INTEGRATING ARTS ACROSS THE
CURRICULUM
Kristine Quinn
CSUF
NATIONAL VISUAL ARTS STANDARDS
• An education in the arts benefits both individuals and
societies:
• Helps us understand human experiences both past
and present
• Helps us lean to adapt to respect others’ ways of
thinking, working, and expressing themselves
• Helps develop artistic modes of problem solving,
which brings expressive, analytical and development
tools to a situation
NATIONAL VISUAL ARTS STANDARDS
• Helps us understand the impact of design on all we use in
daily like
• Helps us make decisions in situations where there are no
standard answers
• Helps us analyze nonverbal communication and make
informed judgment about cultural products and issues
• Helps us communicate our thoughts and feeling in a variety
of modes, giving a powerful repertoires of self-expression
WHAT SHOULD STUDENTS KNOW AND BE ABLE
TO DO IN THE ARTS?
• Communicate at a basic level in the four arts disciplines-dance,
music, theatre, and visual arts
• Communicate proficiently in at least one art form, including the
ability to design and solve artistic problems with insight reason,
and technical proficiency
• Develop and present basic analysis of works of art from
structural, historical and cultrual perspectives
• Have an informed acquaintance with exemplary works of art
form a variety of cultures and historical periods
• Relate various types of arts knowledge and skills within and
across the arts disciplines
INTEGRATING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM
• Language Arts: vocabulary (language of the discipline) poetry,
illustrating story line, poetry
• Social Studies: art analysis, cultural artifacts, biography, history
• Science: observational drawing, solutions,
• Math: tesselations, symmetry, quilt designs, tangrams,
geometric designs
GALILEO GALILEI
THE FATHER OF MODERN SCIENCE (15641642)
LANGUAGE ARTS
• Children’s literature: Starry Messenger
• A Caldecott Honor Book
• Poetry: A Full Moon Poem by Galileo
FULL MOON POEM TO GALILEO GALILEI
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Full moon poem to Galileo Galilei
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Under the canopy of your bed,
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You whose eyes were made to see
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the end of all sufferings you patiently awaited;
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what all other eyes would not see,
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then in a small room, under a bell tower,
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due glory you rendered saying, "I render
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in a room darker that the darkness
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infinite thanks to God for being so kind as
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that ravaged your kind blind eyes,
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to make me the first observer of marvels
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your bones were laid to rest.
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kept hidden from all previous times".
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But now, from the bell tower of Santa Croce,
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Given to you was, also, a first born child,
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resounds your glory,
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assigned to the Convent of San Matteo,
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and the bells of Santa Croce
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at so tender an age, with her younger sister!
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praise and glorify for ever the brightness
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And as you labored through every tempest,
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and the beauty of another God-given man,
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from the empoverished distant walls
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while your bones rest with Maria Celeste's
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of her Cloister much comfort she sent,
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in the tomb of Santa Croce.
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with words of strength and happiness.
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And we know that she was, for you, more
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than the brightest full moon in your heaven,
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Galileo
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and unlike the face of the sun, never
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on her soul, a spot could you have detected!
TIMELINE: (SOCIAL STUDIES)
• Born in 1564, the same year in which Shakespeare was born
and the year in which Michelangelo died.
• Studied at the University of Pisa, Italy, appointed chair of
mathematics
• His interest in science led Galileo to construct his first telescope
in July of 1609.
• He published these discoveries in a book, the Siderius Nuncius
(Starry Messenger) which caused an overnight sensation.
• But when the book finally appeared in 1632, it raised an
immediate storm of protest leading immediately to
Galileo's arrest and famous trial by the Inquisition in
Rome that found him guilty of having published a
heretical book. In the end, Galileo had no choice but to
repent and confess that he had gone too far.
• He was sentenced to life imprisonment, which he spent,
for the most part at his own villa at Arcetri near Florence,
under the surveillance of the Inquisition
• Galileo died in 1642,
A FEW OF HIS CONTRIBUTIONS
• The telescope
• Confirmation of the phases of Venus
• Discovery of the four largest satellites of Jupiter, named the
Galilean moons in his honor
• Observation and analysis of sunspots military compass
WHICH LEADS US TO…
• The Hubble Telescope
• Hubble is a telescope that orbits Earth. Its position above the
atmosphere, which distorts and blocks the light that reaches our
planet, gives it a view of the universe that typically far surpasses
that of ground-based telescopes.
TASK
• Use water colors to create a planetary inspired work of art
• Start by lightly dampening the water color paper (use the rough
side)
• Use a blotting technique, more water will result in lighter
shades, less water will result in more vibrant shades
• Use glitter glue to make the stars.