General Resources for Teachers and Students

Music

• New York Philharmonic Kid Zone: Instrument Storage Room

• BBC Symphony (London) Guide to the Orchestra: Keyboards!

• Play Music

• The Philharmonia Sound Exchange (London): Instruments

• ArtsAlive: Instrument Lab

• Cincinnati Pops:
  Wacky Woodwinds - Woodwind Instrument Construction: What's in the Case?
  Wacky Woodwinds - Woodwind Instruments Flashcards
  Wacky Woodwinds - Woodwind Word Search
  Wacky Woodwinds - Themes, Form, Notation, High, Low
  Wacky Woodwinds - Know the Woodwind Family

• ArtsEdge:
  Woodwind Instruments and Pitch
  Music as a Storyteller
  Set It to Music
  Set a Poem to Music
  Fairy Tale Tunes

• Educator's Reference Desk: Creating Art Using Music and Feelings

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Reading and Language Arts

• ArtsEdge:
  Fables - Elements of Fables
  Fables - Reading a Fable
  Fables - Writing an Original Fable
  Fables - Comparing and Contrasting Fables
• Book Resource: Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes

[Coerr, Eleanor. Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes. New York, NY: Puffin Books, 1999.]

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Art

• Carnegie Hall: Listening Adventures

• Book Resource: "The Boy Who Loved To Draw: Benjamin West" (A story about Benjamin West, the artist, geared to the lower elementary ages)

[ Brenner, Barbara. “The Boy Who Loved To Draw: Benjamin West” .Houghton Mifflen Company, New York , NY , 1999. ]

• Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Tall Tales, and Puppets
  (PDF - Lesson plans for developing puppets and scripts based on tales. Recommended for grades 3-5)

• Breathing Life into Myths
  (PDF - Lesson plan for developing the storytelling of myths into puppet theatre. Recommended for grade 6)

• Handmade in America: Craft Across the Curriculum Lesson Plans
  (Lesson plans and ideas for arts across the curriculum. A searchable site and also an alphabetical listing of topics; includes craft techniques.)

• Gibson Island Country School: Art at GICS
  (Overview of school curriculum that includes integration of arts and computers)

• ArtsEdge: Shadows and Light; Science and Puppetry
  (Exploration of light properties and how light interacts with matter when creating shadow puppet plays)
  

*Some activities/lesson plans for the classroom are in PDF format.
HELPFUL TIP: When viewing activities in Adobe Reader, click on the "bookmarks" tab to the left
of the document for quick links to important pages such as worksheets, charts, or instructions..

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