Educator Resources

Tools to integrate visual arts into classrooms

Educator Resource Center

The Educator Resource Center (ERC) is home to a wide array of books, Art Connection Kits, teaching posters, and other materials available for check-out. Search our catalog to see what’s available! 

Educators must register for a free ERC account to borrow materials. Registered patrons receive a monthly e-newsletter from the ERC with educator-focused content. 

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ERC staff are ready to assist you in finding resources and identifying strategies and works of art to incorporate into your teaching. To access the ERC: 

Contact us to schedule a visit during regular museum hours on Mondays, Thursdays, or Fridays 

OR 

Drop in to the ERC during our public hours on Saturdays (10:00 am – 2:00 pm) 

The Educator Resource Center is supported in part by H&R Block. 

The Educator Resource Center is supported in part by H&R Block.

Art Connection Kits

Art Connection Kits provide multi-disciplinary, hands-on enrichment activities and objects that connect works in the museum’s collection with the cultures and historical periods that produced them. Kits can be reserved in advance and checked out by ERC patrons for a 2-week period. Kit topics include: 

African Collection 

American Collection 

Ancient Egyptian Art 

Archeology 

Chinese Collection 

Native American Collection 

Native American Art of the Plains 

Sculpture 

Contact the Educator Resource Center for more information.

Title I Resources

The Incentive Grant Program provides assistance to schoolwide, Title I schools for pre-K through 12th grade visits to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

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