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Students act as modern art conservators to assess first-hand the difficulties that many real-life conservators face in the restoration of modern artworks.
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- 6th - 12th Grade
Students study the exchange of artwork between the Louvre in Paris and two American art museums. They create an introductory exhibit on European and American Art, from the Renaissance through the 20th century.
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- 6th - 12th Grade
Students practice observing and analyzing two works of art. They describe the elements and principles, subject matter, history and mediums of two works of art. In addition, they use a compare and contrast strategy to interpret the meaning of two works of art.
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- 9th - 12th Grade
Students examine the subject and meaning in visual art. They analyze various paintings on the Metropolitan Museum of Art website, answer discussion questions, complete online interactive activities, and write an essay.
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- 5th - 8th Grade
Students write a travel article in the voice of a travel writer in 1910. They use the Florence Griswold Museum's on-line resources to go on a virtual "visit" to the Lyme Art Colony. They also use short biographies about the lives of the artists and newspaper articles published about the colony to develop their travel journals before writing the article..
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- 9th - 12th Grade
Students create a television news report that incorporates information on the Lyme Art Colony in five themes. They use the Florence Griswold Museum's on-line resources to gather information about following themes: the American art colony at Lyme, daily life in a boardinghouse, c. 1910, making the most of limited choices, the life and times of Florence Griswold, and Connecticut and American Impressionism.
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- 6th - 12th Grade
Students investigate the role of mathematics in their everyday lives. They discover, through reading a Times article and through analyzing a specific example of art, that mathematics exists on a deeper 'metaphoric' level in art.
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- 4th - 7th Grade
Students write and perform a short scene incorporating the various characters who were a part of the Griswold boardinghouse During the 1900s in Connecticut. They use the Florence Griswold Museum's on-line resources to gather information about the people of the art colony before creating and performing scene that incorporates the material.
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- 6th - 8th Grade
Students encounter the life and art of Piet Mondrian, his style influenced by jazz music and his technique using spatial concepts. They create a painting in Mondrian's non-objective style. The foundation that art, music, design and math have connections we may not have thought about is studied.
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- 6th - 8th Grade
Students create a newspaper about The Brooklyn Museum of Art. Each student in the group takes on the role of a different type of newspaper writer.
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