CARE - About CARE



	Collaborative Arts Resources for Education (CARE) is a unique arts education initiative offered by the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, the Museum of Photographic Arts, and the San Diego Museum of Art. In 2004, the three museums received a generous anonymous donation to create a collaborative arts-based education program for Title 1 San Diego City elementary schools. This three-year project includes artist-in-residence programs in elementary classrooms, teacher in-services, and this arts-based Web site. The purpose of the CARE program is to enable teachers and their students to continue and expand visual art experiences in the face of diminished funding for arts education. The goals of this web site are to provide the educators and students of San Diego, as well as those throughout the country, with quality arts-based lesson plans and resources and to inspire a resurgence of arts education in the K-12 classroom. The lesson plans on the CARE web site were created with the intention of being teacher-friendly art activities that are easy to incorporate into “back-to-basics” curriculum. For this reason, all of the arts-based lesson plans are linked to at least one additional curriculum area and support the California State Content Standards. In each lesson plan, you will find printable images from the three museums’ collections, samples of student work, descriptive supply lists and procedures, and bibliographic resources. While the education departments of the three sponsoring museums will be continually writing new curriculum for the CARE Web site, we also would like to include lesson plans and resources recommended by classroom teachers. If you have materials that you feel would be valuable to other educators, please see the Contact Us page.



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