Lesson Plans: Social Studies

The 1920s: The Migrants Arrive and Cast Their Ballots Teach American history through art & explore democracy through this print from the Great Migration series by Jacob Lawrence. See also Art Alive: Summer Street Scene in Harlem and Jacob Lawrence’s Summer Street Scene in Harlem, 1948. Curriculum Connections: Art, Civics, Social Studies Grade Level: Elementary, Secondary ^Top

Jacob Lawrence The 1920′s… The Migrants Arrive and Cast Their Ballots

About Face: Copley’s Portrait of a Colonial Silversmith About Face: Copley’s Portrait of a Colonial Silversmith explores the lives and work of two artists within colonial Boston prior to the outbreak of the American Revolution: portrait painter John Singleton Copley and silversmith Nathaniel Hurd. See also John Singleton Copley’s Unfinished Portrait of Nathaniel Hurd, ca. 1765. Curriculum Connections: Art, ELA, Social Studies Grade Level: Elementary ^Top

Copley, John Singleton Unfinished Portrait of Nathaniel Hurd (1729-1777)

Albert Bierstadt’s The Sierras Near Lake Tahoe, California, 1865 Bierstadt’s paintings of the West gave nineteenth-century Americans a spectacular view of their expanding nation and its unique wonders. This lesson plan accompanies an essay in the Seeing America collection catalogue. Curriculum Connections: Art, ELA, Social Studies Grade Level: Secondary ^Top

Albert Bierstadt The Sierras Near Lake Tahoe, California