Teacher Resources

Please note: All resources can be scaled up or down to fit the needs of your students. 

Key

• LP: multi-day lesson plan to be used in classroom and in museum
• SG: Self-guided sheet to be used in museum

*New* Field Trip Series  

• Learning to Look | K-2 (LP) 

Across the Collection 

• K-2 Scavenger Hunt (SG)
• Visualizing Verbs (SG) 

Asian Art 

• Lessons from Asian Art: Storytelling Through Asian Art (LP)
• Lessons from Asian Art: Seasons in Bloom (LP) 

Armor  

• Knight at the Museum (LP) 

Past Exhibitions 

• The Impact of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington (LP) 

Recurring Annual Exhibitions 

• The Act of Remembering | Lesson 1 (LP)
• Day of the Dead Comparison | Lesson 2 (LP)

Across the Collection 

• Past Objects, Present Culture (LP)
• Social Emotional Learning and Art – Scavenger Hunt (SG)
• Mindfulness and Art (SG)
• World Religions: Shaping the Development of Societies (SG)
• Understanding the Five Themes of Geography (SG)
• Energy Change and Transfer (SG)
• Math in Action! (SG)
• Visual Literacy Using the Standards (SG)
• Building a Sense of Community (SG) 

American Art 

• Picturing Identity: Exploring Portraiture at the DIA (LP) 

Asian Art 

• Buddhist Traditions (LP)
• Lessons from Asian Art: Material World (LP)
• Lessons from Asian Art: A Taste for the Three Perfections (LP) 

Past Exhibitions 

• The New Black Vanguard, Grades 6-8 (LP)
• Perceptions of the Founding Generation (LP)
• Bruegel’s “The Wedding Dance” Revealed Educator Resource: The Electromagnetic Spectrum (LP)
• Scientific Inquiry: Behind the Scenes of Bruegel’s “The Wedding Dance” Revealed (LP)
• Think Like An Engineer, Grades 6-8 (LP)
• American Splendor, Manoogian Collection (LP) 

Recurring Annual Exhibitions 

• Día de Muertos and Personal Connection | Lesson 3 (LP)
• Día de Muertos Past and Today | Lesson 4 (LP) 

Across the Collection 

• Identity in the World: Looking at the Bigger Picture (SG) 

Asian Art 

• Lessons from Asian Art: Time (and Place) Will Tell (LP)
• Lessons from Asian Art: Cultural Diplomacy Through Ceramics (LP) 

Past Exhibitions 

• The New Black Vanguard, Grades 9-12 (LP)
• Core Democratic Values, Past and Present (LP)
• By Her Hand: Artemisia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Italy, 1500–1800 (LP)
• From Idea to Production, Transportation Design (LP)
• Russ Marshall: Detroit Photographs, 1958–2008 (LP)
• Masterpieces of Early Italian Renaissance Bronze Statuettes (SG)
• Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898 – 1971 (LP) 

Recurring Annual Exhibitions 

• Colorful Offerings to Beloved Ancestors and Important Causes | Lesson 5 (LP) 

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