ARTS+&+HUMANITIES


 * ARTS & HUMANITIES RESOURCE PAGE

** o Multiple resources including lesson plans, in-class activities, study activities, play for kids, and teachers resources. Under "Play" are games for primary and intermediate grade levels. These are really excellent. ||  || o Fun, silly camp songs for inclusion in music classes. ||  || o A comprehensive site for introducing students to classical music through listening, seeing, doing, and reacting to it. Example pages follow: ||  || o An excellent description of how to introduce students to classical music. While a CD called Classics for Kids is being sold here, searching Itunes or YouTube will yield numerous musical pieces that can be used with students. ||  || o Hand signs give a visual cue for various pitches. Using this with the Do-Re-Me song from Sound of Music works well in teaching the hand signs. ||  || o This alphabetical listing of the sites not only defines key musical terms but pronounces them and provides a musical piece that exemplifies the term. ||  || o This YouTube video provides a very simple way to construct corn husk dolls for early elementary children. ||  || o This website explains the various instruments of the symphony orchestra. This explains and demonstrates the differences in sound, pitch, and how to play the instruments. It discusses how the instruments are organized into sections. ||  || o This site reviews the building blocks for creating art. The elements include line, shape, direction, size, texture, color, and value. The principles include balance, gradation, repetition, contrast, harmony, dominance, and unity, A very brief yet informative overview. ||  || o An introduction to the harmonica, harmonica types, and music for a variety of songs. o [|Songs - Alphabetical List] ||  || o A very nice overview of the Clefs, time signatures, types of notes, types of rests, basic counting, symbols, and shaping. o Simple written format is easy to follow, but pictures would be an improvement. ||  || o Description ||   || o Includes musical instruments, professions, theory, links, and games. ||  || o As notes are typed into this web site, the fingering chart shows the appropriate fingerings to play that note on the recorder. ||  || o [|Interactive Recorder Finger Chart] o [|Play Boomwhackers] o [|Piggy’s Learn About Music] Games (High/Low, What’s That Note, Copy Pig, and Note Names) ||  || o A history of the recorder from the 14th century to the present. Examples of music featuring recorders from the Renaissance & Baroque periods can be found here. Songs with accompaniment can be played so you can play along on the recorder. ||  || o Original compositions for the recorder. ||  || o Local events and opportunities for teachers can be found here. ||  || o A simple recipe and instructions can be found on this [|YouTube Video]. o [|How Stuff Works] has a nice explanation of what Playdoh is and how it is made. ||  || o · Comprehensive list of music resources for elementary teachers ||   || o Comprehensive dictionary of music-related terms ||  || o Comprehensive list of music resources for elementary teachers ||  || o This site gives students an opportunity to understand the musicians of an orchestra and what the stage looks like. ||  || o 9.1.3-8 B. Recognize, know, use and demonstrate a variety of appropriate arts elements and principles to produce, review and revise original works in the arts. • Music: • sing • play an instrument • read and notate music • compose and arrange • improvise 9.1. 3-8 A. Know and use the elements and principles of each art form to create works in the arts and humanities · This site is very interactive and allows children to hear whole symphony pieces ||  || o An interactive resource that allows users to see elements and principles of art, see examples, and practice learned skills online. || o The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture from 12th to mid-19th centuries. It was started in 1996 as a topical site of the Renaissance art, originated in the Italian city-states of the 14th century and spread to other countries in the 15th and 16th centuries. Intending to present Renaissance art as comprehensively as possible, the scope of the collection was later extended to show its Medieval roots as well as its evolution to Baroque and Rococo via Mannerism. More recently the periods of Neoclassicism and Romanticism were also included. (quoted) ||  || o This site provides a history of music from Medieval times to the 20th Century. A music history game to test your knowledge is also available on this site. ||  || o Includes descriptions and histories of Caribbean, Classical, Folk, Jazz, Latin, R & B, and Rock n Roll styles of music. ||  || o Includes descriptions and histories of the major groups and types of musical instruments. ||  || o Numerous music professions are described on this site. These include musician, composer, historian, lyricist, recorder, and critic. ||  || o Numerous links to other music sites and resources are present. Some links are broken. ||  || o Includes interactive online crossword puzzles and other games. ||  || o Includes overviews of note reading, pitch, values, meter, intervals, scales, keys, chords, symbols, triads, inversions, figured bass, expression marks, tempo, dynamics, and style. ||  || o Music eras, composer biographies, a terms glossary, and excerpts from classical music are available at this site. ||  ||
 * ** ARTS & HUMANITIES **** EDUCATION RESOURCES ** ||  ||
 * · [|A Lifetime of Color]
 * · [|Boy Scout Camp Songs]
 * · [|Classics for Kids]
 * · [|Using Classical Music in the Classroom]
 * · [|Curwen/Glover Hand Signs]
 * · [|Musical Dictionary]
 * · [|Corn Husk Dolls - How to Make Them]
 * · [|Dallas Symphony Orchestra for Kids]
 * · [|Elements and Principles of Design]
 * · [|Harmonica - Jack's Harmonica Page]
 * · [|Introduction to Reading Music]
 * · [|KIDiddles Song Lyrics - The Best in Children's Music]
 * · [|Music Theory]
 * · [|Interactive Recorder Fingering Chart]*
 * · [|K-8 Kid Tunes Games]
 * · [|Recorder History]
 * · [|Flauto Dulce (Classical music using the recorder)]
 * o [|Pittsburgh CLO]
 * · [|Instructables – How to Make Playdoh]
 * · [|Music Resources for Elementary Teachers]
 * · [|Musical Terminology]
 * · [|Music Resources for Elementary Teachers]
 * · [|Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra]
 * · [|San Francisco Symphony Orchestra]
 * |||| · [|The Artist's Toolkit - Minneapolis Institute of the Arts]
 * · [|Web Gallery of Art]
 * · [|Music Notes: Music History]
 * · [|Music Notes: Styles]
 * · [|Music Notes: Instruments]
 * · [|Music Notes: Professions]
 * · [|Music Notes: Links]
 * · [|Music Notes: Games]
 * · [|Music Notes: Theory]
 * · [|Essentials of Music]