Educator Resources

Profundiza en Birthday Party (Fiesta de cumpleaños) de la artista de Chicago Margaret Burroughs. Observa detalladamente, aprende sobre Burroughs y su obra, y saca nuevas ideas para tu propia creación artística.

Take a deep dive into Birthday Party by Chicago artist Margaret Burroughs. Engage in slow looking, learn about Burroughs and her work, and get new ideas for your own art making.

Profundiza en Twilight (Crepúsculo) del artista Hale Woodruff. Observa detalladamente, aprende sobre Woodruff y su obra, y saca nuevas ideas para tu propia creación artística.

Join museum conservators in their laboratories as they use science to investigate and care for works of art. 

Engage with the questions for looking, ideas for making, and contextual information provided to take a deep dive into Twilight, by artist Hale Woodruff.

This lesson plan explores Bisa Butler’s work The Safety Patrol.

This lesson plan explores the use of silk over time and connects students with Chinese art and culture.

Take a deep dive into artworks, classroom activities, and more.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.