- Project Type: Professional Project with TOSEE ART EDUCATION
- Project Location: Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
- My Role in the Team: Project Leader & Manager / Main Content Contributor
- Team Members: Xiu Yao, Keying Chen, Xinyue Wang, Yu Wang, etc
This was a museum education project developed in collaboration with Nanjing Museum. The project was consisted of two major parts:
One was a Gallery Teaching Project including four customized gallery explorations (with detailed lesson plans, gallery teaching demonstrations, family brochures, gallery teaching slides) and art-making workshops based on the museum collection, as well as a teacher training program, an education framework presentation, and two tutorial videos of the workshops.
Me leading gallery experiences at Nanjing Museum. Photo by Nanjing Museum.
Brochures for the families to use in the gallery exploration. Copyright reserved.
The workshop packages for the families to use in the art-making workshops. Copyright reserved.
Online teacher training by Siyao on September, 2020. Stills of training video by Siyao.
The other one was a School Lesson Project including fifteen art lessons (with detailed lesson plans, student-used templates, teaching slides) designed based on both the museum collection and the principles of the Jiangsu primary school art textbooks.
This school lesson project ‘Welcome to My Museum!’ has been selected as the 2020 Museum Education Demonstration Projects of Jiangsu Province (江苏省博物馆教育示范项目名单， 江苏省文物局颁发).
The project was designed to introduce Chinese art history from the Neolithic time to Modern China in a systematic way through the fifteen lessons across the semester. Meanwhile, the lessons incorporated the local history and culture into the demonstration of the objects to enhance students’ confidence in their local culture.
In all fifteen lessons, students would use specially designed templates with games, creative tasks, and explanations of certain jargons to aid their learning experience.
Preview of the learning templates for students’ use in this project. Copyright reserved.
Preview of the slides for the lessons in this project. Copyright reserved.
During the semester, students would visit Nanjing Museum and see those objects they have been learning in the classrooms by their own eyes. They would explore the galleries following the instructions on their templates and complete fun treasure hunt tasks. Students would also learn about the architectural fun facts about the historical buildings in the museum courtyard.
Local primary school students are exploring the galleries during their field trip to the museum. Photo credit to Nanjing Museum.
SIYAO LYU 