Teachers & Educators

Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum Curriculum

This multi-sensory K-12 curriculum engages students in applying concepts in mathematics, writing, technology, acting, communication, among others. Teachers facilitate discussions and provide students with activities that will personally connect them to art and their museum experience while supporting their academic growth.

Public Sculpture Webquest

This Webquest curriculum was developed with a grant from Applied Materials to create student-centered, project-based learning that works across disciplines. It is intended as a starting point for students to discover the value of art in public places. Through this process they will be challenged to evaluate art in public places and within their neighborhood. The Webquest takes them through the process of creating a PowerPoint proposal and scale model for the construction of a public artwork at their school. Information and additional resources for teachers in connection to the Webquest can be found in the Teacher Resource section.

Tours To Go

Touch boxes, slide shows & questionnaires are available for before and after visit lessons for elementary, middle and high schools. Touch boxes contain sculptors' tools, samples of marble, bronze, wax and photos of the "lost wax" method of casting bronze. Slide shows introducing the language of sculpture and illustrating these with specific Umlauf sculptures can be used to prepare students in class for their visit to the museum. Slide shows are available for different grade levels, K-12 on CDs and in traditional slide format.

Gallery Greats

Large prints of Charles Umlauf's sculptures can be ordered at cost for use in elementary art appreciation programs. Biographical and technical information and photos accompany each print.

Bronze Sculpting Video

A 50 minute DVD showing how Charles Umlauf used the "lost wax" process to cast his bronze sculptures can be borrowed for use at schools ($25 returnable deposit required) or can be viewed at the museum. For middle and high schools.

Treasure Hunt

Children hunt in the garden & museum for the sculptures depicted on their "Sculpture Safari", and/or solve a word search game about sculpture. After locating and identifying the sculptures on the safari they win a prize. For K-Grade 4.

Sculpture Safari

Sculpture Safari for middle schoolers! Students will go on a sculptural discovery while learning more about the visual and verbal language of sculpture through higher order thinking questions.