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John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
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...
Crayola
Crayola: Castle in the Sun (Lesson Plan)
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...
Province of British Columbia
British Columbia Ministry of Education: Drama 8 to 10 [Pdf]
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.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Storytelling in Ritual and Performance in Bali
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,...
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Beyond Food & Fiestas: Creating Authentic Cultural Experiences in the Classroom
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...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Harmony and Counterpoint Ii
A complete, undergraduate level online class on harmony in music. Resource includes all course materials, projects, examples, assignments and exams with solutions.
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Chivalry and Courtly Love
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...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Jack & the Giants and the Math Challenge
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.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Rotation, Reflection, and Translation in Dance
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...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Jack & Hardy Hard Head
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.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Jack & the Giants: Jack Spends His Pay
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....
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Jack & the Zero Clan
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,...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Math + Art: Graph a Dance
In this lesson, students will choreograph a figure for a square dance, graph it, and perform it. Media resources and teacher materials are included.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Dance Space
In this lesson, students students explore locomotor and non-locomotor movement and calculate the area needed to perform the African-American dance Zudio.
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Five Artists of the Mexican Revolution
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,...
Buck Institute
Buck Institute for Education: 3 5 Creativity Innovation Rubric (Non Ccss)
[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....
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
Educational Leadership: Art and Science of Teaching /Cognitive Verbs and Cc
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...
US Department of Education
Nces: The Nation's Report Card (Naep)
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,...
Other
Career One Stop: Career and Cluster Videos
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.
Other
American Symphony Orchestra League
Explore the fine arts at this site! The American Symphony Orchestra League provides resources on orchestra interest and service areas.
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Sir William Gilbert
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...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra: Live Exploration
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...
Other
Stratford Shakespeare Festival: Homepage
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...
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: William Shakespeare
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...