How did African American artists respond to cultural and educational opportunities? This portion of the Affirmation Today module explains the cultural impact of Supreme Court decisions on the African American community.
How did the Harlem Renaissance influence African American artists? This portion of the Affirmation Today module explains the conscious attempt to express ancestral heritage and racial pride through art.
How can art, music, and literature combine to provide a multifaceted view of the African American experience? This portion of the Affirmation Today module explores the diverse experiences of and cultural connections among African Americans and how African Americans influenced and contributed to American Culture.
How have contemporary African American artists incorporated classical mythology in their art? This portion of the Affirmation Today module explores how myths transcend time and place and how mythology is used as commentary on experience.
This site explores the diversity of Africa's cultures and their influence on work, family, and community. Sculptures, textiles, interviews, proverbs, prayers, folk tales, and songs are included.
This detailed lesson plan (33 pages) allows students to critically examine how individuals shape history. They play a game, discuss, vote, interact, examine bias, and evaluate ideas of others.
Students investigate the question "what are American ideals" through a matching activity. Requires teacher prep to cut cards. Includes a full lesson, warm-up, game procedures, and assessment and reflection.
America's Jazz Heritage Website is part of a project generated by a partnership of the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund and the Smithsonian Institution that is focused on the preservation and presentation of the history of jazz. This site includes audio clips, interviews, schedules of exhibitions and performances, extensive bibliographies, and links to related sites.
What can paintings of American landscape tell us about the American experience and geography? This tour of twelve great American lanscapes highlights paintings and vistas from the rocky shores of Maine to the Sierra Nevada mountains in California.
This site examines the job of a president, the balance of power with the Supreme Court and Congress, and ways presidents have communicated with the public. Features include the battle sword of George Washington, the lap desk on which Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, and the top hat worn by Abraham Lincoln the night he was assassinated.
How are poetry and American art interrelated? This guide pairs American artworks with the lives and poems of the nation's most revered poets including William Cullen Bryant, Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Carlos Williams, and Charles Olson.
How do museum conservators apply science to analyze the condition of an artwork? This lesson will help students understand applications of electromagnetic radiation in art conservation.
ŔCules son las fuentes histricas, sociales, y culturales que informan al trabajo de las artistas latinoamericano? Esta porcin del mdulo de Arte y Cultura Latino describe races culturales del Latino de una mezcla rica de fuentes europeas, indgenas, y africanas.
ŔCules son las fuentes histricas y culturales que informan al contenido social de la obra de los artistas latinos? Esta porcin del mdulo de Arte y Cultura Latino examina el movimiento chicano en los Estados Unidos.
ŔCules son los factores histricos que influyen sobre las modalidades de migracin e inmigracn a los Estados Unidos de la poblacin de origen latinoamericano? Esta porcin del mdulo de Arte y Cultura Latino describe cmo se han adaptado los latinos a su Nuevo entorno, desde la perspective de los artistas mexicano-americanos, puertorriqueos y cubano-americanos.
ŔCules son las influencias histricas en el desarrollo de las tradiciones artsticas del sudoeste? Esta porcin del mdulo de Arte y Cultura Latino explica cmo la tradicin de los santos reflejo de los valores culturales del pasado y presente.
The Western landscape which George Catlin encountered on his travels was dominated by the great expanse of the tall and short grass prairies. Home to countless species of plant and animal life, the great prairies once spanned millions of acres across North America. Today less than ten percent of the complex ecosystem remains, largely under the protection of parks and nature preserves. In this lesson students will gain an understanding of the interdependence of living organisms on the prairie and the fragility of their existence by investigating life on the prairie and relating their findings to their own experience.
Find the right vehicles for a new movie from the America on the Move collection, then watch the movie that you’ve created on the big screen. See how much you know about the history of transportation with the interactive games in this online collection. You can find information, artifacts and photographs in the collection as well.
Chicana poet, publisher and educator Maria Miranda Maloney honors her ancestors through her poem “Blessed." This video is one of the 2021 Dead Poets Open Mic Series created by the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Latino in collaboration with Mouthfeel Press.
This case study explores how indian boarding schools impacted thousands of Native youths and allows students to examine the effects of assimilation. Designed for High School, but easily adaptable for upper elementary or middle school. Full lesson plan included.