National Portrait Gallery YouTube Playlist

This resource integrates portraiture into the classroom providing opportunity to connect students with history, biography, visual art, and many other subjects.

Overview

This playlist offers a wide variety of videos over many subjects in portraiture. This in depth view at portraits connects how portraits influence history, biographies, and ideas. The selection includes a wide array of figures that many students would be familiar with such as Pocahontas or famous presidents. There is an additional link provided that offers additional content for instructors.

How to Use this Resource

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This resource would be great to pull videos from that could benefit a art or history curriculum. For student choice, students could pick one of the videos and write a response for a discussion. Or, the link could provide supplemental material for students who want to explore portraits more. For the instructor, the additional link would be a good teaching tool.

URL: National Portrait Gallery

Resource Type: Video

License: Standard YouTube License