Educational Opportunities for K-12
The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art offers educational tours and programming for K-12. We fulfill Utah Common Core Arts curriculum requirements by discussing artworks on view and hands-on arts integration activities. Learn more in the descriptions below. Please submit a request using the Education Request Form or contact us directly to schedule your school.
K-12 programs are partly supported by the Professional Outreach Program in the Schools (POPS), managed by the Utah State Board of Education and sponsored by the Utah State Legislature.
Museum Field Trip
Visit the museum! We have a program for each grade level. Funding for buses in Cache Valley is available.
Mobile Art Truck
The Mobile Art Truck comes right to your school at no cost to Utah residents. This year's truck exhibition is Facing Fire: The Five Senses, adaptable to grade levels K-12.
Exploring Art Kit
The Exploring Art Kit includes a video, lesson, art reproductions, and hands-on art supplies mailed directly to your school. The kit is free! This year’s kit features "A Sense of Self and Home: The Art of Intermountain Indian School."
Program Specifics
NEHMA's educators have created online learning modules that address different themes using art from the museum's collection and prompts for students to make art of their own. Each one fulfills different Common Core standards, including science, fine arts, and social studies.
| Grade | What We Do | Resources |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | Our residency program includes two classroom visits and one museum visit that explores lines, similarities/differences, and patterns. | KinderART | Unearthed Video |
| 1st - 3rd | Explore the blurred lines between Western myth and history. Using The Gruffalo as a mentor text, discover how real objects, like dinosaur bones, inspired monster legends like the Bear Lake Monster while strengthening sensory word skills. | Lure & Lore of the West - Sensory Pre & Post-Visit Lessons |
| 4th | Visit three museums (Anthropology, Geology, and NEHMA) to investigate how art shapes our identity in the West, from pioneers and cowboys to local legends. Students analyze how Point of View shapes stories and how it exaggerates lore. | Lure & Lore of the West - Sensory Pre & Post-Visit Lessons |
| 5th | Explore daily life in Japan, from school culture to the Samurai code of Bushido. At the museum, we study the life of Ruth Asawa and the art of resilience, paired with an investigation of seismic engineering. | Art & Japanese Culture |
| 6th | Analyze the "Western Sublime" through the lens of art and science. Study how local landscapes like Logan Canyon and the Jardine Juniper are immortalized in folklore, photography, and art. Students act as detectives to analyze the external battles and internal moral dilemmas in O. Henry’s After Twenty Years. | |
| 7-12th | Explore storytelling through our classroom visits from art inspired by The Lure and Lore of the West. Students examine folklore and tall tales, analyze how stories are shaped by character and setting, and create their own comic-strip tall tale using artworks from the museum as inspiration. Schools may choose a classroom lesson with an optional museum visit extension | Lure & Lore of the West Folklore Comic Strip |
360° Virtual Tours
Explore NEHMA's past and present exhibitions through interactive virtual tours of our galleries.
