Use this resource set to guide young learners as they explore and …
Use this resource set to guide young learners as they explore and interpret a diverse group of six artworks from the Virginia Museum of Arts collection.
Under the "suggested activities" menu next to each artwork, you will find link to an educator-led "Little Eyes Look" video. Using an inquiry-based approach that fosters curiosity and creative thinking, educators introduce viewers to vocabulary related to both art-making and the subjects depicted in the artworks. Students consider artistic intention and decision-making and are supported by factual content about artists's lives and art-making practices.
Three open-ended engagement activities are also suggested with each work. These simple exercises can be used to foster extended thinking about each piece.
This is the second lesson in a sequential unit. In a museum …
This is the second lesson in a sequential unit. In a museum gallery, students practice looking skills they reviewed in Lesson 1. They reflect upon the differences between viewing original works of art and reproductions and interpret a work of art using formal analysis and research done for homework.
This is the first lesson in a sequential unit. Students practice looking …
This is the first lesson in a sequential unit. Students practice looking and formal analysis skills by studying a reproduction of the work of art they will see on their museum visit in Lesson 2. Prepare students for their trip by reviewing appropriate behavior in a museum and discussing the role of the museum as an institution that collects, conserves, and interprets works of art.
Research activities investigate social-science connections such as trade, societal impact, and style …
Research activities investigate social-science connections such as trade, societal impact, and style on the production and consumption of porcelain in the period leading up to the French Revolution. Extensions relate to chemistry connections.
The books that were created in the medieval period are the forerunners …
The books that were created in the medieval period are the forerunners of modern printed books and have many of the same components. Use the image Initial A: Two Men before a King and a Man Speaking to a Family to learn about the different elements of a manuscript page and as a way of beginning to explore and create illuminated manuscripts with your class.
Students will examine a manuscript page from a Flemish bestiary and discuss …
Students will examine a manuscript page from a Flemish bestiary and discuss how it was used to teach ideas about Christianity. Students will then compare the stories from the bestiary to the fables of Aesop, and culminate with the creation of their own manuscript based on a fable by Aesop.
Students will compare the daguerreotype of Edgar Allan Poe by an unknown …
Students will compare the daguerreotype of Edgar Allan Poe by an unknown photographer with Poe's writings in an effort to discover the character of this mysterious author.
Students explore 19th-century photographer Edward Curtis's documentation of a ritual performed by …
Students explore 19th-century photographer Edward Curtis's documentation of a ritual performed by Native Americans. They then consider how ceremony and ritual practice are depicted and understood by those outside of a religious culture. Students use photography to document their own religious or spiritual rituals, and then examine one another's images and interpret their peers' spiritual beliefs based on the photographs.
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