[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a teacher's resource that prepares students for a trip to the Victoria and Albert Museum's "Theatre and Performance" galleries to explore the process of performance including creating,...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This downloadable module contains a PowerPoint lesson about how to read and perform the poem "Touch" by Hugh Lewin. A worksheet is provided that will guide students to help them reflect on the poem,...

Instructions for performing prayer, or Salat, with diagrams to show positions for praying and English translations of the daily prayers. Includes six Real Player movies showing how to perform the prayers.

For this Grade Two performance task, students observe the contents of a terrarium and explain the purpose of the water, rocks and soil inside it.

Take a one-minute tour through the history of sculpture. View a variety of sculpture techniques and be a sculpture critic. Visit the sculpture studio and learn about carving, casting and modeling. Meet artists, and see them at work....

This is an excellent guide about oboe reeds. The article covers the subjects of tone quality and stability of the reed. The author describes the "performance of a reed by using four basic criteria: response, resistance, tone quality and...

These 6 women were true triple threats: performers, celebrities - and spies! From Julia Child to Audrey Hepburn, these are 6 famous women who were secretly spies, in this episode of History Countdown. [8:41]

A series of practical pointers as to how a singer can effectively memorize music. Written by a university vocal performing artist.

This script of a play was created by 4th grade students at the Genesee Community Charter School in Rochester, New York, as part of a learning expedition on the Revolutionary War and the birth of the United States. Students wrote,...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource provides a list of performance tasks that have been assigned to from 1998 to 2010.

In the mid-20th century, people thought of robots as futuristic tools. But in the 21st century, robots are not a figment of our imaginations, but are a part of our reality. Robots even perform tasks that humans can't do. In this...

A script for Richard Swallow's version of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale, Hansel and Gretel, is provided in this reader's theater performance. Nine character roles are needed in this activity. A glossary accompanies the text of this script.

This article looks at applying the Big6 process to issues raised by No Child Left Behind legislation. The goal of the Big6 process is to improve performance by improving thinking through application of information technology skills. This...

After learning about Fernand Leger's sculpture, students 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.

What is a hysterectomy? How common are hysterectomies? How is a hysterectomy performed? These and other questions are answered on this page.

A learning module on the significance of a declaration of independence by a country. It includes several supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and source materials, followed by a summative performance task. Students will...

By watching and performing several simple experiments, students develop an understanding of the properties of air: it has mass, it takes up space, it can move, it exerts pressure, it can do work.

This lesson will introduce vocabulary terms spend, save and donate. As a class, they will discuss, sing and perform the song "You Can Bank on Me. " The learners will learn reasons that people choose to donate.

The text of Act V of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, accompanied by audio narration. Be sure to advance to subsequent (or to other acts of the play) using the buttons at the top. Includes audio narration, performance clips, discussion...

In the NGSS, one of the performance expectations is for the children to develop a model to represent the shapes and kinds of land and bodies of water in an area. In the science practices, the children also must develop and use models....

Perform investigation of water and interactions with water with anticipation guides.

A biography of famed country music singer Charley Pride, one of few African Americans in the industry to both perform at and be inducted to the Grand Ole Opry.

In this performance task, students will assume the role of an aerospace engineer. Students will develop wing and engine design solutions.

For this activity, students apply their knowledge of buoyancy and ship stability to design a model ship. They test, evaluate, and refine the design of the model to optimize performance. Background information and other activities are...