Abstract
This project is a collaborative project between Benjamin Crago-Schneider and Julie Pepper. The work for this project was shared equally by the two authors. This project is an Alternative Culminating Experience for a Masters of Art in Education: Curriculum and Instruction with an Elective Emphasis on Arts in Education. This project follows pathway III: Developing a curriculum, program, or performance related to arts education or arts in education. The authors developed a play with third, fourth, and fifth grade students with the purpose of bringing social studies alive through research, vignettes, and songs. Ultimately this play was presented to the school and the students’ families. The authors used journals, student research, and other forms of authentic assessments to track student success and growth throughout the project. The authors found that this was a meaningful and powerful way to teach the social studies and arts to their students.