Art.
Essential question addressed: How can students consume and produce art to understand past epidemics and educate themselves for future possible outbreak events?
Art is consumed.
Art is consumed.
- Spanish, Days 1-2: Student will view art produced during smallpox epidemics in Latin America, discussing art that is created during times of human strife.
- Biology, Days 1-2: While studying what causes disease (germs: bacteria, viruses, fungi, protozoa, helminths) students will view artistic interpretations of these infectious agents like the glass art of Luke Jerrram found at this website.
- Biology, Days 7-8: The image to the left displays the costume of a fourteenth center plague doctor. Medicine men in this time wore long cloaks and masks to protect themselves from disease. They carried long wands to avoid touching patients; and wore crow like masks to protect themselves from the what they thought was the source of disease: smell. Students will view and discuss masks and outfits such as that seen to the left to understand how past cultures viewed disease.
Art is produced.
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The Arts – dance, music, theatre and visual arts – are basic and core subject areas, and are essential to the well-rounded education of the whole child.” |