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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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Partnership for 21st Century Skills: Skills Map for the Arts [Pdf]

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Arts education is part of the backbone of the 21st Century skills movement. The Partnership for 21st Century Skills had designed a map that provides examples of collaboration, communication, creativity, innovation, critical thinking,...
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Arts Connect Ed Playground Make It

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Eight fun on-line art activities where young artists get to create, color, and design.
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Harvard University: Project Zero: Artful Thinking

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
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...
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Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Albright Knox Art Gallery: Personified Sculpture

For Teachers K - 1st
After learning about Fernand Leger's sculpture, young scholars will learn basic concepts of modern dance, create their own movements, select sounds or music, and combine all of these in a modern dance performance.
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Jefferson County Schools: Art Presentations

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This site has links to a collection of PowerPoint presentations prepared by teachers for the Performing Arts and for Visual Arts.
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Go!

For Students K - 1st
This educational tool is for children in grades 3-5. Provides information on art, music, language arts, science, social studies, and more using games and videos.
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Pequeno Artista (Brazil)

Pequeno Artista

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Site focuses on children's arts, including visual arts, poetry, music, painting, short stories, film, books, dance, and games. Also offers some fun science projects and interesting facts to enhance a child's overall knowledge of his/her...
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Rand Corp.: Gifts of the Muse: Reframing Debate About Benefits of the Arts [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
With schools cutting costs, often times arts educators must justify why what they teach is important. This study in pdf format addresses many of the positive outcomes of arts education for students. Many of the benefits relate to 21st...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Math and Art: Collection

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This collection of 25 lesson plans uses dance, drama, music, and visual arts to teach math concepts.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Colorful and Musical Feelings

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, students will communicate their emotions through drama, art, and poetry. Mouse Paint, by Ellen Stohl Walsh, Hailstones and Halibut Bones, by Mary O'Neill, and Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" will be used during this engaging...
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Reading With Cups, and More! [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, learners will explore how music and language arts naturally overlap to promote literacy as they cultivate their creative and critical thinking.
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Reading With Cups, and More! [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, students will explore how music and language arts naturally overlap to promote literacy as they cultivate their creative and critical thinking.
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Counting With Cups, and More! [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Help learners recognize and cultivate creative and critical thinking using various activities that connect math and music!
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Creating a Compelling Story [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
Using music from a wide variety of cultures, students will develop good listening skills and write from the heart using their own voices. This aural exercise will help students begin to think creatively.
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Americans for the Arts

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Find a collection of resources, from a leading arts advocacy organization, that supports an integrated approach to arts education in the school, in the community, and at home.
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PBS

Pbs: Maya and Miguel, Games

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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.
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Our Africa: South Africa: People & Culture

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The vast diversity of South Africa is identified through the tribes, art, music, and dance.
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Westminster Library: Homework Help

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This library resource offers homework help for elementary school students from kindergarten through fifth grade. Topics include geology, literacy, art, music, world culture, current events and many others.
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Children's Music Workshop: Twelve Benefits of Music Education

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The benefits of music education are revealed in many studies. This article briefly lists 12 benefits of the value of music education, some of which relate to 21st century skills. In addition, users have access to a list of other music...
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Core Knowledge Lesson Plans Art and Music

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
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...
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PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Sunday Arts: Archive

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Use the archive page of SundayArts to search for past feature stories, SundayArts videos, and SundayArts blogs.
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Benefits of Music Education

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The benefits of music education are numerous. This well written article contains many quotes from various sources as to why music education is essential towards developing skills that will enhance the lives of children.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: The Arts in Every Classroom: Teaching Music

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Two different schools are chosen as examples of varying approaches to best practices of teaching music. The video, interviews, and other resources are good for classroom teachers and for music specialist teachers. Classroom teachers can...

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