Arts Lessons

'Aipimpa' Personified

Subjects: English Language Arts, Native American, Social Studies, Tribe Approved, Visual Arts

Read the book Aipimpa.
Learn about and write using figurative language.
Use chalk pastels and collage techniques to illustrate a personification sentence.
Explore the importance of water to the Confederated Tribes of the Goshute.

3-6

'Catching' Tens and Ones

Subjects: Drama, Math

Make, count, and write numbers in multiple ways.
Create and use puppets to compose numbers and define math vocabulary.

K-2

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'Shape' Perspective Through the Hoop Dance

Subjects: Health, Math, Native American, Social Studies, Visual Arts

Explore information and show respect for the Hoop Dance.
Look at shapes in abstract art and create art with pattern blocks.
Print shapes with paint to tell a story.
Demonstrate respect for others while sharing personal artwork in groups.

K-6

1600s Dancing and Instruments

Subjects: Dance, Music, Social Studies

Dance an English dance to “Scarborough Fair” and “Greensleeves.”
Experience Renaissance/Baroque-style instruments.

6th

5 Tribal Groups, 8 Sovereign Nations

Subjects: Dance, English Language Arts, Social Studies, Native American

Learn about the eight sovereign nations derived from the five Native American tribes within Utah.
Engage in small group and individual creative dance explorations.
Analyze the unique, defining attributes of each tribe and sovereign nation.

K-6

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to School

Subjects: Drama, English Language Arts

Write and perform an original story using elements of a story arc.
Incorporate words and phrases assigned from other classmates.

4-6

A Japanese American Confinement Story: Complex History, Part 3

Subjects: Dance, Drama, English Language Arts, Music, Social Studies

Discuss the meaning of the fence at Japanese Confinement camps.
Work with a small group to create a movement study and poem.
Learn a song that embodies the lesson concepts.

K-12

A Japanese American Confinement Story: Not Ours Alone, Part 2

Subjects: Dance, Drama, English Language Arts, Music, Social Studies

Describe conditions and way of life in the Japanese American Confinement Camps during WWII.
Develop creative movement inspired by images and text in children’s books: Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki and Music for Alice by Allen Say.
Learn songs that embody the concepts of listening with compassion.

K-12

A Japanese American Confinement Story: Our Family, Part 1

Subjects: Dance, Drama, English Language Arts, Music, Social Studies

Learn about Japanese American Confinement during WWII through the story of the Inouye family.
Explore and create movements that express specific emotions.
Learn a song that embodies thoughtful listening and human connection.

K-12

A Rose by Any Other Name

Subjects: English Language Arts, Science, Visual Arts

Learn about plants: basic parts, functions, & survival needs.
Design, construct, and label plants (roots, stem, leaves, & flowers)

K

Aldean and the Red–Tailed Hawk

Subjects: Dance, Drama, English Language Arts, Music, Science, Social Studies, Visual Arts, Native American

Create a collaborative nature soundscape.
Listen and map the melodic contour of Aldean Ketchum’s song.
Read and discuss the story of the Red-tailed Hawk.
Deepen understanding of the White Mesa Mountain Ute Tribe through art, drama, dance, STEM, or literacy.

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Aldean Learns to Make Flutes

Subjects: Dance, English Language Arts, Health, Music, Social Studies, Native American, Tribe Approved

Use thinking strategies to explore Native American flute music.
Participate in a shared reading of a Ute Mountain Ute story.
Develop creative movement sequences.

K-7

Animal Adaptations

Subjects: Dance, Science

Explore adaptations of animals on land and in the ocean.
Explore movement qualities while dancing.

2nd

Animal Question–and–Answer Reports

Subjects: Drama, English Language Arts, Science

Research an animal and write a report with a partner.
Perform the report in costume, with one reporter asking questions and one animal giving answers.

2-3

Artsy Moon Phases

Subjects: Science, Visual Arts

Learn the phases of the moon and create a moon chart.
Draw using six different shading techniques.
Create a fantasy space scape picture with chalk.

6th

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Avikaan Nuuch History: Creative Movement

Subjects: Dance, English Language Arts, Social Studies, Native American, Tribe Approved

Explore Ute Mountain Ute White Mesa Community history, with creative movement.
Reflect on and discuss displacement, adaptation, and resilience.
Make meaningful connections about people and their relationship with the land.

4-6

Bacteria and Fungi

Subjects: Dance, Science

Explore dance movements that mimic the shapes of bacteria and fungi.
Recognize bacteria and fungi by their appearances and other characteristics.

6th

Beautiful Oops

Subjects: Health, Math, Visual Arts

Read the book Beautiful Oops and discuss ways to respond to mistakes in art.
Learn about lines, shapes, detail, and oil pastel techniques.
Create an artwork in response to a mistake.

K-6

Beauty Beside Me

Subjects: Dance, English Language Arts, Social Studies, Native American, Tribe Approved

Read the book Beauty Beside Me: Stories of My Grandmother’s Skirts
Explore dance elements: body, energy, space and time
Learn more about Diné /Navajo culture

K-5

Blast Off

Subjects: Dance, Science

Perform dances that reflect the phases and rotation of the moon.

6th

Book of Bones: 10 Record–Breaking Animals

Subjects: Dance, English Language Arts, Science

Collaborate, improvise, create, choreograph, and perform a dance inspired by scientific information of a record-breaking animal.
Interpret movement choices of other group performances.

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Book of Bones: On the Move

Subjects: Dance, Math, Science

Explore movement and dance with other core standards, using the illustrated science text, “Book of Bones 10 Record-Breaking Animals.”

K-6

Buy It Today

Subjects: Drama, English Language Arts

Develop a unique name and use for a prop.
Create and perform a commercial for the prop, demonstrating how it can solve problems.

4-6

Changes in the Earth's Surface

Subjects: English Language Arts, Music, Science, Social Studies

Create a musical model of Earth’s geographic features.
Adjust music dynamics immediately or gradually based on changes in the Earth’s surface.
Design and perform a solution to slow or prevent changes.

2-5

Clouds

Subjects: Dance, Science

Create dance movements with an object based on cloud types.
Identify basic cloud types: cumulus, cirrus, and stratus.
Learn how cloud types can predict weather conditions.

3rd

Complete the Story: Vampire Cookies

Subjects: Drama, English Language Arts

Learn to apply the value of a story’s R.O.O.T.: relationships, objectives, obstacles, and tactics.
Write and act out a half-finished story about a vampire by adding obstacles and tactics.

4-5

Coyote & Frog Race: A Goshute Tale

Subjects: Drama, English Language Arts, Social Studies, Native American, Tribe Approved

Explore the Goshute tale “Coyote and Frog Race” with dramatic storytelling, and improvisation.
Learn about the 5 elements of a story by answering WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, and HOW questions.

2-4

Coyote Steals Fire

Subjects: English Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, Visual Arts, Native American, Tribe Approved

Learn about the history and culture of the Northwestern Shoshone people.
Paint a watercolor landscape of an environment with Utah wildlife.

3-5

Coyote Steals Fire: Creative Movement

Subjects: Dance, English Language Arts, Social Studies, Native American, Tribe Approved

Explore movement in connection to an origin tale.
Learn how Native American cultures preserve their stories.

1-3

Creating a Character

Subjects: Drama, English Language Arts

Create original characters through movement exercises.
Draw and describe an original character in detail.

4-6

Drawing Cupcakes and Bittersweet Dilemmas

Subjects: English Language Arts, Health, Visual Arts

Read aloud the book Love Monster and the Last Chocolate.
Discuss dilemmas and working through difficult decisions.
Draw with oil pastels and learn about shading, highlights, and horizon lines.

3-5

Egyptian Pyramids

Subjects: Dance, Social Studies

Identify several Egyptian pyramid structures and explain how they evolved over time.
Represent various shapes and facts about the pyramids through dance.

6th

Every Dancer Counts!

Subjects: Dance

Create a place-value dance to represent ones and tens through percussive-axial movements and sustained-locomotor movements.
Write numbers modeling tens and ones in various ways.

K-2

Fall in Line, Holden! Dance and Movement

Subjects: Dance, Health, Native American

Students will express movement and dance ideas inspired by the book Fall in Line, Holden!

K-3

Fall in Line, Holden: Creative Vocal Play

Subjects: English Language Arts, Health, Music, Social Studies, Native American

Explore the book Fall in Line, Holden through vocal play.
Determine main ideas of the book.
Classify experiences as things you can control, things you can influence, and things you can’t control.

K-6

Family Pictures and Traditions: ARTS Lessons

Subjects: Dance, Drama, English Language Arts, Music, Social Studies, Visual Arts

Create Visual Art, Music, Dance, Language Arts, or Drama inspired by Carmen Lomas Garza’s book Family Pictures: Cuadros de Familia

K-6

Father Sky and Mother Earth: A Navajo Tale

Subjects: Drama, English Language Arts, Social Studies, Native American, Tribe Approved

Learn about Diné /Navajo storytelling.
Participate in a reader’s theatre based on a Diné /Navajo tale.
Connect the story to social and emotional skills.

3-12

Follow the Drinking Gourd

Subjects: Music, Social Studies

Learn the song “Follow the Drinking Gourd" and discover the Underground Railroad code words found in the lyrics.
“Read” a music map and see patterns in the song.

5th

Froggie Went a Courtin’

Subjects: English Language Arts, Music, Social Studies

Learn the song “Froggie Went a-Courtin’” and its history.
Make up new verses for the song.
Discover sol-do music patterns in the song.

3-6

From Eaglet to Eagle: A Hoop Dance Story

Subjects: Dance, Health, Science, Social Studies, Native American

Through dance, explore what an eagle sees and experiences as it goes through its life cycle.
Understand how the story of the eagle can be seen in Native American Hoop Dance.

1-5

From Head to Toe by Eric Carle

Subjects: Dance, English Language Arts

Learn a sequential warm-up using different parts of the body.
Build confidence in students with “I can do it” statements.
Create an “I can” sentence dance.

K-1

From the Heart of Africa

Subjects: Dance, Music, Social Studies

Explore a celebration of art and timeless wisdom through the book From the Heart of Africa.
Learn and perform an African-inspired welcome song and dance.

2nd

Frrrrriction!

Subjects: Music, Science

Play the singing game “I Hear the Mill Wheel."
Understand friction and lubrication.
Use different timbres of instruments to create rhythmic ostinatos.

3rd

Fry Bread

Subjects: English Language Arts, Music, Social Studies, Native American

Learn the history of fry bread
Create a soundscape
Interact with two contrasting pieces of music about fry bread

2-6

Geometry in Motion

Subjects: Dance, Math

Understand basic geometric terms by creating shapes and exploring movement.
Demonstrate their understanding of these terms by choreographing dances.

3rd

Giraffes Can’t Dance

Subjects: Dance, English Language Arts, Health

Explore the art of movement and creativity using the book Giraffes Can’t Dance.
Learn about appropriate social behaviors.

K-5

Goin' on a Bear Hunt

Subjects: Drama, English Language Arts, Science

Write an original version of "We're Going on a Bear Hunt" by adding new prepositions, nouns, and verbs to a Mad Libs template.
Perform the story through a call-and-response with the class.

2-3

Hello, e hakani: Goshute Greetings

Subjects: Dance, English Language Arts, Health, Social Studies, Native American, Tribe Approved

Create partner handshakes and group movement sequences.
Learn several greetings in the Goshute language.

3-6

Help! I'm Falling!

Subjects: Dance, Science

Explore gravity, mass versus weight, and air resistance.
Choreograph movement that appears to be in a zero-gravity environment.

2-3

Heredity

Subjects: Dance, Science, Social Studies

Identify how various organisms adapt in different environments.
Explore traits and characteristics of different organisms through dance.

1-3

Hickety Tickety

Subjects: English Language Arts, Music, Social Studies

Sing the song "Hickety Tickety"
Determine syllabic stress patterns in names
Categorize names

K-3

How Do You Measure Up?

Subjects: Dance, Math

Find measurements that relate to the measurements of the body.
Measure with standard and nonstandard units.

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I Love the Mountains – Damen Doiya

Subjects: English Language Arts, Music, Social Studies, Native American, Tribe Approved

Compare and contrast two songs
Identify Utah’s three main geographic regions
Learn about the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation

3-5

Introduction to Scarborough Fair

Subjects: English Language Arts, Music, Social Studies

Gain insight into the Renaissance period.
Compare and contrast three versions of “Scarborough Fair.”

6th

Iron Horses

Subjects: Dance, English Language Arts, Health, Social Studies

Explore the basic locomotor movement of galloping.
Read the book Iron Horses.
Work in groups to create original movement inspired by the book.
Perform, reflect, and connect.

4-6

Is This on Sale? Everyday Math Applications

Subjects: Drama, English Language Arts, Math

Perform a scripted two-person scene featuring an everyday exchange.
Rewrite the script to emphasize the application of everyday math skills.

4-6

John Henry

Subjects: Music, Social Studies

Sing the folk song “John Henry.”
Connect to the history of railroads in 19th-century America.

4-6

Johnny Works with Place Value

Subjects: Math, Music

Use musical instruments to teach place value.
Sing and play the game “Johnny Works with One Hammer.”

K-2

Just the Right Word

Subjects: Drama, English Language Arts

Demonstrate vocal expression utilizing onomatopoetic and sensory words.
Demonstrate emotional expression using punctuation as cues.

5th

Leaf Man

Subjects: Dance, English Language Arts, Science

Recognize movement, traveling pathways, and levels.
Participate in a decision making creative process.
Compose and perform a dance solo that conveys meaning.

K-5

Let's Face It: Drawing the Face Is Fun

Subjects: English Language Arts, Math, Visual Arts

Examine and respond to various self-portraits.
Create and share self-portraits that communicate personal interests.

4-6

Let's Roll

Subjects: English Language Arts, Science, Visual Arts

Explore how push and pull forces move objects through paint.
Investigate how materials and force affect the speed, direction, and motion of rolling objects.
Connect force and motion with the creative processes of artists.

K

Media and Creating Meaning

Subjects: English Language Arts, Media Arts, Visual Arts

Explore how media messages have embedded values and points of view.
Design a bumper sticker and billboard for a particular purpose.
Work in groups to collaborate on media messages.

3-6

Media and Observation

Subjects: English Language Arts, Media Arts, Visual Arts

Learn how to observe the ordinary and turn it into the extraordinary.
Create photo essays as a group.
Share media messages through stories and photographs.

3-6

Media as Artistic Expression

Subjects: Drama, Media Arts, Visual Arts

Locate and discuss stories within still images.
See ways that other mediums can be expression of self.
Express personal responses to still images.

3-6

Miniature Golf

Subjects: Dance, Math

Create geometric shapes with the body.
Move shapes around using prepositions.

2nd

Mother Goose Academy

Subjects: Drama, English Language Arts

Flesh out, or complete, a nursery rhyme plot by adding a beginning and an ending.
Act out the nursery rhyme story with a puppet.

4-6

Multiplication and Division

Subjects: Dance, Math

Connect dance movements with numbers.
Practice multiplying and dividing simple problems.

3rd

Musically Mapping the Continents and Oceans

Subjects: Music, Social Studies

Name and locate the seven continents and five oceans on a map.
Respond to rhythms played on a drum.

2nd

My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss

Subjects: Dance, English Language Arts

Promote understanding of emotions through the book My Many Colored Days.
Explore the energy of emotions in a healthy, fun way with creative movement.

K-3

Native American Jingle Dress Dance

Subjects: English Language Arts, Social Studies, Visual Arts, Native American

Learn about the origins of the Native American Jingle Dress Dance.
Explore the importance of dance, sound, and movement in Native traditions.
Create “jingle cones” of healing.

K-12

Native American Round Dance

Subjects: Dance, Music, Social Studies, Native American

Explore the traditional Native American Round Dance.
Invite a Native American to share proper Round Dance steps.
Compare and contrast beats of various Round Dance songs.

K-12

Navajo Rug Geometry

Subjects: Dance, Math, Social Studies, Native American, Tribe Approved

Observe geometric concepts from Navajo rugs.
Explore the process of Navajo rug weaving through creative movement.
Create movement sequences inspired by geometry found in Navajo rugs.

K-6

Navajo Weaving: Warp and Weft

Subjects: English Language Arts, Native American, Social Studies, Tribe Approved, Visual Arts

Watch a video about a contemporary Navajo Weaver.
Learn about Navajo culture, values, and history.
Create a weaving on a loom or by using paper.

2-6

New Newsies: Stories of the Spike

Subjects: Drama, Social Studies

Develop internet research skills.
Identify key ideas from primary and secondary sources.
Use nonfiction text to craft original reader's theatre pieces.

5-6

Northwestern Shoshone Fish Song

Subjects: English Language Arts, Music, Social Studies, Native American, Tribe Approved

Sing a Northwestern Shoshone song.
Write a narrative story about an experience in nature.
Create music compositions patterned after the song.

3-7

Number Ordering

Subjects: Dance, Math

Identify and use the <, >, and = symbols.
Create and compare groups of dancers.

2nd

Old Joe Clark—Division and Musical Form

Subjects: Math, Music

Explore partitive and measurement division and the algorithm for long division.
Identify the musical form of "Old Joe Clark."
Sing in a round.

4-5

Our National Anthem: A "Whole Language" Experience

Subjects: Drama, English Language Arts, Music, Social Studies, Visual Arts

Explore background information about the national anthem.
Learn to sing the national anthem.
Focus on words, rhythm, and/or melody.

2-6

Over, Under, and Around the Monster...Math and More!

Subjects: English Language Arts, Math, Visual Arts

Create unique, artistic monsters.
Recognize and create organic and geometric shapes.
Use monsters to review common prepositions, addition and subtraction.

K

Owls Are a Hoot

Subjects: Drama, English Language Arts

Read poetry, then reflect on and analyze structure, word choice, and punctuation.
Create a poem that reflects creative word choices and uses another perspective.

5th

Paiute Alphabet Song

Subjects: English Language Arts, Music, Social Studies, Native American, Tribe Approved

Play a game to compare and contrast the Southern Paiute and English languages.
Explore beat and rhythm.
Sing the “ABC Song” and learn the “Paiute Alphabet Song.”

1-6

Paiute Federal Recognition & Sovereignty Dance

Subjects: Dance, English Language Arts, Social Studies, Native American, Tribe Approved

Learn choreography that will access students’ largest kinesphere.
Learn about the history of the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah.
Choreograph movement inspired by the Paiute's past and present.

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Paiute Federal Recognition and Sovereignty

Subjects: Drama, English Language Arts, Social Studies, Native American, Tribe Approved

Explore the history of the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah, through choral reading and process drama activities.
Explore losing and regaining federal recognition.
Work in collaborative groups to problem solve, create, and perform.

4-7

Paiute Storied Rocks

Subjects: English Language Arts, Music, Social Studies, Native American, Tribe Approved

Read Paiute picture writing and learn some Native American universal sign language.
Compose a new song by rearranging parts of a known tune.
Compare the English and Southern Paiute languages.

1-4

Paiute Symbols and Logos

Subjects: English Language Arts, Social Studies, Visual Arts, Native American, Tribe Approved

Learn about signs, symbols, petroglyphs, and pictographs.
Understand the meaning behind the logos of the five Paiute bands.
Create a personal logo through printmaking.

2-5

Penguin Place Value Emotions

Subjects: Drama, English Language Arts, Math

Read the book Penguin Place Value.
Show character emotions with facial expressions and body gestures.

K-2

Pie Rhythms

Subjects: English Language Arts, Music

Play rhythms in a steady beat using body percussion or non-pitched percussion instruments.
Create, say, and play rhythms using word syllabication.

K-2

Place Value Pointillism

Subjects: Math, Visual Arts

Create pointillistic fish using paint and recycled lids.
Work collectively to determine how to display fish in a mural.
Create word-problem questions.

K-2

Plants Can’t Sit Still

Subjects: Dance, Science

Explore ways plants use movement to survive and grow.
Understand the life-cycle of plants.
Create and perform a plant life-cycle dance.

K-3

Prefixes

Subjects: Dance, English Language Arts

Use the prefixes un- and re- to make creative dance choices.
Use retrograde and repetition to rewind and repeat a dance sequence.

2nd

Program: Native Americans Within Utah

Subjects: Dance, English Language Arts, Native American, Social Studies

Learn about the eight sovereign nations derived from the five Native American tribes in Utah through dance, music, and speaking parts
Analyze the unique, defining attributes of each tribal group

K-6

Question–and–Answer Music Compositions

Subjects: English Language Arts, Math, Music

Identify interrogative (question) and declarative (answer) sentences.
Represent musical phrases with pictures (iconic notation).
Create musical compositions.

1st

Railroad Meter

Subjects: English Language Arts, Music, Social Studies, Native American, Tribe Approved

Conduct songs in different meters.
Research and present about historical songs with connections to the Transcontinental Railroad.
Compare and contrast cultural groups impacted by the railroad.

4-5

Railroad Rhythms

Subjects: English Language Arts, Music, Social Studies

Explore, create, and perform railroad sounds to a steady beat.
Combine sounds to create a railroad soundscape.
Create and play rhythms based on a Transcontinental Railroad theme.

4-5

Rainbow Goblins

Subjects: Dance, English Language Arts

Dance various movements from literature.
Explore the structure of a story, including a beginning, middle, and end.

2nd

Rate a Recording

Subjects: Math, Music, Social Studies

Explore various genres of music and rate different covers of “Scarborough Fair."
Find the mean, median, and range of ratings within the group.

6th

Real and Ideal: A Closer Look at Westward Expansion

Subjects: Media Arts, Social Studies, Visual Arts, Native American

Compare and contrast images that reflect 19th-century westward expansion.
Photograph portraits that reflect the real and ideal.

4-6

Revolutionary Tea

Subjects: English Language Arts, Music, Social Studies

Sing and conduct the song "Revolutionary Tea."
Discover allegorical meaning in the lyrics connecting to the Boston Tea Party.

5th

Rocks

Subjects: Dance, Science

Recall facts in tandem with a dance about different kinds of rocks.
Create dance sequences to represent different kinds of rocks.

2nd

Scavenger Hunt Through Geography

Subjects: Drama, English Language Arts, Social Studies

Create and perform a scene about going on a scavenger hunt through geography.
Practice using a map to find geographic locations.

3-5

Screamin' Roller Coasters

Subjects: English Language Arts, Science, Visual Arts

Communicate observations about falling objects.
Create a roller coaster as a class.
Learn how to use chalk pastels.
Discuss Edvard Munch’s art composition The Scream.

3rd

Scribble Bots

Subjects: Dance, English Language Arts, Music, Science, Visual Arts

Introduce and explore patterns through toys, fine arts, Zentangle art, and machine systems.
Use the engineering design process to solve problems.
Design, test, and improve a Scribbler Robot.

3rd

Shi' Naasha'

Subjects: English Language Arts, Health, Music, Social Studies, Native American, Tribe Approved

Compare and contrast three versions of the Navajo song “Shí Naashá.”
Write lyrics about how to personally find balance, peace, and harmony.

3-6

Sound: Classification and Communication

Subjects: Music, Science

Investigate characteristics of sound for common objects
Classify these "found sound instruments" according to timbre
Design a music composition that communicates an emotion

K-3

Statue Stories with Rory’s Story Cubes

Subjects: Drama, English Language Arts

Create a story with a beginning, middle, and end, using Rory’s Story Cubes.
Act out the story by performing five poses/frozen images.

4-6

Storytelling Through Hoop Dance

Subjects: Dance, English Language Arts, Music, Social Studies, Native American

Learn about the storytelling aspect of the Native American Hoop Dance.
Create and perform a musical soundscape.
Write a three-sentence narrative by focusing on story structure.

3-12

Symbols of Freedom

Subjects: Social Studies, Visual Arts

Consider elements of the Emancipation Proclamation and the history of broadsides.
Learn about symbols and shading.
Draw freedom symbols onto a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation.

5th

Talent Contest: Acting Out Adverbs

Subjects: Drama, English Language Arts

With a host and four contestants, act out a talent contest.
Perform three different talents, based on chosen adverbs.

3-5

Text Features

Subjects: English Language Arts, Visual Arts

Students will identify text features and use them to aid in reading comprehension.
Students will create a poster using the elements and principles of art and text features.

2-5

Thanksgiving Illustrated

Subjects: Social Studies, Visual Arts

Learn about Norman Rockwell and the role of an illustrator.
Compare three of The Saturday Evening Post covers.
Design and illustrate a cover for The Saturday Evening Post.

3-5

The Apple Seed Storytelling: A Mouse Tail

Subjects: Drama, English Language Arts, Math

Listen to A Mouse Tail by Noa Baum (Season 6, Episode 2)
Create a story chain to represent sequential characters and events.
Retell the story, add to, and create a new story chain.
Identify chain patterns in other stories.

K-3

The Apple Seed Storytelling: Big Fish

Subjects: Drama, English Language Arts, Visual Arts

Listen to the Apple Seed Live Story Big Fish by Lyn Ford.
Discuss the basic elements of the hero’s journey.
Put the story pieces in sequential order.
Make a puppet and retell the story to partners.
Enjoy other hero-journey stories.

K-3

The Apple Seed Storytelling: Frog's King and Wise Solutions

Subjects: Drama, English Language Arts

Listen, find, create, and compare solutions for common fairy tales, using Turtle (wise) and Crocodile (foolish) solutions.
Write, draw, and share stories of problem solving.
Play Create-a-Story

K-3

The Apple Seed Storytelling: The Bookhead Boy

Subjects: Drama, English Language Arts

Listen to The Bookhead Boy by Paul Strickland.
Prepare a student journal, a “Bookhead.”
Reflect on the writing process and interests to improve writing skills.
Form storytelling circles to assist in creating, preparing, and publishing students’ narratives.

4-6

The Apple Seed Storytelling: The Precious Pearl

Subjects: Drama, English Language Arts, Social Studies

Listen to The Precious Pearl by Shonaleigh (The Appleseed Storytelling)
Learn what a value is and why they’re important and how they shape us and our community leadership.
Fill out the Values Worksheet and play the Values Adventure game.
Assess values and needs in the community and plan a service project around something the class values.

4-6

The Apple Seed Storytelling: The Principal

Subjects: Drama, English Language Arts, Visual Arts

Listen to The Apple Seed story The Principal by Donald Davis
Make a list of the important helpers in your school.
Invite important helpers into the classroom.
Write thank you notes and create art for helpers.
Discuss membership in the school community.

2-6

The Apple Seed Storytelling: The Three Billy Goats Gruff

Subjects: Drama, English Language Arts

Listen to two different folktales, and one fractured fairy tale involving goats.
Fill out a graphic organizer for each tale.
Compare the stories to each other, with a primary focus on protagonist, antagonist, and theme.
Create and share an original story, script, or puppet play that follows a similar pattern and themes as the three stories.
Optional: Connect to SEL (Social & Emotional Learning)

4-6

The Apple Seed Storytelling: Treasure Under the Bridge

Subjects: Drama, English Language Arts

Listen to the story Treasure Under the Bridge by Noa Baum.
Map the hero’s journey patterns.
Find the hero’s journey in other stories.
Create an original comic strip of a hero’s journey.
Share stories aloud.

4-6

The Apple Seed Storytelling: Why Dogs Chase Cats

Subjects: Drama, English Language Arts

Listen to Why Dogs Chase Cats by Charlotte Blake Alston.
Retell the story together.
Act out the story.
Tell personal stories.
Learn and practice repairing relationships.

K-3

The Day the Crayons Quit and Came Home

Subjects: Drama, English Language Arts

Create a reader’s theatre version of the books The Day the Crayons Quit and The Day the Crayons Came Home by Drew Daywalt.
Write out a crayon’s letter and learn to address an envelope.

2-3

The Elfin Knight

Subjects: Drama, English Language Arts, Music, Social Studies

Summarize the story found in “The Elfin Knight” after acting out lyrics.
Understand the oral history of folk songs.
Create a melodic contour map of a variant of “The Elfin Knight.”

6th

The Great American Bison

Subjects: Drama, English Language Arts, Social Studies, Visual Arts, Native American

Understand the impact of the Transcontinental Railroad on American bison herds.
Compare and contrast differing perspectives.
Upcycle found objects into artwork.

4-6

The Greedy Porcupine

Subjects: Drama, English Language Arts, Health, Social Studies, Native American, Tribe Approved

Learn about Northwestern Shoshone storytelling.
Participate in a reader’s theatre based on a Northwestern Shoshone tale.
Connect the story to social and emotional skills.

3-6

The History and Evolution of the Native American Hoop Dance

Subjects: Drama, English Language Arts, Native American, Social Studies

Improvise creative storytelling.
Explore the Hoop Dance through Reader’s Theatre, media, and timeline.
Write, rehearse, and perform a script.

4-6

The History of the San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe

Subjects: Dance, Social Studies, Native American, Tribe Approved

Explore locomotor pathways and movement
Create a movement map with a partner
Embody the geography, place-based relationships, and the uniqueness of the San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe.

3-5

The Magic Rabbit

Subjects: Dance, English Language Arts

Identify different characters in a story.
Explore movement inspired by the words in a book.

1st

The Science of Ancient Art

Subjects: Science, Social Studies, Visual Arts

Learn the science and anthropology of ochre, a mineral used to create natural paint.
Experiment with mixing ochre paints to determine what materials make the very best paint.
Paint with ochre on different surfaces (rock, paper, wood).

2-6

The Secret Lives of Insects

Subjects: English Language Arts, Science, Visual Arts

Observe and identify insect traits.
Learn how insect body parts and adaptations help survival in habitats.
Design an insect for a specific environment.
Explore how artists and scientists work together to study nature.
Consider why protecting insects matters.

3rd

The Squiggle

Subjects: Dance, English Language Arts

Identify the beginning, middle, and end of a story.
Explore a movement inspired by The Squiggle by Carole Lexa Schaefer.

K-1

This Is My Home: San Juan Southern Paiute

Subjects: English Language Arts, Social Studies, Visual Arts, Native American, Tribe Approved

Learn about the San Juan Southern Paiute struggle for land recognition.
Discuss the meaning of “home.”
Create a natural art installation outside.

K-6

Traditions that Connect: Ute Bear Dance

Subjects: English Language Arts, Social Studies, Visual Arts, Native American, Tribe Approved

Learn about the White Mesa Community Bear Dance tradition.
Paint or embroider on a photo.
Connect past to present and present to future.

K-6

Utah Environments Through the Eyes of the Paiute

Subjects: Dance, Science, Native American, Tribe Approved

Learn about Utah environments through dance.
Use a Paiute Beliefs narrative to understand relationship with the environment.
Learn some Native American signs for animals and landforms.

K-6

Viewing Water as a Gift

Subjects: Music, Science, Social Studies, Native American, Tribe Approved

Create melodies based on contour lines
Learn how water plays an important role for the Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation
Explore how humans can balance everyday needs while conserving water

K-12

Waddling Ones and Tobogganing Tens

Subjects: Dance, Math, Music

Connect music and math terms through movement.
Create lyrics based on tens and ones.
Explore multiple ways to represent numbers.

K-2

Walk The Line

Subjects: English Language Arts, Health, Social Studies, Visual Arts, Native American

Using the books Fall in Line, Holden! and/or When We Were Alone, students will create a collaborative visual art piece.

K-6

We Love Rocks!

Subjects: Math, Science, Visual Arts

Explore the properties of rocks.
Learn about elements and principles of art.
Create 3-Dimensional rock art.

2-4

Weather in the Seasons

Subjects: Dance, Music, Science

Identify characteristics of weather.
Create a weather forecast for a section of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons.
Create dance movements to represent weather.

K-3

Weather Pattern Compositions

Subjects: Math, Music, Science

Gather weather data to use as musical notation.
Create a music composition to represent weather.

K-3

When We Were Alone: Every Child Matters

Subjects: Drama, English Language Arts, Health, Social Studies, Native American

Read together When We Were Alone, and gently explore the history and experiences of Native American children who attended boarding school.
Remember and share things we have learned from the "Wisdom Keepers" in our own lives.
Empower children as they speak and hear words of affirmation.

4-12

White Mesa Community Basket Weaving

Subjects: Drama, English Language Arts, Social Studies, Native American, Tribe Approved

Rehearse and perform an in-class play.
Learn about modern Ute basket-weaving.
Create physical depictions of personal values.

3-6

Why the Moon Paints Her Face Black

Subjects: English Language Arts, Social Studies, Visual Arts, Native American, Tribe Approved

Listen and respond to a Paiute story.
Explore art making, using chalk or crayons.
Create a project depicting one of the scenes in the book.

2-6

Subjects

Grade

'Aipimpa' Personified

'Catching' Tens and Ones

'Shape' Perspective Through the Hoop Dance

1600s Dancing and Instruments

5 Tribal Groups, 8 Sovereign Nations

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to School

A Japanese American Confinement Story: Complex History, Part 3

A Japanese American Confinement Story: Not Ours Alone, Part 2

A Japanese American Confinement Story: Our Family, Part 1

A Rose by Any Other Name

Aldean and the Red–Tailed Hawk

Aldean Learns to Make Flutes

Animal Adaptations

Animal Question–and–Answer Reports

Artsy Moon Phases

Avikaan Nuuch History: Creative Movement

Bacteria and Fungi

Beautiful Oops

Beauty Beside Me

Blast Off

Book of Bones: 10 Record–Breaking Animals

Book of Bones: On the Move

Buy It Today

Changes in the Earth's Surface

Clouds

Complete the Story: Vampire Cookies

Coyote & Frog Race: A Goshute Tale

Coyote Steals Fire

Coyote Steals Fire: Creative Movement

Creating a Character

Drawing Cupcakes and Bittersweet Dilemmas

Egyptian Pyramids

Every Dancer Counts!

Fall in Line, Holden! Dance and Movement

Fall in Line, Holden: Creative Vocal Play

Family Pictures and Traditions: ARTS Lessons

Father Sky and Mother Earth: A Navajo Tale

Follow the Drinking Gourd

Froggie Went a Courtin’

From Eaglet to Eagle: A Hoop Dance Story

From Head to Toe by Eric Carle

From the Heart of Africa

Frrrrriction!

Fry Bread

Geometry in Motion

Giraffes Can’t Dance

Goin' on a Bear Hunt

Hello, e hakani: Goshute Greetings

Help! I'm Falling!

Heredity

Hickety Tickety

How Do You Measure Up?

I Love the Mountains – Damen Doiya

Introduction to Scarborough Fair

Iron Horses

Is This on Sale? Everyday Math Applications

John Henry

Johnny Works with Place Value

Just the Right Word

Leaf Man

Let's Face It: Drawing the Face Is Fun

Let's Roll

Media and Creating Meaning

Media and Observation

Media as Artistic Expression

Miniature Golf

Mother Goose Academy

Multiplication and Division

Musically Mapping the Continents and Oceans

My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss

Native American Jingle Dress Dance

Native American Round Dance

Navajo Rug Geometry

Navajo Weaving: Warp and Weft

New Newsies: Stories of the Spike

Northwestern Shoshone Fish Song

Number Ordering