ANNA HORINEakfznf@mail.missouri.edu University of Missouri - Columbia

INTEGRATED UNIT:SOCIAL STUDIES & ART

By: Anna Horine

WHAT’S THE BIG IDEA?

Using relevant social studies/history content, introduce students to…Rewriting

History

WHAT IF?

How would things be different now if something earlier had been different?

What other possible worlds would be unspooled from such a question?

Imagination Sparks

WHAT IF?

WHY REWRITING HISTORY?

Shows why our world is the way it is today.

PERSONAL CONNECTION…

Students evaluate how certain events have shaped their own lives!

BIG QUESTIONS

What if the Titanic did not sink?

What if there had been more lifeboats?

How has the sinking of the Titanic affected your life today?

BIG QUESTIONS

Why is the sinking of the Titanic so meaningful to people?

How can you express the meaning of this event through art?

What if you could rewrite your own history?

STUDENTS WILL…

Investigate, imagine, and explore other historical possibilities

Narrate – through ART – a rewritten historical story

STUDENTS WILL…

Reflect on events that have altered their own personal history

Investigate the meaning of their own lives, and how they fit into the world

LEARNING ACTIVITIES

Artist journal prompts – DEEP questions!

VTS Titanic artifacts, historical and contemporary artwork

ART CONCEPTS

Art is meaning making

Art tells a story

Art is multimodal

Art is a reflection of self

Art is personal expression

ART MAKING ACTIVITIES

METAPHORICAL LIFE “ICEBERGS”What is an event in your life that has altered your course in life?

Like an iceberg, only part of the art piece is visible at first glance…

Part of the piece is hidden…

…how the event has affected course of life is shown underneath.

ART MAKING ACTIVITIES

Rewrite the story of the Titanic

by creating a visual representation of the narrative.

TRAVELING MUSEUMS!(Inspired by Marcel Duchamp’s unfolding boxes)

Boxes unfold to reveal new ideas and realities…

The use of digital tools to manipulate imagery can be introduced and included…

As an open piece, a narrative is told to the viewer…

PRESENTATION

Students CURATE traveling museums exhibit that can TRAVEL from classroom to classroom or from

community business to community organization, telling their STORIES.

OTHER POSSIBILITIES…

iMovie movie trailers for rewritten history

Traveling museum is PERSONAL rewritten history

Students choose historical event to “rewrite”