This book details the Guggenheim Museum’s classroom-tested, inquiry-based approach to learning. This user-friendly guide provides teachers (grades 2–8) with strategies and resources for investigating art to enhance student learning across the curriculum. For the classroom teacher , Art Investigation provides an exciting way to study contemporary and historical cultures while also improving critical thinking and literacy skills. For the art teacher , Art Investigation offers students the tools to engage meaningfully with the world of art and artists. This unique text features the experiences of the Guggenheim Museum’s 40-year-old Learning Through Art program, as well as reproductions from the museum’s vast art collection. Book features: Easy-to-follow instructions for leading an Art Investigation in the classroom. - Full-color reproductions of masterpieces including Edgar Degas’s Dancers in Green and Yellow, Vasily Kandinsky’s Composition 8, and Vincent van Gogh’s Mountains at Saint-Rémy. - Adaptable lessons, including questions that teachers can use to guide a conversation about a specific work of art. - Guidance for finding and choosing age-appropriate images. - Links to resources on the Guggenheim Museum’s website and others. “It is rare in education for a book to delight, provoke, and help the reader all at once. This text does all three with clarity, style, and purpose―like a good work of art…. The text contains all a teacher needs to know about how to develop thematic, in-depth, and engaging work for students.” ―From the Foreword by Grant Wiggins, President, Authentic Education “Art Investigation is a gift. Now all the techniques for teaching critical thinking skills are available in one effective and inspiring text. Every classroom should have one and every teacher should read it”. ― Nancy Ring , author of Walking on Walnuts , visual artist, and art teacher, NJ “I am always looking for fresh and creative approaches for improving my fifth-grade students' observation, evaluation, and interpretation skills. Art Investigation is a must-have tool for teachers.” ― Maureen Wolf , fifth-grade teacher, Queens, NY “Art Investigation has reinvigorated my teaching. The cross-curricular links that I can make through art truly enliven my curriculum.” ― Melissa Browning , third-grade teacher, Brooklyn, NY “In my experience of teaching art to children, I have found investigative inquiry engages even those children who are reticent to share their thoughts in a group setting.” ― Teresa Kravitz , art teacher, Brooklyn, NY “It is rare in education for a book to delight, provoke, and help the reader all at once. This text does all three with clarity, style, and purpose―like a good work of art…. The text contains all a teacher needs to know about how to develop thematic, in-depth, and engaging work for students.” ―From the Foreword by Grant Wiggins, President, Authentic Education “Art Investigation is a gift. Now all the techniques for teaching critical thinking skills are available in one effective and inspiring text. Every classroom should have one and every teacher should read it”. ― Nancy Ring , author of Walking on Walnuts , visual artist, and art teacher, NJ “I am always looking for fresh and creative approaches for improving my fifth-grade students' observation, evaluation, and interpretation skills. Art Investigation is a must-have tool for teachers.” ― Maureen Wolf , fifth-grade teacher, Queens, NY “Art Investigation has reinvigorated my teaching. The cross-curricular links that I can make through art truly enliven my curriculum.” ― Melissa Browning , third-grade teacher, Brooklyn, NY “In my experience of teaching art to children, I have found investigative inquiry engages even those children who are reticent to share their thoughts in a group setting.” ― Teresa Kravitz , art teacher, Brooklyn, NY ?In my experience of teaching art to children, I have found investigative inquiry engages even those children who are reticent to share their thoughts in a group setting.? ? Teresa Kravitz , art teacher, Brooklyn, NY Rebecca Shulman Herz is Senior Education Manager at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.