Time
Visual Arts +1
Age Levels Elementary (9 to 12 years old), Middle School (13 to 15 years old), High School (16 to 18 years old)
The theme of TIME can be explored in art using key concepts throughout the semester or year. Explore various concepts related to the idea of TIME by playing the Connections Card Game. The mind maps made after playing the game can be used as a reference throughout the course.
Teacher Preparation:
- Download and print images on card stock (resource attached to this collection). Create multiple sets for small groups to play the game.
- Print Key Concept Cards (resource attached to this collection)
Student Activity:
- Take turns choosing a card and connecting it to a key concept by placing it near an appropriate Concept Card.
- Defend choice with evidence in the image.
- After all cards have been played, students make inferences about how people experience, measure or represent time.
- Small groups collaborate to draw a mind map to illustrate their ideas.
- Present maps in a "Carousel Interview." One group member stays with the mind map to answer questions; other group members visit tables to explore mind maps and ask questions.
- Return to original group. Encapsulate overarching ideas and record them on your group's mind map.
IBM / Time
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Time Totem
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Planting Time
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Time Frame
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Time Clock, International Time Recorder
National Museum of American History
Juvet Time Globe
National Museum of American History
Yielding to the Ancestors While Controlling the Hands of Time
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Bloomingdale's: Time Will Tell
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Galileo Pendulum Clock Model, Replica
National Museum of American History
It's Only A Matter Of Time
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Giant Conquereors of Space and Time
National Air and Space Museum
Double Portrait of the Artist in Time
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Hudson Moonlight IV
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Giant Winter Evening
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Three Afternoons
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Sunrise and Moon
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Camas para Sueños
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Indestructible Object
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Satellite photos of Earth
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
The Four Seasons
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Untitled (Memory Jug)
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Memory Decanter with Red Wax and Indian Head Penny
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Sequences
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Marguerite Wildenhain showing the motion of hands making a pot
Archives of American Art
Generations of beautiful complexions prove.. [Print advertising.] 1965
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Woman Lifting a Basket, Waving a Handkerchief, from the book Animal Locomotion
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Time Image Cards
Rachel Samsky