2007-2008 SCHOOL PROGRAMMING

First Look
This introductory tour of the High’s permanent collection focuses on the fundamental elements of art —line, color, light, and composition—as the basic building blocks of visual expression. After the tour, students will make connections between what they have seen and art making in special age-appropriate, hands-on studio activities.

Grades: K–5
Program Type: Docent-led tour
Program Costs: $6 per student; free for required chaperones/additional chaperones pay general museum admission fee*
Audience Limits: 48 students per morning
Duration: Variable
Requirements: 1(adult chaperone):10 (students)

Highlights
Highlights tours offer students an overview of the High’s permanent collection through an engaging tour that compares and contrasts selected objects. Students will use questions, observations and discussion to discover meaning in works of art spanning the fourteenth to twenty-first centuries.

Grades: K–12
Program Type: Docent-led tour
Program Costs: $6 per student; free for required chaperones/additional chaperones pay general museum admission fee*
Audience Limits: 48 students per morning
Duration: Variable
Requirements: 1(adult chaperone):10 (students)

I See Literacy
The I See Literacy tour offers fourth grade educators and students an innovative, cross-disciplinary approach to mastering literacy skills using works of art. The tour reinforces skills in constructing meaning through literacy—reading, writing, listening, speaking and viewing. Curriculum-based classroom materials prepare students for their museum visit with language arts lessons and hands-on visual art activities. They also include post-tour lessons that allow the field trip to serve as a springboard for stories, bookmaking and much more. Visit www.High.org/Literacy for images, pre-tour lessons and PowerPoint presentation, and post-tour lessons.

Grades: 4
Program Type: Docent-led tour
Program Costs: $6 per student; free for required chaperones/additional chaperones pay general museum admission fee*
Audience Limits: 120 students
Teacher/Classroom Materials: Curriculum-based classroom materials with language arts lessons, hands-on visual art activities, and pre- and post-tour lessons
Duration: Variable
Requirements: 1(adult chaperone):10 (students)

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Funding for Woodruff 's Education Initiative was generously provided by The Goizueta Foundation, Robert W. Woodruff Foundation, Inc., The Kendeda Fund & an Anonymous Donor.

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