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The Kennedy Center: Sharing Google Docs and Slides With Students
The Kennedy Center Digital Learning lessons now use Google Docs and Google Slides to match the tech-savvy skills of both the learner and instructor. Having some familiarity with these digital tools prior to implementation will improve...
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The Kennedy Center: Gene Kelly
Kennedy Center Past Honorees provides a nice, concise biography on the life and career of Gene Kelly. Details of the article include information on his achievements in TV and film, dance, choreography, and directing.
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The Kennedy Center: Jerome Robbins
The John F. Kennedy Center provides an in-depth biography on ballet choreographer Jerome Robbins that discusses his many achievements and works.
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The Kennedy Center: Stephen Sondheim
A biography is presented on lyricist Stephen Sondheim from the John F. Kennedy Center. Included are details on his works and achievements, along with commentary by Sondheim and his contemporaries.
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The Kennedy Center: Steve Martin
Interesting biographical details on the life and career of comic actor, Steve Martin, a Kennedy Center Honoree in 2007.
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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...
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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...
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The Kennedy Center: Perfect Pitch
Perfect Pitch is an interactive learning environment that lets you form orchestras and create your own orchestral arrangements of music from the baroque, classical, romantic, and modern periods. Clever game design, including a...
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The Kennedy Center: Blues Journey
Trace the history of the blues in America through the play, Blues Journey, based on the book by Walter Dean Myers. You can see video clips of the stage play, listen to blues radio shows, and learn about different types of blues music.
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The Kennedy Center: Arts Edge: City Dionysia: The Ancient Roots of Modern Theater
Media-rich site explains the development of theater practice in ancient Greece and compares Greek dramatic forms and purposes with contemporary theater practices. Learners can then write and stage their own original plays to demonstrate...
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The Kennedy Center: Chinese Instruments
Help your young scholars identify and classify Western instruments and traditional Chinese instruments.
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The Kennedy Center: Rudolf Serkin
The life, career, and achievements of pianist Rudolf Serkin is chronicled in this biography presented by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
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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...
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The Kennedy Center: Five Artists of the Mexican Revolution
In this 9-12 instructional activity, students 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...
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The Kennedy Center: Oceans: A Sensory Haiku
In this lesson plan, students use the ocean and their five senses as inspirations to create their own unique haikus. Lesson provides assessment criteria and a list of sources.
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The Kennedy Center: String Instruments and Pitch
After learning about different stringed instruments, students create their own and then investigate how length and width of the strings affect the pitch. Lesson includes handouts, a rubric, a bibliography, and links.
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The Kennedy Center: What Is Jazz?
This eight-page tutorial on jazz answers several basic questions (what is jazz, how did it develop) and keeps the topic of the tutorial focused within the realm of the African American understanding of jazz and focusing on its impact on...
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The Kennedy Center: Arthur Mitchell
A biography on dance legend Arthur Mitchell discusses his establishment of the Dance Theatre of Harlem and the impact it has had on the world of dance, music, and theatre.
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The Kennedy Center: Agnes De Mille
This page provides a wonderful overview of the life and accomplishments of choreographer Agnes de Mille. It lists the many ballets that she choreographed throughout her life.
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The Kennedy Center: Katherine Dunham
A great biography on the life of dancer/choreographer Katherine Dunham gives information on her childhood, her achievements in dance and choreography, and her life after retiring from the dance world.
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The Kennedy Center: Andrew Lloyd Webber
Features comprehensive biographical details on "the most successful composer of our time", Andrew Lloyd Weber. His play, "The Phantom of the Opera", is the longest running musical in Broadway history and he has won an Oscar, a Golden...
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The Kennedy Center: Smokey Robinson
Read enlightening biographical details on the life and career of Motown singing star, Smokey Robinson, whose music has been described as "poetry".
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The Kennedy Center: Brian Wilson
Learn many biographical facts about composer and singer, Brian Wilson. As a member of American band, The Beach Boys, he helped define California "surf" music.
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The Kennedy Center: Biography of George Carlin
Explores the life and career of award winning comedian, television and film actor, and New York Times best selling author, George Carlin, who passed away on June 22, 2008.