Explore resources for Michigan schools that empower K–12 students to explore and experience the arts in transformative ways.
Let your young learners get hands-on with real objects in the classroom! The MSU Museum has learning resources from its cultural collections available for loan to schools for free.
A Creative Classroom visit with the MSU Broad Art Museum brings art supplies, a fun presentation featuring art from the museum, and an art project that encourages creativity, student voice, and community building right into your school.
The Disney Musicals in Schools program at Wharton Center—the only program of its kind in the state—is designed to build sustainable theater programs in public elementary and middle schools. Schools receive free performance rights, scripts, and music for a KIDS or Junior version of a Disney musical, written for elementary and middle school performers.
Wharton Center’s Sutton Foster Awards is a yearlong program for high schools that helps them hone their skills in musical theatre, culminating in an awards showcase that sends two Michigan students to New York City to compete in the national “Jimmy Awards.”
This Wharton Center program connects professional arts educators to K–5 classrooms in Mid-Michigan. These workshops serve to enhance the classroom learning by connecting curriculum to an artistic practice, and all content is customizable to the curriculum and grade level.
The MSU Museum offers curriculum-linked object-based learning experiences for grades 6–12. These guides provide teachers with participatory lesson plans that use items from the museum’s collection to better understand history and the world aorund them.
