•ARTS

–Arts is a diverse range of human activity, and resulting product that

involves creative or imaginative talent expressive or technical proficiency,
beauty, emotional power or conceptual ideas.

FORMS OF ARTS

- painting, sculpture, architecture, literature, music, cinema, and theater.

•ARTS AND THE SOCIAL STUDIES

-Social studies presents knowledge of human experiences, while art has

the power to provide an intimate understanding of human experiences through
personal encounters that yield insights. Art, as a way of knowing, presents a
kind of knowledge that the facts and abstractions of the social studies cannot
make known.

-Society around the world express culture—their identity—through the

arts with dance, music, drama, and visual products. It reflects the historic time
and cultural context of its origin.

-Artworks may record how people, places, and things looked. Materials
and production techniques of past eras may give indications of geographic
environment and societal structure.

•WHY ART IS IMPORTANT IN SOCIAL STUDIES?

-it has the power to provide an intimate understanding of human

experiences through personal encounters that yield insights.

-It help us to learn how to communicate and work with others, how to
define a question and analyse the evidence to answer it

“Who creates art? Who consumes art? What form does art take? How is
knowledge of art-making transferred from one generation to another?” These
questions raise issues inseparable from social studies considerations
what is Social Studies?

• a systematic study of various aspects of human society.

•a field which human behaviour, relationships, resources and institution.

Social studies and some other disciplines involves anthropology, archaeology,

economics, history, laws, philosophy, political science, psychology, religion,
and sociology.

Anthropology
• The social studies that seeks to understand human origins and adaptation,
and diversity of culture and worldviews.

Archaeology
•The study of civilization through their material remains.
•Closely related to anthropology
•"ancient detective" work

Economics
• The social studies that deals with the optimum allocation of scarce resources
among its alternatives to satisfy the unlimited wants and needs of people.

Geography
• The study of earth's surface.
• Specialized investigation of the physical structure of the earth, including its
terrain and its climate and nature and character of its contrasting inhabited
portions.

History
• The study of the past.
• The social studies that describes or narrates and analyze human activities in
the past and the changes that these had undergone.

Political science
• A systematic study of politics.
• Politics may defined as (1) the art of government, (2) public affairs, (3)
compromise and consensus, and (4) power.

Psychology
•Deals with the scientific study of behaviour and mental process.

Sociology
• The systematic study of human society.
• Demography is the study of population with regards to its characteristics and
patterns of changes.