Objective: Students will connect a piece of artwork with a personal story.
Materials:
Introduce: Take students on a guided tour at the Milwaukee Art Museum. We suggest using the Communities and Traditions tour for this lesson.
Ask:
- What is an artwork that inspired you on the tour?
- How can that artwork relate to a personal story?
Activity:
- Deepen your students’ connection to the artwork viewed during the World Communities Museum tour by having them relate a work to a personal story, through technology.
- Students should use the Museum Collection website to find an artwork that inspired them on the tour, and then connect that piece to a personal story/reflection.
- Have them use Voki, Voicethread, Glogster, Animoto, or any other pre-approved tool to complete this task.
National Standards:
- VA:Cr2.3.7a Apply visual organizational strategies to design and produce a work of art, design, or media that clearly communicates information or ideas.
Thank you to Dana Blumberg, an educator who developed this activity for the World Communities tour as a participant in the 2011 Milwaukee Digital Media Conference.
Share your artwork with us on social media @milwaukeeart #MAMLearn or email pictures to teachers.mam.org. We’d love to see your creations!