Mendel Art Gallery

WHAT TO DO in the classroom before you visit

Mendel Art Gallery School Hands-On Tours

Program Guides choose artworks from all the exhibitions that are best suited to the theme you select. These suggested pre–visit activities should help your students to understand the intent of the artists and curators. They can also be used for follow–up. We recommend that you preview the exhibitions to best prepare your students.

Download the latest WHAT TO DO in the classroom before you visit. For more information contact Laura at (306) 975-8052, or request one online.

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Activities

untitled (mountains near Jasper) Lawren Stewart Harris c. 1934–40. Collection of the Mendel Art Gallery. Gift of the Mendel Family, 1965

Poster image: James Henderson

Sun Walk-Blackfoot, 1924, oil on canvas

Collection of the Mendel Art Gallery.

Purchased with the assistance of funds from

Price Waterhouse, Chartered Accountants, 1986.

Check out ARTSask (www.artsask.ca), our project partnership for online learning showcasing Saskatchewan and Canadian visual art.

Click here to download the Henderson Educator Guide (PDF).

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SlammED Educator Resource

SlammED—presented in spring 2008—is a project that utilizes slam and hip-hop-inspired poetry to explore issues that are relevant to youth while allowing participants to gain valuable skills in poetry writing and performance.

Click below to download SlammED Educator Resource as a PDF document (800KB)
http://www.mendel.ca/files/SlammED_EdResource.pdf

DiverCity Teacher Resource

The aim of the DiverCity documentary film project is to reflect the lived experiences of immigrant students through an inclusive model. The model seeks to actualize curriculum by making its objectives meaningful and purposeful to students.

Click here to download DiverCity PDF document (5.8MB)

Sk8art Teacher Resource

The Sk8art project is a cross-disciplinary teacher’s resource that uses skateboarding as its inspiration. The goal of this project is to emphasize and validate youth content and culture in school curriculum. This resource was created in a collaboration between The Mendel Art Gallery, The Saskatoon Foundation Artsmarts Program, The City of Saskatoon, Mount Royal Collegiate, and The Saskatoon Skatepark Corporation.

Two Options for Download:

Individual Lessons

Each lesson is its own self-contained PDF. Each file is less than 100Kb.

Sk8art Introduction
Sk8art Lesson 1 — Looking at Objects
Sk8art Lesson 2 — Design a Skateboard
Sk8art Lesson 3 — Drawing a Skateboard Path
Sk8art Lesson 4 — Basic Cartooning
Sk8art Lesson 5 — Skateboard Culture
Sk8art Lesson 6 — Opening a Skateboard Shop
Sk8art Lesson 7 — Designing a Toolbox
Sk8art Lesson 8 — Collecting
Sk8art Lesson 9 — Working with Museums/Galleries
Sk8art Lesson 10 — Past and Present
Sk8art Lesson 11 — Perpetual Motion
Sk8art Lesson 12 — Skate Boarders
Sk8art Lesson 13 — Can Wheels Cut Down on Friction
Sk8art Lesson 14 — Skateboarding Moves
Sk8art Lesson 15 — Physics of a "Cat"
Sk8art Lesson 16 — Sports Marketing

All Lessons in One File

All lessons in a single PDF (approximatey 1.9Mb) — Sk8art Lessons 1-16

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Viewing and Representing Teacher Resource

This school program develops art-viewing strategies for Grade 1 to 6 students and their
teachers, and embraces the two recent additions to Saskatchewan Education’s Language
Arts curriculum, Viewing and Representing. Activities developed around the exhibitions at
the Mendel Art Gallery include the following three components:

Pre-visit Activities relating to viewing art.
An Interactive Visit to the Mendel to apply viewing strategies to original art in a gallery setting.
Follow-up Activities for the classroom that can be reapplied anytime by teachers in the classroom. Note that the Saskatoon Public Library has kindly contributed a bibliography of picture books for teachers to use through the library.