Curated OER
Vocabulary Review and Map Skills
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...
South Carolina Educational Television
Etv: Visual and Performing Arts: Theater
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...
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
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...
Incredible Art Department
The Incredible Art Department: Integration of Art and Drama
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.
PBS
Pbs: Arts
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...
Province of British Columbia
British Columbia Ministry of Education: Drama 8 to 10 [Pdf]
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.
Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia
Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia: Native Earth Performing Arts
Native Earth presents works that are relevant to the lives of Aboriginals today. A great venue for seeing new Canadian works.
Other
Creative Drama & Theatre Education Resource Site
Contains a large amount of information on creative drama including classroom ideas, theater games, plays for performance, and more.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of African American History: Playful Performers
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.
Other
Shakespeare and His Critics:"a Lecture on Elizabethan Theatre" by Thomas Larque
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...
Other
Aichi Arts Center: Aging With Grace: A Brief Review of "A Burden of Love"
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.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Jack & the Giants: Jack Spends His Pay
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....
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Explore Time With Theater [Pdf]
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...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Proficient Puppeteers
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...
Crayola
Crayola: Castle in the Sun (Lesson Plan)
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...
Yale University
Yale: Mexicans: Mythology, Movement & Masterpiece
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.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Realizing the Power of Your Own Creativity [Pdf]
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...
TES Global
Tes: Cultural Approaches
[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.
Other
Online Guide to Writing in Canada: George Ryga
This site offers a list of some of George Ryga's works.
Florida State University
Florida State University: Molecular Expressions: Shadowbox Theatre
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.