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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Sf Mo Ma Art Think: A Personal Narrative

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Find a matched set of activities--each with a slightly different disciplinary emphasis--that takes participants through a close examination of the work of contemporary California artists Joan Brown and Jay DeFeo. Their work often...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: The American Identity: An Artistic Reflection

For Students 9th - 10th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Given selected examples of American art, music, and literature, students will be able to identify the era of U.S. history that is reflected in the art.
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Superman's Secret Identity

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Arts and Humanities: Art of Asia

For Students 9th - 10th
A landing page for a course on the art history of Asia.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Arts and Humanities: Art of Africa

For Students 9th - 10th
A landing page for a course on African art found in regions and in individual countries.
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Cool / Warm Name Design Rubbings [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd
In this lesson, 3rd graders reflect on who they are by listing their likes and dislikes, beliefs, hobbies, etc. They then create a rubbing of their name and add rubbings of objects they like, along with symbols and sketches. Next, they...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Delve Deeper Into Art With This Activity

For Students 9th - 10th
In this activity, you will explore the relationship between art and identity by comparing and contrasting two works of art.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: The Making of African American Identity [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 6: The Witch of Blackbird Pond

For Teachers 6th Standards
Sixth graders will learn about the influence of family expectations and religious values on the development of one's personal identity. Students will also learn how reading informational texts in coordination with literary texts can...
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Art Institute of Chicago

Art Institute of Chicago: Mummy Case

For Students 9th - 10th
Examine an Egyptian mummy case and view three accompanying videos to learn how mummies were made, how we know the identity of the man whose remains are in the case, and how the symbols that decorate the case should be interpreted.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts, Grade 11: The Scarlet Letter

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
Students explore the role and impact religion had on the establishment of the American colonies and its continued influence throughout the formation of the American identity. Foundational literary works, speeches, and documents...
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 3: The Stories Julian Tells

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Third graders learn that stories and books are important for learning about themselves and others. This unit allows students to learn how storytelling can be a way to learn about other cultures, pass on family history and traditions, and...
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Picturing America

For Students 9th - 10th
In this gallery you will encounter art of America in a completely new fashion. Taking a look at various paintings, sculpture, architecture, fine crafts, and photography provides an inside look at our nation's character and ideals. Learn...
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Other

Common Threads Unraveling the World of Textiles

For Students 9th - 10th
Through the examination of two textiles from opposite sides of the world you will go in-depth to reveal how fiber arts can tell us more about people in other cultures.
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Other

Nova Roma

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is dedicated to the study and restoration of ancient Roman culture. Site allows student to apply for Roman citizenship and live as a Roman! Delve into the religion, the philosophy, the virtues, the art, and more - of ancient Rome.
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Jewish Museum

Jewish Museum: Examining Identity in Contemporary Art and Photography [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This website contains photographs of many in the multicultural community of Jews in the United States. There are discussion questions and cross-curricular links for integration of culture into your curriculum. A glossary is also included.
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Totems to Turquoise: Native American Jewelry

For Students 9th - 10th
Through this resource, the user can learn about the hand-crafted jewelry of Native North Americans of the Northwest and Southwest and how it embodies both the personal and collective identity of the maker and the wearer.
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Tate

Tate Liverpool: Picasso: Peace and Freedom: Educator's Pack [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Art historical context and analysis of an exhibition of Picasso's work on the artist's interest in representations of war and peace during the cold war period [Tate Liverpool, 2010]. This illustrated educator's pack, though designed to...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Mexican Muralism: Los Tres Grandes David Siqueiros, Diego Rivera

For Students 9th - 10th
Siqueiros, Diego Rivera, and Jose Clemente Orozco-known as Los tres grandes-cultivated an artistic style that defined Mexican identity following the Revolution. They crafted epic murals on the walls of highly visible, public buildings...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Maya Lin

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment from New York Voices features Chinese American architect Maya Lin.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: World Cultures Collection

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Explore the world with PBS LearningMedia! This collection focuses on food, folktales, and other aspects of cultural heritage. With your class, hear stories, play through situations, and learn how to make crafts from cultures near and far.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Common Application for Undergraduate College Admission

For Teachers 9th - 10th
SCU uses StoryCorps' tested interviewing techniques-combined with outstanding radio broadcasts and animated shorts-to support high school students in the development of identity and in drawing connections between their unique strengths...
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My Learning

My Learning: Self Image

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the many different ways to create a self-portrait by looking at four artists who each take a different approach.
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Bishop Joseph Butler

For Students 9th - 10th
Joseph Butler (May 18, 1692 O.S. - June 16, 1752) was an English bishop, theologian, apologist, and philosopher. He is known, among other things, for his critique of Thomas Hobbes's egoism and John Locke's theory of personal identity....

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