School Visits and Curriculum
Free • Grades K–12 • Mornings/Early Afternoons
Make Sag Harbor Cinema your classroom.
Bring your students for free film screenings paired with standards-aligned, multimodal lesson plans that integrate seamlessly with your curriculum, deepening learning, strengthening visual literacy, and sparking critical thinking and creative expression.
Let’s plan your visit together!
Email education@sagharborcinema.org to kick things off.
K-12 Classroom Connections
Read about some of our previous school collaborations below.
For your visit, the available films will vary. Lesson plans are designed for your grade level and learning goals.
Elementary School
The Sag Harbor Elementary Kindergarten class screened A Bug’s Life (dir. John Lasseter & Andrew Stanton) as a part of their KinderGARDEN class theme.
Teachers implemented a tailored post-screening lesson—aligned to the class theme and level—that students completed to reinforce and deepen learning: identifying insects from the film, describing their features, and creating an insect-garden drawing.
Middle School
In a multi-school screening, French language students from Pierson Middle & High School and East Hampton High School watched The 400 Blows (dir. François Truffaut).
A pre-screening lesson introduced Truffaut, the French New Wave, and coming-of-age themes to prime viewing. After the film, students compared international posters for the movie and designed their own, translating insight into design.
High School
Through a partnership with Pierson High School, social studies students attended a 35mm screening of the documentary Farmingville (dir. Carlos Sandoval & Catherine Tambini).
Built around a New York Times article, the pre-screening lesson introduced themes of immigration, labor, and housing. After the film, Sandoval and OLA’s Youth Connect led a Q&A that encouraged reflection on the film’s complex social questions.