This page was developed to strengthen the connection of the Social Studies and Fine Arts curriculums. We would like to advise teachers to view the timeline and activities before using them with your class. The California Visual and Performing Arts Framework and the History-Social Science Framework and Standards were studied and used for the development of this internet project. Students investigate major themes in historical and contemporary periods and styles of the visual arts throughout the world.
Students derive meaning from artworks through analysis, interpretation and judgement.
Grade 3 3.2 Students describe the elements of American Indian Nations in their local region. 3.3 Students draw from historical and community resources to organize the sequence of events in local history and describe how each period of settlement left its mark on the land. 3.6 Students draw from biographies to describe the lives of the nation's heroes who took risks to secure freedoms. Grade 4 4.2 Students describe the major social and political interactions among the people of California from the pre-Columbian societies to the Spanish mission and Mexican rancho periods. 4.3 Students explain the economic, social, and political life of California from the establishment of the Bear Flag Republic through the Mexican-American War, the Gold Rush and California statehood.