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This document provides a lesson plan for teaching fourth grade students about the Lewis and Clark expedition through an arts integration project. The lesson plan includes reading about Lewis and Clark, having students write down facts in groups, and creating a flip book with the facts. For the art project, students will make a clay canoe and figures of Lewis and Clark to represent their expedition, allowing students to engage with and better understand the historical event through creative hands-on learning. The lesson integrates social studies, language arts, and visual art and is designed to meet state standards while incorporating multiple learning styles.

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This document provides a lesson plan for teaching fourth grade students about the Lewis and Clark expedition through an arts integration project. The lesson plan includes reading about Lewis and Clark, having students write down facts in groups, and creating a flip book with the facts. For the art project, students will make a clay canoe and figures of Lewis and Clark to represent their expedition, allowing students to engage with and better understand the historical event through creative hands-on learning. The lesson integrates social studies, language arts, and visual art and is designed to meet state standards while incorporating multiple learning styles.

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Lewis and Clark

Exploration
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By: Hayley Wallace


LARGE ARTS INTEGRATION PROJECT
FINAL PROJECT LESSON PLAN:
EDEL270: ARTS FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Kansas State University College of Education Art Education Program
Trina Harlow-Art Education Instructor
I. NAME, SECTION NIGHT: Hayley Wallace, Wednesday
II. GRADE LEVEL OF STUDENTS: Fourth grade
III. CURRICULUM INTEGRATION AREA: Social Studies
IV. TITLE OF OVERALL UNIT: Lewis and Clark Exploration
V. DESCRIPTIVE ART PROJECT TITLE: Lewis and Clark Canoe
VI. IMAGE OF ART PROJECT:

VII. PHILOSOPHY OF TEACHING WITH ARTS INTEGRATION:


All children are able to learn, and it is the teachers job to figure
out how to make them learn. The best way to ensure that every child is
learning is to integrate art into the curriculum. The book Creative
Materials and Activities for the Early Childhood Curriculum describes an
arts based curriculum by stating that it is grounded in the belief that
children are active, experimental, collaborative, and reflective learners
and focuses on helping them connect their understandings in a
particular content area (Isenberg & Durham, 2015, p. 444). Essentially
if a teacher pulls art into her lessons the children will be better
engaged and more successful.
Integrating the arts in to the curriculum is a very important thing
all teachers must do. Having different parts to your lessons makes it
easier for all children to learn because, no two children learn the same.
No two children learn the same because, all children have different
learning styles rather they be kinesthetic, auditory or visual learners.
By incorporating activities that apply to all of these learning styles
children gain many skills such as critical thinking, problem solving,
communication, and collaboration (Isenberg & Durham, p. 445). It is

very important for students to have all of these skills to be both


successful in the classroom and in the real world.
VIII. GOALS:
Standard:
Relationships between people, place, idea, and environments are
dynamic.
People/Roles: Lewis and Clark
Skill: Explain event, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical,
scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based
on specific information in the text. (KSSRS RI.4.3)
IX. OBJECTIVE:
Because of the incorporation of art into social studies students
will become more aware of the contributions, feelings, and thoughts
of people through the ages; utilize all domains of learning; and
examine people, places, and events in creative ways (Isenberg &
Durham, p. 355). The students will engage in kinesthetic learning by
using their hands to form the clay dolls, make a canoe out of a paper
towel roll, and paint both of those. By making a canoe with Lewis and
Clark in it and their supplies the children will get a better
understanding of Lewis and Clarks exploration. They will understand
the relationship between Lewis and Clark and the environment where
they traveled. After doing this lesson and project students will be able
to explain the exploration to others and have a good understanding of
this historic event.
X. RATIONALE:
A. BRIEFLY SUMMARIZE THE MATH, SOCIAL STUDIES, LANGUAGE
ARTS, SCIENCE, OR SPANISH LESSON TO BE TAUGHT AND THE REASON
STUDENTS OF THIS AGE NEED TO KNOW THIS
The lesson I will teach will be to fourth graders about Lewis and Clark.
During this lesson they will be learning about the three main purposes
of Lewis and Clarks expedition, to explore the Louisiana Purchase,
discover a Northwest Passage and meet the Native Americans living
there already.
I will first introduce the topic of Lewis and Clark and then we will read
the textbook about it. Reading a book aloud to the class will help the
auditory learners better understand the topic. Once the students have
an understanding about who Lewis and Clark are and their exploration I
will have them get into groups of four and pass out the Ten Facts
worksheet (can be found in the appendix). On this the students will
write down ten facts, in order, about the exploration. They will later use
these facts in an activity. Once each group has written down their facts
the groups will share them with the class incase any groups missed

anything. Once all groups have shared I will have them go back to their
seats and begin making flip books to glue into their notebooks
(template can be found in the appendix). By providing this visual
element the visual learners will better be able to understand this
lesson because they are able to see the components of the exploration
laid out in front of them.
The flip book will have the chronological facts they came up with earlier that goes
through Lewis and Clarks exploration. To do this they will have three pieces of paper that
show where they need to be cut into three sections and where they need to be glued
together. Once they have their book put together, they will write each of their facts on one
of the pages and draw a picture to help better explain. After their book has dried and they
are done coloring and writing their facts they will glue their book into their notebook so
that they will have it to look back on.
B. REASON THIS ART PROJECT IS IMPORTANT TO TEACHING THE
MATH, SOCIAL STUDIES, LANGUAGE ARTS, SPANISH, OR SCIENCE
LESSON:
It is important to incorporate art into social studies because it allows
children to have an important opportunity to see the full picture of
what they are studying as they come to understand others and their
ways of life (Isenberg & Durham, p. 355). By constructing a canoe,
Lewis and Clark and their tools the students will get a deeper
knowledge on Lewis and Clarks exploration. To make all of these they
are having to recall what they learned from the lesson to remember
what everything looks like and what supplies Lewis and Clark might
have brought with them. By having students recall this information
after the lesson you are providing a summative assessment. This
activity gives the students a visual element to Lewis and Clarks
expedition, making it easier for them to understand and they will be
able to keep this knowledge with them longer.
C. REASON PROJECT IS AGE APPROPRIATE FOR YOUR CHOSEN AGE
GROUP OF STUDENTS:
This project is age appropriate because, it involves students
molding clay, painting and, using a hot glue gun. All of these tasks
besides painting, which is lower level, are for upper elementary school
students so the fourth graders will be able to do all of it. By having
tasks that are geared more toward their age group they will enjoy the
project more because, they wont feel like its to easy.
D. REASON STUDENTS WILL ENGAGE WITH THIS PROJECT:
Students will engage with this project because, its hands on and
allows them to be creative. When students are doing art they are
having to use their whole bodies for learning (Isenberg & Durham, p.
9 ). When students are moving around their brains are being woken up,
soaking in all of the knowledge being given to them. Incorporating art
into a lesson also increases their memory,attention, spatial, and
empathy skills as they learn in and through the arts (Isenberg &
Durham, p. 9). By having them paint the canoe however they'd like and
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letting them chose what tools to make that Lewis and Clark took on
their exploration it is allowing the students to be creative and awaken
their brains. By allowing this creativity to take place the students will
naturally talk among their peers about what they are doing causing
them to be even more engaged.
E. OTHER RATIONALE FOR TEACHING THIS PROJECT
This lesson uses higher level thinking, because it include[s] critical
thinking, problem solving, communication and collaboration, which
help prepare students for success in todays global economy (Isenberg
& Durham, p. 445). It is important for students to learn these skills in
school because, school is preparing them for the real world. The
students will be challenged because they are having to use both the
right and left sides of their brains at the same time. They will be using
the right side which is where your creativity and imagination comes
from when painting and molding clay and the left side which is where
your logic, analysis, and sequencing come from when putting the
whole project together.
XI. EISNERS INFLUENCE:
Eisners third point is, The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large
lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world. I really like this point
he made because you can go about a lesson in many angles but when you bring art in it
creates and even larger range of perspectives. It is important to show your students that
there are many different ways of doing and learning things.
Students will grasp this point of Eisners by doing this project because they will see the
different ways Lewis and Clark interpreted the environment. They will also see how you
can bring different elements of art together to create a social studies project. By bringing
art into a lesson your showing children a different way to do something that will help
them better understand the lesson.
XII. VISUAL THINKING STRATEGIES (VTS):
A. DESCRIPTION OF VTS:
Visual Thinking Strategies is a method used by teachers to create
discussion. The discussion is typically lead by the teachers and is used
to provide students with thinking, listening, visual and speaking skills
that can transfer from lesson to lesson. Art is the essential first
discussion topic because it enables students to use existing visual and
cognitive skills to develop confidence and experience, learning to use
what they already know to figure out what they dont; they are then
prepared to explore other complex subject matter alone and with
peers (VTS, 2015).

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