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Pretty Big Things
American Perspectives
Other Curriculum Guides

The Museum has developed classroom lesson plans that will not only help students to be better prepared for their Museum visit but also help them to personalize their understanding of the objects and artifacts on view throughout the exhibitions.

 

Curriculum guides are designed to help teachers advance their classroom objectives and provide: 

  • pre-visit classroom lesson plans
  • activities to do while touring the exhibitions at the Museum
  • post-visit classroom lesson plans that reinforce the learning experiences. 

All of the lesson plans extend the students' Museum visit into the classroom and all the lesson plans are tied to Core Curriculum Content Standards in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware, which is a great way to provide tangible justification for your Museum field trip. 
Pretty Big Things:
Stories of New Jersey History

Bring the Museum's exhibition Pretty Big Things: Stories of New Jersey History to life in your classroom!  The Museum has developed classroom lesson plans that will not only help students to be better prepared for their Museum visit but also help them to personalize their understanding of New Jersey history. 

 

These lesson plans will not only help students to be better prepared for their Museum visit but also help them to personalize their understanding of the objects and artifacts on view in the new exhibition, Pretty Big Things: Stories of New Jersey History.

 

To access the curriculum materials please click here.

 

Click on the exhibition logo for: Pretty Big Things: Stories of New Jersey History to access the curriculum. 

 

If you have questions about any of our curriculum materials, please contact the Museum's Education office at (609) 292-6310.

American Perspectives:
The Fine Art Collection 

NEW CURRICULUM ~ this multi-disciplinary curriculum was designed specifically with non-art teachers in mind and to inspire collaborations between different areas of study.  Lesson plans help students to develop important skills such as: written, verbal and visual communication skills, creative thinking, problem solving, and more! English, history, math, art, and science teachers can work together to explore a variety of lesson plans.

 

These lesson plans will not only help students to be better prepared for their Museum visit but also help them to personalize their understanding of the art on view in the new exhibition, American Perspectives: The Fine Art Collection.

 

To access the curriculum materials please click here.

 

Click on the exhibition logo for: American Perspectives: The Fine Art Collection to access the curriculum. 

 

If you have questions about any of our curriculum materials, please contact the Museum's Education office at (609) 292-6310.

Other Curriculum Guides 

Enrich your classroom experience with a variety of useful tools, ideas, and lesson plans!

 

Even though the following exhibitions are no longer on view within the Museum, the in-class lessons are useful tools for teaching climate change, world cultures, New Jersey archaeology. 

 

Additional curriculum guides can be accessed at the following link:

 

Click here

 

Please click on the exhibition logo for: 

 

  • Rising Tide: Climate Change and New Jersey
  • Cultures in Context: A Tapestry of Expression (world cultures)
  • Statesmen, Indians, Soldiers, Missionaries, and Travelers: The Development of an Ethnographic Collection along with In Someone Else's Shoes

 

If you have questions about any of our curriculum materials, please contact the Museum's Education office at (609) 292-6310.