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Many lessons meet New York City Learning Standards in art, social studies, and English language arts. Speak to the museum educator assigned to your class about adapting lessons to meet your curricular needs.
Current Middle and High School Lessons
Burial Objects from Around the World
How does art serve to commemorate, honor, and protect the dead? While studying objects from Africa, Asia, and ancient Egypt, students will investigate how burial objects communicate beliefs about life and death.
How does art serve to commemorate, honor, and protect the dead? While studying objects from Africa, Asia, and ancient Egypt, students will investigate how burial objects communicate beliefs about life and death.
Power and Leadership
How does a society create symbols of power and authority for its leaders? Students will discuss how cultures use materials and visual language to express ideas of power. The lesson may include objects from America, Asia, and Africa.
How does a society create symbols of power and authority for its leaders? Students will discuss how cultures use materials and visual language to express ideas of power. The lesson may include objects from America, Asia, and Africa.
African Art and Community
This lesson emphasizes the functions of art in traditional African communities. Students will view objects associated with responsibility, kingship, education, and village life to discover how art is used as a tool to maintain important social relationships.
This lesson emphasizes the functions of art in traditional African communities. Students will view objects associated with responsibility, kingship, education, and village life to discover how art is used as a tool to maintain important social relationships.
Tradition and Innovation in Native American Art
For many centuries, the native peoples of North, South, and Central America responded with tremendous creativity to the introduction of new trade goods, technologies, and imagery. Students will examine the techniques, materials, and imagery that have evolved in Native American art over the past several hundred years.
For many centuries, the native peoples of North, South, and Central America responded with tremendous creativity to the introduction of new trade goods, technologies, and imagery. Students will examine the techniques, materials, and imagery that have evolved in Native American art over the past several hundred years.
American Environments
Many American artists have painted landscapes and cityscapes to express their ideas about American culture. Students will learn how paintings express both hope and concern about issues such as opportunity, democracy, industrialization, and urbanization. Specific themes such as Westward Expansion and the Civil War can be examined as a part of this lesson.
Many American artists have painted landscapes and cityscapes to express their ideas about American culture. Students will learn how paintings express both hope and concern about issues such as opportunity, democracy, industrialization, and urbanization. Specific themes such as Westward Expansion and the Civil War can be examined as a part of this lesson.
Constructing History
Students will study a range of American period rooms and decorative arts objects to understand them as primary sources. They will explore how a home reflects a family’s daily life and the artistic production of a particular time and place. Period rooms in the collection range from pre-Colonial to the early twentieth century.
Students will study a range of American period rooms and decorative arts objects to understand them as primary sources. They will explore how a home reflects a family’s daily life and the artistic production of a particular time and place. Period rooms in the collection range from pre-Colonial to the early twentieth century.
Ancestors to Zen: Art and Religion in Asia
Students will observe a variety of objects—including ceramic tomb sculptures, stone Buddhas, and ceremonial bronzes—in the Japanese, Chinese, and Indian galleries. Using these objects as a visual and historical resource, they will compare and contrast some of the religious traditions and artistic conventions of these ancient cultures. Topics discussed will include ancestor worship, sacred spaces, and the spread of Buddhism throughout Asia.
Students will observe a variety of objects—including ceramic tomb sculptures, stone Buddhas, and ceremonial bronzes—in the Japanese, Chinese, and Indian galleries. Using these objects as a visual and historical resource, they will compare and contrast some of the religious traditions and artistic conventions of these ancient cultures. Topics discussed will include ancestor worship, sacred spaces, and the spread of Buddhism throughout Asia.
Signs and Symbols in Ancient Egyptian Art
This lesson examines how ancient Egyptian artists used signs and symbols on funerary objects to express their beliefs about the afterlife. Students will be challenged to respond to objects both as artifacts of an ancient culture and as examples of how and why visual art is a potent means of communication.
This lesson examines how ancient Egyptian artists used signs and symbols on funerary objects to express their beliefs about the afterlife. Students will be challenged to respond to objects both as artifacts of an ancient culture and as examples of how and why visual art is a potent means of communication.
Daily Life in Ancient Egypt
Students will learn about the daily lives of ancient Egyptians by examining images on excavated funerary objects. This lesson focuses on representations of the afterlife and issues surrounding excavation and archaeology.
Students will learn about the daily lives of ancient Egyptians by examining images on excavated funerary objects. This lesson focuses on representations of the afterlife and issues surrounding excavation and archaeology.
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