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John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

For Students Pre-K - 1st
One of the finest sites of its kind on the Internet, ArtsEdge is dedicated to supporting arts education through such initiatives as curriculum development, cross-curricular teaching, and technology integration. Find arts-related...
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Crayola

Crayola: Castle in the Sun (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This lesson plan incorporates art, drama, social studies, and language arts. Students use recycled paper and boxes to create a castle, then use it as inspiration to write and act out their own play. (To access this lesson plan, you must...
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Province of British Columbia

British Columbia Ministry of Education: Drama 8 to 10 [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A curriculum document with suggested activities and resources for teaching drama in grades 8-10. Explores imagination and basic drama skills such as body, voice, and technique.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Storytelling in Ritual and Performance in Bali

For Students 9th - 10th
Balinese stories are continually told and retold. The Kayonan is the first and last puppet seen in the Balinese wayang shadow theater. As it dances, it symbolizes the living tradition of storytelling that deeply explains and entertains,...
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John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Beyond Food & Fiestas: Creating Authentic Cultural Experiences in the Classroom

For Students 9th - 10th
As educators, we are eager to provide cultural experiences for our students. Songs, dances, traditional dress, food, and relevant objects are wonderful ways to interest students in a variety of cultures. But when you take it a step...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Harmony and Counterpoint Ii

For Students 9th - 10th
A complete, undergraduate level online class on harmony in music. Resource includes all course materials, projects, examples, assignments and exams with solutions.
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John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Chivalry and Courtly Love

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this 9-12 lesson, students will explore the Arthurian codes of chivalry and courtly love as portrayed in art, modern films, books, and poetry. They will examine the way in which these ideals have influenced our modern concepts of...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Jack & the Giants and the Math Challenge

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
For this lesson, students create and solve a word problem related to counting money, develop a script for a short scene, and perform it using the elements of performance. Teacher resources are provided.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Rotation, Reflection, and Translation in Dance

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this instructional activity, learners choreograph a dance figure by creating a dance graph with descriptions of rotation, reflection, and translation; perform it for their classmates; and translate a classmate's dance map into a...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Jack & Hardy Hard Head

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
In this lesson, middle schoolers create and solve problems related to scale and write and perform a scene to share their problems and solutions. Media resources and teacher materials are included.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Jack & the Giants: Jack Spends His Pay

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, students will create and solve word problems involving money (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of decimals), and develop a script for a short scene and perform it using the elements of performance....
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Jack & the Zero Clan

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this activity, students will create and solve a word problem related to adding and subtracting within 1,000, develop a script for a short scene using dialect, and perform it using the elements of performance, specifically acting,...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Math + Art: Graph a Dance

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, students will choreograph a figure for a square dance, graph it, and perform it. Media resources and teacher materials are included.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Dance Space

For Students K - 1st
In this lesson, students students explore locomotor and non-locomotor movement and calculate the area needed to perform the African-American dance Zudio.
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John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Five Artists of the Mexican Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th
In this 9-12 lesson plan, learners will create original artwork demonstrating the style of an early 20th-century artist of the Mexican Revolution. They will research how art was influenced or created in response to major events, artists,...
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Buck Institute

Buck Institute for Education: 3 5 Creativity Innovation Rubric (Non Ccss)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] The first part of this rubric helps teachers guide students in grades 3-5 in using an effective process for innovation in various phases of a project, and it can be used to assess their performance....
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Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)

Educational Leadership: Art and Science of Teaching /Cognitive Verbs and Cc

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) present a new mandate and challenge for K-12 educators-teaching and reinforcing cognitive verbs. These verbs, referred to as academic vocabulary, signal the type of mental operations that students...
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US Department of Education

Nces: The Nation's Report Card (Naep)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The Nation's Report Card, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), is the only nationally representative and continuing assessment of what America's students know and can do in various subject areas. Since 1969,...
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Other

Career One Stop: Career and Cluster Videos

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource offers online career videos in 16 industry areas to learn about the type of work performed in a variety of jobs in each industry area.
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Other

American Symphony Orchestra League

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the fine arts at this site! The American Symphony Orchestra League provides resources on orchestra interest and service areas.
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Sir William Gilbert

For Students 9th - 10th
Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (18 November 1836 - 29 May 1911) was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for his fourteen comic operas produced in collaboration with the composer Sir Arthur Sullivan, of which...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra: Live Exploration

For Students 9th - 10th
Take a special trip to the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra with GPB Education! This interactive virtual exploration offers students a behind-the-scenes experience as they learn about the science of sound and the preparation it takes to put on...
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Other

Stratford Shakespeare Festival: Homepage

For Students 9th - 10th
The Stratford Shakespeare Festival is held yearly in Ontario. This commercial site provides information about the festival, the plays that will be performed each year, and the artists who take part in the festival. Also contains...
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: William Shakespeare

For Students 9th - 10th
A portrait of William Shakespeare, an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminate dramatist. His surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long...