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Arts Learning - Curriculum -
Websites
Links to arts learning curriculum websites
in-school and out of school resources. Search by discipline and look for coding to identify
Arizona Based sites - AZ Site
Music
Literacy
Visual Arts
Performing Arts
Dance
Teacher Professional Development
General
After-School
At-Risk
Music
AZ Site -
Phoenix
Conservatory of Music - The Phoenix Conservatory of
Music's mission is to provide high quality music development programs,
experiences and education to communities, and is open to all interested persons
regardless of age, race, religion, nationality, income, or ability. PCM
accomplishes its mission by offering outreach programs that integrate music and
education for community members including families, special needs students, at
risk youth, and lifelong learning participants.
Artsource - The Music
Center's Study Guide to the Performing Arts
Artsource® curriculum, developed by the Music Center
Education Division, is designed to bring the expressive world of the arts into
classrooms. Artsource allows a teacher to: Present artistic models in dance,
music and theatre to your students, Integrate the arts with other subject areas,
such as Language Arts, Social Studies, History and Science, Explore a broad
spectrum of multicultural art forms with students in the classroom, Guide
students through varied levels of Standards-based lessons. Teachers can select
units in dance, music and theatre to bring to the classroom. Artsource units
have a wide range of cultural diversity.
Classics for Kids
An innovative program produced by Cincinnati Classical Public Radio. This
website includes; radio broadcasts, games, multimedia Web site, lesson plan
materials for teachers and CD recordings.
National
Endowment for the Arts Jazz in the Schools Website
First curricular unit also available for teachers The National Endowment for the
Arts announces the website launch of NEA Jazz in the Schools, an educational
resource for high school teachers of social studies, U.S. history, and music.
The website,
www.neajazzintheschools.org features an overview of the initiative,
including a video introduction, and the first of five curriculum units.
Songs for Teaching
The Online
Educator Network
is part of the Professional Development Program of the Music Center
Education Division. OEN aims to use the web to help educators bring the arts
into the classroom. Thirty lesson plans, developed by teachers in MCED programs,
are available online.
TI:ME -The Technology
Institute for Music Educators
Assists music educators in applying technology to improve teaching and learning
in music.
http://www.ti-me.org/
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Literacy
Verse -
Poetry for Young Children
A Curriculum of 38 poetry lesson plans for four to six year-old students,
standards based curriculum that supports language development in children
through playful exercised and exposure to poems from cotemporary and classic
children's poets.
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Visual Arts
Artsonia
allows teachers to integrate technology into the curriculum by allowing
community to access class artwork; innovative class projects, share ideas and
win honors and awards for class work.
ArtSite
Create your own customized teaching museum on a single
computer or school network. ArtSite starts you off with a 64 page museum
collection including 168 project suggestions, and 50 web site references.
Includes a teacher's guide and how-to movies. ArtWebsite helps you easily add a
gallery of student art to your school Internet website. For more information
visit their website.
ArtsConnectED
The goal of ArtsConnectEd is to make arts education timely, engaging,
interactive, and pertinent for both teachers and students of all ages. You will
find: Access to the combined art collections, libraries, and archives of the
Walker Art Center and The Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Full-color digital
images of works of art, audio and video samples, and textual information. online
activities for all age groups that range from simple exercises on color and
scale to complex 3D environments and other links.
Behind
the Glass
This multimedia learning experience for 4th-6th grade students helps teachers
and students understand the visual arts as vivid tools for learning in all
curricular areas. Includes online activities, video clips, resources, lessons
and more.
Getty Arts Education
good network of information, professional educators submit lesson plans.
National Gallery of Art
"NGA Classroom" a special link for students and teachers that includes
curriculum guides appropriate for K-12 based upon individualized topics in art
history, specific artists, or links with other classes like math, social
studies, and science.
Red Studio
A web site developed by MoMA in
collaboration with high school students, explores issues and questions raised by
teens about modern art and today’s working artists. Premiering with an interview
by teens of artist Vito
Acconci, along with the
youDESIGN activity and
contest, Red Studio will be periodically updated and expanded. There are many
new features, activities, and
contests to come.
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Performing Arts
Artsource - The Music
Center's Study Guide to the Performing Arts
Artsource® curriculum, developed by the Music Center
Education Division, is designed to bring the expressive world of the arts into
classrooms. Artsource allows a teacher to: Present artistic models in dance,
music and theatre to your students, Integrate the arts with other subject areas,
such as Language Arts, Social Studies, History and Science, Explore a broad
spectrum of multicultural art forms with students in the classroom, Guide
students through varied levels of Standards-based lessons. Teachers can select
units in dance, music and theatre to bring to the classroom. Artsource units
have a wide range of cultural diversity.
Teachopera.net
Teachopera.net is a national collaboration between Opera America members
dedicated to providing education materials which support K-12 teachers and
teaching artists using opera in their classroom curricula. The well-designed
site includes lesson plans, resources and a searchable opera database.
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Dance
Dance Education
Created by The Ohio Arts Council disseminates resources for dance learning
in diverse educational settings via worldwide links provides efficient access to
state-of-the-art, research-based "best practice" resources on dance teaching and
learning that shape a broad vision of dance education.
Dancing Language
by Alison Marshall
Who's
Dancin Now?
The National Dane Institute's art education web site packed with resources for
the classroom, for building local arts education partnerships, and for finding
arts organizations in your community.
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Teacher
Professional Development
Critical Links
A professional development tool that supports teachers in refining their
expertise. Through an inquiry process, teachers develop questions pertinent to
their classroom practices, gather evidence to answer those questions and share
the results in a learning community.
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General
A4L - Arts for
Learning
a4L is a professional development resource for teachers and artists and includes
a Web site and Companion CD that provides access to model programs, research,
lesson plans, advocacy, and discussion groups.
AZ Site -
ArtsWork - Artswork unites ASU artists and
scholars with community leaders in research and programs focused on children and
the arts. These projects range widely from the web-based arts education resource
center (A.R.T.S,) and other activities found on this site, to ongoing research
and programming occurring in all of the arts disciplines throughout Arizona
Annenberg Foundation
Elementary school teachers and arts specialists use of "The Arts in Every
Classroom," an eight-part video, Web, and print resource available free thanks
to the Annenberg Foundations and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The
link, under "Workshops & Courses," includes individual program descriptions and
the opportunity to explore the workshop-specific website.
Arts Edge -
Kennedy Center
supports the place of arts education at the center of the curriculum through the
creative and appropriate uses of technology. ARTSEDGE helps educators to teach
in, through and about the arts. Includes tools to help teachers develop
curriculum that integrates the arts and lesson builders for the National
Standards in the arts.
Arts
EdNet Talk
- on-line community of teachers and learners,
conversations about art education with colleagues from across the United States
or around the world, features many lesson plans along with news and updates.
Arts Online Educational
Database
At the moment, the AOEDE site can only be viewed using Microsoft's Internet
Explorer. Browse arts related websites of interest to students, teachers
and professional artists throughout the world! Browse the websites of
performing arts schools and programs across North America.
ARTSplash
Artsplash is your source for arts-based curriculum that has been created by
teachers, for teachers. You are invited to review the curricular units in this
database and use the materials that suit your needs.
Blue Web'n
Blue Web'n is an online library of 1800+ outstanding Internet sites
categorized by subject, grade level, and
format
(tools, references, lessons, hotlists, resources, tutorials, activities,
projects). You can search by grade level (Refined
Search), broad subject area (Content
Areas), or specific sub-categories (Subject
Area). Each week 5 new sites are added. You can get a list and description
of these additions sent to you by signing up below for free
weekly updates!
Cultural Arts Resources for Teachers and Students
The CARTS web site is a virtual extension of City Lore's educational
programs and its National Network for Folk Arts in Education.
Center for Creative Arts and Culture
Education and creative workforce section.
Creative
Educational Systems
Arts-in-Education Learning Center online, a place for all those who care
deeply about the education of our children, exploring the infinite possibilities
of using the visual and performing arts as ways to inspire, motivate and
illuminate learning as a lifelong endeavor.
Newsletter: "The Journal for Enlightened Education:
New Realities for Our Children" is a bi-weekly newsletter for educators and
artists full of news items, teaching tips, event announcements, funding sources,
job opportunities, product announcements, book reviews and stories. To register
visit their website.
Imagine: Introducing Your Child to the Arts
The National Endowment for the Arts has released a resource to help parents and
teachers share the arts with their children.
International Child Art
Foundation - We prepare children for a creative and
cooperative future, to enable them to lead us into a peaceful and better world.
Publish, ChildArt a unique arts learning, self-discovery and global education
periodical. Designed so that readers ages 8 to 80 can benefit from and enjoy
ChildArt, it is written simply and elegantly so that 8 to 12-year-olds learn
easily from both the language and the ideas.
KinderArts
great variety of lesson plans and articles, includes art history arts lesson
plan, books for sale, multicultural arts lessons, attractive layout – easy to
use.
AZ Site -
Know 99
It's time to put the ART back in SMART!! know99 announces… We're getting
ARTrageous with a new look and new programs every Friday from 8 a.m. – 8 p.m.
The programs even align to the state standards curriculum for art! So we invite
you to unleash your ImAgiNaTioN… Let your cReAtiViTy flow… And grow what you
know! Don't miss it!! We value your comments… so let us know whatcha think. Call
602-53-I-KNOW(534-5669), or send an email to
mailbox.education.channel.99@phoenix.gov. For complete Channel 99 program
listings, visit on the Internet.
PBS Teacher Source
One of the most comprehensive web sites ever created for prek-12 educators, PBS
Teacher Source aggregates the educational services that PBS and its local
stations provide and helps teachers learn effective ways to incorporate video
and the web in the classroom.
Perpich Center for Arts
Education
As an executive branch agency of the State of Minnesota, the Perpich Center for
Arts Education houses the state's Arts High School Program and Professional
Development Institute.
Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies
Lesson plans on Art and Design
World Wide Arts Resources Corp
The Academic Arts section provides listings on all areas of art education from
classes for children to the graduate level. These include continuing education
programs, art therapy, summer camps and programs, outreach programs and more.
Academic Arts can be browsed by interest or alphabetically.
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After-School
21st
Century Community Learning Centers
The After-school Exchange
Afterschool Exchange is an in-person and online project that aims to make the
educational resources of public television available and useful to afterschool
staff. Find out more about the
mission and history of the Afterschool Exchange visit their website.
Afterschool.gov -
Connecting you to federal resources that support children and youth during
out-of-school hours. This site contains information on running programs,
planning activities, kid-teen websites and community link.
Afterschool.gov Newsletters and list servs
Maintain lists of current after school newsletters and list servs. For more
information visit their
Newsletters and
List Servs
The Afterschool
Corporation - works in partnership with education city and state officials,
and community based organizations to create a network of quality after school
programs. TASC funds nonprofit groups to operate after school programs in public
schools and provides ongoing training and technical assistance to program staff.
AFTER-SCHOOL TIMES Newsletter
Camps A-Z
- The place to be, for your free online guide to kids' camps in Arizona! Looking
for things for your kids to do during school break? Camps A to Z has the most
complete information available. You'll find: hundreds of listings, activities
for kids from tots to teens options throughout Arizona.
Creative Communities
The mission of Creative Communities is to expand access to serious, progressive
instruction in the performing, literary and visual arts for children and youth
living in public housing communities in order to improve their quality of life
and promote skills leading to greater self-sufficiency.
Creative Partnership for
Prevention - The goal of this national initiative is to provide
current information, ideas, and resources on how to use the arts and humanities
to enhance drug and violence prevention programming, foster resiliency in youth,
and implement collaborations within communities to strengthen prevention
programs for youth.
The Forum for Youth
Investment - The Forum for Youth Investment (the Forum) is dedicated to
increasing the quality and quantity of youth investment and youth involvement by
promoting a "big picture" approach to planning, research, advocacy and
policy development among the broad range of organizations that help constituents
and communities invest in children, youth and families. The web site contains
papers, articles, editorials, written and PowerPoint presentations and much
more.
Newsletter - Forum Focus
The Forum for Youth Investment newsletter. If you would like to subscribe to
Forum Focus and receive an email announcing each issue, please send a request
for more information to us at
youth@forumforyouthinvestment.org.
Harvard Family
Research Project
Family-School-Community Partnerships:
This project, based on the premise that family involvement is critical to
children's social development and academic achievement, seeks to support the
development of sustainable family-school-community partnerships.
How the Arts
Can Enhance After-School Programs
Presented by the U.S. Department of Education and National Endowment for the
Arts, this report provides a brief introduction to the role of the arts in those
programs. It consists of a brief summary of recent research findings about both
arts and after-school programs, a description of the key elements of successful
programs and some key examples that showcase partnerships between schools and
community-based organizations.
Mentor After-School
Program Clearinghouse
The clearinghouse is designed to provide after-school coordinators
with the tools and resources they need to add a mentoring component to
their programs. It also provides resources on how to
implement, manage and strengthen after-school programs.
National Center
for Community Education
Their mission is "To provide state-of-the-art leadership development training
and technical assistance focusing on community and educational change
emphasizing community schools"
The National
Collaboration for Youth is pleased to provide the
attached Partnerships for After-School Success toolkits. The
toolkits provide research supporting the need for school-CBO partnerships;
successful strategies for creating and sustaining partnerships; and checklists
and tools. Though the information is similar in both
packets; one is specifically written for community-based organizations and the
other is for local education agencies and state education agencies.
National Youth Development Information Center
- Partnerships for After-School Success toolkits. The Charles
Stewart Mott Foundation provided funding to National Assembly/National
Collaboration for Youth to create these resources. The toolkits provide research
supporting the need for school-CBO partnerships; successful strategies for
creating and sustaining partnerships; and checklists and tools
Out-of-School Time Program Evaluation Bibliography - The Harvard Family
Research Project (HFRP) Out-of-School Time (OST) Program Evaluation Database is
a compilation of profiles written by HFRP of evaluations of OST programs and
initiatives. It provides accessible information about evaluation work of both
large and small OST programs to support the development of high quality
evaluations and programs in the out-of-school time field. Programs are
categorized by program type. Program type can refer to a method of service
delivery or a primary program goal.
Promising Practices in Afterschool
The Promising Practices in After-school (or "PPAS") System is an effort to find
and share things that are working in after-school programs. The PPAS website is
for after-school program directors who want to improve the quality of their
programs. All sorts of other people will find it useful, too--people like
program staff, volunteers, parents, community members, policymakers, funders,
researchers, and anyone else who cares about children and youth.
Newsletter Listings
Promising Practices
List of listservs and newsletters for Afterschool Resources
The Promising Practices in Afterschool (PPAS) Listserv brings together the
worlds of youth development, school-age care, and education. On the PPAS
website, www.afterschool.org, you can search for promising practices and share
your own good work with others to help build the field of afterschool.
Safe and Drug Free Schools Program
School Age Care List
- an on-line discussion for people interested in school-age care planning,
resources, activities, funding, staff and staff development, and related
subjects. It is co-owned by the National Institute on Out-of-School Time (NIOST)
at the Center for Research on Women at Wellesley College and by the ERIC
Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education.
School Age
Notes
paid membership monthly newsletter, geared to school-age care professionals.
Includes: curriculum ideas for after school & summer programs, discussion
forums, professional development, articles on conflict resolution, funding and
resources.
YouthLearn
Created by the Morino Institute and led by the Education Development Center, the
YouthLearn Initiative offers comprehensive services and resources for using
technology to create exciting learning environments to teachers, afterschool
program providers and other youth development professionals. The YouthLearn web
site offers extensive, easy to follow education materials including planning
guides, teaching techniques, activities and projects.
YouthLearn Newsletter
This newsletter is produced by the YouthLearn Initiative at EDC especially for
members of the YouthLearn discussion group. YouthLearn is a project of the
nonprofit Education
Development Center, Inc. Designed for youth-development
professionals, teachers, educators, and other caring adults, YouthLearn provides
resources and tools for developing effective learning programs enhanced with
technology, particularly in out-of-school settings. To subscribe or unsubscribe:
Go to
http://www.youthlearn.org/join/subscribe.html
Youth
Venture - Youth Venture is a national non-profit organization
that empowers young people ages 12-20 by providing them all the tools necessary
to create civic-minded organizations, clubs or businesses.
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At-Risk
Americans for the Arts
Youth At Risk
YouthARTS
- The YouthARTS site is designed to give arts agencies, juvenile justice
agencies, social service organizations, and other community-based organizations
detailed information about how to plan, run, provide training, and evaluate arts
programs for at-risk youth.
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