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: The Picturing America tour arises out of a National Endowment for the Humanities program of the same name. It uses art as a catalyst to study the “cultural, political, and historical threads woven into our nation’s fabric over time.” (http://picturingamerica.neh.gov)
Concepts: Social Studies (Use geographic representations to acquire, process, and report information; understand how human activities shape the Earth’s surface) and Art (Making connections between visual arts and other disciplines).
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.