SCHOOL TOURS

K-12 School Tours

In an effort to lower the barriers for student field-trips, the Dali Museum offers free or reduced admission for students visiting in groups. Click HERE to visit our School Tours page.

EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

Teacher Guide Updated 7-4-11

Click HERE to download the Museum’s Teacher Resource Guide (PDF). This guide includes painting descriptions of key works from the collection, a biography of the artist and Dalí Museum information as well as a resource list, educational opportunities for students and school tour information.

Lesson Plans

The Dali Museum has assembled a number of interdisciplinary lesson plans as a starting point for you and your students. Click HERE to visit Destination Dalí for additional downloads, designed to address FCAT, Sunshine State Standards, and Florida Writes! goals. "Destination Dali" can help make Florida and non-Florida students' explorations of Dali's life and art as educational and productive as possible.

Get Surreal! with Salvador Dali

This channel-surfing, vintage footage and live-action adventure DVD is designed as a classroom aid for teachers and as a Dali Museum pre-visit educational tool for elementary and middle school students.

Not only can this DVD prepare students for their museum visit by introducing Dali, a selection of his work and information about Surrealism, but it also offers several creative surrealist activities to do at home or in the classroom.

Preview the DVD by watching the 9-minute version on our YOUTUBE site HERE. To order a copy, please call 727.823.3767 (ext 0) or send an email request to: info@thedali.org GET SURREAL in the subject line. Closed captioned version also available on DVD.

Crafts *NEW!*

Download these fun and educational crafts to use in your classroom today! Each activity utilizes economical and/or recycled materials, are printable sizes 8X12 or 11X17 and are fun for all ages. The descriptions of each activity explain their connection to the Dali Museum collection.  (All files are PDFs) : *uploaded 9-13-11

Tots

Happy Dali Finger Puppet (Art History)

Eggs On A Plate Food Face (Surrealism)

Arrow Through Your Head (Humanities, Religion, Theater)

Elementary

3D Bull Hand Puppet (Humanities)

Grasshopper Hat (Science)

Melting Clock Mit (Moving clock hands teach how to tell time)

Middle School

Peanut People

Paint Brush & Spoon People (Humanities/Art History)

Sentimental Bicyclist *coming soon!

High School

3D Pop Up Painting (Art History)

Geometric Paper Ball (Mathematics)

All Ages

Dali Moustache (Art History)

Snail Hat (Art History/Science) *coming soon!

Melting Clock Hat (Art History)

Surreal Bugs (Science)

Instructors

Make an Apron from a Shopping Bag

Student Work

Check out the student work page HERE to view surreal artwork and films exhibited at the Dalí Museum from local middle and high school students.

Dalivision Outreach Program

If your school can’t visit the Dalí Museum, then consider inviting the Museum to visit you. With a little advance notice — and with no cost to you — the Dalí Museum can schedule a trained docent to visit with slides or posters to best suit your needs. Museum docents regularly visit classrooms in Pinellas County, and can visit Pasco, Hillsborough, Sarasota and Manatee counties depending on availability. Contact the Education Department 727.623.4730.

Audio Guide Scripts

Review the scripts to our free public audio guided tours for adults (additional Spanish-language tour, coming soon!), and for children. All files are PDFs.

Key Works - Images

Download this PowerPoint presentation of key images HERE to use in your classroom. Please note, this is a large file. (17MB, requires PowerPoint)

Dalí Store *NEW!*

Browse our online store HERE for our NEW teacher classroom packages expressly created for educators of Elementary, Middle and High School students.

Happenings at the Dalí

Be sure to visit our Events page HERE for current happenings at the Dalí Museum.

Your Ideas!

The Museum welcomes your Dali and Surrealism-related lesson plans and curriculum ideas. If you have ideas or lesson plans that you think would be helpful additions to the Museum's Teacher Guide, please contact the Education department. When we add to our online resources, we will include teacher and school profiles as well - not only to give authorial credit, but also to fill in the educational context behind each activity.

STUDENT SURREALIST ART EXHIBITIONS

Student Surrealist Art Shows, 2012

This Year's Theme: "Strangely Familiar"

One of the hallmarks of Surrealism is its ability to defamiliarize: to create something unique, unexpected and unfamiliar from one’s everyday surroundings in order to surprise, shock and disturb. Surrealism invites us into a world where even the most seemingly insignificant occurrences of everyday life can be made strange. With this year’s exhibit, we invite the students to explore the “Strangely Familiar” by employing several techniques used by the Surrealists:

Dislocation: Familiar objects are placed in an odd, bizarre, humorous, or unusual setting.

Juxtaposition: Two or more unrelated images are placed side by side; creating unexpected object combinations.

Transformation/Metamorphosis: Familiar images are changed in form, appearance, nature, condition, character or function to become unusual or strange.

The annual Student Surrealist Art Exhibitions are open to public and private middle and high schools in Pinellas and Hillsborough Counties. Teachers should send their students art works to:

Daliwood Student Film Competition and Exhibition , 2012

This Year's Theme: "Strangely Familiar"

Click HERE for a Call for Entry

Daliwood is an annual juried film competition of Pinellas and Hillsborough County middle and high school students. This exhibition provides an opportunity to see how, eight decades later, the ideas of Surrealist filmmakers still influence new generations of artists. Click HERE to visit the Daliwood page.

Click HERE to visit our Student Work page for more information about

2010-2011 Student Surrealist Art Exhibitions