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Integrating Art and Math (story)

Looking for ideas for integrating art and math in Grades PK–8? Start with these works of art and resources.

Remote Learning Ideas (story)

Looking for remote learning ideas for your family, students, or yourself? NCMA educators highlight a few of their favorites on NCMALearn.

Communicating Ideas through Art (lesson plan)

Students will use a visual thinking protocol to analyze San Lazaro (O Yo Soy La Ruta) by Jose Bedia and consider how he visually communicates layers of meaning in a work of art. Students will learn about the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and illustrate one of its articles to...

A Bird’s-eye View (lesson plan)

Students will delve into Hans Thoma’s Wondrous Birds to discover an aerial perspective and learn to see more deeply. Using dance, English language arts, science, theatre arts, visual arts, and poetry, they will explore landforms and bodies of water from a bird’s-eye view.

What About the Wilderness? Exploring Natural Landscapes (lesson plan)

Students will examine Thomas Cole’s painting, Romantic Landscape, and discover his passion for unspoiled wilderness. After exploring quotes from conservationists Thomas Cole, John Muir, and Theodore Roosevelt, students will write, revise, and perform dialogues between these conservationists and...

Tour Resources: Frida, Diego, and Mexican Identity(ies) in Art (Grades 6-12) (quick tip)

Explore resources to support exhibition related school tours for grades 6-12 for the NCMA Fall 2019 exhibition. Frida, Diego, and Mexican Identity(ies) in Art
How did Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and other Mexican artists influence modernist art of the early 20th century? See how artists...

Audubon Animal Track Triptych (lesson plan)

By researching field guides and the work of John James Audubon, students will research an assigned bird. Students will create a story about the bird using the Elements of Story, and create their own bird track print from a collagraph stamp they create. Students will then create a triptych to...

Using Shapes to Create Forms (lesson plan)

This lesson revolves around shapes: using works of art to find shapes, using pattern blocks to build shapes, and creating buildings from shapes.

Virtual Field Trips (page)

Virtual Field Trips with NCMA give students the opportunity to engage with objects in the museum’s permanent collection, from the classroom! Scroll down for more information about our programs and to register. …

Getting Started with Art Integration (page)

WHAT is Art Integration? Arts integration is an approach to teaching and learning in which the arts and another subject area are taught together with the intentional purpose to make connections, foster creative and critical thinking, and develop awareness of multiple perspectives. WHY Art…