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Welcome to the Art Institute of Chicago's MAPS wiki page. Here you will find resources, electronic documents related to MAPS, and documentation.

__**MAPS AIC Curriculum: Understanding Environments and Values**__
You can download the MAPS curriculum and activities by clicking on the file link below the curriculum overview.

**Overview**
Students apply reading and writing skills as they learn about topics represented in artworks. The lessons complement the core curriculum in reading, science, social studies and writing.

The lessons emphasize literacy development. Students reinforce reading skills as they infer main ideas of works of art and write about what they learn. Activities include vocabulary development and art-making in which students communicate the ideas they learn through their own drawings. Each lesson includes an Extended Writing question based on a relevant reading. Teachers may use the lessons in conjunction with language arts or content development.

The lessons also can be used in conjunction with science or social studies curriculum so that students develop content knowledge as well as literacy skills. The topics of the lessons match fourth-grade content requirements.



__**MAPS Artwork**__
Below is a Picassa link where you can access high resolution files of the artworks featured in the MAPS curriculum. You can download these files to make prints or to use with a digital projector. Another option is to visit the collections website for the MAPS program on the Art Institute's website through this link. This option allows you to print the collection with pertinent information, such as the artworks' most relevant details and in what galleries they are found. You can set up your own collections page by providing a user name and password.

Picasa link to MAPS Artwork

__Instructions for Applying for your Art Institute of Chicago MAPS School Group Visit__
You have the option to participate in a docent-led MAPS tour or to conduct your own tour. Either way, **you must first apply for a group visit.** If you opt for the docent-led MAPS tour, **you need to apply between December 15 and December 22, 2010** (registration for the spring begins on December 15).

**The Art Institute will offer docent-led MAPS tours between March 15 and March 30, 2011**. Docents will receive specific information relating to the MAPS curriculum and will plan a tour that incorporates curriculum objectives. To reserve your museum visit, submit an online application, here:.

Please provide the information required by the system in the first page and **select “Docent-led” as your tour type**. On the results page, you will **select an “Art From Many Places” tour for the date on which you would like to visit** (remember that we will offer docent-led MAPS tours only between March 15 and March 30, 2011)**.** On a subsequent page, you will be asked to provide your school information. **Please include the word MAPS with your school name**. For instance, if you teach at A.N. Pritzker School, you will type in “A.N. Pritzker School—MAPS” in this field. This will allow us to identify your school as a MAPS school as we process applications for spring and give you priority.

Application for all spring semester tours will be accepted beginning December 15, 2010. In order to ensure docent availability for your school, we ask that you submit your application between December 15 and December 22. After December 22 we will no longer be able to hold a space for your school.

If you have any questions about submitting your application, please email us at mtours@artic.edu. **Be sure to include the word MAPS in your subject heading so we can identify your school and respond promptly.**

To print these instructions: 

Other FAQ about tours:

Or visit: Student Tours at the Art Institute of Chicago

__MAPS Forms__
The Office of Language and Cultural Education is conducting an assessment of the MAPS program. Please download the student pre-assessment form and give to your students before beginning the MAPS curriculum. Your school's MAPS coordinator will receive information as to how to submit the pre and post-assessments. The same questions asked for the pre-assessment will be asked in the post-assessment at the end of the year. You will see that they are general, open-ended questions and are meant to capture any shift in the students' impressions of art and museums that result from their participation in MAPS as opposed to discreet skills and content knowledge. Please have the students provide their first names only. If you have students with the same names, please ask them to write their last name initial in addition to their first name.

Pre-Assessment Cover Page:

Student Pre-Assessment:

__**MAPS Professional Development at the Art Institute of Chicago**__
//Understanding Environments and Values//


 * When:** Friday, December 3, 2010, from 8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
 * Where:** The Art Institute of Chicago, Ryan Education Center (enter through the BP Student Esplanade on Columbus Drive at the corner of Monroe)


 * Parking**: Available at the Millennium Park Garage. The most economical section of the garage is on the east side (right hand side) as you enter the garage on the ramp off Columbus Drive north of Monroe.

Lunch and refreshments will be provided.

Program Flyer 12/03/2010 Agenda 12/03/2010

Questions? Please contact Georgina Valverde, Teacher Programs Coordinator at (312) 443-3575 or gvalverde1@artic.edu.