Visual Thinking Strategies
Online Resources

Overviews

• VTS Website & Video Archive
https://vtshome.org/
https://vimeo.com/vtsvimeo

• Series of videos of Philip Yenawine discussing theory of VTS
https://www.linkedin.com/learning/visual-thinking-strategies/perspective-from-amuseum-
educator
https://vimeo.com/203107080

• Book: Visual Thinking Strategies
https://www.amazon.com/Visual-Thinking-Strategies-Learning-
Disciplines/dp/1612506097

Online Video Demonstrations

• Terra Foundation – Philip Yenawine demonstration
https://www.terraamericanart.org/what-we-offer/american-art-resources/visual-thinkingstrategies-
a-tool-for-building-visual-literacy-language-skills-and-critical-thinking/

• Aperture Foundation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-YVvNiAm6Q&ab_channel=ApertureFoundation

• NYTimes, “What’s Going On in This Picture? Philip Yenawine demo
https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/15/new-feature-whats-going-on-in-thispicture/
Series: https://www.nytimes.com/column/learning-whats-going-on-in-this-picture

VTS Resources from Other Museums

• Milwaukee Art Museum
http://teachers.mam.org/collection/teaching-with-art/visual-thinking-strategies-vts/

• MFA Boston
https://www.mfa.org/programs/school-programs/school-partnerships/visual-thinkingstrategies-
resources

• Isabella Stewert Gardner Museum:
https://www.gardnermuseum.org/organization/education/thinking-through-art


Thinking Routines
Online Resources

Online Overviews & Videos

• Project Zero
http://www.pz.harvard.edu/

• Thinking Routine Toolbox
http://www.pz.harvard.edu/thinking-routines

• Thinking Routine Video Demonstrations
http://www.pz.harvard.edu/search/resources?f%5B0%5D=sm_field_resource_type%3AV
ideo

• Thinking Routines Video Overview
https://vimeo.com/108000553

• Artful Thinking
http://pzartfulthinking.org/

Thinking Routine Museum Examples

• Philadelphia Museum of Art
http://pzartfulthinking.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Artful-Thinking-Begining-
Middle-End.pdf

• National Gallery of Art
http://pzartfulthinking.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/AT_See-Wonder-Connect.pdf