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Dance Teacher Magazine

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the online site of Dance Teacher Magazine, which provides information, assistance, and ideas for professionals with careers as dance teachers.
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Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing: Dance Kids

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A site dedicated to dance topics made specifically for kids who love dance. Loads of activities, stories, and pictures.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Dance

For Students 9th - 10th
Dance shows a tribal dance and accopmanying music and asks the student to answer the question What would happen if you expressed yourself this way in our society?
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Pbs Learning Media: Dance Theatre of Harlem

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the Dance Theatre of Harlem is this segment from A Walk Through Harlem.
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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: The Absolute Value of Dance

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
In this lesson, students use a graph to choreograph a dance figure. Media resources and teacher materials are included.
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Dance Mama Dance by Daniel Beaty

For Students 7th - 8th
Daniel Beaty is an award-winning actor, singer, writer, and poet. His productions are known for incorporating music, movement, and words. In this poem, the speaker discusses their mother and their wish to see her dance. It also provides...
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Reading Discussion Guide: To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
To Dance is a graphical memoir of Siena Cherson Siegel, a young girl growing up in Puerto Rico who eventually came to New York to study with the School of American Ballet. It captures the passion of the artist, as well as the discipline...
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PBS

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

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, young scholars 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 performance....
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Gus Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago

For Students 9th - 10th
Information about the Gus Giordano Jazz Dance Company, includes company history.
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Canadian Dance Family Tree Project

For Teachers 9th - 10th
You have to purchase materials for this project, but the material can be used in many different ways. Great for a Drama teacher with a dance background.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Discussion Guide: Song and Dance Man

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Scholastic presents this discussion guide of "Song and Dance Man" by Karen Ackerman. The guide includes discussion questions, extension activities, and more.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: Jazz and the African American Literary Tradition

For Students 9th - 10th
Article explores the influence of jazz on African American literature from the early history of jazz, noted jazz artists, the black-white tensions within jazz, to its literary influence after World War II.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Max's Math Adventures: Subtraction Square Dance

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This site has a square dance rhyme with some fun subtraction practice. Teachers will appreciate the activity page, the extra challenges, and the teacher's guide for easy lesson planning.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Tales From the Hive

For Students 9th - 10th
Examine how bees use a variety of dances to communicate the location, quality and quantity of a food source to their hivemates.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts, Grade 10: Henrietta's Dance

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students consider the importance of leaving a legacy and the myriad ways that we can leave a legacy, through our language, our families, or even our cells. Students also explore the issue of ownership and ethics of medical research. This...
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Robert Cormier

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site features information on the life and work of the author Robert Cormier. Links to sites focused on specific books and a bibliography are found within this resource.
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South Carolina Educational Television

South Carolina Etv Commission: Artopia

For Students 9th - 10th
Artopia is utopia for artists and artist wannabes alike. Each gallery allows students to complete interactive activities, watch videos, read about artists, and practice being an art critic. The gallery areas are music, theater painting,...
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Institution: Barn Again! Celebrating an American Icon

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
The Smithsonian Institute provides a teacher's guide full of lessons to accompany its traveling exhibition "Barn Again! Celebrating an American Icon". This exhibit explores the roles of barns in American society both past and future.
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia

Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Aboriginal: Sports and Recreation/student Zone

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This Edukit provides learners with the opportunity to explore the Aboriginal Peoples with a focus on their Sport and Recreation. From beadwork to North American Indigenous Games, from timelines to games and images, this site is an...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Drum Beating & Foot Stomping

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In this lesson, students watch African dance and calculate tempo. Students also calculate heart beats at rest and after exercise and convert beats per second to beats per minute. Media resources and teacher materials are included.
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PBS

Pbs: p.o.v.: American Aloha (Hula Beyond Hawaii)

For Students 9th - 10th
"American Aloha" documents the work of three master teachers of hula who are attempting to preserve the Hawaiian cultural tradition of this unique dance form.
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Orca Book Publishers

Orca Book Publishers: The Summer of Magic Quartet Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 7th
The Summer of Magic Quartet novels by Andrea Spalding follow the adventures of four children as they go on magical quests. This teacher's guide for The White Horse Talisman and Dance of the Stones includes book summaries, teaching ideas...
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California State University

Csu: Arts Education K 6 Music Lessons

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Several wonderful lesson plans for teachers seeking to incorporate music into the curriculum.

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