Color Our Collections is a characteristic of the Smithsonian Learning Lab. Within the gathering you’ll discover coloring pages based mostly on a number of the artwork work housed by the Smithsonian. One of the units of coloring pages that was not too long ago featured in a Smithsonian Learning Lab electronic mail was this assortment of coloring pages based mostly on portraits housed within the National Portrait Gallery.
Some of the portraits included within the National Portrait Gallery coloring pages are of Rosa Parks, Thelonious Monk, Thomas Edison, and George Washington. Each coloring web page within the assortment seems subsequent to a picture of the unique portrait. By clicking on the picture of the portrait college students can learn concerning the individual featured within the portrait. The description accompanying every portrait additionally consists of some details about the artist who painted the portrait.
Like most collections within the Smithsonian Learning Lab, the National Portrait Gallery coloring pages could be shared in your LMS of alternative and could be embedded into pages inside your personal web site.
Applications for Education
Having college students shade a number of the National Portrait Gallery coloring pages could possibly be a pleasant method for younger college students to be launched to some important folks in U.S. historical past.
The New York Academy of Medicine has the same assortment of historic photos which have been become coloring pages for college students. You can study extra about that assortment on this weblog publish.