Curated OER
Holocaust Lesson Plan: Timeline
Students explore the chronology of the Holocaust, make connections between Holocaust events and contemporaneous world events and acquire a frame of reference for comparing their reading with actual events during the time of the Holocaust.
Curated OER
Cooking Kansas City
Students investigate the history of Kansas City and then create recipes from the area, including Kansas City Barbecue Sauce, and Kansas City Corn.
Curated OER
Growing Seeds
In this science worksheet, students read 5 different scenarios with varied growing conditions for plants. Students make a prediction for each: Will it grow a little, grow a lot, or not grow at all?
Curated OER
Using Commas in Your Writing
In this commas worksheet, students complete three activities that help them follow the rules for comma usage to make their writing clear.
Curated OER
Showtime Jobs
Students plan and present a play or puppet show. In this artistic lesson, students practice organizational and communication skills to put on a performance. The task should focus on the many jobs that take place "behind the scenes."
Curated OER
Timeline
Tenth graders examine the Holocaust from a chronological perspective. In this Holocaust lesson, 10th graders create parallel timelines on a poster about the Holocaust.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Education: Musical Theater
A short and concise history of musical theater with two early performers and a composer highlighted.
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Musical Theater
Introductory site focusing on American musical theatre and Broadway. Shows how these parts can be taught in the classroom. Useful for teachers and students working with music theater.
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Inst.: Am. Musical Theater: Making It Work in Classroom
A great lesson plan for introducing the musical to students. Great bibliography.
Other
Musicals: Ragtime
Musicals.net offers a synopsis and songlist for "Ragtime," as well as a forum for comments and questions about the show. While "Ragtime" isn't strictly a black musical, the Coalhouse Walker, Jr. - Sarah storyline is so significant that...
Library of Congress
Loc: American Variety Stage: Bijou Theater
Musical theater and vaudeville were popular in the Gilded Age. Here is a theater program from the Bijou Theater in Boston. Leaafing through the pages gives a great slice of life at the time, not only because of the playbills, but also...
TheatreHistory.com
Theatre History: American Musical Theatre: An Introduction
A commercial website that provides a solid history of American musical theatre. Includes summaries of many musicals through history. Focus is on shows before 1960.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Introduction to Western Music
A complete undergraduate-level online course that introduces the history of western music.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Music Composition
A complete, undergraduate level online course on music composition. Includes all course material, projects, assignments, and exams with solutions.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Music of Africa
A complete, undergraduate-level online course on the music of Africa.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Musical Analysis
A complete, undergraduate level online class on musical analysis. Includes all course materials, projects, examples, assignments and exams with solutions.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Introduction to World Music
A complete undergraduate-level online course on world music.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Modern Music: 1900 1960
A complete, undergraduate level online class on the topic of modern music in the 1900s. Includes complete course material.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Music of India
A complete, undergraduate level online class on the topic of modern music in the 1900s. Includes course assignments.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Popular Musics of the World
A complete undergraduate-level online course on world music.
Musicals 101
Musicas 101: Who's Who in Musicals Sa Sm
This site provides biographies of several musical theater entertainers. At the bottom of this page you'll find an entry about Florenz Ziegfeld of the legendary Ziegfeld Follies.
Duke University
Molly Green; In Dahomey (Historic American Sheet Music)
This site shows the original sheet music for the first black musical, "In Dahomey," which was written by Paul Laurence Dunbar and Will Marion Cook.
Nederlander Organization
Broadway Direct: 20 Benchmark Musicals in Broadway History
The history of Broadway musical theater is demonstrated through brief examinations of twenty groundbreaking musicals, from The Black Crook in 1866 to Hamilton in 2015. Nine videos accompany the descriptions of some of the musicals.
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