This Learning Lab complements the National Portrait Gallery's student program, Portrait Detectives.

Students will be transformed into Portrait Detectives, searching portraits for and analyzing clues to learn more about significant Americans.  Through interactive discussions and sketching and writing activities, students will read, compare, and contrast portraits across the collection. This module is divided into the following themes to best support your curriculum and student interests: Presidents, Activists, Icons, and Scientists.

Objectives:

After completing this lesson, students will be better able to: 

• Identify important Americans and analyze their contributions to U.S. History 
  
• Identify key components of a portrait and discuss what we can learn about the sitter through these components.

Schedule a virtual Portrait Detectives program with National Portrait Gallery educators.

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