The da Vinci Project
The da Vinci Project, unique to Barcroft, is a school-wide, staff-written curriculum designed using the principles of Understanding by Design. At each grade level, essential questions and enduring understandings provide the framework of the unit.
The six-eight week units are interdisciplinary and address Virginia Standards of Learning.
The units are delivered by classroom teachers and specialists. They include all-school enrichment in studio art and writing facilitated by the art teacher and a writing specialist. Each grade-level unit culminates with a da Vinci fair, where students display and demonstrate their learning with a variety of products.
Barcroft School's exemplary project is named after Leonardo da Vinci because of his habits of mind: curiosity about the world, creativity, plus his interest and skill in the arts, science, history, and literature. No couch potato was he!
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Ginevra de' Benci by Leonardo da Vinci |
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Ginevra de' Benci, Leonardo da Vinci, ca. 1474
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC