Resources+for+Arts+Educators

=== **The websites presented on this page are wonderful resources for arts (and all) educators. The sites are filled with knowledge, research, lesson plans, and extra resources all teachers will find beneficial.** **L** **ooking for a way to connect music with poetry in a lesson?** **Do you want to show your students a clip of musicians playing a piece live?** **Need a good book to go along with your lesson? Or do you need help adding the last few touches to your lesson based on a book?** **Looking for real life examples that will relate to and engage your students?** **Trying to find a new way of presenting a concept or technique to students?** **The following websites can help.** ===




 * ===The Verizon Foundation presents: Thinkfinity ===

"Verizon Thinkfinity offers comprehensive teaching and learning resources created by [|our content partners] – the most respected organizations in each academic subject and literacy. The easy-to-navigate K-12 resources are grade-specific and are aligned with [|state standards]." -from the Thinkfinity website

**The Verizon Foundation has paired up with various** [|**content partners**] **to bring the resources on this website together. The website essentially brings all of the content partners' resources together to make lesson plans, ideas, games, tools, and standard alignment together.**  **The various pages include** [|**In the Classroom**] **and** [|**At Home & Afterschool**]**, with subpages including lesson plans, student interactives, 21st century skills, today in history, standard alignment, afterschool, parents & kids, games & tools, and literacy. Lesson plans and ideas have no boundaries on this wonderful website.**


 * ===**The Kennedy Center presents: [|ArtsEdge]** ===

"Since the Kennedy Center’s opening in 1971, schoolchildren, parents and educators have turned to us as the nation’s premiere cultural resource. Embracing this responsibility, the Kennedy Center instituted ARTSEDGE in 1996 as its educational media arm, reaching out to schools, communities, individuals and families with printed materials, classroom support and Internet technologies." -from the ArtsEdge Website

The three main sections of this website are lessons, how to's, and standards. Each has invaluable resources for all teachers and future teachers.

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">__**Lessons**__**: The lessons from ArtsEdge are truly amazing. They are so unique and extremely detailed! Each includes an overview, preparation needed, instruction of the lesson, and standards used.**

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Looking for a lesson about music and poetry? Check here:** [|**Set a Poem to Music**] <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**How about a lesson on songs used in the Underground Railroad? See** [|**Harriet Tubman: Secret Messages Shared through Song**] <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**What about a lesson on contemporary music? Check out:** [|**Learning from Lyrics**]

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**And it doesn't stop there. There are lessons on many topics--not just music and art.**

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**__How To's__: This section of the website has tips, guides, and articles all about arts education.**

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**__Standards__: As educators, we have to do our best to accomplish the standards set up by our respective organizations, subjects, and areas. This section of the ArtsEdge website divides grades into K-4, 5-8, and 9-12. The standards themselves are divided into Dance, Music, Theater, and Visual Arts, and also individually separated. Each standard contains content and achievement.**


 * ===<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">The Arts Education Partnership presents: [|ArtsEdSearch] ===

<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">"ArtsEdSearch is a project of the Arts Education Partnership (AEP), and builds on Critical Links: Learning in the Arts and Student Academic and Social Development, a compendium of research that AEP published in 2002 exploring the impact of arts education on student success in school, life, and work. Critical Links identified a range of outcomes of arts learning—including students’ development of skills for creative thinking, problem solving, communication, and collaboration—which are of central interest today, not only to the arts education field, but more broadly to education policymakers and leaders concerned with preparing students to succeed in the changing contexts of the 21st Century. AEP has developed ArtsEdSearch as a resource for policymakers and education stakeholders and leaders to better understand and articulate the role that arts education can play in meeting this challenge. ArtsEdSearch is designed to be an interactive, living resource that will grow and evolve along with arts and education research and practice." <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">-from the ArtsEdSearch website   <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**The focus of the research of ArtsEdSearch is to explore the effects of arts education on students overall development. The website is full of articles on this topic, but there are many different focuses and ways to find articles. The matrix on the first page allows the viewer to choose a focus, whether it be outcomes or setting, and then further, engaged, successful students; committed, effective educators; in-school; or out-of-school. You can also specify your search by age range. This website is a great resource for those who really want to delve into the specifics on how to effectively engage their students in arts education, and also how to become a better teacher.**