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Lesson 1 - LearningThroughMuseums

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Curriculum Overview<br />

The Art Institute of Chicago MAPS Curriculum: Understanding Environments and Values<br />

<strong>Lesson</strong>s That Develop Reading and Writing Skills as Students Interpret Art to Understand<br />

and Communicate about Important Topics in Science and Social Studies<br />

<strong>Lesson</strong>s for 4th Grade<br />

Overview<br />

Students apply reading and writing skills as they learn about topics represented in<br />

artworks. The lessons complement the core curriculum in reading, science, social studies<br />

and writing.<br />

The lessons emphasize literacy development. Students reinforce reading skills as they<br />

infer main ideas of works of art and write about what they learn. Activities include<br />

vocabulary development and art-making in which students communicate the ideas they<br />

learn through their own drawings. Each lesson includes an Extended Writing question<br />

based on a relevant reading. Teachers may use the lessons in conjunction with language<br />

arts or content development.<br />

The lessons also can be used in conjunction with science or social studies curriculum<br />

so that students develop content knowledge as well as literacy skills. The topics of the<br />

lessons match fourth-grade content requirements.<br />

6 • Understanding Environments and Values

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