This week we're headed to China to learn about the ancient origins of theater there. We'll look at the early days of wizard theater (not a typo), the development of classical Chinese theater, and the evolution of Beijing Opera.
Kids love learning about Chinese language and symbols. In this lesson, children create Chinese character ornaments. Characters can be printed and decorated or children can try to copy the characters themselves.
This website outlines the steps to create a Chinese Flower Vase art project for kids.
Choice boards are a great way to provide voice and choice to your students in their PeBL learning journey. Please see the PowerPoint presentation attached for more information.
These Christmas seasonal pages will provide you with great resources for the Christmas holiday season. Ideas within this section include: journal activities, ornaments, craft ideas, word searches, word scrambles, recipes, colouring pages, bulletin board ideas, lesson plans, and more.
Christmas is a time for sharing, singing, decorating, and enjoying the season. Experience the joy with your students, using these Christmas lesson plans, activities, printables, and skill builders. There are free worksheets, bulletin board ideas, printable art activities, literature units, and more! They will also enjoy Christmas games that you will find educational as well. You can discuss the religious and cultural meaning behind Christmas in your social studies class, create holiday crafts and decorations for art class, incorporate the seasonal theme into your math class, and read Christmas books in reading class. There is so much for your students to enjoy!
This art history video discussion looks at Petrus Christus' "Portrait of a Carthusian", 1446 (Metropolitan Museum of Art).
This art history video discussion examines Petrus Christus' "Portrait of a Young Woman," c. 1470, oil on oak, 29 x 22.50 cm (Gemaldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin).
Chrome Music Lab is a free website that makes learning music more accessible through fun, hands-on experiments.
"Music is for everyone. Play with these simple experiments to explore how music works. They’re all built with the Web Audio API, and many of them utilize open source libraries like Tone.JS. We’re also providing open-source code so others can build new experiments based on what we’ve started."
Copy and paste this web address into your browser to view a short informational video on Chrome Music Lab - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqncqSxIwgc
What is Chrome Music Lab?
Chrome Music Lab is a website that makes learning music more accessible through fun, hands-on experiments.
What can it be used for?
Many teachers have been using Chrome Music Lab as a tool in their classrooms to explore music and its connections to science, math, art, and more. They’ve been combining it with dance and live instruments. Here’s a collection of some uses we’ve found on Twitter.
Create and compose electronic sounds and songs using an online simulator.
This art history video discussion examines Cimabue's "Maesta of Santa Trinita," 1280-1290, tempera on panel, 151 1/2 x 87 3/4" (385 x 223 cm), Uffizi, Florence.
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**Visionnez toujours les films avant de les montrer aux élèves - cette collection n'est pas nécessairement destinée aux enfants.**
Is everyone ready for a (virtual) vacation?!
City Guesser is a geography based browser game that strives to provide an exceptional travel and guessing experience.
If you love GeoGuessr - you'll love this!
Choose the world, a continent or even Canada to explore!
In this extension to the "Open Court Reader" unit on "City Wildlife," students look at a still-life painting. They discuss the observation of nature by scientists and artists and explore the symbolism of biological life cycles depicted in a painting.
This site examines the Civil War through collections of artifacts. Topics include slavery and abolition, Abraham Lincoln, the first Union officer killed, soldiering, weapons, leaders, cavalries, navies, life and culture, Appomattox, Winslow Homer, and Mathematics and Statistics. A Civil War time-line is included.
This art history video discussion examines Claes Oldenburg's "Floor Cake," Synthetic polymer paint and latex on canva filled with foam rubber and cardboard boxes, 58.375 x 114.25 x 58.375 in. (148.2 x 290.2 x 148.2 cm) 1962 (MoMA).
Learn about and play games related to classical music and its composers.
Students create a class composition of a thunderstorm by exploring expressive qualities of crescendo/decrescendo and accelerando/ritardando
In this art history video Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker discuss Claus Sluter and Claus de Werve's, "Mourners", Tomb of Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, installed 1410. In the Museum of Fine Arts, Dijon.