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Art & Activity: Interactive Strategies for Engaging with Art

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What you'll learn

  • Build activities that accommodate diverse learning styles—incorporating writing, movement, and making to ensure art is accessible to all.

  • Learn how to facilitate prompts that empower students to make their own choices, transforming them into active participants in the learning process.

  • Connect academic standards to creative, student-centered projects that satisfy curriculum requirements while sparking genuine inspiration.

  • Practice the qualities, formats, and instruction techniques that facilitate collective meaning making from a student’s perspective.

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This course is part of the Teaching with Art: Using Inquiry, Activities, and Themes Specialization
When you enroll in this course, you'll also be enrolled in this Specialization.
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There are 4 modules in this course

The most transformative learning experiences happen when students move from passive observers to active creators. This course offers techniques for activity-based teaching, a methodology that uses hands-on engagement and multimodal prompts to make modern and contemporary art resonate with your students. By adopting the strategies used by leaders in the field of museum education, you will learn how to turn your classroom into a dynamic studio where students think through making art. You will also gain fluency in designing activities that bridge the gap between works of art and the lived experiences of your students. Finally, you will learn to facilitate learning environments where students use art as a vehicle to express their own voices and identities.

Career Application: Whether you are a new teacher building your first lesson plans or a seasoned professional looking to reinvigorate your curriculum, this course provides a toolkit of creative prompts that foster close looking, and critical thinking.

Welcome to Art & Activity! Art can be a powerful catalyst for building skills and understanding across a wide range of subjects. In this module, we'll lay some of the groundwork that will prepare you for the rest of the course.

What's included

5 videos9 readings1 assignment

5 videos•Total 22 minutes
  • Welcome to Art & Activity•4 minutes
  • Why Activities?•3 minutes
  • Philosophy Behind Active Learning•6 minutes
  • Skills and Benefits of Activity-Based Learning•3 minutes
  • Designing Engaging Activities•7 minutes
9 readings•Total 110 minutes
  • Welcome to the Course!•10 minutes
  • Art, Activities & Social Emotional Learning•10 minutes
  • Lesson: Art that Makes You Think•10 minutes
  • Lesson: Play with Design •10 minutes
  • Review of Module 1•10 minutes
  • Optional Readings & Additional Resources•30 minutes
  • Tips for Teaching Students with Disabilities•10 minutes
  • Optional Prompts for Discussion & Reflection•10 minutes
  • Are you a New York State educator?•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
  • Introduction to Activities •30 minutes

In this module, we’re moving from theory to practice with videos that discuss drawing, sound, movement, writing, and game-based activities for building skills in analysis and reflection. Through demonstrations, descriptions, and lesson ideas, you'll discover some of the ways that activities empower students to look closely and think deeply about works of art, while also making personal connections to their own lives.

What's included

9 videos11 readings1 assignment

9 videos•Total 43 minutes
  • Drawing Activities for Analyzing and Reflecting•5 minutes
  • Take Action: Blind Contour•5 minutes
  • Sound & Movement Activities for Analyzing and Reflecting•4 minutes
  • Take Action: DJ the Artwork•4 minutes
  • Take Action: Draw What You Hear•2 minutes
  • Games and Play-Based Activities•9 minutes
  • Take Action: Create an Exquisite Corpse•2 minutes
  • Writing & Discussion-Based Activities for Analyzing and Reflecting•5 minutes
  • Take Action: Expressive Poetry•7 minutes
11 readings•Total 125 minutes
  • Welcome to Module 2•10 minutes
  • Lesson: Observational Drawing•10 minutes
  • Lesson: Strike a Pose•10 minutes
  • Lesson: Material Bingo•10 minutes
  • Lesson: Playing with Everyday Objects•10 minutes
  • Lesson: A to Z Poem•10 minutes
  • Review of Module 2•10 minutes
  • Optional Readings & Additional Resources•30 minutes
  • Optional Prompts for Discussion & Reflection•10 minutes
  • Mid-course survey•5 minutes
  • Reminder: CTLE for New York State educators•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
  • Activities for Analyzing and Reflecting•30 minutes

In Module 3, you'll discover lessons and activities that appeal to various types of learners and nurture your students' creativity, imagination, and empathy. We will continue moving from theory to practice with videos and readings that discuss drawing, sound, movement, writing, discussion, and design thinking activities.

What's included

8 videos8 readings1 assignment

8 videos•Total 39 minutes
  • Drawing Activities for Creating, Imagining & Connecting•5 minutes
  • Take Action: Draw with Words•2 minutes
  • Writing & Discussion-Based Activities for Creating, Imagining & Connecting•10 minutes
  • Take Action: Postcard Home•7 minutes
  • Sound & Movement Activities for Creating, Imagining & Connecting•5 minutes
  • Take Action: Activate Your Sense of Sound•2 minutes
  • Design Thinking Activities•5 minutes
  • Take Action: Chair for an Astronaut•4 minutes
8 readings•Total 100 minutes
  • Welcome to Module 3•10 minutes
  • Lesson: Illustrate Events from your Life•10 minutes
  • Lesson: Write a Daily Message•10 minutes
  • Lesson: Make Some Noise!•10 minutes
  • Lesson: Design a Tool•10 minutes
  • Review of Module 3•10 minutes
  • Optional Readings & Additional Resources•30 minutes
  • Optional Prompts for Discussion & Reflection•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
  • Activities for Creating, Imagining & Connecting•30 minutes

In this module, you’ll shift focus from activities to assessments. The two videos address self-assessment for you as the facilitator and assessing student work. Additionally, you’ll gain access to resources you can consult and adapt for your assessments.

What's included

2 videos12 readings1 assignment

2 videos•Total 11 minutes
  • Assessment Strategies for Teachers•4 minutes
  • Assessing Student Work/Farewell•7 minutes
12 readings•Total 140 minutes
  • Welcome to Module 4•10 minutes
  • SEL Resources for Assessment & Reflection •10 minutes
  • Review of Module 4•10 minutes
  • Optional Readings & Additional Resources•30 minutes
  • Optional Prompts for Discussion & Reflection•10 minutes
  • End-of-course survey•10 minutes
  • CTLE for New York State educators•10 minutes
  • MoMA Resources•10 minutes
  • Tips for Teaching Students with Disabilities•10 minutes
  • Activity Sheets from Art & Activities Newsletters•10 minutes
  • Recordings of Virtual Sessions•10 minutes
  • Tips for Teaching Remotely•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
  • Final Project: Design an Activity-Based Lesson•30 minutes

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Reviewed on Feb 3, 2018

This course is very useful and inspiring! There are interesting ready-made ideas of activities and mainly good descriptions of its principles of creation in this course. Highly recommend!

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Reviewed on Feb 2, 2016

This course has proven very useful and relevant in helping me to develop new and exciting activities for my English as a Second Language Class.

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Reviewed on Dec 25, 2015

I learnt a lot from this course and I can apply it my classes forward going. It's a good introduction to being an art educator especially for me as I am not trained in the art area.

Frequently asked questions

This course has been designed for primary and secondary teachers of all subjects, but we encourage anyone interested in teaching with art to enroll. No prior knowledge of art history is required.

You will develop an understanding of the benefits of using activities in inquiry-based teaching while also learning techniques for integrating art across your curriculum.

Coursera currently provides certificates of completion.

MoMA offers New York State teachers Continuing Teacher and Leader Education (CTLE) credit for individual courses and for the three-course specialization developed for K-12 educators. More information about CTLE in New York State is included in the courses. MoMA does not offer any other accreditations at this time. 

Inquiry-based and activity-based teaching directly builds required critical thinking, textual/visual evidence-gathering, and literacy skills.

The multimodal activities featured in this course can be scaled down for primary school students or up for high schoolers and the course’s educators provide tips for scaling your lesson plans. 

Yes! This course’s final project is designed to leave you with a lesson plan you can immediately bring into your classroom and add to your teaching portfolio.

Yes! There are downloadable materials, including lesson plans and activities, in this course.

This course provides instruction for facilitating inquiry, rather than lecturing on art history.

The Museum of Modern Art’s educators possess expertise in creating and facilitating active lesson plans that use art, inquiry, and activities as a catalyst for student-centered discovery. Across the three courses in the Teaching with Art Specialization they’ll share techniques that will transform your teaching practice using active, object-based learning and provide an alternative to the traditional teacher-as-lecturer model.

To access the course materials, assignments and to earn a Certificate, you will need to purchase the Certificate experience when you enroll in a course. You can try a Free Trial instead, or apply for Financial Aid. The course may offer 'Full Course, No Certificate' instead. This option lets you see all course materials, submit required assessments, and get a final grade. This also means that you will not be able to purchase a Certificate experience.

When you enroll in the course, you get access to all of the courses in the Specialization, and you earn a certificate when you complete the work. Your electronic Certificate will be added to your Accomplishments page - from there, you can print your Certificate or add it to your LinkedIn profile.

Yes. In select learning programs, you can apply for financial aid or a scholarship if you can’t afford the enrollment fee. If fin aid or scholarship is available for your learning program selection, you’ll find a link to apply on the description page.

Financial aid available,