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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Vocabulary Review and Map Skills

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students, when given the name of a community, identify a food, a craft, a custom, language and music, unique to that community 100% of the time. They find similarities and differences between this community and their own in four...
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Website
South Carolina Educational Television

Etv: Visual and Performing Arts: Theater

For Students 9th - 10th
Take a one-minute quick tour through the history of theater. View a theatrical performance and be a theater critic. Visit the theater and learn about makeup, sound, lighting, costumes and visit the scene shop to learn about scenery...
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Website
John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

For Students Pre-K - 1st
One of the finest sites of its kind on the Internet, ArtsEdge is dedicated to supporting arts education through such initiatives as curriculum development, cross-curricular teaching, and technology integration. Find arts-related...
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Lesson Plan
Incredible Art Department

The Incredible Art Department: Integration of Art and Drama

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A 7-day unit of lessons integrating art with drama. Artists covered include Filippo Brunelleschi, Leonardo Da Vinci, Vincent Van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri Matisse, and five Indiana artists.
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PBS

Pbs: Arts

For Students 9th - 10th
The home on the web for arts-related content that airs on PBS stations. You can link to the program sites of long-running arts broadcasts, sample special exhibitions, and investigate what the network is airing or has recently aired on...
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Professional Doc
Province of British Columbia

British Columbia Ministry of Education: Drama 8 to 10 [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A curriculum document with suggested activities and resources for teaching drama in grades 8-10. Explores imagination and basic drama skills such as body, voice, and technique.
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Handout
Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia

Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia: Native Earth Performing Arts

For Students 9th - 10th
Native Earth presents works that are relevant to the lives of Aboriginals today. A great venue for seeing new Canadian works.
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Website
Other

Creative Drama & Theatre Education Resource Site

For Students 9th - 10th
Contains a large amount of information on creative drama including classroom ideas, theater games, plays for performance, and more.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of African American History: Playful Performers

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A past exhibition that offers a fascinating look at the African tradition of mask-making and masquerades. Includes colorful photos and information, to spark children's creativity.
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Primary
Other

Shakespeare and His Critics:"a Lecture on Elizabethan Theatre" by Thomas Larque

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text of a lecture on Elizabethan Theatre by Thomas Larque, originally given to Performing Arts students as part of their course in 2001. In it he discusses the following topics: Drama Before Theatres, The First Theatre, The...
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Article
Other

Aichi Arts Center: Aging With Grace: A Brief Review of "A Burden of Love"

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a review and summary of Zeami's noh drama, "A Burden of Love." The author includes details about how the noh performer would portray a part.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Jack & the Giants: Jack Spends His Pay

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, students will create and solve word problems involving money (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of decimals), and develop a script for a short scene and perform it using the elements of performance....
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Lesson Plan
ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Explore Time With Theater [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
In this lesson, young scholars explore different activities performed at different times of day. Student directors physically place other students in the order in which activities are performed during the course of a day. Young scholars...
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Lesson Plan
ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Proficient Puppeteers

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, students create puppets for the characters in a Reader's Theater script called 'Georgia State Animals & Plants: Habitats and Adaptations.' The puppets showcase the adaptations for each plant or animal. Students then...
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Lesson Plan
Crayola

Crayola: Castle in the Sun (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This lesson plan incorporates art, drama, social studies, and language arts. Students use recycled paper and boxes to create a castle, then use it as inspiration to write and act out their own play. (To access this lesson plan, you must...
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Lesson Plan
Yale University

Yale: Mexicans: Mythology, Movement & Masterpiece

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This drama curriculum unit features a bibliography, information about storytelling, mythology, oral readings, and the like--suitable for grade school students in the 5th grade and adaptable for other grades.
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Lesson Plan
ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Realizing the Power of Your Own Creativity [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this lesson, students interpret a poem called 'The Little Blue Engine' by adding music, movement, visual art, and drama. After performing their creation, they will discuss any mathematical and/or scientific connections that have a...
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Tes: Cultural Approaches

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] See how Shakespeare is brought to life on stage and on film. Explore his work through art, design, costumes, and historical objects using materials from some of the UK's major cultural institutions.
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Handout
Other

Online Guide to Writing in Canada: George Ryga

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers a list of some of George Ryga's works.
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Activity
Florida State University

Florida State University: Molecular Expressions: Shadowbox Theatre

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Have you ever thought about your shadow? One way to learn about them is to make your own shadow box theater--once a very popular form of entertainment in Europe during the 1800s and early 1900s.