Irish Jig Dancers

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

 

Matlachines

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

 

Kandinsky Experiment

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

 

Hambone

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

 

Spoons

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

 

So Go Rabbit

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

 

What is Theatre

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

 

What is Storytelling

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

 

An Artist in the Family

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

 

Chinese Art

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