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Home>Learn>Teachers>School Field Trips>American Connections

# American Connections

Grades 4 through 12

**We are no longer accepting requests for winter/spring field trips.**

**We will offer a selection of in-person and virtual field trips (using Zoom) for Fall 2024.**

**Request for fall field trips (September 30 – December 6, 2024) will be accepted from August 1 – November 1, 2024.**

Works of art are primary sources that can illuminate American history and culture. On this field trip, students will look carefully and explore landscapes, portraits, and scenes of everyday life. They will actively engage with works of art through discussion, creative writing, and sketching. This field trip can be tailored to connect with different periods in American history.

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Thomas Moran, *Green River Cliffs, Wyoming*, 1881, oil on canvas, Gift of the Milligan and Thomson Families, 2011.2.1

Looking and Learning Skills

Students will practice these looking and learning skills:
                    - Making and articulating careful observations.
                    - Formulating questions that demonstrate curiosity and engagement.
                    - Comparing and connecting different works of art.
                    - Connecting new ideas learned on this field trip to prior knowledge about American history and culture.
                    - Interpreting works of art as primary sources about American art and society.  

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**In-Person Field Trip Information**

Group Size: Up to 60 studentsLength: 90 minutesMeeting Location: West Building Rotunda

**Virtual Field Trip Information**

Length: 60 minutes

**Important Scheduling Information**

Field Trips must be scheduled at least four weeks in advance. Groups must contain at least 15 students.

Once your field trip has been scheduled, you will receive an email confirmation within ten business days.

**Title I Bus Stipends**

Funding for the cost of bus transportation is available for Title I schools that participate in our docent-led school field trips. For more information, please get in touch with Deirdre Palmer at [email protected] or (202) 842-6880, or use the application form.

## Examples of Works Featured on this Field Trip

Thomas Moran, *Green River Cliffs, Wyoming*, 1881, oil on canvas, Gift of the Milligan and Thomson Families, 2011.2.1

Elizabeth Catlett, Taller de Gráfica Popular, *Untitled (Harriet Tubman)*, 1953, linocut, Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Florian Carr Fund and Gift of the Print Research Foundation, 2008.115.37

Archibald John Motley Jr., *Portrait of My Grandmother*, 1922, oil on canvas, Patrons' Permanent Fund, Avalon Fund, and Motley Fund, 2018.2.1

Winslow Homer, *Home, Sweet Home*, c. 1863, oil on canvas, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 1997.72.1

## Additional National Gallery Resources

Uncovering America

19th-Century American Art

American Art

Classroom Poster
The Shaw 54th Regiment Memorial
The poster offers information and activities to encourage students to consider the perspectives of a famous regiment of African American Civil War soldiers by carefully looking at art images and using creative-writing prompts. It explores the artistic challenges of creating a meaningful memorial and tasks students with conceptualizing their memorials.
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