Capturing history

North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

Visual Arts Education (2001)

Grade 5

• Goal 5: The learner will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
  • Objective 5.01: Begin to recognize that art is the visual record of the history of mankind.
  • Objective 5.02: Identify selected characteristics that make art of a particular culture unique.
  • Objective 5.07: Demonstrate a sense of history (what came before and after) regarding cultures and works of art.
  • Objective 5.08: Recognize there are many universal themes in art throughout history.

Grade 6

• Goal 4: The learner will choose and evaluate a range of subject matter and ideas to communicate intended meaning in artworks.
  • Objective 4.02: Understand the use of life surroundings and personal experiences are used to express ideas and feelings visually.
• Goal 5: The learner will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
  • Objective 5.01: Demonstrate an understanding that the visual arts have a history, purpose and function in all cultures.
  • Objective 5.02: Identify specific works of art as belonging to a particular culture, time and place.

Grade 8

• Goal 5: The learner will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
  • Objective 5.01: Consider the history, purpose and function of visual arts and analyze their impact on various cultures.
  • Objective 5.03: Compare and contrast relationships of works of art to one another in terms of history, aesthetics, and cultural/ethnic groups.

Social Studies (2003)

Grade 5

• Goal 1: The learner will apply key geographic concepts to the United States and other countries of North America.
  • Objective 1.02: Analyze how absolute and relative location influence ways of living in the United States and other countries of North America.
  • Objective 1.03: Compare and contrast the physical and cultural characteristics of regions within the United States, and other countries of North America.
  • Objective 1.04: Describe the economic and social differences between developed and developing regions in North America.
  • Objective 1.05: Explain how and why population distribution differs within and between countries of North America.
• Goal 3: The learner will examine the roles various ethnic groups have played in the development of the United States and its neighboring countries.
  • Objective 3.02: Examine how changes in the movement of people, goods, and ideas have affected ways of living in the United States.
• Goal 4: The learner will trace key developments in United States history and describe their impact on the land and people of the nation and its neighboring countries.
  • Objective 4.02: Explain when, where, why, and how groups of people settled in different regions of the United States.
  • Objective 4.07: Compare and contrast changes in rural and urban settlement patterns in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and selected countries of Central America.

Grade 6

• Goal 1: The learner will use the five themes of geography and geographic tools to answer geographic questions and analyze geographic concepts.
  • Objective 1.02: Generate, interpret, and manipulate information from tools such as maps, globes,charts, graphs, databases, and models to pose and answer questions about space and place, environment and society, and spatial dynamics and connections.

Grade 7

• Goal 1: The learner will use the five themes of geography and geographic tools to answer geographic questions and analyze geographic concepts.
  • Objective 1.02: Generate, interpret, and manipulate information from tools such as maps, globes, charts, graphs, databases, and models to pose and answer questions about space and place, environment and society, and spatial dynamics and connections.