These tours are designed to connect students with age-appropriate content and skill development. They link Michigan educational standards with the University of Michigan Museum of Art's permanent collection and offer a variety of subjects including: science, language arts, social studies, math, and writing.
Description: Science Sleuths pairs art with the scientific method and asks students to generate questions, hypothesize, and conduct research to investigate answers about art’s mysteries.
Concepts: Science (Evaluate data, claims, and personal knowledge through collaborative science discourse; Draw conclusions from sets of data) and Art (Demonstrate how history, culture, and the visual arts interrelate in making and studying works of art)
Images: The featured images are possibilities that you may encounter in this tour. Because of variables such as availability and time, you may not see these exact art works.