This video features Mr. Steve from PBS Kids performing his original song “Silly Shoes,” which encourages children to move and dance with inspiration from their own “silly shoes.”
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Students research, evaluate, and synthesize information about the Harlem Renaissance from varied resources, create an exhibit, and highlight connections across disciplines (i.e., art, music, and poetry) using a Venn diagram.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
In this lesson students will learn about Louise Erdrich and then read her poem “Advice to Myself #2: Resistance.” As students read they will analyze how the writer uses words, phrases, and details to communicate a theme. Students will discuss the message of the poem in both small and large groups and discuss how the author’s literary choices help communicate this message. Students will then write about a message in the poem and explain what lines most strongly communicate that message as evidence to support their thinking.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Resources for high school students learning Arts & Music
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Homework/Assignment, Interactive
Students examine what deepfakes are and consider the deeper civic and ethical implications of deepfake technology. In an age of easy image manipulation, this lesson fosters critical thinking skills that empower students to question how we can mitigate the impact of doctored media content. This lesson plan includes a slide deck and brainstorm sheet for classroom use.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson, Lesson Plan
A class at Central High School in Louisville, Kentucky, becomes a production studio as students learn about filmmaking in Vanessa Miller’s yearlong film course.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This video takes you from the researching to the recording of an interview. Use these quick tips to get an interesting and great looking video.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Using the green screen video technique your classroom opens up a world of possibilities. These easy tips demonstrate how the technique can be used for student newscasts, artistic performances, even action adventure videos!
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Anila Quayyum Agha’s installation Alhambra Nights was selected to be included in the City of Cincinnati’s BLINK festival. The event spanned twenty city blocks and included light, interactive art, and large-scale projection mapping. Inspired by Agha’s visit to the Alhambra and her efforts to connect traditional Islamic art and architecture with contemporary technology and Western audiences.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Ranu Mukherjee creates "Hybrid films" using layers of video, paintings and collage to create moving images. In the latest episode of Art School, Mukherjee unpacks the narrative and details behind her newest piece, Home and the World, which examines cultural hybridity, the aftermath of colonialism, and feminist questions. Inspired by a scene from a film by Satyajit Ray, as well as the composition of traditional Indian lithographs, Mukherjee combined these influences with her own visual culture to create a subtle but complex moving image.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Recently, a doctored video of Speaker Nancy Pelosi got millions of views on social media. Deepfakes are becoming easier to make and spread, and Above the Noise is here to help people understand this new phenomenon and what to do about it.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Students create and perform melodic contours.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Lesson Plan
Students play an identification game of hot and cold using their voices and dynamics.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Lesson Plan
How can we identify the tempo of music through movement? Students demonstrate the expressive quality of tempo through movement.
Material Type: Lesson, Lesson Plan
Students explore healthy posture through storytelling and observation.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Lesson Plan
Students explore and create rhythms through language and body percussion.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Lesson Plan
Students brainstorm strategies to guide their listening as they describe and label music of different genres.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Lesson Plan
Resource suggestions to explore and consider as a way to support your family learning during school closures.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive, Lesson Plan
Students will learn about the jazz singer Billie Holiday and the sociohistorical context in which she performed. They will learn how discriminatory statutes (called Jim Crow laws) affected daily life. They will also analyze how movement is created in photographs and the effect of a photographer's point of view on composition. Finally, students will photograph a musician, paying attention to what can be communicated through point of view.
Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Lesson Plan
Students identify musical form through movement.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Lesson Plan
