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Subject: Dance
Source: PBS Learning Media
Resource Type: Video
A group of children learns a series of steps together in order to perform an Irish jig dance in this live-action short video from the PBS KIDS series PINKALICIOUS & PETERRIFIC®.
Skill: Understand and demonstrate dance throughout history and in various cultures.
Georgia Standard: ESD1.CN.1
Subject: Dance
Source: PBS Learning Media
Resource Type: Video
Matlachines is a traditional dance from Aguascalientes. The dance originates from a combination of pre-hispanic and colonial music and dance.
Skill: Understand and demonstrate dance throughout history and in various cultures.
Georgia Standard: ESD1.CN.1
Punchinella | Dance Arts Toolkit
Subject: Dance
Source: PBS Learning Media
Resource Type: Video
Instructor Jennifer Rose teaches a simple singing and mimicry game and explains the game’s French and English origins in this video from the Dance Arts Toolkit series.
Skill: Demonstrate an understanding of the choreographic process.
Georgia Standard: ESD1.CR.1
Step-by-Step Dance Lesson Plan
Subject: Dance
Source: PBS Learning Media
Resource Type: Lesson Plan
In this lesson plan, children explore the ways in which dance can represent the natural world.
Skill: Demonstrate an understanding of the choreographic process.
Georgia Standard: ESD1.CR.1
Subject: Music
Source: PBS Learning Media
Resource Type: Interactive
Learn how gestures of drawing can create melodies, and the effects you can create combining visual and musical elements.
Skill: Improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.
Georgia Standard: ESGM1.CR.1
Subject: Music
Source: PBS Learning Media
Resource Type: Video
Folk singer John McCutcheon demonstrates the hambone, an African-American rhythm technique that uses the whole body as a “drum set” to produce a variety of sounds.
Skill: Improvise simple body percussion patterns.
Georgia Standard: ESGM1.CR.1a
Subject: Music
Source: PBS Learning Media
Resource Type: Video
Folk singer Malcolm Dalglish shows how to play the spoons.
Skill: Improvise using various sound sources (e.g. electronic sounds, found sounds, body percussion, classroom instruments).
Georgia Standard: ESGM1.CR.1b
Subject: Music
Source: PBS Learning Media
Resource Type: Video
The Reel World String Band performs an African-American call-and-response folk song and explains the song’s origins in the Sea Islands off the coast of Georgia and South Carolina.
Skill: Echo simple singing and speech patterns and perform call and response songs.
Georgia Standard: ESGM1.PR.1b
Subject: Theatre
Source: PBS Learning Media
Resource Type: Video
Abby teaches kids about a variety of jobs needed in a stage production including the cast, crew and audience. Kids also learn about the different spaces in a theater and how cues are used to communicate.
Skill: Organize, design, and refine theatrical work.
Georgia Standard: TA1.CR.1
Subject: Theatre
Source: PBS Learning Media
Resource Type: Video
Abby Brown loves to help kids have fun while learning! In this segment, Abby teaches kids about storytelling.
Skill: Develop scripts through theatrical techniques.
Georgia Standard: TA1.CR.2
Theatre Etiquette with Fancy Frog
Subject: Theatre
Source: PBS Learning Media
Resource Type: Video
Fancy Frog describes the appropriate behavior in a theater while Blathertrap tries his hardest to oblige.
Skill: Engage actively and appropriately as an audience member.
Georgia Standard: TA1.RE.1
Subject: Visual Art
Source: PBS Learning Media
Resource Type: Video
Manuela is a little girl who moved to Kentucky from Colombia, the home country of her grandmother, Miriam Llamas. Miriam is a painter. During a visit to Kentucky, she showed Manuela some of her paintings and taught her some of the songs and dances of Colombia.
Skill: Investigate and discover the personal relationships of artists to community, culture, and the world through making and studying art.
Georgia Standard: VA1.CN.1
Subject: Visual Art
Source: PBS Learning Media
Resource Type: Video with Student Activity
Several artists present a variety of Chinese crafts—including paper cutting, painting, and kite making—to youngsters as part of a Chinese New Year’s Celebration at the Explorium, a children’s museum in Lexington, Kentucky. Chinese New Year, the biggest celebration of the year, is also called the Spring Festival and marked by Dragon Parades.
Skill: Investigate and discover the personal relationships of artists to community, culture, and the world through making and studying art.
Georgia Standard: VA1.CN.1