For Educators
Regardless of what discipline or grade level you teach, discover ways to make cross-curricular connections through the Carter, whether at the museum or in your classroom.
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Distance Learning Classes
The Carter offers a variety of interdisciplinary, pre-recorded distance learning programs that bring the museum to your classroom anytime your schedule permits. Explore the collection with a museum educator sharing information and posing questions related to art, culture, history, language arts, and science. We also offer monthly specials that highlight history months, holidays, and the seasons.
Learn more and register by visiting Connect2Texas and filtering by “Amon Carter Museum of American Art.” If you have questions, contact us by email.
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Investigate ways artists have used scientific observation to represent the world around them. Through close looking, data collection, and hypothesizing, students will describe, identify, and classify creatures and their habitats as depicted by American artists.
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Identify elements of figurative language and flex creative writing muscles while reading and establishing connections between classic poems and American art.
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Discover works of art by artists who immigrated to the United States. Learn about their stories and how the experience of immigrating influenced their art.
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Visit the museum virtually and learn how artists use math, science, and engineering as creative fuel for their process.
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Examine artworks and explore how artists incorporate science, technology, engineering and math concepts and processes into their artwork.
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From opera to modern dance, activate the senses while discovering a range of artists inspired by the culture, beats, melodies, and rhythms of America.
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Learn about the exciting careers of museum professionals, while getting a peek at the inner workings of the Carter. This program is not live. Recording available upon registration.
Educator Resources
Check out our collection online to find images and information about our art. Or see the special educator resources below, including Essential Questions and Suggested Activities for all grade levels.
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Great American Cock Male -VULGO (WILD TURKEY-) Meleagris gallapavo, 1826
John James Audubon
Engraving with applied watercolor
1965.24 -
The Birmingham Project: Mary Parker and Caela Cowan, 2012
Dawoud Bey
Inkjet print
P2015.119.A-B -
Sunrise, Yosemite Valley, ca. 1870
Albert Bierstadt
Oil on canvas
1966.1 -
Chief Garfield - Jicarilla, ca. 1907
Edward S. Curtis
Photogravure
P2009.3.1.2.21 -
Egg Beater No. 2, 1928
Stuart Davis
Oil on canvas
1996.9 -
Self-Portrait, 1919
Stuart Davis
Oil on canvas
1975.29 -
Chimney and Water Tower, 1931
Charles Demuth
Oil on composition board
1995.9 -
Team of Horses, 1911 or 1912
Arthur Dove
Pastel on paper fiberboard mounted to plywood
1984.29 -
The Caves, 1869
Robert Seldon Duncanson
Oil on canvas
2012.8 -
American Indian Symbols, 1914
Marsden Hartley
Oil on canvas
1999.8 -
Flags on the Waldorf, 1916
Childe Hassam
Oil on canvas
1985.301 -
Thunder Storm on Narragansett Bay, 1868
Martin Johnson Heade
Oil on canvas
1977.17 -
Steamfitter, 1921
Lewis Wickes Hine
Gelatin silver print
P1981.80.3 -
Crossing the Pasture, 1871–1872
Winslow Homer
Oil on canvas
1976.37 -
#008 Debra, 2012–2013
Sedrick Huckaby
Lithograph
2015.4.8 -
There are many churches in Harlem. The people are very religious., 1943
Jacob Lawrence
Transparent and opaque watercolor and tempera over graphite on paper
1987.94 -
Indian Hunter, 1914
Paul Manship
Bronze
1997.3.A -
Wrapped Oranges, 1889
William J. McCloskey
Oil on canvas
1985.251 -
Understory Flareups, Fourth of July Creek, Valley Road Wild Fire, Custer County, Idaho, 2005, 2005
Laura McPhee
Dye coupler print
P2006.16 -
Cliffs of Green River, 1874
Thomas Moran
Oil on canvas
1975.28 -
Light Coming on the Plains No. I, 1917
Georgia O'Keeffe
Watercolor on newsprint paper
1966.30 -
Light Coming on the Plains No. II, 1917
Georgia O'Keeffe
Watercolor on newsprint paper
1966.32 -
Light Coming on the Plains No. III, 1917
Georgia O'Keeffe
Watercolor on newsprint paper
1966.31 -
Peaches and Grapes in a Chinese Export Basket, 1813
Raphaelle Peale
Oil on panel
2014.17 -
A Closet Door, 1904–1906
John Frederick Peto
Oil on canvas
1983.158 -
A Dash for the Timber, 1889
Frederic Remington
Oil on canvas
1961.381 -
The Broncho Buster, 1909
Frederic Remington
Bronze
1961.4 -
Coming Through the Rye, 1902
Frederic Remington
Bronze
1961.23 -
The Buffalo Hunt [No. 39], 1919
Charles M. Russell
Oil on canvas
1961.146 -
Conversation - Sky and Earth, 1940
Charles Sheeler
Oil on canvas
2009.7 -
Study for a Monument to Walt Whitman, 1919-1920
John Bradley Storrs
Bronze
2001.1 -
The Freedman, 1863
John Quincy Adams Ward
Bronze
2000.15.A -
Parson Weems' Fable, 1939
Grant Wood
Oil on canvas
1970.43