Images & Themes from the Hudson
Students use images attached here to investigate primary sources and answer questions about culture, art and literature, transportation, commerce, ecology, recreation, and tourism.
Students use images attached here to investigate primary sources and answer questions about culture, art and literature, transportation, commerce, ecology, recreation, and tourism.
This lesson builds on what students already know about the Hudson Valley and provides some art basics to help them prepare to paint a mural featuring flora and fauna, various types of river transportation, and/or other subjects of interest related to the region.
Students conduct web-based research to discover how pollution affects the Hudson Valley, how scientists and activists help us become aware of the problem, and how we can all work together to reverse negative effects of industrialization on our environment. Students also create a visual art project to show what they have learned.
Students discuss steam power -- its advantages and the way it works. In our program, this lesson was conducted before students visited the Albany Institute.
This activity can be adapted for use with many topics although it was developed in conjunction with Full Steam Ahead: Robert Fulton and the Age of Steamboating at the Albany Institute of History & Art. Students, teachers, and museum staff discussed steamboats, New York society, and travel on the Hudson River before students created postcards.
Students view and analyze a series of Hudson River images (attached here) from the Albany Institute of History and Art. To help students make connections between art and history and their effect each other, teachers use a series of constructed response questions.