Abstract:

The Philadelphia Museum of Art's Division of Education has produced three kits for teachers to introduce students to the art of Japan, Korea, and China. Each kit includes slides, image cards highlighting works from the Museum's Asian arts collection, a video, and a resource book featuring looking questions, related classroom activity suggestions, a map, timeline, glossary, and bibliography. Also included is a CD-ROM version of all the elements in the kit. This particular kit features ten different works in the Museum’s collection of Chinese art. The works of art chosen represent different mediums and eras from a 4500-year-old ceramic Banshan Jar to an embroidered robe for a Daoist Priest made at the end of the nineteenth century.