Performing Arts Teacher Resources
All the world's a stage, so find out how to wow an audiance. Your young performers will star in our premier collection of drama, music and dance resources.
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Star Wars and Shakespeare Unit
Luke Skywalker meets Hamlet in a 10-lesson plan unit based on Ian Doescher's William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, a New Hope (WSSW). Using Star Wars® as source material, Doescher has transformed Lucas's film into a Shakespearian...
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ABCmouse—Alphabet Jams!
Tap your toes and get your groove on with a set of individual alphabet letter songs by ABCmouse Early Learning Academy. Not only do the videos teach the letters and model their sounds, they incorporate a different genre of music into...
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STEM Ed Hub: Design Resources
Engineering design-based activities make learning science fun. Young engineers design dams, lifeguard chairs, musical instruments, candy bags, and much more. They also use measurement skills to solve the mystery of the missing pin. Each...
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Teaching the Letter Aa with ABCmouse
Teach the letter Aa with ABCmouse.com! In this collection, you will find an instructional routine for the letter Aa, a letter pairs coloring page, uppercase and lowercase letter tracing activities, and the ABCmouse letter Aa music video....
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Teaching the Letter Bb with ABCmouse.com
Teach the letter Bb with ABCmouse.com! In this collection, you will find an instructional routine for the letter Bb with direct hyperlinks to ABCmouse activities, a letter pairs coloring printable, upper and lowercase letter tracing...
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Teaching the Letter Cc with ABCmouse.com
Teach the letter Cc with ABCmouse.com! In this collection, you will find an instructional routine for the letter Cc with direct hyperlinks to ABCmouse activities, a letter pairs coloring printable, upper and lowercase letter tracing...
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Teaching the Letter Ee with ABCmouse
Teach the letter Ee with ABCmouse.com! In this collection, you will find an instructional routine for the letter Ee with direct hyperlinks to ABCmouse activities, a letter pairs coloring printable, uppercase and lowercase letter tracing...
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Teaching the Letter Ff with ABCmouse
Teach the letter Ff with ABCmouse.com! In this collection, you will find an instructional routine for the letter Ff with direct hyperlinks to ABCmouse activities, a letter pairs coloring printable, uppercase and lowercase letter tracing...
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Teaching the Letter Ii with ABCmouse
Teach the letter Ii with ABCmouse.com! In this collection, you will find an instructional routine for the letter Ii with direct hyperlinks to ABCmouse activities, a letter pairs coloring printable, upper and lowercase letter tracing...
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Teaching the Letter Hh with ABCmouse
Teach the letter Hh with ABCmouse.com! In this collection, you will find an instructional routine for the letter Hh with direct hyperlinks to ABCmouse activities, a letter pairs coloring printable, upper and lowercase letter tracing...
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Teaching the Letter Jj with ABCmouse
Teach the letter Jj with ABCmouse.com! In this collection, you will find an instructional routine for the letter Jj with direct hyperlinks to ABCmouse activities, a letter pairs coloring printable, upper and lowercase letter tracing...
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Teaching the Letter Kk with ABCmouse
Teach the letter Kk with ABCmouse.com! In this collection, you will find an instructional routine for the letter Kk with direct hyperlinks to ABCmouse activities, a letter pairs coloring printable, upper and lowercase letter tracing...
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Teaching the Letter Qq with ABCmouse
Teach the letter Qq with ABCmouse.com! In this collection, you will find: • A color version of the instructional routine for the letter Qq with direct hyperlinks to ABCmouse activities • A printer-friendly black and white version of the...
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Teaching the Letter Rr with ABCmouse
Teach the letter Rr with ABCmouse.com! In this collection, you will find an instructional routine for the letter Rr with direct hyperlinks to ABCmouse activities and the ABCmouse letter Rr music video. ABCmouse makes teaching the...
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The Glass Menagerie and Expressionist Theater
Who says a play must be realistic? Certainly not Tennessee Williams, who chose to use expressionistic techniques to tell his tale of Tom, Amanda, and Laura Wingfield. A three-lesson unit module has readers examine how Williams uses these...
Pentatonix
Evolution of Music - Pentatonix
Explore music through the decades with an engaging video brought to you by the 5-part harmony acapella group, Pentatonix. Genuine musical talents sing through a variety of popular music from the 11th century to the 2010's. Artists...
Boston Symphony Orchestra
The Elements of Music—How do Composers Plan?
The introduction to Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake and the finale of his Symphony No. 4 provide young musicians with an opportunity to investigate the music elements composers employ to develop the themes they want to create. They compare the...
Crash Course
Broadway Book Musicals: Crash Course Theater #50
Viewers of a short video learn about the development of the Broadway Book Musical in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Scholars explore the Golden Age of Broadway, which produced classics like Annie Get Your Gun and...
Illinois Music Education Conference
Taking the “General” Out of Middle School General Music!
Middle schoolers will sing the praises of this music program. The resource, designed as an overview for music instructors, is loaded with ideas, activities, and links. Not a sour note in the packet.
Warren County Public Schools
About Musical Theatre
A reading comprehension instructional activity traces the history of musical theatre. It starts with ancient Greece choruses and continues through the ballad and comic operas of the Renaissance, the operettas of Britain, France, and...
iTheatrics and Broadway
School of Rock the Musical: Education Guide
That old fashioned rock and roll comes alive as theatre arts students prepare to attend a live performance of the musical School of Rock. Packed with both pre- and post-production materials, the guide has it all. Rock on!
Classics for Kids
Introduction to Music: Symphony
Expose young elementary students to the works of one of the greatest musical composers, Ludwig van Beethoven. Using three progressive lesson plans to complete the unit, class members are able to distinguish low and high sounds, count the...
Special needs in Music
Music Work Sheet (Special Ed)
Music is beneficial for all learners. Help your learners with special needs learn about different styles of music, as well as the ways that music is represented on paper, with 30 different worksheets.
Classics for Kids
Fun With Musical Words
Is concertmaster another term for conductor, or is he or she another person entirely? Learn the specifics of the role of concertmaster with an activity focused on classical music. After learners define the term, they select a piece of...
