Learning Links
Labor / Folk Dance / Geography / Graffiti / Celebrations / Mythology / Language(s) / Food / Traditions / Genealogy / War / Historic Sites / Religion / Hobbies / Shape Note Singing
Related Concepts
Role of the Artist / Historical Perspective / Importance of Artifacts / Geographical Perspective / Personal Perspective / Belief
Demonstrators should be read from bottom to top, but need not be demonstrated sequentially.
Elementary Demonstrators
• Experience a variety of art forms in music, visual arts, dance, and drama.
• Recognize the role of the artist in music, visual arts, dance, and drama.
• Demonstrate through performance or product, forms of music, visual arts, dance, and drama.
• Examine the effects of time, place, and personality on art forms and performance practices.
Middle School Demonstrators
• Compare and contrast the roles of the artists in music, visual arts, dance, and drama.
• Assess the contributions of various cultures to the expression of various art forms.
• Communicate the influences of time, place, and personality on art forms and performance practices.
High School Demonstrators
• Express own personal cultural heritage through production of art forms.
• Create performances or productions which combine elements and concepts unique to a culture's music, visual arts, dance, and drama.
Sample Teaching/Assessment Strategies
Collaborative Process: Cooperative Learning, Peer Tutoring / Community-Based Instruction: Field Studies, Mentoring, Shadowing / Continuous Progress Assessment: Interviews, Portfolio Development / Graphic Organizers: Compare/Contrast Structures, Graphic Representations / Problem Solving: Creative Problem Solving, Role-play, Simulation / Technology/Tools: Multimedia, Video / Whole Language Approach / Writing Process
These sample strategies offer ideas and are not meant to limit teacher resourcefulness. More strategies are found in the resource section.
Ideas for Incorporating Community Resources:
• Visit an art museum; compare mediums used and types of pieces from the past to the present.
• Produce a photographic scrapbook showing the different influences reflected in local architecture.
• Tour a historic home and note how the time period influenced the decor of the home (e.g., type and design of cloth, color, artwork).
Core Concept - Cultural Heritage
Sample Elementary Activities
• Record different individuals from your culture singing songs from their childhood. PE, OE
• Visit a local potter and compare his/her pottery to dinnerware used in your home. Analyze the differences. OE, P
• Make hand puppets and use them to present a historic event from your local community. PE
• Learn and perform a folk dance and describe the history of the dance. PE, P
• Compare design of functional objects from diverse cultures and design one of your own. PE, OE, P
Applications Across the Curriculum
• Variations on a theme: Kentucky Heritage
Language Arts
• Listen to songs about Kentucky, read the lyrics, and then write a poem celebrating Kentucky's past. PE, OE
Science
• Develop a series of maps showing Kentucky from several perspectives (e.g., topographical, geological, historical). PE, P
Mathematics
• Choose a variety of Kentucky quilting patterns and graph them, showing them as tessellations. PE
Social Studies
• Make a time line showing the relation between significant events in Kentucky history and events in the families of class members. P
Practical Living
• Role-play scenes from family life in Kentucky from the late 1700s through 1990. PE
Vocational Education
• Create a series of posters showing how occupations in Kentucky have changed from early settlement days through today. P
Sample Middle School Activities
• Explore the influence and impact of cultures on Kentucky music, dance, visual arts, and drama (e.g. Scottish, Irish, Vietnamese, African American, Japanese, Shaker). PE, OE, P
• Assume the role of an artist in different periods. Communicate the effect which time, place, and society have had on your products and performances. PE, OE, P
• Design masks using design patterns from different cultures. PE
• Listen to Aaron Copeland's "Appalachian Spring" and perform the song "Simple Gifts" with simple accompaniment and/or movement patterns. Indicate how place, personality, and society influence your selection process. PE, P
• Create an original performance using music, visual arts, drama, or dance that represents your personal cultural heritage. PE
Applications Across the Curriculum
Language Arts
• Write and perform a play that takes a current public figure back into a specific historical era. PE, P
Science
• Analyze and summarize how cultural heritage influenced the work of American scientists (e.g., Rachel Carson, George Washington Carver, Albert Einstein). P
Mathematics
• Chart the gross receipts of the leading box office movies throughout the years and compare to the box office receipts of Academy Award winning movies. PE, P
Social Studies
• Develop a character profile booklet showing the background and achievements of an individual from an ethnic group. PE, P Compile lists of popular songs from past decades. Prepare a presentation on how those songs reflected the culture of the home. PE, OE, P
Practical Living
• Research a particular dance and show it as a historical presentation depicting the dance, culture, sights, and sounds of the era. PE, P
Vocational Education
• Research and illustrate popular medical practices in other countries. Create a book on the effects of culture on medical practices. P
Sample High School Activities
• Plan and present a "Madrigal Dinner." Prepare programs, make costumes, design and build sets, prepare and serve the meal and perform vocal and instrumental selections. Discuss the way your preparations and plans differ from those of the Middle Ages. OE, PE
• Dramatize a folk tale in a modern setting. Analyze the changes that must be made. OE, PE
• Collect family/local stories, select one and present it. Enhance with music, visual art, or dance. PE, P
• Listen to The Firebird. Communicate the manner in which time, place, and society influenced the story. Create costumes for the characters and dramatize. Describe how the setting influenced your choice of costumes. PE, P
• Listen to the opera Hansel and Gretel. Perform the story in a modern style. PE, P
Applications Across the Curriculum
Language Arts
• Write a one-act play in which a family heirloom, song, story, or dance, has united a family through several generations. PE
Science
• Evaluate how the evolution of paint formulas has affected art and the preservation of artworks. PE, OE, P
Mathematics
• Research census data for information on migration patterns in your region, and show connections to changing cultural patterns (e.g., ethnic restaurants, radio stations). P
Social Studies
• Present the holiday traditions of your family. Concentrate on the cultural influences in the celebration of the holiday. PE
Practical Living
• Perform a Kentucky folk dance. Discuss the cultural contributions of early settlers in Kentucky that influenced music and dance forms. PE Research how cultural heritage has influenced housing designs. Compile a photographic index. PE, P
Vocational Education
• Create an arts-centered advertising campaign to promote Kentucky. Include a logo and slogan. Submit it to the Cabinet of Tourism. P