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Social Studies
+7 Age Levels Middle School (13 to 15 years old), Post-Secondary, Adults, High School (16 to 18 years old)
This teaching collection helps students think critically and globally about migration, using two objects from 1992: a screenprint, "Fragile Crossing," by Cuban American artist Luis Cruz Azaceta, and a small Cuban raft that was intercepted off the coast of Florida.
Using Project Zero Visible Thinking and Global Thinking Routines, students will consider the personal, local and global contexts in which these objects were created, the larger story they tell, and why they matter.
Included here are the screenprint from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, a video with Grant Czubinski (Anacostia Community Museum) and Ranald Woodaman (Smithsonian Latino Center), two suggested Thinking Routines - "See, Think, Wonder" and "The 3 Y's" - from Harvard's Project Zero Artful…
Cuban Balseros: Using Art and Artifact to Explore an American Immigration Story
- Published by:
- Smithsonian Office of Educational Technology
- Created by:
- Philippa Rappoport
- Date Published
- April 06, 2020
- Last Modified
- November 05, 2021
- Description
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This teaching collection helps students think critically and globally about migration, using two objects from 1992: a screenprint, "Fragile Crossing," by Cuban American artist Luis Cruz Azaceta, and a small Cuban raft that was intercepted off the coast of Florida.
Using Project Zero Visible Thinking and Global Thinking Routines, students will consider the personal, local and global contexts in which these objects were created, the larger story they tell, and why they matter.
Included here are the screenprint from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, a video with Grant Czubinski (Anacostia Community Museum) and Ranald Woodaman (Smithsonian Latino Center), two suggested Thinking Routines - "See, Think, Wonder" and "The 3 Y's" - from Harvard's Project Zero Artful Thinking and Global Thinking materials, an article on Cuban balseros by Natalie Catasus, and a Learning Lab collection about the work of Luis Cruz Azaceta.
For use in Social Studies, Ethnic Studies, Spanish, English, American History, Art History classes
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- Notes to Other Users
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STANDARDS
NCSS 1 : Culture – Social studies programs should include experiences that provide for the study of culture and cultural diversity.
NCSS 2 : Time, Continuity, and Change - Social studies programs should include experiences that provide for the study of the past and its legacy.
NCSS 9 : Global Connections - Social studies programs should include experiences that provide for the study of global connections and interdependence.
C3 D2.His.1.9-12 - Evaluate how historical events and developments were shaped by unique circumstances of time and place as well as broader historical contexts.
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