Series
Kids Explain Art to Experts
3 episodes
Kids Explain Art to Experts is a short, playful gallery game from Google Arts & Culture. In each episode a young child stands before a famous painting and describes it out loud: the colors, the people, what seems to be happening. Two art experts then try to guess the work from those words alone. There is no lecture and no jargon: the fun is a five- or nine-year-old noticing exactly what a masterpiece shows. For a K–5 art class it is a lively model of looking closely and putting a picture into words, turning American Gothic, Vermeer, and Frida Kahlo into a guessing game anyone can play.
What Kids Explain Art to Experts covers
3 episodes in the library, tagged for K–5th. Heaviest coverage: Art. Between them they line up with 2 distinct standards across 1 framework.
Episodes per grade
- K
- 2
- 1st
- 3
- 2nd
- 3
- 3rd
- 3
- 4th
- 3
- 5th
- 1
Episodes per subject
- Art
- 3
National Core Arts 2
- VA:Re7.2.KDescribe what an image represents.
- VA:Re8.1.1Interpret art by categorizing subject matter and identifying the characteristics of form.
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