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Volunteer Academy

Art Collections

Huntington Art Gallery

Survey of European Art with Kimberly Chrissman-Campbell

Class 1 - Syllabus
Class 1 - Ancient and Medieval Art Lecture
Class 2 - Syllabus
Class 2 - Renaissance and Seventeenth Century Art Lecture
Class 3 - Syllabus
Class 3 - Eighteenth Century Art Lecture
Class 4 - Syllabus
Class 4 - Nineteenth Century Art Lecture

Lectures

Formation of the French Collection
Portraiture in Britain
Selling 18th Century France to 20th Century Americans
Constable, Turner and 19th Century Landscape
Boucher in LA

HUG School Tour

Visual Art Content Standards
Station Map
HUG Example School Tour Outline
HUG Example School Tour
Gallery Vocabulary List

Spotlight Tour

HUG Spotlight Tour Plan

Evaluations

Art Collections Docent Evaluation
Evaluation Rubric - Art Collections
Spring HUG Docent Evaluation

Labels for HUG iPads

Large Library
Large Drawing Room
Small Drawing Room
Dining Room

American Galleries

Job Description
Course Syllabus
Discussion Plan
Class 1: Article - Docentry by Hartt
Class 1: Article - Zenobia
Class 1: Agenda and Activities
Class 1: Homework
Class 2: Outline - Family Ties
Class 2: Article - Systems Thinker
Class 2: Article - The Peale Family
Class 2: Agenda and Activities
Class 2: Homework
Class 3: Article - The Art of Teaching in the Museum
Class 3: Article - The Art of Teaching in the Museum (pg 66)
Class 3: Article - Style as Evidence
Class 3: Agenda
Class 3: Outline - How Things Convey Meaning
Class 4: Chart - Ages and Grades
Class 4: Article - Stages of Youth Development
Class 4: Article - Yardsticks (K-3)
Class 5: Article - Yardsticks (4-8)
Class 5: Article - Gershman
Class 5: Vapa Standards (4-8)
Class 5: Outline - We Are Not Alone
Class 5: Factual Corrections from Part 1
Class 5: Supplemental Reading List
Classs 6: Talks and Themes
Class 6: Outline - This Land is Your Land
Class 6: Vapa Glossary
Class 6: Vapa Standards (9-12)
Class 6: Article - Yardsticks (9-10)
Class 6: Article - Kindred Spirits
Class 6: Midterm Study Guide
Class 7: Social Studies Overview
Class 9: Outline - Cultivating our Gardens
Class 9: Walk from the American Galleries to the Pavilion
Class 9: Tour Day Logistics
Class 10: Outline - Painting the Stuff of Life
Class 10: Mapping your Tour
Class 10: Comments on K-3 Themes from Class 5
Class 10: Touring Schedule for January 2010
Class 11: Outline - Additive and Reductive Abstraction
Class 11: Calendar
Ready Set Go! Preparing to Tour Lower Elementary

Botanical Collections

Botany Courses 1, 2, 3

Botany 1

Syllabus
Class 1: Vocabulary
Class 2: Vocabulary
Class 3: Vocabulary

Botany 2

Syllabus
Class 1: Vocabulary
Class 2: Vocabulary

Botany 3

Syllabus
Class 1: Vocabulary
Class 1: Slides
Class 2: Vocabulary
Class 2: Biome Exercise
Class 2: Biome Map
Class 2: Desert
Class 2: Temperate Broadleaf Deciduous Forest
Class 2: Mediterranean Shrublands
Class 2: The Tundra
Class 2: Taiga or Boreal Forest
Class 2: The Rain Forest
Class 2: Tropical Savannas

Chinese Garden

‘Ask Me’ Job Description
Group Tours Job Description
Liu Fang Yuan Map
Podcast Script - English
Chinese Garden Fact Sheet
Docent Reference - June Li
Wood Materials of the Chinese Garden Structures
5 Poetic Passage Plaques
Phonetic Symbols and Garden Pronunciation Slideshow
Garden Pronunciation Guide (goes with slideshow)

Herb Garden

Job Description

Reading Plants

Job Description
Syllabus
Objective of Program

CSI

Job Description
Syllabus

Conservatory

Facilitator Job Description
Preparator Job Description
Class 1: Preparators Training
Class 1: Conservatory Fact Sheet
Class 1: Missions and Goals
Class 1: Scope Anatomy
Class 1: Slide Making
Class 1: Cleaning Eyepieces and Monitors
Class 2: Facilitator Checklist
Class 2: Conservatory Shutdown
Class 2: Chocolate Demonstration - Chocolate History
Class 2: Chocolate Demonstration - Chocolate Glossary
Class 2: Chocolate Demonstration - Bean to Bar
Class 2: Chocolate Demonstration - Chocolate Recipe
Class 2: Flower Dissection Instructions
Class 2: Flower Dissection Vocabulary
Class 2: Flytrap Demonstration Instructions
Class 2: Flytrap Demonstration Background
Class 2: Pitcher Dissection Demonstration

Seeds & Sprouts

Job Description
Children’s Garden Big Ideas and Activities
Teaching Greenhouse Big Ideas and Activities
Seeing Seeds Lesson Plan
Rainy Day Schedule

Desert Garden

Job Description
Course Dates

Full Garden

Job Description
Course Syllabus
Huntington Map (current version)
Huntington Map (before Chinese Garden)
Parking Lot Fact Sheet
Entrance Gardens Fact Sheet
Desert Garden Fact Sheet
Desert Garden Map
Film Projects
Lily Ponds Collections Background
Lily Ponds Fact Sheet
Palm Garden Collections Background
Palm Garden Fact Sheet
Jungle Garden Background
Jungle Garden Fact Sheet
HUG Background
HUG Fact Sheet
Camellia Garden Fact Sheet
North Vista Fact Sheet
Subtropical Garden Fact Sheet
Australian Garden Fact Sheet
Japanese Garden Fact Sheet
Chinese Garden Fact Sheet
Comparison of Chinese and Japanese Garden Landscape Styles
Rose Garden Fact Sheet
Shakespeare Garden Fact Sheet
Herb Garden Fact Sheet
Tour Planning Workbook
Tour Evaluation Rubric

Camellia Garden

Job Description
Course Dates

Rose Garden

Job Description
Course Dates

Library Collections

Beautiful Science

Job Description
Course Syllabus
Hellemans and Lindberg articles
Camera Obscura
Ibn al-Haytham
Class 1: Presentation
Class 2: Presentation
Class 3: Presentation
Class 4: Presentation
Class 5: Article - What is Science