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Overview
Discovery Education’s library of vetted, high-quality content contains a wide variety of resources to support teaching and learning in Visual and Performing Arts Classrooms. Whether you are teaching about dance, music, theater, visual arts, and so much more – Discovery Education’s resources provide engaging alternatives to consider when designing learning experiences.
Discovery Education’s curriculum experts have curated these resources into channels to provide quick and easy access to support planning engaging learning experiences. Many of our channels organize the content into grade-bands to ensure the content is appropriate for your students.
Complete a keyword search for your topic and find channels to best suit your needs! Don’t forget to subscribe to your favorite channels to add them to your My DE homepage.
Channels
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International Dot Day: Join Fablevision Author Peter Reynolds, Dot Day Creator Terry Shay, and Discovery Education to #CelebrateWithDE for International Dot Day. From Traer, Iowa, where Dot Day began, this event discusses the origin of Dot Day, showcases how students are celebrating, and hears from author Peter Reynolds about his book, The Dot. Use the instructional resources to make the most out of the International Dot Day On-Demand Event.
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Art and Artists: Discover art and artists of the past and present. From Native American rock art to Impressionist paintings to interactive projects in Detroit today, art has reflected the values and hopes of the culture of its time. Artists throughout history and around the world have used their mediums as commentary about the society in which they lived.
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Performing Arts across the Curriculum: Immerse the class in song, dance, and video while learning math, science, social studies. and health. Students can learn far more than the ABCs through listening or singing (atomic structure and physics, for example). Incorporate the performing arts into lesson plans to reach students with auditory and kinesthetic learning styles and expose them to performance and self-expression.
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Art Minutes: Delve into the world of art with Art Minutes, a fresh series of bite-sized animations exploring great works of art throughout history and around the world. Each program is only about one minute in length, yet is packed with fascinating facts, vocabulary, ideas, and visual explanations about familiar and not-so-familiar masterpieces of the art world.
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One Minute in a Museum: Three kids, one minute, real masterpieces from around the world to discover. One Minute in a Museum features one-minute mini-episodes, each featuring one work of art from the Louvre, Orsay Museum, Picasso Museum, Guimet Museum of Asian Art, and Fine Arts Museums throughout France.
Grab-and-Go Activities
Discovery Education contains over 1,000 grab-and-go activities – including many Studio Boards for quick implementation in your classroom. Learn more about Studio and explore boards made for the Visual & Performing Arts Classroom.