Virtual Field Trip Programs for grades 9-12
Virtual Field Trips for 9-12 Classes
VFT programs for grades 9-12 encourage close looking, communication, and collaboration using inquiry-based strategies. Read about our cross-disciplinary options and schedule below.
Advanced Placement
Choose any VFT program for your AP class, and students will learn, practice, and independently use strategies for interpreting visual sources.
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An Artist’s Power
Students will explore works of art in the NCMA’s permanent collection from around the globe in which artists assert their own power to control what viewers see through deliberate choices in materials, processes, and placement within a composition.
NCSCoS Connections to Visual Art, Social Studies, and English Language Arts
Photography as Activism
Students will explore photographs from the NCMA’s permanent collection and discover how each artist uses the media to advocate for political and/or social change.
NCSCoS Connections to Visual Art, Social Studies, and English Language Arts
Selfies & Usies
What can you tell about a person just by the way they present themselves visually? While exploring historical and contemporary portraits from the NCMA’s permanent collection, and what artists and sitters choose to present in these portraits, students will ‘read’ the stories the artists are telling about the sitters.
NCSCoS Connections to Visual Art, Social Studies, and English Language Arts
Elements & Principles of Art
Color
available starting 9/10
Focal Point
Students will look carefully at objects from the museum’s permanent collection to explore how artists use the principle of focal point. Students will discover how artists emphasize their works’ most important part(s) through placement, contrast, and converging lines to move the viewers’ eyes where they want them to go.
Careers in Museums
What’s a Curator of Ancient Collections?
available starting 10/19
Estudios Sociales
The Stories Art Can Tell,
In this VFT, students will explore three works of art from the NCMA’s permanent collection featuring artists from groups that museums have historically excluded or under-represented. Through reading the works by different featured artist groups, students will practice the social emotional learning competencies of self and social-awareness and relationship skills.
featuring Black Artists
Students will “read” works of art from the permanent collection by African American artists and explore how each artist tells a story of Black History through their unique use of art elements and media.
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featuring Indigenous Artists
Students will “read” works of art from the permanent collection by Indigenous North American artists and explore how each artist tells a story of Native American past, present, and future. Students will discover how each artist uses their media and scale to elevate and point to the universality of these stories.
NCSCoS Connections to Social Studies, Visual Art, English Language Arts, and Social Emotional Learning
featuring Latin American Artists
Students will “read” works of art from the permanent collection by Latin American artists and explore how each artist tells a story about their identity through images of place. Please have students come to their session with two pieces of paper each, any color. This program comes with an optional Post-VFT Art Kit. Order yours at registration.
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featuring Women Artists
Students will “read” works of art from the permanent collection by women artists and how each artist tells a story about their own intersecting identities through images of women. This program comes with an optional Post-VFT Art Kit. Order yours at registration.
NCSCoS Connections to Social Studies, Visual Art, English Language Arts, and Social Emotional Learning
World Language
See our Spanish Language Program Page for more details and to sign up
Historias que el arte puede contar sobre Artistas Latinos
Spanish Language Program
NCSCoS Connections to World Languages, Visual Art, Social Studies, and English Language Arts
Exploring the Art and Language of Hispanic Artists
Bilingual Program for native English speakers learning Spanish or for native Spanish speakers learning English
Virtual Field Trips for 9-12 Classes
Here, a museum educator guides students through comparing and contrasting two portraits from different times periods.