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Learning Resource Guides
FALL 2020 – SUMMER 2021
Make the museum come alive in your classroom! These learning guides will help you bring Indiana art, science and history right to your students. Learning Resource Guides include lesson plans, activities, online resources and a book list. Each guide fulfills select Indiana Academic Standards.
GRADES 3 – 4
COVERED WAGON Pack your wagon for a journey you won’t forget! Discover what life was like for pioneers who moved to Indiana.
GRADES 3 – 5
INDIANA’S NATIVE AMERICANS Discover how Indiana’s earliest people survived and thrived using their resources.
GRADES 3 – 8
FOLK ART: INDIANA STORIES AND TRADITIONS Unlock artistic traditions of the past. Discover various types of art and why these traditions continue today.
THE HOOSIER GROUP Discover what it means to be a Hoosier artist.
INDIANA QUILTS: A COLORFUL TRADITION Discover Indiana’s rich and colorful artistic tradition of quilt making.
PAINTERS OF INDIANA Explore the art created by Indiana painters over the past two centuries that serve as visual aids for hands-on, thought-provoking activities. GRADES 4 – 6
INDIANA IN LINCOLN’S TIME Explore what life was like for young Abraham Lincoln when he spent his childhood years in Indiana.
GRADES 4 – 8
INDIANA’S ICE AGE ANIMALS Perform hands-on paleontological work as you analyze the contents of a woodrat’s nest, compare the teeth of mastodons and mammoths and see how they measure up to Ice Age animals.
INDIANA AND THE CIVIL WAR What was life like during the Civil War?
GRADES 6 – 12
PRINTMAKING Enrich your understanding of art by illustrating the beauty of prints.