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Storytelling Through Asian Art

Updated Jul 20, 2022

Educators Grades Third – Fifth STEAM Social Studies Writing Geography Lesson Plans

Through classroom and museum experiences, elementary students will be able to describe how East Asian artists used various materials and symbols to tell a story using the work of art. 

Bojagi

Image: Bojagi, mid to late 20th century, Korean; silk, cloth. 

Through classroom and museum experiences, elementary students will be able to describe how East Asian artists used various materials and symbols to tell a story using the work of art. 

Storytelling through Asian Art Educator Resource

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Storytelling through Asian Art Lesson

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Storytelling through Asian Art DIA Artworks for Lesson

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Storytelling through Asian Art Additional Resources

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Lessons from Asian Art: The Seasons in Bloom

Updated Jul 20, 2022

Educators Grades Third – Fifth STEAM Social Studies Writing Geography Lesson Plans

Through classroom and museum experiences, elementary students will be able to accurately identify and describe various plants related to the four seasons as represented in a variety of East Asian art. 

 

 

Early Autumn

Image: Early Autumn, 1235-1305, attributed to Qian Xuan, Chinese; ink, watercolor, and gold on paper. 

Through classroom and museum experiences, elementary students will be able to accurately identify and describe various plants related to the four seasons as represented in a variety of East Asian art. 

 

 

Seasons in Bloom Educator Resource

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Seasons in Bloom Lesson

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Seasons in Bloom DIA Artworks for Lesson

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Seasons in Bloom Additional Resources

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Looking at Michigan’s Great Lakes

Updated Jul 20, 2022

Educators Grades Third – Fifth Social Studies Geography Lesson Plans

Students build map-reading skills and explore themes of geography and the environment by using a special collection of Great Lakes photographs by Jeff Gaydash.

Great Lakes by Jeff Gaydash

Great Lakes photographs by Jeff Gaydash

Students build map-reading skills and explore themes of geography and the environment by using a special collection of Great Lakes photographs by Jeff Gaydash.

Michigan's Great Lakes Exhibition Tour

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Michigan's Great Lakes Self-Guided Activity

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Michigan's Great Lakes Graphic Organizer

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Michigan's Great Lakes Maps

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Michigan's Great Lakes Resource for Educators

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DIA At Home | Drawing Activities

Updated Jul 20, 2022

Educators Grades Third – Fifth Grades Sixth – Eighth Art-Making Lesson Plans Self-Guided Materials

Students call upon their own life experiences and imagination in these drawing activities as they explore what elements can be used to create a still life, portrait, and self-portrait.

 

Self Portrait by Joan Miro

Image: Self Portrait II, 1938, Joan Miró, Spanish; oil on burlap

Students call upon their own life experiences and imagination in these drawing activities as they explore what elements can be used to create a still life, portrait, and self-portrait.

 

DIA at Home Drawing Activities

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DIA At Home | Writing & Discussion Activities

Updated Jul 20, 2022

Educators Grades Third – Fifth Grades Sixth – Eighth Social Emotional Learning Writing Lesson Plans Self-Guided Materials

Engage students of all ages with these three fun and easy-to-use gallery activities.

Rivera Court

Rivera Court

Engage students of all ages with these three fun and easy-to-use gallery activities.

DIA At Home Writing & Discussion Topics

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DIA At Home | Family Art Project: Neighborhood Collage

Updated Jul 20, 2022

Teens Educators Grades PK – Second Grades Third – Fifth Grades Sixth – Eighth Grades Ninth – Twelfth Art-Making Lesson Plans Self-Guided Materials

Creating a piece of art from smaller pieces of paper, fabric, or other objects is known as collage. American artist Romare Bearden, developed his unique approach to collage in the 1960s, as seen in his 1971 Stamping Ground, that captures the richness of contemporary African American life in a New York neighborhood.

Create your own collage, inspired by Romare Bearden’s Stamping Ground, using things you have around the house to show your neighborhood, or another favorite place. Think about who lives there, what kind of buildings do you see, or what sort of plants start popping up this time of the year. Before you glue the paper down, try out arranging and overlapping the pieces in different ways.

Collage

Romare Bearden Collage

Creating a piece of art from smaller pieces of paper, fabric, or other objects is known as collage. American artist Romare Bearden, developed his unique approach to collage in the 1960s, as seen in his 1971 Stamping Ground, that captures the richness of contemporary African American life in a New York neighborhood.

Create your own collage, inspired by Romare Bearden’s Stamping Ground, using things you have around the house to show your neighborhood, or another favorite place. Think about who lives there, what kind of buildings do you see, or what sort of plants start popping up this time of the year. Before you glue the paper down, try out arranging and overlapping the pieces in different ways.

Family Art Project | Neighborhood Collage

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The Impact of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington

Updated Jul 20, 2022

Educators Grades Third – Fifth History Social Studies Writing Lesson Plans

Using Jean-Antoine Houdon’s portraits of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington at the Detroit Institute of Arts, students will explore the life stories of these figures to deepen their understanding of the importance of individual political and social contributions during the American Revolutionary period.

Houdon's Benjamin Franklin and George Washington

Jean-Antoine Houdon’s portraits of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington

Using Jean-Antoine Houdon’s portraits of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington at the Detroit Institute of Arts, students will explore the life stories of these figures to deepen their understanding of the importance of individual political and social contributions during the American Revolutionary period.

Houdon Educator Guide & Lesson Plan

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Houdon Exhibition Letter & Rubric

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Houdon Activity Worksheets

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Perceptions of the Founding Generation

Updated Jul 20, 2022

Teens Educators Grades Sixth – Eighth History Social Studies Writing Lesson Plans

Students will use the Houdon exhibit to analyze different ways Benjamin Franklin and George Washington were perceived in the face of many challenges and conflicts during the American Revolutionary period.

 

 

Apotheosis of Franklin and Washington

Image: The Apotheosis of Franklin and Washington, About 1785, Unknown textile manufactory, English; roller printed cotton. Gift of Paul LeRoy Grigaut

Students will use the Houdon exhibit to analyze different ways Benjamin Franklin and George Washington were perceived in the face of many challenges and conflicts during the American Revolutionary period.

 

 

Houdon Educator Guide & Lesson Plan

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Houdon RAFT Writing

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Houdon Activities

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Core Democratic Values, Past and Present

Updated Jul 20, 2022

Teens Educators Grades Ninth – Twelfth History Social Studies Lesson Plans

Through the use of Core Democratic Values (CDV) and the Houdon exhibition materials, students will explore the ways in which ideals promoted by the founding generation connect to the present.


 

Le Docteur Francklin couronne par la Liberte

Image: Dr. Franklin Crowned by Liberty (Le Docteur Francklin couronne par la Liberte), 1778, Jean Claude Richard, Abbe de Saint-Non, French; aquatint and etching printed in black ink on laid paper

Through the use of Core Democratic Values (CDV) and the Houdon exhibition materials, students will explore the ways in which ideals promoted by the founding generation connect to the present.


 

Houdon Educator Guide & Lesson Plan

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Houdon Online Comment Rubric

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Houdon Activity Worksheets

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Core Democratic Values of American Constitutional Democracy

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Colorful Offerings to Beloved Ancestors and Important Causes | Ofrendas Lesson 5

Updated Sep 1, 2024

Teens Educators Grades Ninth – Twelfth World Languages Special Exhibition Lesson Plans

Using the Spanish Language and Culture AP suggested themes of “Families and Communities,” “Personal and Public Identities,” “Contemporary Life” and “Global Challenges,” students will explore the objects from an ofrenda to understand and analyze how they represent, summarize, and encapsulate the lives, challenges, and preferences of beloved individuals and/or public causes.

Ofrenda altars on display at the DIA

Using the Spanish Language and Culture AP suggested themes of “Families and Communities,” “Personal and Public Identities,” “Contemporary Life” and “Global Challenges,” students will explore the objects from an ofrenda to understand and analyze how they represent, summarize, and encapsulate the lives, challenges, and preferences of beloved individuals and/or public causes.

Colorful Offerings Educator Guide & Lesson Plan

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