Arts Impacting Achievement

Units By Grade

Unit # Inquiry Question Grade Subject Area Arts Discipline
1004 How do you use your body to learn? Kindergarten Science Dance
1009 Letters: M T F N H A Kindergarten Language Arts Visual Arts
1033 If I could go anywhere, where would I go? How would I get there? Kindergarten English as a Second Language Theatre Arts
1053 How am I changing? Kindergarten Science and Math Dance
1070 How does change affect us? Kindergarten Arts and Science Dance
1076 How can the sun help me tell a story? Kindergarten Science/Literature Performance/Theater
1015 What is a day? 1st Science and Math Percussion
1019 Is sequencing important? 1st Language Arts Theatre Arts
1024 What is a story? 1st Reading Comprehension Dance
1038 How does music express culture? 1st Social Studies and Language Arts Percussion
1041 What is a hero? 1st Social Studies and Language Arts Dance
1045 How can letters and sounds turn me into a word detective? What makes a good word detective? 1st Language Arts and Music Music
1063 What makes a good story? 1st Language Arts Visual Artist
1064 What is a fairy tale? 1st Language Arts Visual Artist
1016 What and why do people celebrate? 2nd Social Studies Dance
1018 A Fable a Day: How do morals and fables relate to our personal choices? 2nd Language Arts Music
1020 What is a day? 2nd Science and Math Percussion
1023 What roles do/can I play? 2nd English as a Second Language Theatre Arts
1026 How do the continents move and where are they located? 2nd Social Studies Visual Arts
1037 How does music express culture? 2nd Social Studies and Language Arts Percussion
1042 What is a citizen and what do they do? 2nd Social Studies Dance
1046 How can letters and sounds turn me into a word detective? What makes a good word detective? 2nd Language Arts and Music Music
1047 What makes a good story? 2nd Language Arts Visual Artist
1066 Is “where we are”and “where we came from”important? 2nd Social Studies Theatre Arts
1068 How do we see balance and motion everyday? 1st and 2nd Science and Language Arts Dance
1071 Why do porquoi tales exist and what can I learn from them? 1st and 2nd Language Arts Performance/Theater
1072 Why do porquoi tales exist and what can I learn from them? 1st and 2nd Language Arts Performance/Theater
1012 Am I like other 3rd graders? 3rd Social Studies Theater arts
1007 Why should a Humboldt Park 3rd grader care who is elected president? 3rd Social Studies and Language Arts Dance
1027 How does my community affect me? 3rd Social Studies Theatre Arts
1032 How do my choices affect my environment? 3rd Science Dance
1006 Where is energy? 4th Science Dance
1010 Interactions in the environment 4th Life Science Visual Arts
1014 How does my body move? 4th Science Visual Artist
1025 Is it always a good idea to make things easier? 4th Science Visual Arts
1030 How does geography affect your rights and responsibilities? 4th Social Studies Dance
1031 How do words move you? 4th Poetry Theatre Arts
1048 How am I changing? 4th Math Music
1049 What defines a community? 4th Social Studies Music
1054 How change affects us;how we learn and grow from change. 4th Science, Social Studies, Vocabulary Dance
1056 Where is the music in math? 4th Math and Music Music
1057 What is worth fighting for? 4th Social Studies, Writing and Language Arts, Dance and Performance Dance
1059 Is it worth the struggle? Are we there yet? 4th Social Studies Visual Arts
1067 Is there poetry in my life? 4th Language Arts and Dance Dance
1005 How do I get power? 5th Science Theater arts
1013 Hands: What creates us? How do we create ourselves and how do external influences create us? 5th Language Arts Visual Arts
1028 Where is geometry in my everyday life? 5th Math Dance
1050 Why is balance important? 5th Math and Design, Architecture Visual Artist
1051 Why is balance important? 5th Math and Design, Architecture Visual Artist
1052 How does a profession impact my family and my neighborhood? 5th Social Sciences and Language Arts Performance/Theater
1058 What are the choices that countries / societies make with relative access to wealth / income as compared to societies with high access? 5th Math and Social Science Visual Artist
1060 What is a fairy tale? 5th, room 202 Reading and Language Arts Dance
1061 What is a fairy tale? 5th, room 204 Reading and Language Arts Dance
1074 How does a person become a legend and why? 5th American History Performance/Theater
1001 What really happened? 6th Language Arts and Music Music
1002 Can struggle be good? 6th Language Arts Music
1003 Who cares about the ancients? 6th Social Studies Dance
1008 How do you survive the place you live? 6th Lang-soc. arts Dance
1017 Would you like to live near a major river? Why? Why not? 6th Social Studies and Fine Arts Visual Arts
1029 What do words feel like? 6th Roots of Law (myths) and Poetry Theatre Arts
1035 Pandora’s Box: Is it good to be curious? 6th Language Arts and Social Science Theatre Arts
1036 Social Studies and the Renaissance 6th Social Studies Visual Arts
1039 Is the truth always good enough? 6th Social Studies Visual Artist
1040 Is the truth good enough? 6th Social Studies Theatre Arts
1044 Do symbols contribute to culture? 6th Language Arts and Social Studies Visual Arts
1055 How do words create rhythms and beats in our everyday conversation? 6th Language Arts Music
1062 What makes writing “literature?” 6th Language Arts Dance
1065 Can struggle be good? 6th Language Arts Music
1069 How do you get into a story? 6th Language Arts Dance
1073 What are the components of function of masks in society (particulalry Venetian culture)? 6th Language Arts and Science Performance/Theater
1075 How did the Pilgrims fight for freedom, and how does this affect me? 7th/8th American History Performance/Theater