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Colours of India: People and Colours
An informative and colorful site with examples and descriptions of Indian artifacts, textiles, costumes, and performing arts. Students and teachers can use this site to find a brief overview of these topics.
TES Global
Tes: Teaching Shakespeare: Reel to Real: Twelfth Night
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a slide show presentation lesson about Shakespeare's Twelfth Night including drawings of the characters in costume and a collection of video clips from Into Film and material from the Victoria...
TES Global
Tes: Teaching Shakespeare: Henry V
[Free Registration/Login Required] This collection looks at the early years of King Henry's reign and his victorious campaign; it includes video clips, a synopsis, themes, costume designs, and historical background.
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Japan National Tourism: Japanese Culture
The culture of Japan is showcased. Click anywhere on the menu bar to access topics and illustrations ranging from architecture, temples, bonsai, tea ceremony, gardens, costumes, floral art, calligraphy, and many more.
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Storyboard That
This resource lets the user create their own story, with many colorful costumes, character types and tools to choose from.
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Japan National Tourism: Japanese Shinto Shrines
Japan's indigenous religion is known as Shinto. Here is a brief look at it with hand drawn illustrations of the shrines, costumes, and masks accompanying the text.
Globe
The Globe Program: All About Earth: Our World on Stage [Pdf]
This delightful storybook provides young learners an understanding of how the Earth's processes work together. The students of an elementary classroom have been making costumes and practicing lines. Each student is playing the role of a...
Library of Congress
Loc: The New Deal Stage: Federal Theatre Project (1935 1939)
An extensive collection from the Federal Theatre Project, part of Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration, which provided funds for the arts during the second phase of the New Deal. Find play scripts, posters, and stage and costume...
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Reynolda House, Museum of American Art
The Reynolda House, Museum of American Art site, offers collections of Artworks, Costumes, and Decorative Arts from the 18th thru the 20th century.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Halloween: Fractions (Quarters)
Practice your fraction skills with this game. Erica is celebrating Halloween. Which costume are you wearing?
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The Cleopatra Costume on Stage and in Film
Read a detailed description of the clothing, hairstyles, and make-up Cleopatra would have used.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: The Hall of Arctic People
This is the online version of the Smithsonian Institute's exhibit devoted to the people of the Siberian and North American Arctic. The mannequins around the walls represent the peoples of the Crossroads region, dressed in traditional...
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Common Threads Unraveling the World of Textiles
Through the examination of two textiles from opposite sides of the world you will go in-depth to reveal how fiber arts can tell us more about people in other cultures.
Virtual Salt
Virtual Salt: Ideas for Enhancing Oral Reports
A helpful review of important parts of your report and ways to strengthen it. SL.9-10.4 Presentation
TES Global
Tes: Twelfth Night (2009) Teacher Pack
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a lesson from the Royal Shakespeare Company which includes the social and historical background of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, several activities including the use of poems and paintings, and a...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Besides viewing the collections and exhibits at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, you can view the "Timeline of Art History" and other useful resources at this site.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Eighteenth Century European Dress
Explore fashion from the 1700's with the slideshow. Includes a discussion of popular styles, textiles and silhouettes.
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Fashion Institute of Technology: Museum: Collections (18Th Century to Present)
This in-depth collection offers images and background information about fashions and accessories from the 1700's to the present day.
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: Traditional Dress of Northern Ethnic Groups
This exhibit showcases traditional dresses of 9 ethnic groups of Northern China.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian: National Museum of African Art
A fabulous resource for students and teachers interested in African art! Click any of the icons to search for a specific artifact, or just browse their collection.
A&E Television
History.com: How Trick or Treating Became a Halloween Tradition
Why do children dress in costume and knock on strangers' doors to ask for treats on Halloween? Trick-or-treating setting off on Halloween night in costume and ringing doorbells to demand treats has been a tradition in the United States...
Library of Congress
Loc: Invitation to the Dance
This site briefly details various artists and group contributions to the history of dance. Includes some information on costume design and dance manuscripts.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: A Puerto Rican Carnival
A look at Carnival celebrations in Puerto Rico. The lesson includes a little bit of background information, suggested tie-in reading, and activities such as making a Carnival mask or learning about costumes by coloring a "vejigante...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Put 'Em on a Talk Show
In this lesson plan, students will write a script for a talk show, based on character traits from fairy tale stories. Scripts will be rehearsed, costumed, and performed in front of the class.
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