Curriculum Standards Planning

Little Norway field trips will enable your students to meet Wisconsin Model Academic Standards for Social Studies Instruction as provided by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

A. Geography: Students in Wisconsin will learn about geography through the study of the relationships among people, places, and environments

A.4.7 Identify connections between the local community and other places in Wisconsin, the United States, and the world.

A.8.7 Describe the movement of people, ideas, diseases, and products throughout the world.

B. History: Students in Wisconsin will learn about the history of Wisconsin, the United States, and the world, examining change and continuity over time in order to develop historical perspective, explain historical relationships, and analyze issues that affect the present and the future

B.4.1 Identify and examine various sources of information that are used for constructing an understanding of the past, such as artifacts, documents, letters, diaries, maps, textbooks, photos, paintings, architecture, oral presentations, graphs, and charts.

B.4.3 Examine biographies, stories, narratives, and folk tales to understand the lives of ordinary and extraordinary people, place them in time and context, and explain their relationship to important historical events.

B.4.4 Compare and contrast changes in contemporary life with life in the past by looking at social, economic, political, and cultural roles played by individuals and groups.

B.4.7 Identify and describe important events and famous people in Wisconsin and United States history.

B.12.7 Identify major works of art and literature produced in the United States and elsewhere in the world and explain how they reflect the era in which they were created.

B.12.8 Recall, select, and explain the significance of important people, their work, and their ideas in the areas of political and intellectual leadership, inventions, discoveries, and the arts, within each major era of Wisconsin, United States, and world history.

K. MAKING CONNECTIONS: Students in Wisconsin will make connections among the arts, other disciplines, other cultures, and the world of work.

K.4.1 Connect their knowledge and skills in art to other areas, such as the humanities, sciences, social studies, and technology

K.4.5 Know art includes activities, such as museum curation, historic preservation, collecting, and writing about art and design

K.8.1 Connect their knowledge and skills in art to other areas, such as the humanities, sciences, social studies, and technology

K.12.1 Connect their knowledge and skills in art to other areas, such as the humanities, sciences, social studies, and technology

J. CULTURAL AND AESTHETIC UNDERSTANDING: Students in Wisconsin will reflect upon the nature of art and design and meaning in art and culture.

J.4.2 Understand that the choice of materials and techniques influences the expressive quality of art

J.8.2 Understand how the choice of materials and techniques influences the expressive quality of art

D. PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS: Students in Wisconsin will apply their knowledge of people, places, ideas, and language of art and design to their daily lives.

D.4.1 Know basic information, such as the history, public art, and unique architecture, of their own cultural community

D.4.4 Learn about basic concepts in art, such as "form follows function," "less is more," balance, symmetry, and originality

D.8.4 Understand basic concepts in art, such as "form follows function," "destruction of the box," "less is more," balance, symmetry, integrity, authenticity, and originality

D.12.1 Know about the history, public art, and unique architecture of their cultural community

I. PERSONAL AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT: Students in Wisconsin will use their senses and emotions through art and design to develop their minds and to improve social relationships.

I.4.5 Understand that art is made by people from different times, places, and cultures

I.8.5 Understand that art reflects the time and place in which it was created