Creative Explorers
Description
Students, teachers, and chaperones explore the museum’s culturally diverse collection and discover the imaginative ways artists use materials. Storytelling, artmaking, movement, and tactile activities inspire students to experience art in a new way and support relevant connections to the classroom.
“We LOVED IT!!!!!!!! The museum guides were stellar to say the least, the content very appropriate, and the timing was perfect .The kids seemed very engaged and I can't wait to recap their experience with them and see how to expand on it in the classroom.” – L. Wilhelm, Pre-K teacher
Breakdown of standards:
21st Century Skills Addressed:
• Critical Thinking and Reasoning
• Collaboration
• Self-Direction
• Invention
2009 Colorado Academic Standards Addressed:
• Visual Arts - Observe and Learn to Comprehend; Envision and Critique to Reflect; Invent and Discover to Create; & Relate and Connect to Transfer
• Mathematics - Shape, Dimension, and Geometric Relationships
• Reading, Writing, and Communicating - Oral Expression and Listening; & Research and Reasoning
• Music - Aesthetic Valuation of Music
• Dance - Historical and Cultural Context; & Reflect, Connect, and Respond
Offered At
Denver Art Museum
Since its founding in 1893, the Denver Art Museum (DAM) has amassed more than 70,000 works of art, one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of world art between Chicago and the West Coast. Internationally known for its holdings of American Indian art, the museum has also assembled an extensive group of pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial art objects now considered one of the finest collections in the world. Other areas of concentration are European and American painting and sculpture, architecture, design and graphics, modern and contemporary, Asian, African, Oceanic, photography, western American and textile art and fashion.
The Denver Art Museum has been a leader in educational programming for more than two decades. The family-friendly approach is fully integrated into the galleries through a unique partnership between curators, designers, and educators for each discipline. A trailblazer in creating innovative opportunities that encourage visitors to interact with the collection, the museum is also known internationally for the way we help our visitors explore art and their own creativity.
Details
Subjects
Counting, Geometry, Patterns, Arts, Art, Speaking & Listening
Capacity
80 students, Max 24 chap.
Duration
60 min.
Activity
Field Trip
Grades
Preschool
Price Options
$0.00 per Person for Free