CommonLit
Common Lit: Dancing Towards Dreams
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
PE Central
Pe Central: Create a Line Dance (Lesson Plan)
High-school students, after learning the basics of line dancing, should be able to create, demonstrate, and teach their own line dance.
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Telematique, Inc.: Dance Styles
This site from Telematique, Inc. provides a list of many different dance styles and tells the origin of them.
Stephen Byrne
History for Kids: Greek Dance
History for Kids presents an overview on the history of dance in ancient Greece, teaching us about how the Greeks valued dance in their everyday lives as a form of art as well as a skill.
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Susan Kramer: Singing While Dancing to Learn Basic Math
Students will master basic rhythmic movements and incorporate songs and rhymes into math learning. Site provides sample music selections, songs, and accompanying movements for nine activities.
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Kodak: Airborne
Beautiful, almost unrealistic, dance photography by Lois Greenfield. Her black and white prints are phenomenal! Lois reveals her secrets and techniques.
PE Central
Pe Central: Shortenin' Bread Shuffle
At this website, learn the simple steps associated with a new line dance, which can be taught as part of a gym-class activity and exercise.
Other
Careerwise Education: Dancers
A seven-part look at dancing as a career. Includes an overview of the occupations, typical activities, skill set, preparation, wages, job outlook, and a career video.
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National Aviary: Curriculum: Family Lives of Birds: How to Attract a Mate
Learn all about the diverse behaviors-sharing, dancing, singing, fighting, looking good, and showing off-that birds exhibit when attempting to attract a breeding partner. With interesting sidebars on how birds communicate and how they...
Other
Wounded Knee Museum
Virtual tour of the massacre at Wounded Knee from a museum dedicated to preserving the history of what happened there.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Mossi
The Mossi are the most prominent ethnic group in the modern nation of Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta). They are also well known in the anthropological literature as a society with an especially high rate of labor migration to...
Kenyon College
Kenyon College: North by South: The Jenkins' Orphanage Bands
If you are interested in the music for the Cakewalk, come check out the Jenkins' Orphanage Band. They played a mix of ragtime and march. Lots of cool photos.
Contemplator
Buffalo Gals
This website has interesting background information about the song, "Buffalo Gals," as well as song lyrics and a Midi file of the tune.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Pulaski, Wisconsin Polka Town, u.s.a.
The town of Pulaski, Wisconsin claims to have more musicians per capita than anywhere in the U.S. Learn about Pulaski, a town that thrives on polka music in this video segment from EGG: the arts show.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Her First Ball by Katherine Mansfield
Take a glimpse into the social practices of teens in the early 20th century and read the full text of the short story "Her First Ball" by Katherine Mansfield about a young girl's first dance.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Holidays for Kids: May Day
Kids learn about May Day. The history and facts about this holiday celebrating the start of Spring with maypole dancing.
US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Recreational Therapist
Learn about what it takes to earn a job as a recreational therapist. This website explains what recreational therapists do and overviews what education you need to enter this career. There are links to the American Therapeutic Recreation...
Treehut
Suzy's World: Bees
Use this site to find out why bees make honey with this quick fact sheet on bees.
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