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.

<p>Short conversation starters that invite students and teachers to share opinions, build relationships, and have fun.<br>Inspired by ASCD article "The Pandemic Lessons That Will Rebuild School Culture" by Aaron Avera.</p> <p><strong>Keywords: </strong>SEL, Social Emotional Learning, bell ringer, entrance ticket, do now</p>

<p><strong>Artworks and Activities for Elementary Students Learning at Home. </strong>This packet includes a booklet of creative writing activities and printed artworks that feature heroic figures and folktales. </p> <p><strong>Obras de arte y actividades para estudiantes de la escuela primaria que aprenden en casa. </strong>Este conjunto de actividades incluye un folleto con ejercicios de redacción creativa y obras de arte impresas que presentan a personajes heroicos y cuentos populares.</p> <p>Keywords: Bilingual, Spanish, creative writing, student-led</p>

<p><strong><em><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW164487697 BCX0">“Living Through History”</span></em></strong><span class="TextRun SCXW164487697 BCX0" xml:lang="en-us" lang="en-us"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW164487697 BCX0"> is a cross-curricular Cornerstone that will allow students to document their experience during this global pandemic, with </span></span><a href="https://asiasociety.org/education/what-global-competence" class="Hyperlink SCXW164487697 BCX0" target="_blank"><span class="TextRun Underlined SCXW164487697 BCX0" xml:lang="en-us" lang="en-us"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW164487697 BCX0">global competence</span></span></a><span class="TextRun SCXW164487697 BCX0" xml:lang="en-us" lang="en-us"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW164487697 BCX0"> in mind.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW164487697 BCX0"> </span></p> <p>This activity set is intended for 8th - 12th grade students. The primary goals of this progression are to support students’: <br></p> <ul><li>analytical skills, to the end of leveraging photography as a tool for communicating about moments in history; </li><li>independent, small group, and whole group processing of the experience of the pandemic and social uprisings of current history; </li><li>use of global competency thinking routine Truth and Beauty as a reflection tool; </li><li>creation of images and texts to contribute to the city-wide virtual event, Living Through History: A Cornerstones Showcase. </li></ul> <p>In an effort to accommodate various teacher and student needs, including emotional support, multiple tracks and “choice points” are provided. </p> <p></p> <p>Keywords: COVID-19, SEL, Social Emotional Learning, History, ELA, DCPS</p> <p></p>

<p>Lesson plan: Use an artwork to support students' analysis as they examine American identity in light of the story of westward expansion.</p> <p><strong>Keywords:</strong> US History, visual analysis, critical thinking, sourcing heuristics</p>

<p>What materials and artistic techniques are best for communicating my ideas?</p> <p><br><em>Arc:</em> Determination<br><em>Techniques: </em>Sculpture, printmaking, drawing painting, textiles<em></em><em></em></p> <p>Keywords: Art, media, expression, visual communication, DCPS</p>

Artists express powerful opinions about defining moments and movements in American history. Their images may help raise public awareness or call the viewer to action. Zoom in on postage stamps and stand back from wall-sized murals to see how design, social issues, and persuasion come together in meaningful ways. Take home strategies for engaging students in evidence-based reasoning, argumentation, and persuasive writing.

<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>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>Prepared for Kiley Acosta (UCSB)</p>

<p>Collection to support 11th grade unit examining Virginia Woolf's "A Room of One's Own" in order to uncover ideas about belonging and to prepare for the collection of oral histories.</p>

<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>