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Ducksters

Ducksters: Renaissance for Kids: Music and Dance

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about the music and dance of the European Renaissance including choirs, madrigal, instruments, composers, and movements.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Quiz: Renaissance Music and Dance

For Students 1st - 9th
History Questions: Renaissance Music and Dance Quiz, Test, and WebQuest
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Types of Dance in Renaissance

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource includes descriptions of different types of renaissance dances.
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Basse Dance Project

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features valuable information about the Renaissance dance called Basse Dance. It provides a history, dance steps, and music.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Extra! Extra! Harlem Renaissance Tribune

For Teachers 6th - 8th
From writing with Langston Hughes to dancing with Bojangles, explore 1920-30 Harlem and publish a newspaper about the arts and entertainment of this cultural renaissance that brought new energy and sound to the world.
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OpenStax

Open Stax: The Jazz Age: Redefining the Nation 1919 1929: A New Generation

For Students 11th - 12th
Looks at the new morality that emerged in the 1920s. It changed the role of women and the perception of African Americans, the latter facilitated by the Harlem Renaissance and its impact on the music and dance of the Jazz Age. Also...
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PBS

Pbs: The Story of Jazz

For Students 9th - 10th
A supplement to a ten-part film series on jazz, this resource describes the growth and development of jazz music from the gritty streets of New Orleans to the Lincoln Gardens on Chicago's south side, where Louis Armstrong first won fame,...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Hans Holbein the Younger

For Students 9th - 10th
Hans Holbein the Younger was born in Augsburg, Bavaria; He trained with his father, Hans Holbein the Elder, who operated a successful workshop. In 1515, he moved to Basel, where he worked for a circle of intellectuals and their printers....

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