Technology Resources for Arts Educators

Standards-Based Model Lessons

During the Pennsylvania Governor's Institute for Arts Educators 2000 session this site was given user testing. Sources were used to create standards-based model lessons by a "community of learners" made up of some of the finest arts educators in the state of Pennsylvania.

 

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The Mission of this community was threefold.  Members became familiar with a website titled Technology and Standards for Arts Educators  http://www.techresource.homepage.com which is a data base catalog of resources.

  • Internet URL's were explored for the purpose of gathering useful and appropriate content for pedagogical use.
  • Found content was integrated with standards-based model lessons.
  • Web searches were conducted for the purpose of expanding the resources of the database.

To view the model lessons contributed to the project by practitioners in arts education click the links below in blue.

Title

Content Area

Grade Level (s)

Overview

Mozart's Musical Dice Game
by 
John Gabriele

Music

6,7,8

Students determine the sequence of measures in Minuet form (ABA) by using prescribed measures using a musical dice game.

The Non-Objective Object 
by
Dale A. Gregg

Visual Art

3

Students will learn the concept of non-objective art by exploring the works of Helen Frankenthaler and producing non-objective works of their own using tissue paper and colored pencils.

Music Notation
by
Melissa Hair

Visual
Art

3,5

Students will be acquainted with the note names for the lines and the spaces in the treble clef.

Instrument Family Recognition-Aural
by
Christopher Laret

Music

3

Students will use sound picture matching program on http://www.menc.org/guides/charguid/match/matgame1.htm  to show distinguishing visual and aural characteristics of the orchestral families of instruments. 

Quilt Design
by
Dede Tersteeg

Visual
Arts

8

Three forty-minute lessons to design a center-focused quilt.

Clay Man
by
Jennifer Tsui

Visual
Arts

3

The students will produce a puppet head that displays their mastery of  basic pinch pot methods, using an example from a contemporary Philadelphia artist (Jimmy Clarke) and a Native American tradition.  

Renaissance Wind Instruments
by
Dyan White

Music

5

Students will listen to examples of recorder music from the Renaissance, and identify similar instruments of the period based on sound production and timbre.

Color Mix: Primary and Secondary Colors
by
Heidi Wirtner

Visual
Arts

3

This lesson explores the mixing of colors through the use of the color wheel.  The objectives of this lesson are to engage students in how colors are created and in evaluating their color mixes and the color mixes of others.