Thank you for listing the Albany Institute of History & Art's Videoconferencing lessons on your website. We would like to update our information for the 2007 - 08 school year. Here is our updated information:
The Albany Institute's Virtual Field Trips are exciting real-time interactive programs. New York State Certified Teachers use objects, images and inquiry-based teaching methods to engage students in lessons that focus on art and history. Students are active participants in the lesson; they observe, analyze and express their ideas about objects and images presented.
Virtual Field trips are intended for individual classes or groups of 30 students or fewer. In addition to a main camera, a special "document camera" allows for close inspection of individual objects. Each lesson is approximately 60 minutes and was co-written with K-12 teachers, and corresponds with New York State and National Standards.
Scheduling a Virtual Field Trip
Reservations are required at least two weeks in advance for all Virtual Field Trips and Virtual Teacher Workshops. Please contact Tracy Grosner at 518.463.4478, ext. 405 or grosnert@albanyinstitute.org to schedule your lesson. Additional Teacher Materials for each Virtual Lesson can be found on our website,
http://www.albanyinstitute.org/, under "Education."
Availability
Monday through Friday, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm (EST)
Fees
Virtual Field Trips are $125.00 each and an hour Virtual Teacher Workshops is $100 .00. Each school is responsible to pay for connection fees for the videoconferencing call.
Discounts are available for bulk purchashing of lessons.
Recording & Distribution
Recording of programs is prohibited.
Technology Required
We can connect via IP, at speeds up to 384K or ISDN at speeds up to 128K. Please contact your district's technology coordinator for further information.
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The Serious and the Smirk
Recommended: grades 3 -8
In this inquiry-based lesson, students are asked, "What can we learn from a portrait?" Using the Albany Institute's collection and digital imaging technology, students will identify, analyze, and connect visual clues, symbols, and metaphors to history and material culture.
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Ancient Egypt Part I: Art & Culture
Recommended: grades 3 - 8
The Albany Institute's collection of art and artifacts from ancient Egypt and its three mummies provide students with an opportunity to learn about ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs and symbols; funerary objects and religious practices; and the culture and customs of daily life.
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Traders & Culture: Colonial Life in America
Recommended: grades 3 - 8
The lives of people who settled in the Hudson Valley in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries and the Native Americans who lived alongside them are illuminated for students through the exploration of the Albany Institute's collection of paintings, account books, furniture, ceramics, maps, metal ware, documents, tools, and more. Analyzing images of the area from different moments in time, students see visual evidence of the region's development and discuss key themes such as the fur trade, agriculture and commerce.
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Art, Artists and Nature: The Hudson River School
Recommended: grades 4 - 12
The landscape paintings created by the 19th century artists known as the Hudson River School celebrate the majestic beauty of the American wilderness. Students will learn about the elements of art, early 19th century American culture, the creative process, environmental concerns and the connections to the birth of American literature. Through viewing paintings and drawings by artists such as Thomas Cole and Frederic Church, students learn how these artists expressed their ideas and feelings in paintings, while also reflecting prevailing ideas about Americans' relationship to the rapidly transforming natural environment.
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Struggle for the Vote: New York Women
Recommended: grades 9 -12
Focusing on Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Burns and the life of Albany artist and activist, Alice Morgan Wright, students will explore the difficult path women forged to earn the right to vote. Objects, images and documents from the Albany Institute's collection will illuminate this story of struggle and persistence.
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The Civil War
Recommended: grades 8 -12
Using primary sources, images and objects from the Albany Institute's collection, students will be introduced to a major conflict in American History, the Civil War. This lesson focuses on how the Civil War affected daily life in America, including the art, material culture, and political atmosphere of our country.
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The Rise of Modern America
Recommended: grades 8-12
Photographs, objects, works of art and other primary sources from the late 19th century will provide students with connections to this fascinating time period in American History. This lesson focuses on American art and culture, the reconstruction of the South, manufacturing, transportation, expansion, urbanization and society from the 1870s to the early 20th century.
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Virtual Teacher Workshops
This program demonstrates the possibilities of integrating lessons via videoconferences into classroom curricula. A New York State Certified Teacher briefly reviews the content of the lessons described above and introduces teachers to this exciting new
way to connect with the art, artifacts and library resources of the Albany Institute.
Tracy Grosner
School and Teacher Program Coordinator
Albany Institute of History & Art
125 Washington Avenue
Albany, NY 12210
518.463.4478, ext. 405
grosnert@albanyinstitute.orghttp://www.albanyinstitute.org/
