Instructional Media and Technology Service

Monthly Curriculum Resources

Music and Visual Arts Education

September 2006

 

Sources Available from RESA’s Instructional Media and Technology Services Library:

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Changes.  Burlington, VT: NoodleHead Network, c2003.  One 14 minute videocassette.  Covers claymation, the art of combining clay sculpture with video animation, from planning the storyboard to animating.  Shows 4th and 5th grade students creating their own amazing clay creatures that transform themselves like magic.  Watch the moon become the sun, a monkey become a bird, a shark become an alien and much more.  Appropriate for grades 2-7.  (Duplication Collection, TR897.5.C52).

 

Creating Art. Oley, PA: Bullfrog Films, c2004. Available as one 30 minute DVD or videocassette.  Features well-mannered, inquisitive and intelligent, six-year old Daniel Cook, who explores the world around him through his own candid questions.  In this episode Daniel visits an art gallery, makes plasticine art, paints giraffes, draws dragons, and makes a clay dragon.  Appropriate for preschool to 2nd grade. (Duplication Collection, N7477.C73).

 

Famous Paintings. Derry, N.H.: Chip Taylor Communications, c2002.  Available as one 13 minute videocassette.  Uses the finest animation techniques to allow viewers to visualize thoughts about famous paintings by the following artists: Breugel, Van Gogh, Dali, Monet, Mondrian, Vermeer, van der Goes, Arcimboldo, Cezanne, Magritte, Ensor, Goya, Bosch, and Rembrandt.  Appropriate for middle and high school grades.  (Duplication Collection, ND1146.F36).

 

Messecar, R. (2000).  Duke Ellington. Westport, CT:  Weston Woods.  One 15 minute videocassette.  A brief recounting of the career of this jazz musician and composer who, along with his orchestra, created music that was beyond category.  Appropriate for kindergarten through grade 4.  (Duplication Collection: ML3930.E44).

 

Mozart, Math and Music. (2000).  Wayne, MI:  Wayne RESA.  One 50 minute videocassette.  Introduces students to the music of Mozart through the prism of basic mathematical principles.  The Detroit Symphony Civic Orchestra performs.  (Circulating Collection: F563.W2).

 

Pixie.  San Diego, CA: Tech4Learning, Inc. c2005.  One computer disc and user’s guide.  Provides a creativity tool with an array of paint and easy to use image editing tools.  Users of all ages can manipulate images and design original artwork.  Edit images by applying a variety of graphic effects and cool edges to photos.  Create original art using unique paint tools, shapes, and fill options.  Tell stories using pictures from the sticker library.  Access to online lesson plans and training materials available.  Appropriate for grades 4-12.  (Circulating Collection T385.P53).

 

Reynolds, P.R. (2003).  The Dot.  Norwalk, CT:  Weston Woods.  One 6 minute videocassette.  Vashti may not be able to draw, but she can at least make a dot.  When she sees the dot framed above her art teacher’s desk she decides that she can make a better dot.  Soon Vashti is making big dots and small dots, red dots, blue dots and purple dots.  At the school art show everyone admires her dot paintings and she realizes that art is about more than being able to draw.  Appropriate for grades 1-3.  (Duplication Collection: PZ7.D67).

 

Yhas, R. (2003).  Power of Music.  Wheeling, Ill.: Film Ideas.  Consists of part 1 and part 2 videocassettes (two 51 minute videocassettes each part).  Presents research showing that singing, listening and playing music improves health and stimulates the mind.  Join established artists as they express the creative process which draws upon and captures the power of music.  Appropriate for grades 3 – 12.  (Duplication Collection:  ML3830.P79 – Part 1; ML3830.P80 – Part 2).

 

Music Web Resources:

 

Classics for Kids

(Online).  Available:  http://www.classicsforkids.com/  (Sept. 26, 2006).  Use the “Teachers” link in the right column to access lesson plans.  This site also has games, instruments of the orchestra, a musical dictionary and more.

 

Piano Nanny

(Online).  Available:  http://www.pianonanny.com/start.html  (Sept. 26, 2006).  This site has lesson plans for starter, intermediate, and advanced piano students. 

 

Teachers.Net Lesson Exchange – Music Lesson Plans

(Online).  Available:  http://www.teachers.net/cgi-bin/lessons/sort.cgi?searchterm=music   (Sept. 26, 2006).  This page has links for 120 lesson plans, with grade level noted.

 

Visual Arts Web Resources:

 

Impressionism
(Online).  Available:  http://www.impressionism.org/  (Sept. 26, 2006).  This site has lesson plans designed to introduce the major themes of Impressionism for grades 1 – 8. 

 

Metropolitan Museum of Art – Timeline of Art History

(Online).  Available:  http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm  (Sept. 26, 2006).  An interactive web site that is indexed by subject, timeline, special topic, artist, etc.

 

Museum of Modern Art – Modern Teachers

(Online).  Available:  http://www.moma.org/modernteachers/   (Sept. 26, 2006).  This site connects educators with MoMA’s resources and collections.  Included are educators guides and lesson plans searchable by subject, theme, medium, or artist.

 

National Gallery of Art – NGAkids Art Zone

(Online).  Available:  http://www.nga.gov/kids/zone/zone.htm  (Sept. 26, 2006).  An interactive website where users can create and manipulate art objects.

 

National Gallery of Art – Classroom for Teachers and Students

(Online).  Available:  http://www.nga.gov/education/classroom/  (Sept. 26, 2006).  This page provides lesson plans and resources searchable by curriculum subject, topic, and artist.  Also provided are links to online games and activities.

 

Smithsonian Institution

(Online).  Available:  http://www.si.edu/  (Sept. 26, 2006).  Use links on the left for Teacher resources, this site has lesson plans, online exhibits, field trips, websites and more.

 

The Getty – Search Lesson Plans

(Online).  Available:  http://www.getty.edu/education/search/  (Sept. 26, 2006).  Users may browse all Getty curricula, or search by grade level and subject.  This site also links to Teacher Art Exchange, an online listserv for teachers.

 

 

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