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PBS

Pbs: African/african American Culture: Zudio

For Students 4th - 8th
This African-American game song, emphasizing rhythm and self-expression, is sung to movements described in the lyrics and demonstrated by the children in the audience. Included are teaching tips and additional background information....
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Cristofori, Grand Piano

For Students 9th - 10th
Met curator Bradley Strauchen-Scherer on intuition in Bartolomeo Cristofori's Grand Piano, 1720. [2:35]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs: Early America: Cluck Old Hen/i Had a Rooster

For Students K - 1st
Listen to two folk songs about animals in traditional Southern style both featuring the banjo, a traditional gourd banjo on "Cluck Old Hen" and today's steel-string banjo on "I Had a Rooster." Discussion about the gourd banjo's origins...
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PBS

Pbs: African/african American Culture: Manjani

For Students 9th - 10th
The Manjani, a West African dance that celebrates an important event such as the harvest, a wedding, or a naming ceremony is performed by The Imani Dance and Drum Company. Included are teaching tips, a lesson plan, and additional...
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PBS

Pbs: Kentucky/appalachian Culture: Shady Grove/bandyrowe

For Students K - 1st
In this video folksinger Jean Ritchie performs the Appalachian tune "Shady Grove," a traditional song she learned from her family and "Bandyrowe," a song for which she made up verses to help get her two sons to sleep when they were very...
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs: Early America: Derby Ram

For Students K - 1st
Listen to a performance of the English-American song "Derby Ram", a purported favorite of George Washington, for a group of students who sing, stomp, and clap along.
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Slit Gong (Atingting Kon)

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video [2:22] Met curator Eric Kjellgren on communication in Slit Gong [Atingting kon] by the Tin Mweleun peoples of Ambrym Island in Vanuatu, mid to late 1960s. The towering slit gongs of northern Vanuatu are among the largest...
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Fernand Leger, "Contrast of Forms"

For Students 9th - 10th
1913 was a banner year for Leger. It was the year in which he figured out how to become a Leger instead of a follower of Picasso or Braque. He did a large series of paintings entitled "Contrast of Form". Each of these examined the ways...
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Introduction to Lithography

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video [2:09] find out how artists use the resistance of grease and water to create lithographs. It was originally used to make sheet music. Did you know that MoMA offers studio courses online? To learn more, check out the list of...
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PBS

Pbs: Native American Culture: Apache Dance Performance

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video segment, the Apache Crown dancers perform a traditional Crown Dance in full regalia to music. Included are teaching tips, and activity, and additional background information. [2:35]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs: African/african American Culture: E Sin Mi D'africa

For Students 9th - 10th
Watch a welcome dance that combines movements from several traditional dances of the Yoruba people of Nigeria. Included are teaching tips and additional background information. [8:18]
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Exploring Excellence: Kimani Griffin

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Top at Carnegie Hall video segment featuring a guitare performance by 17-year-old Kimani Griffin, who is also a talented speed skater. [3:24]
Instructional Video
A&E Television

History.com: Woodstock Almost Never Happened

For Students 9th - 10th
Woodstock, the iconic music festival, brought huge crowds and groundbreaking performances. But it almost never happened. Watch this video [1:01] to see why.
Instructional Video
Crash Course

Crash Course Film History #14: World Cinema Part 1

For Students 9th - 10th
This video focuses on World Cinema from Asia including Japanese films from anime to horror and period dramas to Kaiju films are still popular around the globe. It explains films from mainland China's epics and Hong Cong's martial arts...
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Caravaggio, Paintings in the Contarelli Chapel (Manortiz)

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a video [8:51] of the Caravaggio paintings in The Contarelli Chapel in San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome set to music. It includes three paintings by Caravaggio on the subject of St. Matthew - The Calling of St. Matthew, The...
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Creative Corner: Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
The Creative Corner is a weekly TV show for elementary through high school students and adults. Each video episode explores new topics through the lens of the visual and performing arts, with step-by-step instructions for at-home...
Instructional Video
Favorite Poem Project

The Favorite Poem Project: "When You Are Old" by William Butler Yeats

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video episode [10:19] from The Favorite Poem Project, Samantha Kyrkostas, a development manager who has traveled the world, and Dr. Charles Schlegel, a retired dentist and Krykostas' grandfather, share their special connection to...
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: "n.y. State of Mind" by Nas

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Multi-platinum hip hop artist Nas has a global reputation as one of the greatest emcees and lyricists in his contemporary art form, but what about within the history and canon, of American poetry? Learn alongside host Elisa New as Nas,...
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Collection: Pbs Digital Studios

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore top selections from the PBS Digital Studios library. This content is edgy and engaging, educational and thought - provoking - designed to grab your students' attention. Explore our collections curated towards design and...
Instructional Video
Crash Course

Crash Course Sociology #10: Symbols, Values, & Norms

For Students 9th - 10th
This video focuses on symbols, values, and norms. What exactly is culture? We're going to try to answer that, and explain the difference between material and non-material culture. We'll look at three things that make up culture: symbols,...
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Other

John Cage: An Autobiographical Statement

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed autobiographical statement from the composer John Cage describing the influences of his life and art.
Instructional Video
Other

Harvest ***Singing History Teachers:

For Students K - 1st
Educational music parodies by teachers and students. Covers history, economics, current events, science, art, music, grammar, literature, math, numbers, geometry etc.
Instructional Video
Tricia Fugelstad

Fugle Flicks: Deep Space

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This teacher-created music video helps to explain the illusion of depth by introducing you to foreground, middleground, background, and overlapping.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: "The Tell Tale Heart": Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore Edgar Allan Poe's famous short story, "The Tell-Tale Heart," in this video [3:05] from the American Masters film Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive. Discussion questions, teaching tips, and a student handout ask students to analyze...

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