Arts & Drama Education: PreK-12 : Lesson Plans
Lesson Plan Websites for Arts and Drama Education
Here are some useful websites for planning art and drama lessons.
- ArtsEdgeArtsEdge is the Kennedy Center's free digital resource for teaching and learning in, through, and about the arts. Features lesson plans, standards, how to's and today in the Arts.
- Getty Museum EducationPresented by the Getty Center for Education in the Arts, this well organized site features lesson plans, curriculum guides, a virtual teachers lounge, and more. Offers a grade-by-grade guide.
- Incredible Art DepartmentThis site features lesson plans, exhibits of student art, and an extensive collection of links to other art sites, including links to art departments from elementary and secondary schools as well as universities.
- Library of Congress for TeachersIncludes lesson plans, activities, themed resources, and sets of primary source materials for the classroom. Also has professional development materials. Especially relevant: Music and Dance themed resource, Lyrical Legacy program, and Collection Connection links to all online collections.
- A Lifetime of ColorThis site features interactive games designed to involve elementary students and teachers in art creation and appreciation. Activities are provided for creating art in multiple styles as well as for studying art's elements, concepts, styles and artists. Created/sponsored by Scholastic and Expo.
- National Endowment for the Humanities: EDSITEmentIncludes lesson plans and activities for grade levels K-12 with an emphasis on art and culture, this includes lesson plans other subtopics within the humanities such as music, anthropology, folklore, and philosophy. Most of these lesson plans also come with worksheets.
- Smithsonian Education: Art and DesignFeatures lessons plans for grades PreK-12. Here, it describes lesson plans on how students can play games while working closely with art.
Content-related Websites
Web resources for your classroom or for your own information.
- Fine Arts Museums of San FranciscoIn addition to some materials for educators, this site also includes ImageBase, a database of images of 80,000 works of art. (Note:the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco are divided amongst two buildings (deYoung and Legion of Honor) but their sites are virtually identical.)
- International Journal of Education and the ArtsIJEA is a full-text electronic publication that focuses on issues relating to the fields of aesthetics and arts education. Authors are encouraged to examine topics such as aesthetics, art theory, music education, visual arts education, drama education, dance education, aesthetics, arts based inquiries and theories, and integrative literary and narrative studies.
- Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation: World Art TreasuresAn impressive virtual art gallery of over 100,000 slides created by the Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation. Categories of works include paintings, sculpture, and other Asian and European media.
- Madison Museum of Contemporary Art Teacher's PageMadison Museum of Contemporary Art site for educators.
- Metropolitan Museum of the ArtsSponsored by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, one of the world's largest and finest art museums, this site features an overview of the collections on display in the Museum's galleries.
- Wisconsin Folks Teaching PageThis site includes information on Native American arts as well as the arts of other ethnic groups. Includes information on woodland flutes, basket weaving, fish decoys; pages about arts include activities, great definition “popups” of terms, audio links, etc.
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