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Teacher Lab Tools

This section presents curriculum-development tools and resources created for and used in the Teacher Lab. These range from lesson-plan templates to guides for asking questions about art and from assessment tools to recommended publications and Web sites for learning about American art.


Curriculum-Development Tools

Curriculum-Development Tools

Resources in this section are used by Teacher Lab participants to develop lesson plans for both the first and second semesters of the school year.

Lesson-plan template
PDF DOCX
Investigating a work of art guide
PDF
School-year planning form
PDF
Poem builder
PDF RTF
Making inferences
PDF RTF

Tools for Looking at, Discussing, Interpreting American Art

Tools for Looking at, Discussing, Interpreting American Art

Resources in this section are designed to help teachers guide students to look at, think about, and interpret works of American art. Field-trip planning materials are included.

Guide to doing a "Close Read" of an artwork
PDF RTF
Guide for developing questions about works of art
PDF
Art Institute of Chicago Strategic Questioning Practice
PDF
Reflecting on art in the museum handout
PDF
Self-guided field-trip planner
PDF

Assessment Tools

Resources in this section include tools for assessing student understandings about American art, self-assessment tools, and success indicators developed for the Teacher Lab.

Success indicators for Terra Teacher Lab
PDF
Survey of Teacher Lab graduates
PDF RTF
Teacher pre/post assessment and results
PDF
Learning report sample 1
PDF
Learning report form sample 2
PDF
Student pre/post assessment questions
PDF

Resources for Learning about American Art

This section includes helpful Web sites and texts used in the Teacher Lab for learning about American art.
American art texts and Web sites
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