Educator Resources The Collection › Educator Resources Educator Resources Collection Educator Resources Page secondary navigation Type: Thematic Curricula All Early Childhood Activities Educator Resource Packets Student Activities Thematic Curricula Tips & Tutorials Showing 6 educator resources RLC Presents: Art + Science Videos and Curricula Join museum conservators in their laboratories as they use science to investigate and care for works of art. 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. 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. American Art Teacher Manual This manual can be used in multiple ways by teachers wishing to use American art to enrich students’ understanding of various subject areas and to develop and sharpen cognitive and creative skills. Thematic Curriculum: Art + History Works of art spark learning in remarkable ways. Explore Art + History, a process for using art as a primary source for historical inquiry. Share
