Teaching History Through Art

Teaching History Through Art is a great way to integrate active learning into your history curriculum! Lessons cover ancient art through the artists of the Renaissance. Little tidbits of relevant information are integrated into the lesson to illustrate why the activity is relevant to history (e.g. notes on the importance of the color purple throughout history in a lesson that asks students to create as many shades of purple as they can or a brief explanation of the Bayeux Tapestry before asking students to tell their own story of a famous battle using pastels on a three-foot-long brown-paper "tapestry" of their own). 134 pages, paperback, softcover. Grades 2-8.