Educator Resources

This creative activity combines your looking and listening skills to make connections between music and works of art. 

Much can be learned about a culture and the way they view the world by studying the images they create.

Put your judge’s hat on! This activity uses your close looking and comparison skills to analyze works of art. 

A cinquain is a five-line poem. Some forms of cinquain poetry follow specific rules regarding patterning and number of syllables per line. This activity will follow the guidelines for a didactic cinquain poem. 

This activity helps you practice close looking and describing what you see. 

Bring your ideas to life—create your own story using details from two works of art. 

The purpose of this activity is to use clues from works of art to make inferences about characters. 

“HOP!” You are now in the scene. Use all of your senses to explore as work of art. 

What new understandings and ideas can we create when we look closely, ask questions, and make connections with works of art? 

What more can we learn about the past by “talking” to the people depicted in works of art? This activity uses your observation skills and imagination to help you learn more about a work of art and the time period when it was created. 

What if a work of art became a movie? Use your observation skills and imagination to design a poster that will make everyone want to run out and see this flick! 

Abstract Expressionism was an American art movement that developed in the 1940s and 1950s, the period just after World War II. The artists mostly used bold color and dynamic application of paint to convey strong emotion and content.

This is a great way to practice the skills of close looking and inference. It can be done independently or in small groups. 

Go on an adventure with a woman and her dog. Use your imagination to create a story and enjoy the read aloud link to make connections between this sculpture and “Not a Stick” by Antoinette Portis.

This activity uses artworks and your observation skills to practice making inferences about an artwork’s meaning.