piece of jewelry by Douriean Fletcher to practice looking for groups, patterns, and quantities. Through Notice & Wonder and partner discussion, students connect what they see to strategies for adding two-digit numbers within 100.

Students become architects designing a block of Baltimore row homes. They will sketch rows of connected row homes and use floors and windows to model the Associative Property of Multiplication.

Students use folding to create a paper quilt to explore the Associative Property of Multiplication. Students fold their paper in different sequences to create the same number of equal sections, discovering that changing how the folds are grouped changes the process but not the total number of panels.

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 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.