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Partnership for 21st Century Skills: Skills Map for the Arts [Pdf]
Arts education is part of the backbone of the 21st Century skills movement. The Partnership for 21st Century Skills had designed a map that provides examples of collaboration, communication, creativity, innovation, critical thinking,...
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles Co. Museum of Art: Islamic Art Now: Contemporary Art of Middle East
In recent years, the parameters of Islamic art (particularly as defined by museums, commercial art galleries, and private collections) have expanded to include contemporary works by artists from or with roots in the Middle East. These...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Learning Resources for How Art Made the World
Access five lessons that would enrich any curriculum about ancient civilizations and the art produced by those civilizations. Using the PBS documentary "How Art Made the World" as a jumping off point, the lessons ask pupils to think...
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Community and Culture, Making of African American Identity: V. 3
An attempt to define community as a shared culture. In this article and review, critic, poet, and playwright Larry Neal (1937-1981) applies the principles of self-determination espoused by Stokely Carmichael and others to the arts and...
BBC
Bbc Arts and Culture: Turner Gallery
Brief bio and a click-through gallery of a dozen works by J. M. W. Turner, including a self-portrait.
ArtLex
Art Lex: Portrait
A very good website on portraits and portraiture. Provides a good defintition of portrait and several examples of portraits from different eras and cultures in history. Includes many quotes by artists concerning their attitudes towards...
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "What's in a Name"
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson plan includes helping students reflect on their value and self-worth, promoting appreciation of their individuality, ethnicity, and cultural heritage, and...
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "Look in Mirror"
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes making students aware of themselves, promoting appreciation of their individuality, ethnicity, and cultural heritage, and language arts skills.
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: Eye Contact: Modern American Portrait Drawings
Portraits in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery can be seen and understood with excellent gallery notes that also survey the history of portraiture in American art leading up to the modern period.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Pre K 12 Resources for New School Routines: Sharing Your Creativity, Part 2: Pre K and K
These weekly activities are cross-curricular but emphasize Social-Emotional Learning, Math and Literacy development. This week (December 21st), we're learning how developing new artistic ideas helps us to express our thoughts and feelings.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Peg + Cat: Costume Box Digital Game
In this digital game, children can dress up all their favorite friends from Peg + Cat. Get Peg, Cat, and friends all dressed up in the silliest of outfits, of course! Shuffle up the clothes they're wearing by clicking the arrows. Also...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Sesame Street: Grief
These resources help kids deal with grief. Remembering happy times by making a memory chain, and writing or drawing about their feelings are a few coping strategies to help comfort kids during difficult times.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: Activity Starters
Be deliberate when inviting your student to watch a PBS KIDS show. These resources can help by adding meaningful conversation and easy activities to their experience.
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Mural Inspired by Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera
This site has a series of curricular resources on the Mexican artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo. The site is primarily directed toward teachers to strengthen their teaching skills but has other content beyond those dedicated to lesson...
abcteach
Abcteach: Kwanzaa
[Free Registration/Login Required] This site features a worksheet focused on the seven Kwanzaa principles.
EL Education
El Education: Iconic: The Black and White of Our Heroes and Heroines
Eleventh grade students at High Tech High Media Arts School in San Diego California are the authors of this book: Iconic: The Black and White of Our Heroes & Heroines. To create this collection of essays each student reflected on...
Read Works
Read Works: News Debate: Religion on Display
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text debating whether or not schools should be allowed to display the 10 Commandments. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.