West Virginia Department of Education
Technical Writing: Real-World Writing in the 21st Century
Wondering how to respond to the age-old question when will I ever use this? The answer is very simple when discussing technical writing. Teachers and administrators gain an understanding of using technical writing in the classroom....
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Core Knowledge Lesson Plans Art and Music
Core Knowledge seeks out to ensure the academic excellence for all students in grades K-8. Their foundations include the 4 S's of learning including solid principles, sequenced lessons, specified events, and shared cross-curricular...
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Teacher Tools: African Arts and Music Lesson Plans
Explore the world of African Art and Music when you check out this lesson plan. This site features learning objectives, activities and more.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Arts and Humanities: Art of Asia
A landing page for a course on the art history of Asia.
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Dayton Art Institute an African Slit Gong
Art and music are very much related. In fact, the African culture often times designed fun looking instruments like the gong on this website. Includes directions on how to make your own gong.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: Activity Starters
Be deliberate when inviting your student to watch a PBS KIDS show. These resources can help by adding meaningful conversation and easy activities to their experience.
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Harvard University: Project Zero: Artful Thinking
Find engaging ways to integrate visual art and music into regular classroom instruction and strengthen cognitive thinking skills and abilities to reason creatively from multiple perspectives. Get great classroom questioning tips, case...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Module K: Shapes
For this series of STEAM activities, students will discover the concepts of geometry through shape exploration and the creation of choreographic sequences. Another activity in this module will allow students to identify shapes by...
National Arts Centre (Canada)
Arts Alive: Music
ArtsAlive provides a website devoted to the music of the orchestra. Content includes a glossary of musical terms, biographies of significant composers, information on specific instruments, activities and games, teacher resource guides,...
National Arts Centre (Canada)
Arts Alive: Listen to Classical Music
Listen to the music of Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven, and Vivaldi. Link from this page to related information, such as biographies of these composers, commentary on their works, and educational activities that test your knowledge and...
Kinder Art
Kinder Art: Guitars as Sculpture (Lesson Plan)
Lesson plan on "Guitars as Sculpture." This is a lesson plan incorporating art, music and history. Explore the history of the guitar while making your own in a unique shape.
PBS
Pbs: Maya and Miguel, Games
Interactive and fun activity to drill vocabulary related to sports, adventure and musical instruments. Children choose the language (English or Spanish). Engaging activity for ELL learners and students of Spanish.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Sti Lesson 10: Interpretation and Meaning
Using the lyrics, music and video of a selected song (example used here is 'One' by the Irish group U2), students will explore the ways in which words, music and visual images interact to create meaning. Students will analyze the...
Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago: Art Access: Play a Painting
Find a classroom activity that can be used to enhance understanding of the relationship between music and art.
California State University
Csu: Arts Education K 6 Music Lessons
Several wonderful lesson plans for teachers seeking to incorporate music into the curriculum.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Counting With Cups, and More! [Pdf]
Help students recognize and cultivate creative and critical thinking using various activities that connect math and music!
California State University
Island Maracas
A great multicultural art instructional activity that also connects visual art to music. Students create a set of paper mache maracas emphasizing rhythm and expression in the painting details. Upon completion students will have the...
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Masks and Aesop's Fables
This multi-media visual and language arts lesson offers intellectual, creative, and interpretive opportunities through use of books, music, and the internet. It offers complete grade-leveled lesson plans for grades k-4 which include...
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Canal Kids: Arte (Explore Art?for Kids?in Portuguese)
History of the development of cinema, painting, theater, music, and dance--for kids. Visitors can explore how music is mixed, listen to radio, and watch the making of animated cartoons, among many other activities.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of African Art: Activity Room
Come discover Madagascar--its geography, animals, music and language. Test your current knowledge and learn new things too.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Connecting With the Arts: What Are Connecting Concepts?
A video workshop designed for middle school teachers. This program focuses on planning for arts integration by identifying common themes and concepts across disciplines and creating activities that bridge these disciplines. Includes...
OpenStax
Open Stax: C. M. Sunday: Music/math/literacy Unit
This lesson encourages students to actively participate while learning about music and math similarities. This site has many ideas and resources to help aid you in planning your lesson.
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Multimedia Hero Analysis
In this 9-12 lesson, students will analyze the positive character traits of heroes as depicted in music, art, and literature. They will gain an understanding of how cultures and societies have produced folk, military, religious,...
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Arts Connect Ed Playground Make It
Eight fun on-line art activities where young artists get to create, color, and design.