https://www.metmuseum.org/
I decided to go for a field trip style of resource, or just to look over the website and look at the featured art that is on the website. This is tying in historical art with your classroom. You could have assignments on finding the history of art pieces and the background of the artist themselves. The ideal use of this would be to have a similar assignment but you get your info from going, which can be expensive to get the students there and pay for students’ entrance.
This is giving you another opportunity to get your students out of the classroom and getting to delve into a different type of history that might interest some students and provide an opportunity to increase the stamina of your students as they will be researching these art pieces based on the plaques and information provided at the art museum. I know personally that as rare as they were, I can remember field trips and things I learned on them more than I can remember anything I did in a classroom and believe that field trips are becoming undervalued. Its one thing to see something on a screen and then to see it in person.
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I think this is a really cool idea for a social studies classroom, especially in a school that might not have the resources to do fieldtrips like these. While it might not be the same experience as an actual visit, just going on the website can spark student interest in art and art history. This would be really cool to do if you taught in NY because the MET has free admission for NY residents and in DC because of all the Smithsonian museums that are also free admission – just incredibly busy. But it would also be great to use their websites when teaching in GA to bring the museum to them. (word count: 112)
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