Here are two examples of how to take your existing standards and integrate global education:
Indiana State Standard - Visual Arts - First Grade
VA: Cr2.3.1.a
Identify and classify uses of everyday objects through drawings, diagrams, sculptures, or other visual means
Enduring Understanding: People create and interact with objects, places, and design that define, shape, enhance, and empower their lives. Essential Question(s): How do objects, places, and design shape lives and communities? How do artists and designers determine goals for designing or redesigning objects, places, or systems? How do artists and designers create works of art or design that effectively communicate?
1. Integration: Identify and classify uses of everyday objects from around the world. Use visuals from all different parts of the world. For example, How do objects, places, and design shape lives and communities in Mexico, Japan, India? How are they alike/similar? How do artists and designers create works of art that effectively communicate their culture?
2. Lesson Plan Modifications: Insert objects and visuals from different parts of the world. Discuss how the images are alike and similar. Understand how the theme in the images connects to their culture.
3. Assessment: Students will be able to identify and classify objects and images from around the world from looking at the visual cues in the objects/imagery.
Indiana State Standard - Visual Arts - Fifth Grade
Pr6.1.5a
Cite evidence about how an exhibition in a museum or other venue presents ideas and provides information about a specific concept or topic.
Anchor Standard 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work. Enduring Understanding: Objects, artifacts, and artworks collected, preserved, or presented either by artists, museums, or other venues communicate meaning and a record of social, cultural, and political experiences resulting in the cultivating of appreciation and understanding. Essential Question(s):What is an art museum? How does the presenting and sharing of objects, artifacts, and artworks influence and shape ideas, beliefs, and experiences? How do objects, artifacts, and artworks collected, preserved, or presented, cultivate appreciation and understanding?
1. Integration: Convey meaning of artists' works from different cultures. What artifacts and artwork are important to other cultures to display in a museum? Why? What can we learn from other cultures by looking at their artworks and artifacts?
2. Lesson Plan Modifications: After students have researched artwork and artifacts from other cultures via internet search, they will build their own mini museum highlighting a particular culture of interest. Students will create themed galleries to showcase the different interests within the culture.
3. Assessment: Students will write a gallery guide explaining the galleries within the museum. The gallery guide will give details of the artifacts and artworks researched.