Curriculum Content Standards
Museum's School Program History-Social Science, Visual Arts, Mathematics, and Science Content Standards
This is a list of the most identifiable, obvious, and common ties connecting the School Program’s Workshops to State Content Standards. This is by no means a complete list. Most teachers find more than these connections to their classroom studies in the information the School Program provides in the classroom workshops and the supplementary Teacher Packets. It is the School Program’s intention that teachers use this as a guide showing relevance to grade level studies for funding or other reasons.
While connections to Language Arts standards are not listed at this
time, the Program’s Teacher Packets are filled with reading- and
writing-based ideas to supplement School Program classroom workshops
and standard curricula. In addition to these, folktales, stories, poems
or songs are included in many Teacher Packets as well.
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History-Social Science Standards
All Workshops: K.1, K.3, K.4, K.6
Visual Arts Standards
All Workshops: 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 3.1, 3.3,4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.4
2.0, 2.1 Japan, China, West Africa, African American Quilts, Meso-America,
Indonesia, Inca
2.2 African American Quilts, China, Indonesia
2.6 Recycle-Reuse-Recreate, African American Visionaries, Southwest Native
Americans, Greek Ceramics, Meso-America
Mathematics Standards
Measurement and Geometry:
1.2 Meso-America
2.1 Meso-America, African American Quilts, Southwest Native Americans,
Greek Ceramics
Statistics:
1.2 West Africa, African American Quilts, Inca, Japan
Science Standards
Physical Sciences:
1a all Workshops
Life Sciences:
2a, 2b China, Japan, Meso-America, India, West Africa, Southwest, Inca,
Indonesia, Japan
2c Rice, China
2e Japan, Inca, Rice
Earth Sciences:
3a China, Japan, Meso-America, India, West Africa, Southwest, Inca, Indonesia,
Japan
3c Recycle-Reuse-Recreate
Investigation and Experimentation: 4a, 4b all Workshops
History-Social Science Standards
All Workshops: 1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.6
1.3 Quilts, Southwest Native Americans, African American Visionaries
1.5 Southwest Native Americans, African American Quilts, African American
Visionaries, Meso-America, China, Japan, West Africa, Inca
Visual Arts Standards
All Workshops: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2, 5.2, 5.4
2.1 Greek Ceramics, Meso-America, Southwest Native Americans, Japan
Science Standards
Life Sciences:
2e Japan, Inca, Rice
History-Social Science Standards
All Workshops: 2.1
2.2 Southwest Native Americans, African American Quilts
2.4 Rice, Japan, China, Indonesia
Visual Arts Standards
All Workshops: 1.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.3, 4.4
1.2 African American Visionaries, Japan, China, West Africa
2.1 West Africa, Meso-America, China
2.5 China, African American Quilts, Japan
4.1 African American Visionaries
5.4 Recycle-Reuse-Recreate
Mathematics Standards
Number Sense:
4.1 African American Quilts
Measurement and Geometry:
2.1, 2.2 Meso-America, African American Quilts, Southwest Native Americans
Mathematical Reasoning:
1.2 African American Quilts
Science Standards
Life Sciences:
2b, 2f Japan, Rice
Earth Sciences:
3a, 3c, 3d Southwest Native Americans
Investigation and Experimentation:
4d India
History-Social Science Standards
All Workshops: 3.1, 3.4
3.2, 3.3 Southwest Native Americans, Meso-America, Inca
Visual Arts Standards
All Workshops: 3.4
2.5 Meso-America, Greek Ceramics, Southwest Native Americans
2.6 Meso-America
3.2 Recycle, Reuse, Recreate
3.3 African American Visionaries, Indonesia, Japan
Mathematics Standards
Number Sense:
2.3, 2.4 African American Quilts
Measurement and Geometry:
2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4 African American Quilts
2.5 Meso-America, Greek Ceramics
Mathematical Reasoning:
3.1 African American Quilts
Science Standards
Physical Sciences:
2a Indonesia, and all Workshops with slide shows
Life Sciences:
3b Meso-America, West Africa, Inca, Japan, Indonesia, India, China
3c, 3d Japan, Rice
Earth Sciences:
4a, 4b, 4d, 4e China, Meso-America
History-Social Science Standards
4.2 Meso-America, Southwest Native Americans
Visual Arts Standards
All Workshops: 4.4
1.2 Indonesia, Meso-America, China
1.5 Recycle-Reuse-Recreate
2.3 Greek Ceramics
2.4 Inca, Basket making, West Africa, Indonesia, Southwest Native Americans
3.1 African American Quilts, Southwest Native Americans, West Africa,
Greek Ceramics
5.3 India, African American Visionaries, West Africa
Mathematics Standards
Number Sense: 3.2, 3.3, 3.7, 3.8 African American Quilts
Measurement and Geometry: 3.3 China, Japan
Science Standards
Life Sciences:
2a, 2c, 3b Inca, Japan, Meso-America, Rice, West Africa
Earth Sciences:
4a, 4b, 5a Southwest Natvive Americans, Indonesia
History-Social Science Standards
5.1 Southwest Native Americans
5.2 Inca, Meso-America
5.3 Southwest Native Americans
5.4 African American Quilts
5.8 African American Quilts
5.9 African American Quilts, African American Visionaries
Visual Arts Standards
All Workshops: 1.1
1.3 India, African American Quilts
2.5 Recycle-Reuse-Recreate
5.2 Inca, West Africa, Southwest Native Americans, Meso-American, Inca,
Greek Ceramics, India, China
Mathematics Standards
Number Sense: 2.2, 2.4, 2.5 African American Quilts
Measurement and Geometry: 3.3 China, Japan
Science Standards
Physical Sciences:
1g, 1I Japan
Earth Sciences:
3e, 4b Meso-Americans, Inca, Indonesia, Southwest Native Americans
History-Social Science Standards
All Workshops: 6.1
6.4 Greek Ceramics
6.5 India
6.6 China
Visual Arts Standards
1.2 African American Visionaries
1.4 China, African American Quilts, Greek Ceramics, Japan
2.5 African American Visionaries
3.2, 4.2 Meso-America, Japan, China, Indonesia, West Africa, Southwest
Native Americans, Inca
5.1 Indonesia
5.2 Southwest Native Americans, Indonesia, West Africa
5.3 Greek Ceramics, West Africa, India, Indonesia, Inca
Mathematics Standards
Measurement and Geometry: 3.3 China, Japan
Science Standards
Earth Sciences:
1a, 2d Indonesia, Meso-America, Japan
6c Inca, Japan, West Africa, Meso-Americans, Southwest, Greek Ceramics,
Quilts, Indonesia, India, China, Papermaking
History-Social Science Standards
7.2 Basket making, Papermaking, West Africa, China, Japan, India, Indonesia
7.3 China
7.4 West Africa
7.5 Japan
7.7 Inca, Meso-America
7.8 Japan, China
7.10 West Africa, China, Japan, India, Indonesia, Meso-America, Inca
Visual Arts Standards
All Workshops: 3.1, 3.2, 5.4
Mathematics Standards
Measurement and Geometry: 3.3 China, Japan
Science Standards
Earth Sciences:
4g Meso-America
5f West Africa, Japan, Quilts
History-Social Science Standards
8.7 African American Visionaries,
8.8 Southwest Native Americans
8.9 African American Quilts
8.12 Inca, West Africa, China, Japan, Southwest Native Americans
Visual Arts Standards
All Workshops: 3.2, 3.4, 4.1
2.4, 2.6 Greek Ceramics, Meso-America, Recycle-Reuse-Recreate
3.3 African American Visionaries, Inca, African American Quilts, Native
American Southwest