Teacher's Guides
These guides are designed to help you explore different areas of art history using artworks from the Baltimore Museum of Art’s collection and exhibitions. Each guide contains lessons that provide inspiration and helpful strategies to engage you and your students.
Discover the Collection
Discover the African Collection
Investigate the form and meaning of diverse African artworks with vibrant color reproductions, in-depth contextual information and images, and engaging classroom activities.
- Lesson 1 : Faces of Order and Chaos (PDF)
- Lesson 2 : Style and Meaning (PDF)
- Lesson 3 : Exchange in Art and Culture (PDF)
- Lesson 4 : Asserting Identity (PDF)
- Lesson 5 : Art of the Spirit World (PDF)
Download the full African Collection PDF.
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Discover the American Collection
Explore the BMA’s world class collection of American art with rich contextual and biographic information, classroom activities, related standards and curriculum, and gorgeous full-color reproductions of featured artworks.
Recommended for grades 3–5 or 6–8.
- Introduction (PDF)
- Lesson 1: Young America (PDF)
- Lesson 2: Symbols of the New Republic (PDF)
- Lesson 3: Made in Maryland (PDF)
- Lesson 4: Western Perspectives (PDF)
- Lesson 5: Unity in Diversity (PDF)
- Lesson 6: The Art of Technology (PDF)
- Lesson 7: Picturing Memory (PDF)
- Lesson 8: Shaping New Traditions (PDF)
Download the full American Collection PDF.
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