TMA Summer Institute

Lesson Plans

The lesson plans were created by teachers that participated in TMA's Teacher Leader program. Using the Museum’s collections, research, library, and galleries as source material, the teachers were empowered to hack visual literacy strategies to create pre- and post- visit lesson plans to support student field trips. They cover disciplines as diverse as English Language Arts, Social Studies, Math, Science, Technology and Visual Arts.

Documents

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American Identity

Nancy Garand

This social studies lesson plan applies close looking and critical thinking to push students to consider how images contribute to identity and stereotypes as well as the consequences of cultural biases.

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Art Tells a Story

Ashlie Dempsey

This English language arts lesson plans leads students through activities to produce a well-structured and detailed story that correlates with a work of art and uses evidence from that work to support the events of the story.

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Back to Back Construction

Robert Steinline

This technology education lesson plan uses a Lego building activity to help students develop descriptive vocabulary and active listening skills.

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Cinquain

Robert Steinline

This technology education lesson plan encourages close looking and describing through poetry writing with promotion and marketing applications.

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Egyptian Pyramids

Tammy Hutchinson

This math and science lesson plan uses the Elements of Art and Principles of Design to help students understand the challenges faced by the Ancient Egyptians in architecture.

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Ekphrastic Writing

Ashlie Dempsey

This English language arts lesson plan leads students through the Ekphrastic writing process using effective writing techniques and relevant descriptive details.

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Elements of Art & Principles of Design

Kristy Smith

This social studies lesson plan helps students gain an understanding of the Elements of Art and Principles of Design and apply them to a work of art.

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Exploring American Art

Luke Fannin

This English language arts lesson plan supports development of argumentative writing and the creation of informative texts based on student research.

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Influence and Image

Jeniene Hall

This English language arts lesson plan applies visual literacy strategies to aid critical thinking about the influential power of images.

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Kehinde Wiley: Descovering a New Republic

Ashlie Dempsey

This English language arts lesson plan leads students through the process of writing an explanatory text comparing and contrasting a painting by Kehinde Wiley to the source material that inspired it.

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Picturing History: American History

Luke Fannin, Nancy Garand, Joni Klopfenstein, Sharon Morrin, and Isabel Trujillo-Izaza

A teacher's resource guide for using art to teach 8th grade social studies and ELA

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Picturing History: Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia

Karen Angst, Dawn Pieper, Malinda Piotrowski, and Angie Stokes

A teacher's resource guide for using art to teach 6th grade social studies and ELA

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Picturing History: Ancient Greece and Rome

Katie Coffey, Ashlie Dempsey, Jeniene Hall, Laura Rusch, Andrea Schak, and Angie Stokes

A teacher's resource guide for using art to teach 7th grade social studies and ELA

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Picturing History: The Art of Glass

Luke Fannin, Nancy Garand, Joni Klopfenstein, Sharon Morrin, and Angie Stokes

A teacher's resource guide for using art to teach 8th grade social studies and ELA

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Picturing History: The Medieval Period

Katie Coffey, Ashlie Dempsey, Jeniene Hall, Laura Rusch, Andrea Schak, and Angie Stokes

A teacher's resource guide for using art to teach 7th grade social studies and ELA

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Picturing History: Renaissance and Reformation

Katie Coffey, Ashlie Dempsey, Jeniene Hall, Laura Rusch, Andrea Schak, and Angie Stokes

A teacher's resource guide for using art to teach 7th grade social studies and ELA

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Portraits

Nancy Garand

This social studies lesson plan applies close looking and critical thinking to help students consider how others see them and how they want to be seen.

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Qualitative and Quantitative Observation

Tammy Hutchinson

This math and science lesson plan applies visual literacy strategies to aid critical thinking about an everyday object.

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Who Am I?

Jeniene Hall

This English language arts lesson plan applies visual literacy strategies to help students consider representation and identity through the work of American artist Kehinde Wiley.