DAM Highlights for High School
Description
Explore the DAM’s distinctive architecture and culturally diverse art collection. Throughout the tour, students discover artists’ creativity over time and across cultures, making comparisons and connecting with human stories through art.
Breakdown of standards:
21st Century Skills Addressed:
• Critical Thinking and Reasoning
• Information Literacy
• Collaboration
• Self-Direction
2009 Colorado Academic Standards Addressed:
• Visual Arts - Observe and Learn to Comprehend; Envision and Critique to Reflect; & Relate and Connect to Transfer
• Reading, Writing, and Communicating - Oral Expression and Listening; Reading for All Purposes; & Research and Reasoning
• Social Studies: History - Evaluate and analyze sources using historical method of inquiry and defend their conclusions; Analyze the concepts of continuity and change and effect; Analyze the concept of complexity, unity and diversity; Understand the concept that the power of ideas is significant throughout history; Become familiar with United States historical eras, groups, individuals, and themes; Become familiar with Eastern Hemisphere historical eras, groups, individuals, and themes; Become familiar with Western Hemisphere historical eras, groups, individuals, and themes
• Social Studies: Geography - Use geographic tools to research, gather data and ask questions about geography; Understand geographic variables and how they affect people; Become familiar with world geography
• Science: Physical Science - Students know and understand common properties, forms, and changes in matter and energy Mathematics - Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability; & Shape, Dimension, and Geometric Relationships
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
History, Arts, Art, Speaking & Listening, Primary Sources, Research
Capacity
80 students, Max 24 chap.
Duration
60 min.
Activity
Field Trip
Grades
6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Price Options
$0.00 per Person for Free