Lesson Plans from Museums
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Cameron Art Museum (NC)A collection of 20 lessons with downloadable PowerPoints for connecting to Language Arts, Math, Social Studies and Science in the A+ Integrated Lessons for Education.
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Getty Museum - Resources for the ClassroomLesson plans and lesson guides for K–12 grades.
– Tips and Tools for Teaching
– All Curricula and Guides
– Grade-by-Grade Guide to Building Visual Arts Lessons
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National Gallery of Art (DC)A series of lesson plans arranged in thematic units with grade specific activities focusing on a single work that can be completed in 1-2 periods.
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North Carolina Museum of Art (NC)An amazing online concept map tool for teachers to create arts integrated lesson plans using selected museum artwork while connecting to twelve concepts, i.e., environment, identity, collaboration, conflict.
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Philadelphia Museum of Art (PA)Many downloadable lesson plans as well as excellent online teaching kits. Looking to Write, Writing to Look is a wonderful kit for Common Core writing connections.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum (DC)Excellent downloadable teacher guides and materials for many topics, grade levels and standards for a variety of content areas but mostly social studies, history and language arts.
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Walters Art Museum (MD)Among the many resources for teachers and classrooms are their interactive sites based on themes such as Integrating the Arts: China as well as a bank of content integrated lesson plans.
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