These activities are designed as follow up to a School Visit to the Getty Center.

Activities 1–7 of 7

Recording Nature's Nuances
Grades/Level: Lower Elementary (K–2), Upper Elementary (3–5), Middle School (6–8)
Subjects: Visual Arts
Activity Overview: This is a follow-up activity to the Getty Center Guided Lesson Nature in Art. Students draw or sketch something from nature using their imagination, and again from life, comparing and discussing their work.

Imaginative Interpretations
Grades/Level: Lower Elementary (K–2), Upper Elementary (3–5), Middle School (6–8), High School (9–12)
Subjects: Visual Arts, English—Language Arts
Activity Overview: This is a follow-up activity to the Getty Center Guided Lessons Artists as Storytellers and Mythology in European Art. Students continue their exploration of how works of art can be inspired by stories by creating their own work of art inspired by a narrative text.

Personal Portraits
Grades/Level: Lower Elementary (K–2), Upper Elementary (3–5), Middle School (6–8), High School (9–12)
Subjects: Visual Arts, English—Language Arts
Activity Overview: This is a follow-up activity to the Getty Center Guided Lesson Body Language. This activity will help culminate and extend the Museum visit back into the classroom. After introducing the idea of portraits, students will create their own self-portrait or a portrait of someone to whom they are close.

Personal Reflections
Grades/Level: Middle School (6–8), High School (9–12)
Subjects: Visual Arts, History—Social Science
Activity Overview: This is a follow-up lesson to the Getty Center Guided Lesson Connecting History and Art. This activity will help culminate and extend the Museum visit back into the classroom. Students will consider the choice Telemachus made to continue searching for his father. They will relate the moral dilemma to their own personal experiences.

Curator's Report
Grades/Level: Middle School (6–8), High School (9–12)
Subjects: Visual Arts, English—Language Arts
Activity Overview: This is a follow-up lesson for the Getty Center Guided Lesson Exploring Art Through Writing. This activity will help culminate and extend the visit back into the classroom. Students write a curator's report in order to persuade a board of directors to purchase an artwork for a museum. The class then assumes the role of a board of directors, and decides which objects they would purchase for a museum.

Art Inspired by Words
Grades/Level: Middle School (6–8), High School (9–12)
Subjects: English—Language Arts
Activity Overview: Works of art can be inspired by literature and artists can interpret and visually imagine the same passage in different ways. Students will each create a sketch on a single literary passage and then compare their work.

Look Again
Grades/Level: Lower Elementary (K–2), Upper Elementary (3–5), Middle School (6–8), High School (9–12)
Subjects: Visual Arts
Activity Overview: By writing down their observations about a work of art and then comparing and discussing different interpretations of it, students learn that the longer they look at a work of art, the more insight they will gain about what they see.

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