We offer a teacher's guide as a resource to provide you with the vocabulary, subject matter, and suggestions for follow-on activities to accompany our in-classroom presentation. More extensive resources are also available for some of our more popular curricula including student handouts, full lesson plans, on-line resource suggestions and presentation content.
Art in the Dark's (AITD's) goal is to build on a students process of discovery with a multidisciplinary approach to the arts so please browse our curricula & guides below to provide resources for your classroom.
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Teacher's Guide, in-classroom activities and videos in our presentation.
Teacher's guide, student handouts, in-classroom activities, videos, and information about antiquity, this page gathers materials related to the themes and subjects of ancient art.
Teacher's Guide Student Handout: See/Think/wonder
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Discovering Art Through Critical Thinking
Teacher's Guide: High School Middle School
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Teacher's guide, videos, and where to find local artwork enhance the students process of engaging with the art of these two great Mexican artists.
Teacher's Guide Student Handout Short Presentation on our YouTube Channel
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Teacher's guide, student handouts, videos from the presentations, and reference links to enhance the student's visual literacy and the process of learning to communicate through new-media art.
Teacher's Guides: Digital Art ProjectBased/Newspaper/Yearbook
Exhibit Spotlight: Tending & Dreaming
Teacher's guide, student handouts, and reference links to enhance the student's visual literacy and the process of looking at art in SJMA's current exhibition Tending and Dreaming: Stories from the Collection.
Teacher's Guides: High School Student Handouts: Art Analysis Museum Visit, Elements & Principles
Teacher's guide, student handouts, videos from the presentations, and reference links to enhance the students process of learning the elements of art and the principles of design.
Teacher's Guide Student Handouts: Elements of Art Principles of Design
The Language of Photography
Teacher's guide, student handouts, in-classroom activities, videos, and information about medieval, golden-age, and renaissance art from Afroeurasia and the Americas period from 300 CE to about 1500 CE.
Teacher's Guide Student Handouts: Middle Ages Renaissance Short Presentation on our YouTube Channel
Teacher's guide, student handouts, videos from the presentations, and follow on videos and reference links to expand the students understanding of the impact of early Mexican artists on today's artists pursuing social justice.
Teacher's guide, student handouts, videos from the presentations, and follow on videos and reference links to expand the students understanding of the Hung Liu’s art styles, subjects and her creations during her life in China and the US.
Social Documentary & Street Photography
Teacher's guide, student handouts, video links, great online sites, and selected slides to encourage the students experience photography that Makes a Difference.
Teacher's guides, student handouts, follow-on classroom interdisciplinary lessons, videos, and reference information from your STEAM presentation. The materials are grouped by grade and may also be grouped by subject discipline. A focus on environmental conservation is available if requested.
RESOURCES FOR MUSEUM VISITS
Student handouts for your classes museum visit:
Art Analysis for Museum Visit from Exhibit Spotlight: Tending and Dreaming
Visible thinking routines from the Artful Thinking Organization: SEE/THINK/WONDER and STEP INSIDE
Critical Thinking with Object Oriented Looking & Visual Thinking Strategy. Critical Thinking
Going to SJMA Arrange a successful school visit to the San Jose Museum of Art.