MUSEUM LINKS FOR LESSON PLANS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES
Cincinnati Art Museum
This link leads to helpful lesson plans based on the Cincinnati Art Museum. They have three links to Discovering the Story, Through a Child's Eye, and Vertices: Geometry Meets Art. Discovering the Story tells the story of Cincinnati's cultural heritage. This project's overarching goal is to use the Museum's and the Library's vast and rich collections as resources to create a series of curriculum-based lessons focused on the region's cultural heritage. These lessons are designed to meet the standards of Kindergarden through 12th grade. Specifically looking at the cultural heritage of Cincinnatians.
SFMOMA
This particular project is about making sense on modern art. Making Sense of Modern Art is an extensive and engaging guide to modern and contemporary works in SFMOMA's permanent collection. The program lets you to "zoom in" on full-screen details of individual artworks, and explore excerpts from videos and films, and listen to commentary by artists, art historians, critics, and collectors.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
This Art Museum links to a project about creating a figurine highlighting ways an animal from your community contributes to daily life. Students will research the animal they selected and identify attributes that make it well suited for its role. As you plan, consider how you will visually convey this information. Present your finished sculpture to your classmates along with a gallery label highlighting how the finished piece reflects the role of this animal in the community.
Highlights of American Art at the Hood Museum of Art
This provides a full-screen image of a portrait titled Jonathan Simpson by Joseph Blackburn. It includes details of the painting and guidelines to help you lead a discussion with students about this work of art. It will introduce the students to the five steps involved in exploring a work of art: careful observation, analysis, research, interpretation, and critique.
Third Thursdays for Teachers
This is a printmaking exercise where the children will paint rubber fish and print them onto sheets of paper to explore the art of Gyotaku painting. The kid will learn vocabulary terms that go along with the theme of Gyotaku painting and the culture of it. Kids will explore the culture and the history of Gyotaku art and help them discover how the Japanese used printmaking techniques for both practical and aesthetic purposes.
This link leads to helpful lesson plans based on the Cincinnati Art Museum. They have three links to Discovering the Story, Through a Child's Eye, and Vertices: Geometry Meets Art. Discovering the Story tells the story of Cincinnati's cultural heritage. This project's overarching goal is to use the Museum's and the Library's vast and rich collections as resources to create a series of curriculum-based lessons focused on the region's cultural heritage. These lessons are designed to meet the standards of Kindergarden through 12th grade. Specifically looking at the cultural heritage of Cincinnatians.
SFMOMA
This particular project is about making sense on modern art. Making Sense of Modern Art is an extensive and engaging guide to modern and contemporary works in SFMOMA's permanent collection. The program lets you to "zoom in" on full-screen details of individual artworks, and explore excerpts from videos and films, and listen to commentary by artists, art historians, critics, and collectors.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
This Art Museum links to a project about creating a figurine highlighting ways an animal from your community contributes to daily life. Students will research the animal they selected and identify attributes that make it well suited for its role. As you plan, consider how you will visually convey this information. Present your finished sculpture to your classmates along with a gallery label highlighting how the finished piece reflects the role of this animal in the community.
Highlights of American Art at the Hood Museum of Art
This provides a full-screen image of a portrait titled Jonathan Simpson by Joseph Blackburn. It includes details of the painting and guidelines to help you lead a discussion with students about this work of art. It will introduce the students to the five steps involved in exploring a work of art: careful observation, analysis, research, interpretation, and critique.
Third Thursdays for Teachers
This is a printmaking exercise where the children will paint rubber fish and print them onto sheets of paper to explore the art of Gyotaku painting. The kid will learn vocabulary terms that go along with the theme of Gyotaku painting and the culture of it. Kids will explore the culture and the history of Gyotaku art and help them discover how the Japanese used printmaking techniques for both practical and aesthetic purposes.