Teacher Resources
Join a Free Teacher Professional Development Workshop
Tuesday, October 22 | 9:30 am-3:30 pm
All teachers are invited to sign up for a FREE one-day professional development session that helps educators gain CTLE credits and provides training from history experts on how to use 19th-century American landscape paintings of New York views to teach required curriculum topics.
Sponsored by the Warner Foundation’s Teaching American History Through Art project
Deepen your classroom study of the Industrial Revolution, Empire, and the environment with these educator packets featuring lesson plans and activity ideas for remote learning.
Sign up for a visit to the historic grounds now with free Explore Kits for local schoolchildren.
To schedule an in-classroom visit with a Thomas Cole Site educator, please email education@thomascole.org.
Our lesson plans and activities can be used by teachers and parents across the country. All lesson plans include suggested grade levels, but can be adjusted to fit the needs of your students.
Share your activities with us on social media @thomascolesite on Instagram and Facebook and we’ll post your children’s art and writing.
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Contact UsThomas Cole and Industrialization
Lesson Plan Digital Learning Experience- Thomas Cole, River in the Catskills, Oil on canvas, 1843, 27 1/2 × 40 3/8 in, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Gift of Martha C. Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Paintings, 1815–1865.
Thomas Cole and Empire
Lesson Plan- Thomas Cole, The Course of Empire: The Consummation of Empire, Oil on canvas, 1836, 51 x 76 in. Collection of The New-York Historical Society, 1858.3.
Changing Landscape: Writing Prompt & Drawing
ActivityVirtual Views & Coloring
ActivitySlow Looking
ActivityVisit with Outdoor Explore Kits
Made possible with the generous support of the Warner Foundation and The Bay & Paul Foundations.
Additional support provided by New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and the Art Bridges Bridge Ahead Initiative.
