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Resources for Teachers

Looking for resources to use with your students in class? We offer a range of materials to enhance your lessons.

Look out for the colour code to know if the activity suits your classroom: Elementary Secondary

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Be amazed by the discoveries you can make when you look for longer at art. Look carefully together at these paintings with Educator Andrea Gumpert.

Slow Look at Rembrandt’s Heroine

A Slow Look at Rembrandt’s Heroine (1632/33)

Elementary

 

Slow Look at Snow II

A Slow Look at Lawren S. Harris’s Snow II (1915)

Elementary

 

Slow Look at Petroushka

A Slow Look at Paraskeva Clark’s Petroushka (1937)

Elementary

 

Distance Learning

Distance Learning

Elementary Secondary

Distance Learning programs are live webinars that connect students from across Canada with artworks in the Gallery’s collection. 

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Photostory #100: Future Stanley Cup Contenders

A Teacher’s Guide to Photostories Canada

Elementary Secondary

Discover many ways to use the Photostories Canada website in your classroom with our teacher’s guide and lesson plan.

Download now

 

Framing Nature PDF cover

Framing Nature: A Photography Activity

Elementary

Grab your camera and join us as we adapt lessons learned from the Group of Seven's paintings to help you see your world through a new lens.

Download the activity

 

Vincent Van Gogh, Iris, 1890, oil on cardboard, later thinned and mounted on canvas.

Understanding art

Secondary

Learn about key artists and works of art in the Gallery collection with NGC Educator Béatrice Djahanbin.

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Unknown (German Cologne), The Virgin of the Flowering Pea (detail), c. 1425.

Virtual Tours

Secondary

Explore the national art collection as our experts take you inside the Gallery for virtual theme-based tours. 

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Watch videos on IGTV (you will need an Instagram account to access the content)

 

House Blend Live — Art + Conversation

Curator Chats

Secondary

Join Gallery curators as they engage with artists, artist-run centres, museums, publishers, collectors and more.

Browse playlist

 

Two historical paintings and restoration tools in the National Gallery of Canada restoration and conservation lab.

Restoration and Conservation

Secondary

Learn more about some of the team’s exciting projects, and follow a few of the objects that are keeping them busy in the lab.

Find out more

 

Earthly Delights visual identity.

A Botanical Audio Tour Through the Gallery Collection

Secondary

Explore masterworks from the Gallery’s European and Canadian collections with an award-winning gardener and art historian.

Start the tour

 

Àbadakone

Àbadakone | Continuous Fire | Feu continuel Virtual Tour

Secondary

Explore this exhibition of contemporary Indigenous art and its artists through features that include a virtual gallery and audio guide stops narrated by a gallery educator.

Start exploring

 

 

External Resources

Art Canada Institute teacher resource guides

Elementary Secondary

Following our provinces’ education curricula, the teacher resource guides provide multidisciplinary learning activities that reveal how Canadian art powerfully reflects our world so we can better understand it.

Learn more

 

Get Creative

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Keep your creative juices flowing through an evolving array of fun art-making activities, downloadable resources, and more.

Art supplies.

Bring a little bit of the Gallery into your home.

Download these colouring pages of masterpieces from the national art collection.

Colouring page, J.E.H. MacDonald, The Tangled Garden, 1916.

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J.E.H. MacDonald
The Tangled Garden, 1916

Colouring page, Piero di Cosimo, Vulcan and Aeolus, c. 1490.

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Piero di Cosimo
Vulcan and Aeolus, c. 1490

Colouring page, Vincent van Gogh, Iris, 1890.

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Vincent van Gogh
Iris, 1890


Colouring page, Robert Harris, A Meeting of the School Trustees, 1885.

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Robert Harris
A Meeting of the School Trustees, 1885

Colouring page, Emily Carr, Fir Tree and Sky, c. 1935-1936.

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Emily Carr
Fir Tree and Sky, c. 1935-1936

Colouring page, Unknown, Ganesha Dancing, late 9th-10th century.

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Unknown
Ganesha Dancing, late 9th-10th century


Colouring page, Benjamin West, The Death of General Wolfe, 1770.

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Benjamin West
The Death of General Wolfe, 1770

Colouring page inspired by our Beautiful Monsters exhibition.

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Colouring page inspired by our Beautiful Monsters exhibition

 

 

Need fresh ideas for creative family fun?

Check out the projects below, all made with simple materials you already have on hand.

Stamps of animals.

GET STARTED

Fantastic creatures come to life! Carve your own stamps of animals you know and love, or make up new imaginary beasts.

Collaged stick puppets.

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Create your own paper puppets! These collaged stick puppets are inspired by the 23,595 paper cutouts in Leaves of Grass (2012) by Canadian artist Geoffrey Farmer. 

Paper wreath.

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Decorate your door! Use these instructions to make your own seasonal paper wreath. 


Child hands making marbled paper.

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Let’s get marbling! Try this fun way of making marbled paper, as you learn about mixing colours. 

Adult hands making a stained-glass design.

GET STARTED

Brighten your world with a stained-glass design using supplies you have at home.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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