The Museum of Arts & Sciences is pleased to present these educational resources focusing on our permanent and traveling exhibitions.
This 195 page guide is designed to illustrate how American artifacts,
documents and art from the Root Family Museum of the Museum of Arts and Sciences
in Daytona Beach, Florida may be used throughout the scope and sequence of
Florida coursework to support the Sunshine Standards along with the language
arts vocabulary segment of FCAT. Drawn from the thousands of objects
displayed in the Root Family Museum, featured items include the experimental
"Sumar Special" race car; the patent for the Coca-Cola bottle; a teddy bear
dressed as President Theodore Roosevelt; a quilt made from feed bags; a Union
Pacific winged railroad sign; a cigar store Seminole Indian; a telephone with
separate mouthpiece and earpiece; and even a railway car called the "Silver
Holly". Taken together, the examples represent a wide range of objects, artwork,
materials, as well as social and geographical origins over the course of
American history from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century. More
significantly for teachers and students, these items from the past can infuse
their current studies with purpose, whether it is for elementary students who
see Depression-era creativity along with geometry in a quilt, or middle school
pupils who discover that railroads permeated American's lives a century ago as
thoroughly as television does today, or high school students turned history
detectives to investigate the connections between journalism, Teddy Roosevelt,
Coca-Cola and the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906.
This 120 page guide is designed to illustrate how American art and
artifacts from the Museum of Arts and Sciences in Daytona Beach, Florida may be
used throughout the scope and sequence of Florida coursework to support the
Sunshine Standards along with the language arts vocabulary segment of
FCAT. Drawn from the collection of over 2,700 items in the Dow Gallery of
American Art, featured items include paintings, sculpture, furniture, silver,
and even a piano. Taken together, the examples represent a wide range of
objects, artwork, materials, as well as social and geographical origins over the
course of American history from the colonial era to the turn of the 20th
century. More significantly for teachers and students, these items from
the past can infuse their current studies with purpose, whether it is for
elementary students to identify American symbols, or middle school pupils to
work as history detectives to learn the story behind coverlet weaver Mary
Wilder, or high school students to analyze the immigration and migration
patterns that brought a group of objects into a Daytona Beach museum
gallery.
This 78 page guide is designed to illustrate how artifacts from
ancient Egypt may be used throughout the scope and sequence of social studies in
Florida to support the Sunshine Standards along with the National Standards for
History and the language arts vocabulary segment of FCAT. Examples have
been drawn from the Brown & Brown, Inc. presents Glories of Ancient Egypt
exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts, Daytona Beach, Florida, November 18, 2005 -
May 7, 2006. Taken together, the artifacts cover the full range of ancient
Egyptian civilization and may be coordinated with the time line. They also
represent a wide range of objects, materials, and were used by different social
groups in ancient Egypt.