Educator Resources

ArtNC

The Museum supports educators year-round with online resources, lesson plans, and permanent-collection overviews. Visit ArtNC to explore educational resources and programs; materials can be searched by subject, grade level, and geographic region.

Loan Resources

Free loan resources can keep the Museum's rich offerings in your lesson plans and students' imaginations. Available at no cost, the kits are shipped postage paid for a three-week loan period. To arrange a loan, e-mail us or call (919) 664-6820.

Art Detective Discovery Kit
Available Spring 2011
Grades 3–4

Art Detective is born of research that suggests learners build their own understanding through an active and personal process. Students learn how to use their eyes and think critically about what they see while training to be "art detectives" in this fun and interactive classroom experience.

Rainstorm Brainstorm: A Classroom Kit
Grades 5–8

Students design an original solution to a genuine need that can be identified in any community. Their process involves teamwork to improve water quality by designing a pond as a work of land art. Turn your students' creativity loose in solving a practical problem. Critical and creative thinking skills involve art, science, language arts, and other disciplines.

Online Collection

The Museum’s permanent collection is online. Every work of art, from old favorites to new acquisitions, from paintings to sculpture, is accessible right at your fingertips—even works never on view. A great resource for teachers of all disciplines, the online collection brings the North Carolina Museum of Art right to your classroom.

Art of Collaboration

With help from the Museum, middle school teachers in counties across North Carolina are using the visual arts to engage their students in learning about math, science, social studies, and language arts.

The Art of Collaboration gives middle school teachers the opportunity to:

• Communicate across disciplines.
• Collaborate as peers.
• Integrate the visual arts.
• Motivate students to learn and demonstrate achievement in new and creative ways.

E-mail us to learn more about Art of Collaboration.