Teaching Guides
A library of resources for teaching in museums
The examples here reflect a variety of approaches in teaching with art at the Smart Museum. Although each were developed for a particular class, these illustrate different ways to integrate artwork into the classroom.
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Sample Teaching Guides
Sense. Connect. Interpret. Activity Sheet (PDF)
Developed by Christopher Allison for “Reading Cultures”
Museum Scavenger Hunt Prompts (PDF)
Developed by Benjamin Morgan for “Media Aesthetics”
Framing questions and prompts (PDF)
Developed by Andrea Ford for “Gender and Sexuality in World Civilizations”
Assignment Questions (PDF)
Developed for “Readings in World Literature II: Autobiography/Writing the Self”
Prompts connecting Meleko Mokgosi: Bread, Butter, and Power and Karl Marx (PDF)
Developed by Ben Zdencanovic and Issa Lampe for “Self, Culture, and Society”