Visual & Performing Arts
Visual & Performing Arts
Visual & Performing Arts
Online resources to foster creativity across visual, musical and dramatic platforms.Resources to Explore for Visual & Performing Arts
Art
Arts Ed NJ - A statewide arts education advocacy model for the 21st century bringing together stakeholders and applying new technologies and communication strategies with "best practices" to create a vibrant and valued organization to advance arts education in New Jersey.
Artstor - More than 3 million images from top museums, archives, scholars, and artists -— all rights-cleared for education and research -— plus tools for teaching and learning with visual materials.
Arttango - Free art lesson projects for K-5 grade students, including 30 art education projects per grade covering line, shape, color, and all the elements of art.
Blick | Lesson Plans - Geared for a wide variety of age and skill levels, hundreds of lessons designed to meet the National Standards for Visual Art Education.
Collections | Museum of Fine Arts Boston - Browse the MFA, one of the most comprehensive art museums in the world with a collection that encompasses nearly 500,000 works of art.
Collections | Museum of Fine Arts Boston - Browse the MFA, one of the most comprehensive art museums in the world with a collection that encompasses nearly 500,000 works of art.
Getty Museum Virtual Library (Publications Getty) - A collection of 325 art books available for anyone to read online and or download in the Getty Publications Virtual Library. You can search through the collection by author, keyword, or title.
Joy2Learn - Bringing World Renowned Artists to Your Classroom. Providing high quality arts content to schools free of charge, via a series of Internet based presentations, using live video and other multimedia elements in an engaging interactive format.
Library of Congress: Engage! - Check this page and the Library’s social channels every Friday for a new video from Dave Pilkey, author of Captain Underpants. Virtual drawing classes, readings & more.
Metropolitan Museum of Art | Online Publications - A collection of Met publications on Art History with full online texts.
Philadelphia Museum of Art - School & Teachers: Teacher Resources
Teacher'sFirst Artists Theory - Delve into this collection that shares an eclectic assortment of resources related to artists and theory. Learn about various artists through their websites and the information available through many art museums. In addition, learn about many different art theories from Impressionism to Romanticism to Contemporary, and more.
Teach with GIVE - Free online resources created by Teaching Artists for Teaching Artists working in Integrated Co-Teaching (ICT) Classrooms
What inclusive, accessible arts education looks like | Perkins School for the Blind - Playing music, drawing and painting, making tactile sculptures of clay and cardboard — making art accessible helps kids with disabilities in many ways.
What You Need to Know About Inclusive Education in the Art Room - Walk through the basics of inclusive education in the art room.
Music
Carnegie Hall Musical Explorers Curriculum Interactive Map - An interactive map designed to introduce students to musicians, instruments, and music from around the world.
Chrome Music Lab - A website that makes learning music more accessible through fun, hands-on experiments.
DSO Kids | Dallas Symphony Orchestra - Resources, activities and games to encourage children’s artistic connection.
Education | the Mann.- Our mission is to give every young person the opportunity to be inspired by the sights, sounds, and rhythms of the performing arts through the magic and richness of live performances.
Education & Community | New Jersey Symphony - A harmonious suite of education and community resources provided by the NJ Symphony
Learning Resources | NY Phil - NY Philharmonic Education programs empower all listeners and creators to make their own connections to orchestral music. From games that introduce preschoolers to musical basics to activities that inspire elementary, middle, and high school students to compose, our resources support learning at home, at school, and even on the go.
Lesson Plans | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - Free resources for the classroom. Browse Lesson Plans to find a world of curricular experiences from Smithsonian Folkways’ Network of Music Educators.
Lesson Plans | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - Free resources for the classroom. Browse Lesson Plans to find a world of curricular experiences from Smithsonian Folkways’ Network of Music Educators.
Education & Training | New Jersey Symphony - A harmonious suite of education and community resources provided by the NJ Symphony
Music Activities for Kids | HowStuffWorks - Make music and try something fun and different with these music activities for kids.
Music Instruction and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) | California County Superintendents Arts Initiative - Expand access to music education and integration for students in Grades TK- 6 with diverse abilities through Universal Design for Learning.
Music Theory - Introductory and intermediate music theory lessons, exercises, ear trainers, and calculators. Free online content
Rock Hall EDU - Free classroom resources such as videos, playlists, essays, lesson plans, writing prompts, and more.
San Francisco Symphony - Education- Leessons and activities for your digital classroom.
Scribble Diffusion - Turn your sketch into a refined image using AI
Sight Reading Factory - Free sight reading exercises for piano, guitar, woodwinds, strings, ensembles, and more. No signup is required.
TeachersFirst's Instruments and Vocal Music - Technology offers teachers many new opportunities in music and the arts. This collection highlights resources related to instruments and vocal music. Some tools in this curated list include virtual instruments, video tutorials, vocal instructions, and more.
TeachersFirst's Music Appreciation -Peruse this collection to learn about musicians from different periods. This collection covers blues, jazz, classical, and other genres. Share these resources during Music In the Schools Month or any time throughout the year. This list includes resources for all grades.
TeachRock - Provides free, standards-aligned resources to help teachers, students, and families, bringing the sound, stories, and science of music to all classrooms. From The Beatles to Beyoncé, from kindergarten to AP History, in the classroom or remotely, TeachRock offers meaningful lesson plans all at no cost to teachers, students, and families, inspiring deeper learning and understanding through the power of music.
Virtual Learning Resources for Music Educators - NAfME - Resources to support music educators as they navigate unprecedented challenges from the need for teacher self-care to tips and considerations for teaching online.
Websites for Kids | MTNA - Selected websites that teachers might find helpful for augmenting lesson materials.
Drama
15 Broadway Plays and Musicals You Can Watch On Stage From Home | Playbill - Digital and interactive resources for drama, dance and theatre, with six free resource packs for digital, online schooling.
Educational Resources and Hamilton · George Washington's Mount Vernon - George Washington's Mount Vernon offers a variety of primary and secondary sources on George Washington, the Revolutionary War, the Constitution, and the 18th Century. Use them to accompany the Hamilton Original Cast Recording in your classroom to create content-rich lessons using the music of the award-winning Broadway musical.
EduHam at Home from the Gilder Lehrman Institute - An extension of the Hamilton Education Program (EduHam), students study primary source documents from the Founding Era, learn how Lin-Manuel Miranda used such documents to create the musical Hamilton, and finally create their original performance pieces based on the same material.
Enjoy World Class Performances At Home | Rowan College of Performing Arts
Full-Length Andrew Lloyd Webber Musicals Coming to YouTube
Hamilton Australia Education Guide - The activities in this guide have been designed to be completed pre-show and post-show. We encourage you to embed these activities into existing comprehensive units of work which include themes such as character, movement, music tone and rhythm, sounds, sets and costumes.
Learning Center - Educational Theatre Association - Providing educators with professional development and networking opportunities, plus the wealth of materials : curricula, model assessments, lesson plans, activities, and more!
TeachersFirst's Dramatic Arts and Dance - Discover resources in this collection to infuse drama and dance into your lessons. This curated list includes musicals, readers theater, dance instruction, and more. You may find it helpful to use ideas from this list to plan your physical education and language arts lessons. This list includes resources for all grades.
Teach with GIVE - Free online resources created by Teaching Artists for Teaching Artists working in Integrated Co-Teaching (ICT) Classrooms
Theater | PBS LearningMedia - Discover the world of Theater with lesson plans, videos, interactive activities, and more. Theater styles, the history of theater, and theater in world cultures are a few of the additional topics explored in Theater.
Virtual Theatre Education Resources: The Epic Crowdsourced List
