Teacher Resources
Mia Teacher Resources include a wide range of materials for K–12 educators and learners. Curriculum materials provide lessons and content that support Minnesota standards. Activities and scavenger hunts engage learners of all ages with Mia’s collection. You can also connect with the collection through mini-podcast audio stops about many favorite artworks.
These resources can also support learning at home. Many of the resources include high-resolution images with discussion questions and/or activities that connect to a wide range of topics and encourage close looking and critical thinking.
The content presented in these learning resources represents one way of talking about each artwork. Throughout these resources, prompts for close looking and open-ended questions invite learners to bring their own life experiences to their interpretation of the art.
NEW! Teachers Guide
Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room: The Alice S. Kandell Collection
Teacher Workshops
Featured Learning Resources
Reimagining Native/American Art
Use this guide to facilitate conversations in your classroom or between chaperones and students on self-guided visits.
Arts of Asia
Whether you’re teaching in a new virtual environment or from your classroom, we’ve got you covered with resources designed to support the integration of Asian art and voices into your curriculum. Three primary units invite you to interact with Mia’s collection and community voices through critical thinking, making, and storytelling. Watch an intro to the curriculum here.
More Online Learning Resources
Explore Mia’s collection and learn more with our interactive learning resources.
Past Exhibition Guides
In the Presence of Our Ancestors: Southern Perspectives in African American Art
“In the Presence of Our Ancestors: Southern Perspectives in African American Art” brings together methods of visual storytelling and ancestral memory through the individual practices of artists from the “Black Belt” region of the American South—a term that refers to the region’s black soil, as well as the legacies of African Americans who shaped its social and agrarian culture.
Botticelli and Renaissance Florence: Masterworks from the Uffizi
Botticelli and Renaissance Florence: Masterworks from the Uffizi features paintings and drawings by Sandro Botticelli and his colleagues with the ancient sculptures that inspired them. Use this guide to facilitate conversations in your classroom before a museum tour or between chaperones and students on self-guided visits.
Self-Guided Resources
Activities for Self-Guided Visits
Connect your students with Mia’s collection and learn more about art through worksheets and self-guided tours.
Teaching the Arts
Artwork in Focus and Five Ideas
Explore artworks from around the world and across time with Teaching the Arts features. Take a deep dive into individual artworks with Artwork in Focus or make connections between artworks organized around a theme with Five Ideas.
All Teaching the Arts resources include connections to other artworks and suggested classroom activities. Many of these activities can also be done at home!
Learning Resources
Think Globally, Act Locally
Whether in Mia’s galleries or via a slideshow at school, students will discuss local, national, and global issues prompted by artworks from Mia’s collection.
Native Art, Native Voices: A Resource for K-12 Learners
An integration of Native voices and art into your curriculum. Native Art, Native Voices includes information about Native cultures, both past and present, and supports Minnesota state standards for visual arts and social studies/U.S. history.
Arts of Africa: A Learning Resource for K-5 Educators and Students
This learning resource provides six lessons with activities designed to integrate the diverse arts of Africa into your classroom.
STEAM Lessons for Secondary Teachers and Students
These experimental STEAM lessons incorporate artworks from Mia’s collection into original lessons that can be taught in your classroom or Mia’s galleries. Where relevant, the lessons include Minnesota academic standards and the benchmarks they support.
Mexican Prints
This provides a close-up look at 14 prints from Mia’s collection. This resource is designed to be relevant to visual arts, social studies, English language arts, Spanish language, and interdisciplinary lessons for students in grades 6 to 12.
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Audio Stops
Listen and Learn
Audio stops are mini-podcasts that present many of Mia’s highlights and favorite artworks.