Art + Humanities * Free Resources * Professional Development
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Professional Development The last workshop of the 2015-2016 school year was a great success! Now we're looking ahead to next year and I need your help: would you please take five minutes to answer three questions in the survey linked below? Shape next year's workshops. How can we make the workshops more professionally and personally fulfilling for you? What topic(s) would you like to see on our menu of offerings for next year? What day and time do you prefer? I have an opinion!
The Learning Lab is a place to explore the all of the Smithsonian museums' collections in one place, create and customize your own online resources, and share with your students and colleagues. Explore the Learning Lab
Classroom Resources We've begun developing Learning Lab collections that use artwork from SAAM and the Renwick Gallery to exercise students' skills as analysts and thinkers. They also give educators like you easy access to tried-and-true strategies for integrating art across the curriculum. Here are the first three, with more to come! Developing Historical Thinkers with American Art features artworks and routines for you, thinking questions for students, and an archived webinar with SAAM educators. Perspectives on History: Designing Change explores how design can be used to persuade. When used in combination with the National Postal Museum's Design It! curriculum, students are challenged to consider in new ways how position, audience, ethos, factual support and stylistic choices can be strategically deployed. Symbolism, Story, and Art: Hercules & Achelous uses a single, monumental mural to support readers' careful unpacking and analysis of complex texts while exploring literary allusion.
