Resources for Teachers

Explore resources for educators created during our Teaching with Primary Sources workshops.

A man points to a video screen in a classroom with students seated in the foreground.
Nathan Rees teaching a contemporary art survey course at the University of West Georgia

 

The Smithsonian Learning Lab is an online platform by and for educators, making Smithsonian content freely available in formats easily adaptable to classrooms everywhere. Gathered here are learning lab modules made especially for Teaching with Primary Sources by past workshop participants.  These are open and available for others to use.

Gathered here are syllabi created by the 2022 cohort of workshop participants. These are open and available for others to use.

Presentations and Writings About the Program

If you are interested in learning more about the experiences and learning outcomes of past program participants, explore the presentations, blog posts, and essays gathered here.

Annie Ronan, “Curated Chronologies: Changing the History of American Art one Timeline at a Time,” presentation to the Kress Fellows, October 14, 2022.

Liza Kirwin, “Teaching with Primary Sources,” introduction to In the Round, Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art 5, no. 2 (Fall 2019).

“In Conversation: Teaching with Primary Sources,” Archives of American Art Journal 2022 61:2, 70-85.

This series, prompted by the Archives of American Art's Teaching with Primary Sources workshops in 2021, was supported with funding from the Dedalus Foundation.

Michaela Rife, “Teaching with Primary Sources: Chiura Obata’s American Landscape Art,” March 8, 2022.

Nathan Rees, “Teaching with Primary Sources: Connecting Students and Contemporary Artists,” March 15, 2022.

Elizabeth Hamilton, “Teaching with Primary Sources: Benny Andrews Inspires,” March 22, 2022.

Odette England, “Teaching with Primary Sources: Playing with Failure,” March 29, 2022.