{"id":444830,"date":"2026-11-02T05:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T05:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/444830\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T05:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T05:28:09","slug":"tampa-museum-of-art-brings-third-grade-lessons-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/444830\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Museum Of Art Brings Third Grade Lessons To Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Third grade students in Hillsborough County are getting a new opportunity to connect classroom lessons with art through an expanded educational field trip program at the Tampa Museum of Art.<\/p>\n

The museum has developed new tours specifically around the third grade curriculum, giving students a hands-on way to explore topics they are learning in school. Developed in collaboration with local educators, the tours align with Florida academic standards and incorporate world cultures, elements of art and principles of design, storytelling and English\/language arts vocabulary.<\/p>\n

\u201cThird grade is a pivotal year, when students begin connecting ideas across subjects and discovering how they see the world,\u201d said Tom Hochhausler, Penny and Jeff Vinik interim executive director of the Tampa Museum of Art. \u201cBy aligning our tours with what teachers are already teaching, we\u2019re making the museum a true extension of the classroom.\u201d<\/p>\n

During each visit, students explore all of the museum\u2019s galleries and participate in critical-thinking conversations centered on four works of art from the museum\u2019s ancient, modern and contemporary collections. One conversation incorporates See\/Think\/Wonder, an artful thinking routine used in all Hillsborough County Public Schools elementary art classrooms.<\/p>\n

Teachers also receive a lesson plan aligned with Florida State Standards for Visual Art and English Language Arts and can share specific learning objectives with museum educators.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe worked side by side with elementary art teachers and third-grade teachers to understand how to best engage with their students and what they are learning throughout the year,\u201d said Danette Albino, manager for K-12 Learning and Access at the Tampa Museum of Art. \u201cCombining our experience with teacher expertise results in a seamless experience that ties each student\u2019s time at the museum directly to their work in the classroom.\u201d<\/p>\n

The program is funded in part through the Hillsborough County school referendum approved by voters in November 2024. A portion of the funding supports educational field trips, helping students experience cultural and educational institutions throughout the community.<\/p>\n

The museum expects approximately 11,000 students to participate during the 2026-27 school year, with capacity for up to 15,000.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is exactly what our community\u2019s investment in our students was intended to do,\u201d said Superintendent Van Ayres. \u201cThrough the millage, we are able to cover admission for students to visit cultural and educational institutions like the Tampa Museum of Art.\u201d<\/p>\n

Located at 120 W. Gasparilla Plaza in downtown Tampa, the museum\u2019s Vinik Family Education Center provides more than 8,000 square feet for school tours, studio classes and educational programs.<\/p>\n

For more information, visit https:\/\/tampamuseum.org\/<\/a> or call 813-274-8130.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Third grade students in Hillsborough County are getting a new opportunity to connect classroom lessons with art through…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-444830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}