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Some lesson plans are only available in Adobe Acrobat format. Get the reader. Beyond the Frame (Grades 4–12) Botany and Art and Their Roles in Conservation (Grades 3–12) The Art and Life of William H. Johnson (Grades K–12) Abraham Lincoln: The Face of a War (Grades 4–12) Teaching with Collections (Grades PreK–8) Introduction to the Nature Journal (Grades K–12) Portraits Visual and Written (Grades 4–12) A Shape-Note Singing Lesson (Grades 3–8) Every Picture Has a Story (Grades 3–8) Making Friends with Franklin (Grades 3–8) Discovery Theater Teaching Resources (Grades pre-K–6) Japan: Images of a People (Grades 3–8) Landscape Painting: Artists Who Love the Land (Grades 3–8) What Is Currency? Lessons from Historic Africa (Grades 3–8) Spinning Yarns, Telling Tales about Textiles (Grades 4–8) The Museum Idea (1976) (Grades 4–8) The Museum Idea (1978) (Grades 4–8) Spring at the Smithsonian (An Incipient Case of Puppetmania) (Grades 4–8) Playing Historical Detective: Great Grandmother’s Dress and Other Clues to the Life of Annie Steel (Grades PreK–8) What Can You Do with a Portrait? (Grades PreK–8) House Keys (Grades 4–8) Kiting Up the Sky: The Vehicles of Understanding (Grades PreK–3) Memorials: Art for Remembering (Grades 4–8) Girl Preparing Ink by Nishikawa Sukenobu, 1671–1751 Edo period Color, black and gold on silk Freer Gallery of Art accession number 99.19 35 x 65.7 cm (13 13/16 "x 25 7/8") 1997 Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution This image is from the lesson plan Japan: Images of a People.