Teaching and learning resources
Explore our teaching resources, creative activities and in-depth broadcasts suitable for young people of all ages and backgrounds, whether you prefer to look, listen or create.
Speedy sketchbook activities
Draw together in a pair or team and explore ideas of leadership, decision-making, ownership and respect.
Use collage to bring together the different elements of a story: actors, symbols, and setting.
Welcome in elements of risk and accident in this ink-blowing activity and try making it into a mindful practice.
Record the outdoor world, both man-made and natural, by capturing many different textures.
Teach primary
Our teaching resources have been made with and for teachers. Use art by our artists and from our collection to teach your students about the climate, citizenship, emotions, and more.
Bring lessons from the art studio into the classroom using art from our artists and collection.
Explore citizenship and your place in the world using art from our artists and collection.
Using art from our artists and collection, learn about the climate crisis and how artists have responded to a changing world.
Use art from our artists and collection to discover how artists have conveyed human feelings, reactions and sensations.
Use art from our artists and collection to discover how artists and architects have worked with the body.
From the narratives artworks depict to the lives of artists, stories are at the heart of art.
Teach secondary
Use art by our artists and from our collection to teach your students about art from our collection. We're currently working on new secondary teaching resources. Tell us what you'd like to see.
Activities for young people
Our activities for young people include works from our collection and works by attRAct students. Our activities provide information and inspiration for coursework or independent learning.
The culture of learning from the work of other artists has a long history. Learn how to appropriate, quote, sample, and copy in your compositions.
Your challenge is to design your very own art gallery or museum—your institution.
Royal Academicians like Eileen Agar and Cornelia Parker are well known for their use of found objects. Try using found objects in your own art work.
Learn more about what sustainability can mean and design your own green gallery.
Throughout history, artists have made likenesses of rulers, friends, strangers, lovers, and themselves. Find out more and create your own imagined self-portrait.
The history of words and art is long and intermingled. Inspired by artists, start exploring art through writing.
Watch
Our range of short films offer introductions and tours of RA exhibitions, as well as sharing conversations with artists and behind-the-scenes visits, as we look at how their work was created.
Look closely
Explore a range of individual works from our Collection, in this series to encourage close looking.
Access resources
The Royal Academy welcomes disabled visitors, their families, friends and carers. For more information, visit our Access page.
