<p>For Teachers of 6th-12th Grade </p><p>Saturday, March 9 (9:30-1:30) </p><p>Location: Smithsonian American Art Museum (8th and G Streets, NW)</p> <p><br /></p> <p><em>What can you learn when you put art, science, and history together in a room? Come find out why these three disciplines form the foundation of art conservation and how this profession can encourage students to see history as ongoing, science as creative, and art as a Rubik’s Cube of choices. Learn what it takes to preserve a collection with our <a href="https://americanart.si.edu/art/conservation">Lunder Conservation Center</a>’s Program Coordinator, Laura Hoffman!</em></p>

<p><em><a href="https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/paglen" target="_blank">Trevor Paglen: Sites Unseen</a></em><em><a href="https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/paglen"></a> </em>combines the disciplines of art, science, and investigative journalism to bring unseen and, at times, unsettling elements of our contemporary world to light. Zooming outward from personal, to local, and finally global implications of this work, participants will work collaboratively to identify extensions and troubleshoot any challenges of this content for the classroom.<br /></p><p>All Grade Levels</p>

<p>If you could ask an artifact about every person who touched it, every conversation it has overheard, the source of each of its materials, what would you learn? How could the answers to these questions shed light on that tricky term “civilization"? A contemporary work from the Renwick Gallery will serve as a provocation, inviting participants to craft powerful questions whose answers unlock layers of understanding about the artwork's times, places, and people. This initial inquiry will scaffold later consideration of an Egyptian artifact. Taking metacognitive breaks along the way, participants will reflect upon the thinking moves that empowered them to develop incisive questions. Retaking the role of the educator, participants will reflect on the skills learned through investigation of the artwork and consider how these skills might enhance and deepen students' understanding when applied to curricular material, particularly early civilizations. </p> <p>Keywords: global education, wondering, interdisciplinary</p>

<p>"Visions of America: Real and Intended" </p><p>Created to support 2018 IFT for Loudoun School for Advanced Studies.</p>

<p>Presented with the National Museum of the American Indian December 9, 2017 9:30a.m.–1:30 p.m.</p> <p>What learning opportunities arise when we add complexity to “the story” of westward expansion? How can Native perspectives and contemporary events engage student historians-in-training? Leave with strategies and resources that will help you add depth and breadth to your teaching and inspire inquiry in the classroom.</p>

<p>Target skills:</p> <ul><li>conduct careful analysis;</li><li>develop and deepen inferences;</li><li>argue based on evidence;</li><li>connect claim and support.</li></ul> <p><br></p> <p>Essential questions:</p> <ul><li>Where, between various recordings of a historical event, is the truth?</li><li>What questions must we ask in order to discover truth? Whose perspectives must we take?</li><li>What can art do for the humanities?</li></ul> <p><br></p> <p>Keywords: sourcing heuristics, visual literacy, historian's habits of mind</p>

<p>Methods for digging deeper into American art, with the history and social studies classroom in mind.</p> <p>Keywords: corroboration, sourcing strategies, habits of mind, Humanities</p>

<p>Artists can raise our awareness of issues from the past and present and help us imagine alternatives for the future. In this workshop, museum educators will use artworks as a springboard for engaging participants in the design thinking process: discovery, interpretation, ideation, experimentation, and evolution. Teachers will consider how to integrate design thinking into lessons that challenge students to identify and address problems that may challenge scientists, historians, and writers.<br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Hosted by the National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum</p>

<p>Created for <em>Art and the African American Experience</em></p><p>Look beyond the traditional narrative of the Harlem Renaissance by taking on the character of historical figures with Teaching for Change.</p>

<p>Developed for <em>Art and the African American Experience</em><br /></p><p>What is the relationship between anger and hope? When faced with cruelty, how might a community respond? Use close looking strategies to unlock meaning in a 1960s-era painting, then engage in textual analysis and discussion to explore these essential questions. </p>

Artworks and activities from the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Step inside the Renwick's Wonder-filled, room-sized sculptures for a workshop focused on inspiring meaningful student inquiry. Explore artworks that pique your curiosity. Peel back their layered meanings to discover how humble, workaday materials build bridges to issues of global significance. Meet the mastermind behind Wonder, curator Nicholas Bell. Collaborate with other educators: how can you integrate visual thinking routines, environmental themes, and artists’ creative approaches into your curriculum? Learn by doing: no prior knowledge of art required. This collection was created to support the 2016 CCSSO Teachers of the Year Day at the Smithsonian.