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    • Three Ways to Make a Scene

      For Grades 4–12

      English Language Arts; Visual Arts

      Featuring André Derain's The Trees, ca. 1906; Stuart Davis's New York Waterfront, 1938; and Giorgio de Chirico's The Anguish of Departure, 1913–14
      Students will become familiar with the artists André Derain, Stuart Davis, and Giorgio de Chirico, explore three techniques for creating a landscape, and create a collage inspired by one of three works from the Gallery’s Collection.

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    • Translating Art to Music

      For Grades 3–8

      English Language Arts; Visual Arts

      Featuring Sonia Delaunay's Colored Rhythm, 1958
      Students will use a work of art as inspiration for the creation of a musical piece; create music looking at colors, patterns, and rhythms in visual art; and create a song using Sonia Delaunay's Colored Rhythm, 1958, as source material.

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    • Traveling Abroad

      For Grades 6–12, with adaptations for younger students

      English Language Arts; Social Studies; Visual Arts

      Featuring Eugéne Delacroix’s Street in Meknes, 1832
      This lesson plan explores differences between today’s culture and the culture of North Africa in the 1830s. The exercises include role-playing, writing, discussion, and artmaking.

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    • What’s Fair? Can You Decide?

      For Grades 3–5

      Math, Science, and Technology; English Language Arts; Visual Arts

      Featuring Four Contemporary Photographs
      This lesson plan explores different methods of portraiture used by contemporary photographers and examines the issues of sampling and copyright in both music and art.

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    • Wide Awake Dreaming

      For Grades 3–5

      English Language Arts; Visual Arts

      Featuring Joan Miró's Carnaval d'Arlequin (Carnival of Harlequin), 1924–25
      This lesson plan explores how Joan Miró, one of the artists in the 1920s and 1930s who became known as the Surrealists, used dreams and the unconscious to create his whimsical, playful painting known as Carnival of Harlequin. It includes hands-on activities and discussion to encourage students to create their own imaginary creatures.

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    • Wired In!

      For Grades 9–12

      Math, Science, and Technology; English Language Arts; Visual Arts

      Inspired by Sol LeWitt
      Students will learn about Sol LeWitt, learn how to make a work of Conceptual art, and synthesize learning in a presentation to the class describing what they did and why it is Conceptual art.

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    • Your Own Special Exhibition

      For Grades 5–12

      English Language Arts; Visual Arts

      Inspired by Surveyor (February 18–June 5, 2011)
      Students will learn about some of the tasks involved in selecting and presenting works for an art exhibition, curate their own exhibition using a work in the special exhibition Surveyor as inspiration, and more.

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