Sample Lesson Plans
Museum Teen Programs How-To Kit
Lesson plans, activities, and toolkits on pages 175-210, 283-329, 442-478.
Museum Teen Programs How-To Kit (eBook)
Lesson plans, activities, and toolkits on pages 175-210, 283-329, 442-478.
Many museums and arts organizations provide free lesson plans. These are great resources to explore when you need inspiration.
This list is by no means exhaustive. If you're curious whether another museum provides free instructional materials, Google "[museum name] lesson plans" to check.
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AIGA"The AIGA Design Teaching Resource is a peer-populated platform for educators to share assignments, teaching materials, outcomes, and project reflections. "
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Art21Art21's teaching guides include tools for teaching with their films. Guides include discussion questions, project prompts, and additional information about the artists.
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Brooklyn Museum of Art"Bring the Brooklyn Museum’s collection into your classroom with our free, digital resources." Browse by grade, subject, or theme.
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The Columbia Museum of Art"Our Teaching Kits reinforce the concepts and curriculum for integrated classroom learning. The kits are designed for K-12 teachers and students across the curriculum, with emphasis on social studies and visual arts."
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Getty MuseumExplore lesson plans by subject.
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GuggenheimExplore lesson plans by grade.
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The Kennedy Center"Arts-centered, standards-based resources for the classroom." Browse lessons by grade or subject.
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The Met"These lesson plans help you integrate learning about works of art in your classroom." Browse by grade.
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MoMA"Activities for primary and secondary students. Each lesson is inspired by an object in MoMA’s collection, and includes questions that encourage close looking, information about the artist or artwork, and a suggested activity."
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National Gallery of ArtBrowse lessons by grade level.
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Philadelphia Museum of Art"Bring your classroom lessons to life with the museum’s vast array of educational resources. Nurture your students’ learning with PreK–12 virtual lessons, exhibition materials, themed resources, and more."
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Santa Barbara Museum of ArtExplore lesson plans by grade.
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Walker Art Center"The resources on this page can help K–12 teachers and their students—as well as parents or guardians supporting their child’s learning from home—stay connected to contemporary art and ideas."
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The Whitney"Access teaching materials that will help you and your classroom make the most of the Whitney."
Curriculum Writing and Lesson Planning
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Rethinking Curriculum in Art
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ISBN: 9780871926920Publication Date: 2005-01-01Research shows that thematic teaching across the curriculum significantly increases student engagement. This groundbreaking book by Marilyn Stewart and Sydney Walker gives concrete examples of how teachers can enhance their current lessons and studio activities by organizing them around meaningful, universal themes like identity, conflict, and relationships. This book includes: Step-by-step guidelines for selecting content for organizing art instruction; Sample completed worksheets and charts to guide curriculum planning; Examples from actual units of study; Reproducible worksheets, sample rubrics, and more. - Publisher. -
Understanding by Design
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ISBN: 9781416600350Publication Date: 2005ASCD Bestseller! Wiggins and McTighe provide an expanded array of practical tools and strategies for designing curriculum, instruction, and assessments that lead students at all grade levels to genuine understanding. How do you know when students understand? Can you design learning experiences that make it much more likely that students understand content and apply it in meaningful ways? Thousands of educators have used the Understanding by Design (UbD) framework to answer these questions and create more rigorous, engaging curriculums. Now, this expanded 2nd edition gives you even more tools and strategies for results-oriented teaching:
• An improved template for creating curriculum units based on the breakthrough'backward design'method.
• More specific guidelines on how to frame the'big ideas'you want students to understand.• Better ways to develop the'essential questions'that form the foundation of high-quality curriculum and assessment.
• An expanded toolbox of instructional approaches for obtaining the desired results of a lesson.
• More examples, across all grade levels and subjects, of how schools and districts have used the UbD framework to maximize student understanding.Educators from kindergarten through college can get everything they need—guidelines, stages, templates, and tips—to start designing lessons, units, and courses that lead to improved student performance and a more stimulating experience for students and teachers alike.