Online Teaching Resources
Take your students to nineteenth-century Texas, Antarctica, the American West, and more without leaving your classroom! Visit the Carter’s online teaching resources for images, information on artworks and artists, discussion questions, and classroom activities for all grade levels tied to state and national standards.
“The online activities provide opportunities for comprehension, application, and analysis based on the careful study of artworks. It’s great that students can view these images both at the museum and on their computers.”
—Fort Worth ISD elementary art teacher
Eliot Porter: The Color of Wildness
Featuring the photographs of artist Eliot Porter, this site connects to language arts, natural science, environmentalism, and art and contains activities for students to explore their own environment.
Encountering Texas: 1846–1856
This site highlights drawings and watercolors by three artists who provided an invaluable record of the vast region that was in the process of becoming the state of Texas.
Erwin E. Smith: Teaching Guide
This resource features the photographs of cowboy photographer Erwin E. Smith and offers an in-depth look at the real lives of those who worked cattle on the range.
Inspiring Visions: Artists' Views of the American West
Learn about artists, artworks, and interdisciplinary classroom activities at this site highlighting nineteenth- and twentieth-century paintings, sculpture, and photographs of the American West.
Texas Bird's-Eye Views
Zoom in to the past and see incredible details in early maps of nineteenth-century Texas cities. Discover with only a few clicks how cities have changed over time, and compare a city’s growth with others from the same year.
Art Walking in the Cultural District
This self-guided tour of public art in Fort Worth’s Cultural District provides questions to encourage discussion on such themes as leadership, abstract sculpture, Fort Worth history, women, strenth, and motion. See works by Deborah Butterfield, Henry Moore, Isamu Noguchi, Richard Serra, and others.