The Museum’s trained volunteers offer guided tours of permanent and changing exhibitions for groups of 10-25 individuals per docent.

These specially crafted tours offer opportunities for in-gallery drawing, writing, interdisciplinary programming, or themed talks pertaining to the objects and ideas within RMAC exhibitions. Tours can be tied to a specific curriculum, and the Museum will assist in development of pre- and post-visit activities. For groups of 10-25 individuals per docent.

These tours allow teachers and their students to explore the galleries with a Tour Bag that includes ideas for discussion, writing, drawing, and other interactive activities related to the following topics: Landscape Painting, Portrait Painting, Contemporary Art of the Southwest, and Robert H. Goddard.

Teachers may contact Ellen Moore, Curator of Education, in advance to discuss curriculum alignment and how to use the Tour Bags.

 

Discovery Boxes:

Four Discovery Boxes that can be tied to the curriculum and the New Mexico standards and benchmarks are available for loan to public, private, and home school organizations. Boxes include illustrated curricula, teacher activities, books, videos, materials and sample masks. Each box may be borrowed for up to one month. There is no rental fee.

Young students explore the concepts of light, color, line, shape, and texture through hands-on activities that address these basic art principles.

Learn about the significance of masks throughout the world through three themed boxes addressing different curricula:

Historical: Focuses on masks of antiquity including prehistoric, Egyptian, Greek and Roman.

Ceremonial: Focuses on the spiritual and ceremonial uses of masks made by peoples from
Oceana, Africa, Alaska (Yup’ik), and British Columbia (Kwakwaka’wakw).

Theatrical: Focuses on the cultural importance and use of masks in Japan and Mexico.

Students will gain an understanding of architecture and its development through history. Included are the basic principles and components of architectural design, a lexicon of vocabulary terms specific to architecture, and interactive activities.

Explore the principles of rocketry and learn about how Robert Hutchings Goddard’s early experimentation contributed to man’s exploration of space.

As an informal learning environment, the Roswell Museum and Art Center offers programs that complement many of the educational benchmarks required by the State of New Mexico. We’ve listed a few ways the Museum can help meet the important standards of your academic year. We believe that the Museum, with its ability to look at the past, present, and future through a variety of resources, is a place where students can explore patterns of human life and expressions of human experience.

The State’s benchmarks, categorized by goals laid out for grades K-4, 5-8, and 9-12, are combined and paraphrased here, listing the deepening skills each benchmark aims for as students progress. Please contact Ellen Moore, Curator of Education, to discuss how we can tailor our resources to support your curriculum. 575-624-6744, extension 22, or moore@roswellmuseum.org.

Understanding, researching, and critiquing time passage, chronology, and varied historical perspectives.

Understanding, distinguishing, and analyzing the differences in natural and human characteristics, their patterns, interdependences, and societal impacts.

Understanding, describing, and analyzing the patterns and results of trade in different societies for individuals, governments, and societies.

Understanding visual and performing arts and the creative process by seeking connections and parallels among art disciplines as well as all other content areas.

An effective language arts curriculum develops thinking and language together through interactive learning and provides for literacy in all forms of media.

The Discovery Den, located in West of Beyond: The Rogers and Mary Ellen Aston Collection of the American West, is a visitor-friendly living room where children and adults can relax, watch a video or DVD, pour over the publications in our Aston Library, or join in games and activities that add to the visitor experience.

As in the Discovery Den, many of the Museum’s temporary exhibitions are enhanced by reading and viewing areas that offer in-gallery resource materials and hands-on activities that extend the context of an exhibition.