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John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Decades Mural Project

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Lesson for social studies teachers whose students are studying various decades.
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John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Social Dances for Upper Elementary

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Teach your students some dance steps to help their coordination and cognitive abilities. Step patterns and music suggestions are included in this lesson plan from ARTSEDGE.
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John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Arts Edge: What a Character!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this lesson, students analyze how a character's personality traits, actions, and motives influence the plot of a story. Students also learn how storytellers use their face, body, and voice, as well as the five senses, to enhance the...
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John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Lesson Plan: Writing Folktales

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
With this lesson plan, students examine the American tradition of folk tales and tall tales, then write and illustrate their own original tale. Provides links to more information, an assessment rubric, extension ideas, and a list of...
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John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Adapting a Musical

For Teachers 9th - 10th
ArtsEdge offers this lesson plan that explores the implications of developing a musical from a literary text or historical event.
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John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Multi Media Hero Analysis

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using what they learn about how heroes are depicted in art, literature, and music, students create their own definition of a hero, and then write an essay based on a hero they wish to research.
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John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Art Lesson Plans, 9 12

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Browse this selection of lesson plans for the visual arts classroom. Easy-to-use tools help you search for the kinds of plans that interest you most. Lessons are laid out in full, with supplies lists, instructional plans, assessments,...
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John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Lesson: Telling a Story Through Dance

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson plan from ArtsEdge, students focus on the ballet, "Nutcracker," while learning about storytelling through dance and movement. Provides assessment criteria, a list of sources and links to use for references.
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John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Woodwind Instruments and Pitch

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, students will enjoy making their own woodwind instruments. They will also discover how the instruments change pitch based on the length of the airpipe.
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John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Haunting Music

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students will learn about program music by exploring the music of Hector Berlioz and Camille Saint-Saens.
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The Kennedy Center: Arts Edge: City Dionysia: Four Ancient Greek Playwrights

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief summaries of the work produced by four leading ancient Greek dramatists: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes.
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The Kennedy Center: Arts Edge: City Dionysia: Explore the Tragic Structure

For Students 9th - 10th
One-page summary of the principal elements and conventions of ancient Greek tragedy.