Community Arts Partner

Participant Details

Community Arts Partner Name
Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP)
Partner Type
1
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Individual Bio or
Organizational Statement
The Museum of Pop Culture’s mission is to make creative expression a life-changing force by offering experiences that inspire and connect our communities. MoPOP's education programs use the universe of pop culture to inspire curiosity, invite open dialogue, foster collaboration and creative thinking, and provide equitable access to all.

Contact Information

First Name
Erin
Last Name
Shupe
Address
120 6th Ave N
Address 2
City
Seattle
State
WA
Zip
98109
Phone
206-262-3239

Grade Levels Preferred

Grade Levels Preferred
K-2, 3rd - 5th, 6th - 8th, 9th - 12th

Artistic Disciplines

Discipline
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Type
Our programs are incredibly versatile and can be applied to many curricula focuses! Including language arts, social studies, math, science, technology, visual and performing arts. We offer online resources, virtual programming, and in-person programming to bring the MoPOP experience to you.

Experience

Previous School Partnerships
Overlake Specialty School, Islander Middle School, Seattle Girls School, Truman High School, Rising Star Elementary, Sky Valley Education Center, B.F. Day Elementary, Carl Sandburg Elementary & Discovery Community School, Phantom Lake Elementary, Rainier View Elementary, John Muir Elementary, Crest Learning Center, Holy Family Bilingual Catholic School, Greenlake Elementary, KidsCo at Adams Elementary, Mount Rainier High School, Hazel Wolf Elementary, Hawthorne Elementary, Bailey Gatzert, Renton Prep Christian School, Whittier Kids Summer Camp, LAUNCH, Garfield High School, Emerald City School
Other Trainings or Certifications
Sample Lesson Description: Student / Classroom Residencies

Livestream Workshops

LIVE from inside the museum, it’s MoPOP!  We are excited to announce new livestream workshops for the 2020-2021 school year.  With discussions and lessons led by our museum educators, students will explore live museum content and collaborate on curriculum-linked activities.
Shape Shifters: The Art and Math of Costume Design Investigate how shapes inspire costume designers and transform shapes to create your own sketch!
  • Explore character and setting using some of your favorite Disney heroes and villains
  • Discover composite shapes and shape transformations (flips, rotations, and size) used by costume designers
  • Practice visual literacy by examining artifacts in the Heroes and Villains: The Art of the Disney Costume exhibit
  • Apply these ideas to sketch an original costume design
  • Extension Activity: Following your livestream workshop, keep exploring costumes with design challenges that reinforce shape transformations, and introduce texture and color as design elements.
(Grades K2)
The Hero's Journey Embark on a hero’s journey using pop culture examples like Black Panther, Moana, and more!
  • Examine common character types found in heroic stories using artifacts from MoPOP’s Fantasy: Worlds of Myth and Magic exhibition
  • Identify the three stages of the hero’s journey (Departure, Initiation, and Return) and use them to analyze stories and other pop culture examples
  • Apply these concepts to create your own story inspired by images
  • Extension Activity: Following your livestream workshop, use our postcard extension activity to visually identify the three stages of your own hero’s journey story
(Grades 38)
Building New Worlds: Sci-Fi Story Builder How do sci-fi stories like WALL-E allow us to explore big issues and problems we face today
  • Explore how science fiction stories are inspired by and based on real-world characters and problems
  • Identify three common elements that science-fiction stories use to pose key questions
  • Discuss how sci-fi stories use utopias and dystopias to establish settings
  • Work together to create our own original sci-fi story with characters inspired by artifacts in MoPOP’s Infinite Worlds of Science Fiction exhibition
  • Extension Activity: Following your livestream workshop, apply what you’ve learned to identify your own “what if” question, create your characters, and begin writing your own sci-fi story
(Grades 58)
Cli-Fi: How Sci-Fi Fights Climate Change Investigate how science fiction can help us understand and address climate change in this livestream class!
  • Learn the basics of Earth’s climate and the proven causes of climate change and global warming
  • Discover how science fiction helps us explore the real future impacts of global warming
  • Understand that science fiction creators rely on real technology to imagine future worlds
  • Investigate how science-fiction technology inspires modern climate solutions
  • Use MoPOP science-fiction artifacts to inspire technological solutions to climate crises
  • Extension Activity: Take a closer look at how your actions contribute to climate change and design a solution! Calculate your carbon footprint, research current climate technology, and apply your research to design a device to help reduce global design a device to help reduce global warming.
(Grades 5-8)
Architecture Tour: Inside Frank Gehry’s MoPOP Explore one of Seattle’s most unusual buildings in this livestream architecture workshop!
  • Learn about the art and science of designing buildings by examining architecture as a form of visual art
  • Explore common design elements used by Frank Gehry (MoPOP’s architect)
  • Identify the science and engineering required to create our unusual building
  • Take a virtual tour through MoPOP
  • Extension Activity: MoPOP’s design was inspired by music…what will inspire your museum? Identify colors, textures, shapes, and iconic elements as you design a museum inspired by your own interests.
(Grades 5–12)
This Machine Kills Fascists Based on Woody Guthrie’s iconic activist slogan, “This Machine Kills Fascists” this class is a study of what creative people do when they experience injustice and an exploration of the “machines” we all can use to make a difference.
  • Dive into the creative work of three modern day activists and examine the tools they use to inspire change.
  • Students will use a personal journal to reflect on the issues that are important to them.
  • Begin a customized plan to participate in meaningful activist work.
  • Extension Activity: Following your livestream workshop, your students will take a deeper look at their own pop culture interests and analyze how they can be used to enhance their own activist project.
(Grades 6-12)

Outreach Kits

MoPOP has created a brand new Outreach Kit program to bring to your school. Journey to the Cave of Bemagorn: A Collaborative Math Adventure Grades 4-12 This traveling kit brings classic fantasy role-playing games alive with a fully-produced audio adventure and interactive props and puzzles. Students will work as a class to overcome obstacles in the sprawling Caves of Bemagorn, retrieve a magical healing gem, and save the village! Educators insert math problems into the adventure for students to solve, making the adventure customizable to any classroom.

Outreach

MoPOP Educators bring the museum experience right to your classroom with our Outreach Programs! Fantastic Creatures Embark on our Fantastic Creatures Outreach Program! You can choose between: Performance element: Join Professor Kris Garfunkle Spark and Professor Alex Danger Maze as they recount their most recent fantasy creature discovery expedition! The professors discovered beloved creatures from movies, books, and  TV, and they need your student’s help to identify them and learn more.  30-minute presentation we can bring to any size group! Optional post-performance stage visit for several classrooms. Ideal for students Grades K-4 Workshop: Your classroom will become a group of explorers, discovering never-before-found species of fantasy creatures! Taking what we already know about animal biology and habitats, we will use our imagination to create and become unique creatures. Each discovery team will get to study REAL creature specimens to inform their creations.  60-minute workshop for a group of 30 students maximum.  Ideal for students Grades 3-8 Can’t Look Away: Exploring Societal Fear Through Horror Grades 9–12 Horror films are designed to incite fear, panic, revulsion, and dread in their audiences. These films often bring to the surface hidden fears, while also giving audience members a sense of relief from strong or repressed emotions. Through horror, we can openly examine our collective fears from the safety of our seats. In Can’t Look Away: Exploring Societal Fear Through Horror, we’ll be using the horror genre to explore our shared societal fears (prejudice, climate change, death, technology, etc.) through analysis of film props, sound, lighting, and design. Horror can include intense content and topics, so we’ve designed our workshop to avoid potential triggers. The class will culminate with students creating their own collaborative piece of horror: a photo, 1-sentence story, or 30-second video.
Sample Workshop Description: Teacher Professional Development
 

Professional Development

MoPOP’s Teacher Professional Development occurs throughout the school year and features workshops, tours, curriculum development, and networking opportunities.

21-22 Professional Development Series

Costume Changes: from Disney to the Classroom (Virtual) Event date  Saturday, October 2, 2021 Event time  10:00am-12:30pm 2.5 WA State Clock Hours available This professional development workshop will give you hands-on activities you can use to explore character development through costuming and social-emotional learning in your own classroom. Educator Preview for Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop (Virtual) Event date  Friday, November 5, 2021 Event time  4:00pm-5:15pm Our Virtual Educator Previews include a virtual tour of the exhibit, discussion with our Curators, an overview of connected learning content, and time to ask questions. For this preview, we’ll be joined by Vikki Tobak, Curator and author of Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop. Hip Hop History with Massive Monkees (Virtual) Event date  Saturday, January 22, 2022 Event time  9:30am-2:00pm 4 WA State Clock Hours available Hip-hop is not only flashy and exciting but a substantial way of life rooted in community. Go beyond surface knowledge with the world-renowned Massive Monkees crew. Dancers and teaching artists Anna Banana Freeze and Jeromeskee will share local history, movement and concepts, treating each participant as a new or continuing student of breakin’ and hip-hop. You’ll walk away with ideas and activities that you can apply directly into classroom learning. STEAM Power Teacher PD (In-person at MoPOP) STEAM Power Teacher PD (in-person at MoPOP) Event date  Saturday, March 12, 2022 Event time  9:00am-2:45pm 5 WA State Clock Hours available Join MoPOP, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Discovery Center, and Pacific Science Center for a day of professional development fueled by STEAM. STEAM Power features a choice of two, 1-hour, skill-based workshops. These workshops are designed especially for educators addressing a broad spectrum of STEAM learning, highlighting key topics from each organization’s specific areas of expertise, taught by each organization’s staff and professional educators. MoPOP’s workshop- Cli-Fi: Fighting Climate Change with Science Fiction How can science fiction help students understand and address climate change? Drawing on MoPOP’s science-fiction collection, we’ll investigate how science-fiction creators link real technology with possible climate crisis futures to prompt discussions, advocate for change, and inspire new solutions. Participants will leave with tools to run simple climate experiments and sci-fi-inspired engineering challenges in their classrooms. STEAM Power Teacher PD (Virtual) STEAM Power Teacher PD (Virtual) Event date  Wednesday, March 16, 2022 Event time  4:00pm-7:15pm 3 WA State Clock Hours available Join MoPOP, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Discovery Center, and Pacific Science Center for a day of virtual professional development fueled by STEAM. STEAM Power features a choice of two, 1-hour, skill-based workshops. These workshops are designed especially for educators addressing a broad spectrum of virtual STEAM learning, highlighting key topics from each organization’s specific areas of expertise, taught by each organization’s staff and professional educators. MoPOP’s workshop- Cli-Fi: Fighting Climate Change with Science Fiction How can science fiction help students understand and address climate change? Drawing on MoPOP’s science-fiction collection, we’ll investigate how science-fiction creators link real technology with possible climate crisis futures to prompt discussions, advocate for change, and inspire new solutions. Participants will leave with tools to run simple climate experiments and sci-fi-inspired engineering challenges in their classrooms.   Our goal is to create experiences in which teachers engage with pop culture and each other; where we provide useful teaching tools that are interactive, fun, equitable for all learners, and easy to use.

Areas of Experience and Expertise

Approved Professional Development Provider
Yes
Approved Classroom Residency Provider
Yes

Lesson Plan

Integrated Art
Cultural Art

Teaching Approach

Teaching Philosophy + Approach
Our Guiding Principles We inspire curiosity by:
  • Offering space for open-ended learning and exploration of multiple perspectives
  • Using exciting, relevant, and interesting pop culture content to connect and engage all learners
  • Inviting active participation
  • Centering the learner's experience
  We invite open dialogue by:
  • Creating and maintaining an inclusive space for all open discussions
  • Encouraging active participation through intentional, scaffolded, and inquiry-based discussions
  • Supporting all learning with responsive, positive facilitation
  • Allowing participant responses and interests to drive program content
  We foster collaboration and creative thinking by:
  • Providing clear instructions and examples that support successful group work
  • Actively incorporating community insights and input
  • Defining the creative process as a team endeavor
  • Utilizing unique, engaging, object-based programming
  We provide equitable access by:
  • Prioritizing historically underrepresented creators and anti-racist content
  • Actively seeking diverse voices in our staff and teaching artists
  • Providing multiple access points that serve different types of learners
  • Reducing access barriers through scholarships, discounted fees, and community partnerships
Curriculum Integration Possibilities
Our programs are designed to integrate with many different subject areas including language arts, math, science, history, social science, digital media, visual and performing arts.
Special Skills and Areas of Expertise
MoPOP's outreach programs are designed to be flexible and fit into almost any setting. If you have any questions about whether we are the right fit for you please call or email us!
Testimonials from Schools
The kids loved it - you get to break the rules and have fun. Kids love that. I mean gosh, I love that. I think y'all did a great job managing a pretty robust lesson in an hour. -- Teacher at Islander Middle School

Fees

Fees
Due to COVID-19, we're offering special rates to make our programs more accessible Livestream Workshops Regular Rate: $75 K-12 Schools: $25 Title I Schools: $15 Outreach Kits 1 week: $30.00 2 weeks: $40.00 Each additional week: $20.00 Late and damage fees apply. Outreach Fantastic Creatures Performance - $300 (If there's more than one performance in the same location on the same day, consecutive performances cost $275 each.) Fantastic Creatures Workshop - $100 (If there's more than one workshop in the same location on the same day, the consecutive workshops are $75 each.) Can't Look Away: Exploring Societal Fear Through Horror Workshop - $100 (If there's more than one workshop in the same location on the same day, the consecutive workshops are $75 each.) Additional costs include an administrative fee of $50 and TBD travel fees. Discounts and scholarships available, message for more information.

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