Five Interpretive Themes

Aligning the Museum’s Core Interpretive Themes
with the Connecticut State Department of Education ’s
Curricular Goals and Standards for Students K-12

The Museum adopted five interpretive themes that are consistent with the information provided both on site at the Museum as well as on-line on the Museum’s website. This set of pages identifies and defines the five themes and sites connections between the theme content and key content areas for teaching students in Connecticut and beyond. The curricular goals and standards are from The Connecticut Framework: K-12 Curricular Goals and Standards (adopted in March 1998, published by the Connecticut State Department of Education, Division of Teaching and Learning).

Go to: http://www.sde.ct.gov/sde/site/default.asp to download a copy of the entire publication The Connecticut Framework: K-12 Curricular Goals and Standards

Theme 1: The American Art Colony at Lyme

Theme 2: Daily Life in a Boardinghouse, c. 1910

Theme 3: Making the Most of Limited Choices: The Life and Times of Florence Griswold

Theme 4: A Sense of Place: The Artistic Rediscovery of New England

Theme 5: Connecticut and American Impressionism

Five Interpretive Themes

Aligning the Museum’s Core Interpretive Themes with the Connecticut State Department of Education ’s Curricular Goals and Standards for Students K-12

Aligning the Museum’s Core Interpretive Themes
with the Connecticut State Department of Education ’s
Curricular Goals and Standards for Students K-12