TOUR THEMES Select a tour topic aligned with your students' interests, grade level, and curricular needs.
Story Time (grades PreK and K)
This tour is designed for Grade PreK and K and aligns with Wit & Wisdom Module 2: Once Upon a Farm (Parts of a Story)
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)
This tour is designed for Grades K-5 and aligns with Wit & Wisdom Module Grade 3 Module 4: Artists Make Art
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)
This tour is designed for Grades K-5 and aligns with Wit & Wisdom Modules Kindergarten Module 2: Once Upon a Farm (Parts of a Story) Grade 1 Module 4: Cinderella Stories and Grade 3 Module 4: Artists Make Art
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)
This tour is designed for Grades 3-5 and aligns with the following Wit & Wisdom Modules:
Grade 2 Module 3 : Civil Rights Heroes (Social Studies)
Grade 3 Module 3: A New Home (History)
Grade 4 Module 3: The Redcoats are Coming! (History, understanding all sides of a story)
Grade 5 Module 4: Breaking Barriers (Social Studies)
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)
This tour is designed for Grades 3-5 and aligns with the following Wit & Wisdom Modules:
Grade 3 Module 4: Artists Make Art
Grade 4 Module 3: The Redcoats are Coming!
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)
This tour is designed for Grades 3-5 and aligns with the following Wit & Wisdom Modules:
Grade 3 Module 4: Artists Make Art
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.
Myths, Stories, and Legends
(grades 3-5)
This tour is designed for Grades 3-5 and aligns with the following Wit & Wisdom Modules:
Grade 4 Module 4: Myth Making
Arts: Myths, Storytelling, Theater, human experience
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
