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TOUR THEMES Select a tour topic aligned with your students' interests, grade level, and curricular needs. Story Time (grades PreK and K) Students enjoy the adventure of connec... Read more

TOUR THEMES Select a tour topic aligned with your students' interests, grade level, and curricular needs.

Story Time (grades PreK and K)
Students enjoy the adventure of connecting reading and words to art through the creative window of stories, myths, and tall tales.
Wit and Wisdom Alignment - Kindergarten Module 2: Once Upon a Farm (Parts of a Story)

Learning to Look
(grades K-5)
Students learn about the elements of art, artistic vocabulary, and the museum experience through careful looking, critical thinking, and discussion.
Grade 3 Module 4: Artists Make Art
Arts: Imagination, creating, symbolism, what is an artist?

Step into the Story
(grades K-5)
Students examine imagery for narrative elements, learning to read and interpret works of art through character, setting, and plot.
Kindergarten Module 2: Once Upon a Farm (Parts of a Story)
Grade 1 Module 4: Cinderella Stories
Grade 3 Module 4: Artists Make Art

Connecticut People and Places (grades 3-5)
Students experience Connecticut's rich history and culture through the events, people, places, and ideas depicted and interpreted in works of art in the collection, many of which were made by Connecticut artists.
Grade 2 Module 3 (Social Studies)
Grade 3 Module 3 (History)
Grade 4 Module 3 (History, understanding all sides of a story)
Grade 5 Module 4 (Social Studies)

American Art
(grades 3-5)
Students use critical thinking skills to interpret American paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts from the Colonial period through today. Curricular connections include Colonial America and the American Revolution.
Grade 3 Module 4: Artists Make Art
Grade 4 Module 3: The Redcoats are Coming!

European Art
(grades 3-5)
Students learn to look at visual imagery through an exploration of European paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts representing the medieval era, the Renaissance and Baroque periods, the French Revolution, the late nineteenth century, and the early twentieth century.
Grade 3 Module 4: Artists Make Art

Myths, Stories, and Legends
(grades 3-5)
Students view examples of ancient art from Greece, Rome, and Egypt, and Asia to explore how elements of these cultures endure in European and American art.
Grade 4 Module 4: Myth Making
Arts: Myths, Storytelling, Theater, human experience

Students will engage with close looking and observation in the galleries of the Wadsworth.Students will use critical thinking skills to interpret and talk about various art forms across ti... Read more

Students will engage with close looking and observation in the galleries of the Wadsworth.

Students will use critical thinking skills to interpret and talk about various art forms across time periods.

Students will connect their own real life experiences with art through a conversational guided tour.