Creator: Baltimore Museum of Art | visit site
Grade Range: K - 11
The Baltimore Museum of Art offers resources for educators to support classroom curriculum and enhance student learning across disciplines. Museum featured artwork provides the content for detailed lessons. The online images contain background information on the artist, other pieces of that time, and content connections to curriculum. The areas of concentration for the lessons are: Young America, Symbol of the New Republic, Made in Maryland, Western Perspectives, Unity in Diversity, The Art in Technology, Picturing Memory, and Shaping New Traditions. Activity sheets contain directions for projects to make such as: an animal stool inspired by the Lozi people, Recoloring Camouflage, and Inkblot pictures inspired by Andy Warhol, Cezanne, Matisse, Poster activity by Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri Matisse, and French Line Drawings. View Multimedia Presentations about Frans Hals, Raphael, Chinese wall hanging, Albrecht Durer, among many others. Finally, a series of prints contain background information on the subject and the artist that allow further study. Sign up for Art to Go monthly email that contains a printable full-color image of an artwork at the Baltimore Museum of Art. A brief commentary focuses on teaching ideas, while the challenge project invites students to try this idea and bring it into their own style. There is a plethora of ideas and lessons on this site, however, a very FEW still require Flash. Those are usually described as "interacive."
In the Classroom
Have you been trying to incorporate different sources into your social studies content? Use the content areas found in this collection. In gifted classrooms, use these activities for choice enrichment activities to deepen content knowledge. Use the artwork to inspire a narrative or informative writing prompt. The free printable color images will decorate your classroom. Art classes have immediate lesson plans. Use as a quick lesson in case of a sub. When going on a trip to your local museum, begin by investigating the content found in Baltimore Museum of Art. Assign students to uncover the mystery of artwork in your own museum to increase interest and motivation on your visit. Students then work on a multimedia project, find one for them to use <a href="/content/edge.cfm?c=1">here</a>, of what they discovered and present it to the class. Some tool suggestions are (click on the tool name to access the review): <a href="/single.cfm?id=18378">Adobe Spark in K-12</a>, <a href="/single.cfm?id=17176">Zeetings</a>, <a href="/single.cfm?id=17424">Animatron</a>, <a href="/single.cfm?id=18291">Renderforest</a>, and <a href="/single.cfm?id=18390">Beautiful.AI</a>.
At Home
Inspire your family to understand and have a greater appreciation of artwork. Use before a trip to your local museum to create interest in looking for the artists you discovered.
Tags
museums, art history, artists,
Subjects
Art, Gifted, Language Arts, Reading, Social Studies, Social Studies,