Educator Resources The Collection › Educator Resources Educator Resources Collection Educator Resources Page secondary navigation Type: All All Early Childhood Activities Educator Resource Packets Student Activities Thematic Curricula Tips & Tutorials Showing 68 educator resources Hale Woodruff: A Closer Look Engage with the questions for looking, ideas for making, and contextual information provided to take a deep dive into Twilight, by artist Hale Woodruff Lesson Plan: Bisa Butler’s Safety Patrol This lesson plan explores Bisa Butler’s work The Safety Patrol. Lesson Plan: Silk around the World This lesson plan explores the use of silk over time and connects students with Chinese art and culture. Artful Encounters: Short and Informative Videos for Educators and Students Take a deep dive into artworks, classroom activities, and more. Virtual Lesson Plan: Cobalt and the Color Blue Students will follow the influence of the material cobalt and the artistic tradition of blue and white pottery to consider how people and ideas move across space and time through trade, migration, colonization, and warfare. Virtual Lesson Plan: Following the Phoenix Students will follow the phoenix as an artistic motif, cultural myth, and symbol to consider how people and ideas move across space and time through trade, migration, and warfare. Lesson Plan: Cultural Identity, US-Japan Relations, and Visual Art This lesson plan focuses on a single work of art from the museum’s global collection and provides sequential activities and related resources to explore diverse perspectives on US-Japan relations, cultural identity, and visual art. Lesson Plan: Chocolate, Ceramics, and Colonialism in Eighteenth-Century Mexico This lesson plan focuses on a single work of art from the museum’s global collection and provides sequential activities and extensions that activate students’ critical and creative thinking skills. Art + Language: Word Banking II Word banks are a great tool for helping you improve your vocabulary, spelling, and creative writing skills. This activity uses works of art to help you generate your own word bank. Art + Language: Word Banking I Word banks are a great tool for helping you improve your vocabulary, spelling, and creative writing skills. This activity is designed to help you make connections between words and images. Art + Language: Story Map Works of art can tell stories. This activity asks you to look carefully at works of art in order to find the key elements of a story. SmartHistory Videos: Six Works from the Collection Featuring six artworks from the Art Institute’s collection, each video from SmartHistory can be used as a resource in your teaching or shown in your classroom. Thorne Room Videos: Short But Informative Peeks into Three Tiny Rooms Take a short journey into the museum’s beloved Thorne Miniature Rooms. Art Explainer Videos: Three Themes Using three artworks from the Art Institute’s collection, these videos unpack a central theme and use innovative visual storytelling to highlight the choices artists made to shape form and meaning in their works. Art and Picture Book Activity: Triptych Window What colors, shapes, and patterns do you see in this window? How would the world outside appear if you were looking through it? Next Previous 1 2 3 4 5 Page 1 Share
