Online Resources
The Museum is pleased to present Discovering Place, a teacher resource website featuring Winslow Homer's Weatherbeaten (1894) and Frederic Edwin Church's Mount Katahdin from Millinocket Camp (1895). The 29 curriculum units for grades K-12 were written by 41 Maine educators who participated in the Museum's professional development workshops A Place for Art: Summer Institute for Teachers. The Discovering Place units focus on the theme of "a sense of place in art" and demonstrate that devoting significant instructional time to a single work of art can achieve important education standards and curriculum goals while fostering students' appreciation for the arts through deeper personal connections and meaning-making.
Discover a dynamic new teacher resource! Highlighting great works of art from the Portland Museum of Art's collections, Artful Assessment demonstrates how art integrates with a variety of content areas through lesson plans in language arts, science, social studies, and the visual arts. Explore how the arts impact student learning by using a variety of assessment tools and techniques developed by local Maine elementary art specialists and classroom teachers.
Use AccessOnline with your students! AccessOnline is a free interactive Web site featuring five “Interactivities” that introduce students to the 19th-century American art and architecture at the Portland Museum of Art.
Exhibition Teaching Kits
Objects of Wonder: Four Centuries of Still Life from the Norton Museum of Art