The Wonders of Color connects to:

• VA.K.F.1.2 Identify real and imaginary subject matter in works of art.
• VA.K.H.1.3 Explain how art-making can help people express ideas and feelings.
• VA.K.H.2.2 Explore everyday objects that have been designed and created by artists.

Amazing Animals connects to:

• VA.K.F.1.2 Identify real and imaginary subject matter in works of art.
• VA.K.H.1.3 Explain how art-making can help people express ideas and feelings.
• VA.K.H.2.2 Explore everyday objects that have been designed and created by artist.
• VA.1.S.3.2 Discuss the qualities of good craftsmanship.
• VA.1.S.3.4 Identify and be respectful of artwork that belongs to others and represents their ideas.

Tall Tales: The Arts of Story Telling connects to:

• VA.2.C.2.2: Reflect on and discuss various possible meanings in works of art.
• VA.2.H.1.1: Identify examples in which artists have created works based on cultural and life experiences.
• VA.2.H.2.2: Identify objects from everyday life that have been designed and created using artistic skills.
• LAFS.2.RL.3.9: Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story (e.g. Cinderella stories) by different authors or from different cultures.
• LAFS.3.RL.1.2: Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral, and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.
• LAFS.3.RL.1.3: Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.

Masters of Materials connects to:

• VA.4.C.3.2: Compare purposes for the structural elements of art and organizational principles of design in artworks and utilitarian objects.
• VA.4.H.1.1: Identify historical and cultural influences that have inspired artists to produce works of art.
• VA4.H.3.1: Discuss how analytical skills and thinking strategies are applied to both art production and problem-solving in other content areas.
• VA.5.C.3.2: Use art-criticism processes to form a hypothesis about an artist’s or designer’s intent when creating artworks and/or utilitarian objects.
• VA.5.H.1.1: Examine historical and cultural influences that inspire artists and their work.
• VA.5. H.2.2: Describe the ways in which artworks and utilitarian objects impact everyday life.

Design Thinking: Form + Function connects to:

• VA.68.H.3.1: Discuss how knowledge and skills learned through the art-making and analysis processes are used to solve problems in non-art contexts.
• VA.68.H.3.2: Discuss the use of background knowledge and critical-thinking skills, learned in the visual arts, to understand varying concepts, viewpoints, and solutions.
• VA.68.O.2.2: Investigate the problem-solving qualities of divergent thinking as a source for new visual symbols and images.
• VA.912.C.1.7: Analyze challenges and identify solutions for three-dimensional structural problems.
• VA.912.C.2.8: Compare artwork, architecture, designs, and or/models to understand how technical and utilitarian components impact aesthetic qualities.
• VA.912.F.1.1: Use divergent thinking, abstract reasoning, and various processes to demonstrate imaginative or innovative solutions for art problems.
• VA.912.F.2.6: Research and discuss the potential of the visual arts to improve aesthetic living.
• VA.912.O.2.2: Solve aesthetic problems, through convergent and divergent thinking, to gain new perspectives.

Industrialism and the American Arts & Crafts Movement connects to:

• SS.912.A.3.3 Compare the first and second Industrial Revolutions in the United States.
• SS.912.W.6.2 Summarize the social and economic effects of the Industrial Revolution.
• SS.912.A.3.2 Examine the social, political, and economic causes, course, and consequences of the second Industrial Revolution that began in the late 19th century.

Women, America, and the Arts and Crafts Movement connects to:

• SS.8.A.4.14 Examine the causes, course, and consequences of the women's suffrage movement.
• VA.68.F.2 Careers in and related to the arts significantly and positively impact local and global economies.
• VA.68.H.1 Through study in the arts, we learn about and honor others and the worlds in which they live(d).
• SS.912.A.1.7 Describe various socio-cultural aspects of American life including arts, artifacts, literature, education, and publications.

Japan, the West, and the American Arts and Crafts Movement connects to:

• SS.912.A.7.11 Analyze the foreign policy of the United States as it relates to Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Middle East.
• SS.912.W.6.4 Describe the 19th and early 20th century social and political reforms and reform movements and their effects in Africa, Asia, Europe, the United States, the Caribbean, and Latin America.
• SS.912.H.1 Identify and analyze the historical, social, and cultural contexts of the arts.

Rebels with a cause: William Morris, John Ruskin, and the American Arts and Crafts Movement connects to:

• SS.912.W.6 Understand the development of Western and non-Western nationalism, industrialism, and imperialism, and the significant processes and consequences of each.
• SS.912.3 Analyze the transformation of the American economy and the changing social and political conditions in response to the Industrial Revolution.
• SS.912.W.9 Identify major economic, political, social, and technological trends beginning in the 20th century.
• SS.912.H.1 Identify and analyze the historical, social, and cultural contexts of the arts.

Art & Economics: Exploring the American middle class through the American Arts and Crafts Movement connects to:

• SS.912.W.9 Identify major economic, political, social, and technological trends beginning in the 20th century.
• SS.912.A.3 Analyze the transformation of the American economy and the changing social and political conditions in response to the Industrial Revolution.
• SS.8.E.1 Understand the fundamental concepts relevant to the development of a market economy.
• SS.912.E.1 Understand the fundamental concepts relevant to the development of a market economy.