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Welcome Back !
To celebrate the beginning of the new school year, we're Spotlighting the many ways for you to teach in, through, and about the arts.
We hope this collection will inspire you to use the arts in your classroom in new and creative ways. As always, we are delighted to be a resource for you, and we hope you will tell us how we are meeting our goal of delivering compelling arts experiences—- feel free to drop us a note by using the Feedback button at the top of each page.
Have a wonderful school year, and we'll see you online!
The ARTSEDGE Team
Lessons:
The Poetics of Hip Hop
Students will analyze form in Shakespearean sonnets, works of American poets, then analyze hip hop music to determine common characteristics. Students will also write their own poetry.
Puppets on the Move: China and the Silk Road
Students will gain an understanding of the dynamics of trade in China, culminating in student-produced shadow puppet performances.
Science Meets Artistry: The Work of Cai Guo-Qiang
Students will discuss the work of artist Cai Guo-Qiang, and they will understand the technological, logistical, and artistic factors for creating performance-oriented works in public spaces.
Shadows & Light, Science & Puppetry
Students will learn how light interacts with matter, by creating and performing shadow puppet plays.
Analyzing Photographs: From Theory to Practice
in this lesson, Analyzing Photographs: Putting Theory into Practice, students will examine works of art and learn tools to analyze and discuss photography.
Baila! Latin Dance in the Spanish Classroom
Students demonstrate and learn about the Latin dances of salsa, mambo, merengue, rumba, cha cha, bachata, and samba through oral group presentations on the dance.
How-To's:
Managing Arts in the Classroom
This How-To offers guidance for managing arts-related classroom projects.
Teaching Students to Critique
This How-To covers the basic elements of art critique.
Assessing for Understanding
This is the third How-To in the series, Teaching for Understanding in the Visual and Performing Arts, based on the principles of Understanding by Design by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTigue.
Designing Teaching and Learning Activities
This is the fourth How-To in the series, Teaching for Understanding in the Visual and Performing Arts based on the principles of Understanding by Design by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTigue.
Creative Conflict: Resolving & Avoiding Conflict in Group Art Projects
Ten Tips to Resolving Conflict!
Advocacy Essentials:
Why Arts Education Matters
Derek E. Gordon, Executive Director, Jazz at Lincoln Center and former senior vice president for the Kennedy Center, discusses the place of the arts in a comprehensive education.
Student Champions for the Arts
Ideas and resources for getting kids and young adults involved in the movement to support arts education.
Three Rs Are Essential, but Don’t Forget the A—the Arts
Advocating the implementation of the arts into the daily classroom, this article stresses the benefits of an art-enriched curriculum.
Look·Listen·Learn:
Drop Me Off in Harlem
Drop Me Off in Harlem explores the vibrant, complex, and unique moment in time that was the Harlem Renaissance.
Corridos
Listen to audio clips of traditional and modern Mexican corridos with this multimedia resource. Sing along to historic recordings about key figures during the Mexican Revolution, and inspire students to compose their own corridos by listening to lyrics written by fellow high school students. Student composers featured on this resource were winners of the University of Arizona Poetry Center's Bilingual Corrido Contest for High School Students, an annual contest supported by the University of Arizona College of Humanities.
Playing with Shadows
Discover the secrets behind the art of shadow puppetry in this multimedia exploration, designed for grades 5-8, which explores this age-old art form through animations, videos, interactive activities, and more.
Art of the Explosion
This multimedia exploration, designed for grades 9-12, explores the science and art of pyrotechnics and chronicles the making of Cai’s Tornado: Explosion Project for the Kennedy Center.
Gift of the Indus
Immerse your students in the arts and culture of Pakistan. This Web site, designed for high school students, introduces students to the rich traditions and history of this South Asian country and its people through videos, audio clips, virtual galleries, and a teen blog.
An Evening With Stephen Schwartz
In this video presentation, students meet one of American musical theater’s most talented composers, Stephen Schwartz. Topics include his musical education, his break into show business, and the creative process behind his musicals.
Blues Journey
Journey with us as we trace the blues from its early beginnings in southern American fields to its global impact on music today. Through informative interviews and a wealth of music clips, you'll learn the ins and outs of blues music and find out how the history of the blues has been brought to life on stage at the Kennedy Center.
Jazz in Time
Developed for middle and high school audiences, this interactive timeline follows the development of this great American art form. Divided by decade, the timeline highlights events that helped shape jazz and illustrates the styles of each period through music and images.
Meet the Artist:
Emil de Cou, on Conducting a Musical Career
The conductor, featured in Xploring Xtremes and Pictures for Your Ears, talks about his path to music and conducting.
Shelley Markham, on the Craft of Songwriting
The composer of Alexander Who's Not, Not, Not, Not, Not, Not Going to Move talks about his own path to songwriting and gives advice to students.
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