POSTERS AND RESOURCE KITS
Posters Plus
African Art POST-1
4 laminated color posters, teacher’s guide
Elementary school through adult
The four pieces of traditional African art included in this set are: a Community Power Figure (Songye culture, Zaire), a Linguist’s Staff (Asante culture, Ghana), an Eshu Dance Staff (Yoruba culture, Nigeria) and a Buffalo Mask and Feather Costume (Grasslands region, Cameroon).
Seated Scribe, Sema-Tawy-Tefnakht POST-2
Laminated color poster, teacher’s guide
Elementary school through adult
This 18” x 24” laminated color poster depicts the upper and lower portions of Seated Scribe, Sema-tawy-tefnakht, a mid-seventh century B.C. Egyptian statue from the Museum’s permanent collection. This alabaster figure is a triumph of research and persistence. Information on the fascinating search for the lower portion and how the fragments were reunited, plus answers to commonly-asked questions on Egypt are provided.
Educator’s Resource Kits
Animals Meek and Mighty PS-106
Teacher’s guide, audio, VHS, books, posters
Kindergarten through second grade
Students will marvel at the pictures of awesome animals found at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. This discovery kit can successfully be adapted to children with exceptionalities and is designed to use five recognizable animals to illustrate a unit which can include creative writing, art making, poetry, art history, classroom discussion, and fun. Teachers will help students experience different cultures and varied geographic locations as they learn about animals. Specific activities will help you and your students produce an animal journal. Enjoy the safari!
Around the World with Art PS-110
Teacher’s guide, posters, audio (CDs and cassettes), VHS, books, touchable objects / 1999
Special needs students, kindergarten through third grade
This discovery kit is specially designed to bring art to any classroom. Students will take a trip around the world with Arthur Fann, an adventurous traveler, using music, scents, visuals, and objects related to works of art in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. A detailed teacher’s guide will help launch this educational journey through art, writing, math, science, and history and explore a French seascape, an American waterfall, work of the House of Fabergé, an Indian sculpture, a Japanese screen, and an African mask.
Art by African-American Artists:
Selections from the Twentieth-Century PS-123
Booklet, slides, posters, CD
This compact kit features 20 works by 16 prominent artists from collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Each painting, drawing, sculpture, photograph, or multimedia work is reproduced in slide form with biographic information, visual analysis, and questions for classroom discussion. Represented are Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Frederick J. Brown, Margaret Burroughs, Elizabeth Catlett, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Palmer Hayden, William H. Johnson, Jacob Lawrence, Horace Pippin, Faith Ringgold, Alison Saar, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Bill Traylor, James VanDerZee, and Hale Aspacio Woodruff. Plus an audio disk offers poems by Langston Hughes and Nikki Giovanni and comments by Jacob Lawrence and Romare Bearden.
The Art of Ancient Egypt PS-109
Teacher’s guide, lectures, slides, CD-ROM, posters, activities
Elementary school through adult
The Metropolitan Museum of Art assembled this kit for teachers and students alike to learn about the outstanding works of Egyptian art from the Museum’s collection. The text draws upon the expertise of the curators in the Department of Egyptian Arts with background information, descriptions of the specific objects, illustrations that can be copied, the latest CD-ROM technology, and lesson plans and activities.
The Art of South and Southeastern Asia (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) PS-119
High school through adult
Craft Now: Breaking Boundaries CD-32
60 slides, color, teacher’s guide
Elementary school through high school
Many contemporary craft artists have extended the boundaries that have historically separated craft and art by transcending traditional materials and concepts. This kit explores the expressive possibilities by which the crafts are brought into a closer relationship with the fine arts and traces the historical development of crafts in ancient cultures and in America. Interdisciplinary activities allow students to explore crafts as traditional and contemporary media; they also meet Standards of Learning Objectives for all grade levels.
Discover Africa! PS-104
Slides, script, VHS, books,
audio-cassettes
Elementary school through high school
With over one thousand languages spoken in a land mass four times bigger than the United States, Africa is an enormous continent that encompasses a multitude of diverse cultures and traditions. This resource kit, developed by the Museum, offers materials designed to assist teachers in exploring with their students many aspects of African life. Books explore legends and community life; videocassettes provide glimpses of African life and culture; and audio-cassettes give students an opportunity to explore the different rhythms of the continent. Slides of artwork, artifacts, poetry selections, and even some recipes round out this kit that is awaiting your students’ inquiring minds.
Discover Native American Culture! PS-121
Objects, script, photo images, video, CD-ROM
American artist, George Catlin made many sketches and paintings as he traveled among the numerous tribes of American Indians. The notes taken from his journals are a valuable resource today for giving us information on the daily life of various tribes before they were changed by interaction with European-Americans. This hands-on resource kit, developed by VMFA, offers materials designed to assist teachers in exploring with their students many aspects of American Indian life. Handmade crafts, furs, and other objects typically seen in many of George Catlin’s paintings, are all included.
Greek Art (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) PS-118
High school through adult
Imperial Mali (The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts) PS-117
Inuit Images PS-97
14 slides, script, VHS, books,
audio-cassette, sculpture
Elementary school through high school
The Inuit people, often referred to as Eskimos, have lived in Canada’s Arctic region for thousands of years. Since 1957, printmaking has been a popular art form among these Arctic people. This resource kit provides a large number of materials designed to assist teachers in exploring with their students many aspects of Arctic life. Slides of prints give a broad sampling of the types of graphic works produced by contemporary Inuit artists. Several books, especially chosen for primary and middle school readers, explore legends, myths, animal life, and even the climate of the Arctic. Videocassettes provide an enjoyable glimpse at Arctic life and culture. The kit also contains four sculptures made by young Inuit children that may be used as teaching tools in the classroom.
Islamic Art and Geometric Design PS-124
Information booklet, overhead transparencies, slides
This kit produced by the Metropolitan Museum of Art illuminates the principles of geometric design that are the basis for the beautiful and intricate patterns in the art of the Islamic world. Teachers can readily adapt to create lessons. Includes a brief overview of Islamic art, an introduction to the Metropolitan Museum’s collection, and a series of pattern-making activities (for use with straightedge and compass).
Life and Afterlife: Cycles of Nature and Belief in Ancient Egypt PS-107
Slides, text, and activities / 1999
Elementary school through adult
This discovery kit offers information on ancient Egypt that complements classroom curricula and uses objects from the permanent collections of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. It explores the development of culture in ancient Egypt and illustrates how this civilization is a product of the physical environment. Learning objectives are: (1) Understand how the Nile River influenced the development of ancient Egypt; (2) Understand how the cycles of nature became a means to understand life; and (3) Understand how Egyptian beliefs about nature and religion affected the development of civilization and its institutions.
Medieval Art: A Resource for Educators
This resource is a distillation of more than 1,200 years of medieval art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection from western Europe and Byzantium, and provides approaches and strategies for teaching art of the Middle Ages. Among the contents are an overview of medieval times and art; discussion of aspects of medieval life, including knighthood, monasticism, pilgrimage, and pleasures and pastimes; information on artists' materials and techniques; lesson plans; and a map and bibliography. Boxed set 9 in. x 12 in. Includes binder: 192 pages, 199 illustrations (35 in full color); 2 full-color posters, 40 35mm slides, 2 CD-ROMs (The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux: A Prayer Book for a Queen and one including another interactive feature, The Unicorn Tapestries).
The Middle Ages PS-98
VHS, teacher’s guide, activity sheets
Middle school through adult
The Middle Ages resource kit is a set of outstanding video and print resources for teaching about the Middle Ages to students in middle, junior high, and high schools. The kit contains instructional modules consisting of eight 15-minute video segments on four cassettes, a teacher’s guide, background reading for students and student activity sheets. Each video module, hosted by author/illustrator David Macaulay, combines live action documentary sequences with portions of an animated story. The first four modules are based on Macaulay’s book Castle, and the second four are based on his book Cathedral. By presenting the twin hierarchies of medieval life, castles and cathedrals, these videos are cornerstones for teaching about the Middle Ages.
Pyramid AP-23
VHS, teacher’s guide, activity sheets
Middle school through adult
This resource kit is composed of four videocassettes and printed teaching resources, lesson plans, and student activity sheets. Three of the videotapes are instructional modules, each about 20 minutes in length, that contain live-action documentary sequences with portions of an animated story about the dynasty of the Pharaoh Khufu and the construction of the Great Pyramid at Giza. The fourth videotape is a visual glossary of images that may be used for identification or oral presentations. Lessons and activity sheets included in the kit are correlated to curricula in language arts, social studies, history, geography, math, art, science, and technology.
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Roman City AP-24
Interactive computer program, VHS, DVD, teacher’s guide, activity sheets
Middle school through adult
This resource kit, developed by PBS video, is composed of three videotapes, an activity-based interdisciplinary teaching package, and an interactive computer program in both Macintosh HyperCard and MS/DOS Windows environments. The kit features a wealth of beautifully illustrated information about Roman society, government, technology, daily life, and culture. Each of the three video modules combines live-action documentary sequences filmed at important locations in the history of ancient Rome with portions of an animated story about the development of a frontier Roman city in Gaul.
Thought into Image; Image into Word
Understanding Hieroglyphs in the
Context of Art and Culture of Ancient Egypt PS-108
Slide, text and activities, 1999
Elementary school through adult
This discovery kit demonstrates how images evolved from representing people and things to representing concepts. These concepts became symbols and formed the basis for written language. Learning objectives are: (1) To understand the uses of art in ancient Egypt, and (2) To understand the relationship of art to hieroglyphs.
20th Century Art (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) PS-120
High school through adult
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