Imagination Games and Skills
Description
The DAM’s global art collection provides a visually stimulating environment with the power to spark creative thinking and hone observation skills. Participatory games, collaborative activities, and prompts for inquiry lead students through a fun exploration of color, material, imagination, and story to see art in a new way. All activities can be easily brought back to the classroom to continue students’ close looking and collaboration.
Breakdown of standards:
21st Century Skills Addressed:
• Critical Thinking and Reasoning
• Information Literacy
• Collaboration
• Self-Direction
• Invention
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
• 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
Patterns, Arts, Reading, Speaking & Listening, Writing, Research
Capacity
80 students, Max 24 chap.
Duration
60 min.
Activity
Field Trip
Grades
K, 1, 2
Price Options
$0.00 per Person for Free