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Browse Curricula & Guides


  • Formal Analysis Lessons and Activities
    created in 2015

  • Poetry and Art Lessons and Activities
    created in 2014

  • Ancient Art Lessons and Activities
    created in 2014

  • The Cyrus Cylinder: Classroom Guides
    created in 2013

  • Art & Science: A Curriculum for K–12 Teachers
    created 2007, updated 2013

  • Looking at French Decorative Arts: Lessons and Ideas for Discussion
    created 2003, updated 2013—new lessons available!

  • Art & Language Arts: Ideas for the Classroom
    created 2002, most recently updated in 2012

  • Language through Art: ESL Enrichment Curriculum (Beginning Level)
    created 2012

  • When Art Talks
    created 2012

  • Exploring Photographs
    updated 2012

  • Stories in Art
    created in 2011

  • Art & Architecture
    created 2011

  • Villa Summer Institute: Ideas for the
    Classroom

    created 2011

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Lessons that Address Common Core Standards
  • Looking at French Decorative Arts: Tick-Tock, Bedroom Clock (Grades K–2)

  • Looking at French Decorative Arts: Appropriate and Innovate (Grades 3–5)

  • I Am a Hard Worker (Grades 3–5)

  • Sculpting a Modern Hero (Grades 6–8)

  • Before, During, and After The Musicians' Brawl (Grades 9–12)

  • Writing about Art: Objective vs. Subjective (Grades 9–12)


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Tips and Tools for Teachers

Sets of art activities, ideas for creating lessons, and online interactive experiences. View tips and tools.




Looking for Lessons with Ancient Art?
  • Combating Corrosion

  • Putting a Spin on Current Events (Advanced Level)

  • Giants of the Past

  • Sculpting a Modern Hero

  • Breaking the Chains, Rising Out of Circumstances (Intermediate Level)

  • The Many Different Sides of War (Intermediate Level)

  • Putting a Spin on Current Events (Intermediate Level)

  • A Story on a Vase

  • Shaping Ideas: Symbolism in Sculpture

  • Ceramics: A Vessel into History

  • Goddesses Are Personifications Too!

  • Neoclassical Influences

  • O Greek Shape! O Fair Pose!


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School Visit Activities

Bringing your class to the Villa or Center? View activities designed for School Visits.