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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.  

Click HERE to request a FREE digital presentation led by a museum docent for grades 6-12 - for YOUR classroom! We accept requests for the upcoming school year starting in August.

Art for You 

Teacher's Guide, in-classroom activities and videos in our presentation.

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Ancient Civilizations 

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      More Resources

Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo

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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Digital Visual Communications 

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

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Exhibition Spotlight: Nuts and Who’s: A Candy Store Sampler 

Teacher's Guide, reference links, glossary of ceramic terms and slides for this spotlight on an exhibit currently showing at the San Jose Museum of Art.  To request this program put in notes section of your request that you would like the "Nuts and Who's" if the drop down does not include this program.

Teacher's Guide

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Japanese Prints: Impressionism and Beyond

Teacher's Guide

The Language of Art

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 

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The Language of Photography

Teacher's Guide 

Pieta

Middle Ages and Renaissance 

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 

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Mexican Art and Activism

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 - Social Issues

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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 guide     Student Handout   
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 STEAM = STEM + Art

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.

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