Podcast Learning Activities

All of the following videos are available as Quicktime Videos. You can view them online, through your browser, download them to view later either on your computer, or on a portable device like an iPod.
PDFs are provided for each set of activities.

Ice Breakers!, Activity #1: Using Currier & Ives to Teach History
Run Time 7:59

Ice Breakers!, Activity #2: Using Currier & Ives to Understand Current Events
Run Time 5:38
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Eyewitness Account
Run Time 6:38
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Symbols of Liberty
Run Time 9:55
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Basic VTS at a Glance
Run Time 7:00
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Understanding the Visual Arts in Relation to History & Cultures, Activity #1:
Introduction to the Evolution of Printing
Run Time 9:50

Understanding the Visual Arts in Relation to History & Cultures, Activity #2:
Lithography Demonstration
Run Time 3:04

Understanding the Visual Arts in Relation to History & Cultures, Activity #3:
Visual Literacy Training with Currier & Ives
Run Time 12:44
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Women’s Rights in Currier & Ives, Activity #1: Print Analysis
Run Time 3:21

Women’s Rights in Currier & Ives, Activity #2: Understanding Women and Reform
Run Time 16:14
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Lesson Plans

All lesson plans are in pdf format.

"Using The Lithographs Of Currier And Ives To Define And Reflect The Development Of An American Identity; A Visual Inquiry"
Submitted by: Sandra G. Burns, Bay Path College

"Cultural Analysis in American Literature Using the Lithographs of Currier & Ives"
Submitted by: Dr. John Jarvis, Bay Path College

"United States History to 1870: Analyzing Lithographs from the Currier and Ives Collection"
Submitted by: Robert Surbrug, Bay Path College

American Country Life. May Morning, 1855
' Hand-colored lithograph by
Nathaniel Currier (1813-1888)
Gift of Lenore B. and Sidney A. Alpert supplemented with Museum of Fine Arts Collections Funds
2004.D03.509

 

 

 

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