What Does Arts Integration Look Like?

Esperanza Charter School
2nd Grade, Poetry/Visual Art & Social Studies
Ms. Nobile / Ms. Sens & Ms. Schick

In this video, follow second graders at Esperanza as they work on a unit long book-making project that connects academic objectives in social studies with poetry and visual art.

While students learned about the purpose and value of past inventions, they became inventors themselves and imagined and designed their own inventions. In addition, while they studied the difference between past, present, and future, students wrote poems using similes to compare what life was like when they were babies versus life now as second graders. Finally, students compiled their work in self-published books and celebrated their accomplishments with a gallery walk and end of unit poetry reading.

Creative learning at Esperanza is supported by the Patrick F. Taylor Foundation.