The Telfair offers many resources for teachers, students and parents, including resource guides, lesson plans and downloadable activity sheets.
Curriculum Guides for Educators
Teacher resource guide for the Telfair’s education initiative, Art & Life: Five Connections, with lessons linking the museum’s collection to Math, Science, Language Arts, History and Geography. This guided funded by a Museums for America Grant from the Institute of Library and Museum Services.
Click here to download the Art and Life Elementary PDF
Click here to download the Art and Life High School PDF
Educators’ guide produced for the exhibition Freedom’s March: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement in Savannah by Frederick C. Baldwin
Click here to download the Freedom’s March Educator’s Guide
Family Activity Guides
Download a Family guide to the Owens-Thomas House and enjoy at home or bring in to the museum during your visit.
Click here to download the Owens-Thomas-House guide
Teacher Resource Library
The Telfair offers a lending library of video and DVD titles on art and artists, posters and more, available to teachers in Savannah, Chatham County, and neighboring counties.
Professional Development for Educators
Telfair’s education staff can provide half day or full day professional development sessions for educators including Visual Thinking workshops, studio activities, and gallery based writing activities.
For more information on resource offerings, please call 912-790-8800.