Reviewed Resources

101 Drama Games

These drama games by David Farmer can be used with your students. Select from warm ups, concentration, group dynamics, mime and movement, storytelling, and other activities.

60 Second Shakespeare

This page from the BBC website was developed to support a UK competition, but there are also guidelines, resources, and information for studying and producing Shakespeare plays, and for learning film production skills. Includes teachers' notes and lesson plans for different steps in the production process, and examples of student videos from the UK hosted on the site.

Aboriginal Dance

Ox Outback is an excellent site for lots of video clips of Aboriginal dances in the Australian Northern Territory and Torres Strait Islands.

Accumulation: Mathematics and Dance

This is a unit that shows how to use accumulation as a structure to make a dance.

All About Tutus

A page and links to pictures of different styles of ballet tutus. May be useful for a unit on ballet and dance costumes.

Animation Introduction

A page from the British website Film Education which presents a practical introduction to animation, and provides many ideas for projects and lessons for primary educators. It includes information on the history of animation, techniques and ideas for animation in the classroom, with and without the use of the computer.

Ans Westra - Teacher and Student Resources

This site provides units of work and related resources, based around the documentary photography of Ans Westra. The units are designed to be used as an introduction to photography as part of a year's photography course, or as a distinct unit within an NCEA Level 1 or 2 general art programme, or they can be adapted for use as part of a level 3 programme. Use them in conjunction with a visit to the Ans Westra exhibition, the publication 'Handboek: Ans Westra photographs' or DVD 'Visible Evidence'.

Archives New Zealand

The site contains information on the National Film Unit, Archives New Zealand's preservation work and features stories on filmmakers and films. The films can be streamed onto viewers' desktops using flash video with new titles being added every day. Films featuring on the site include Weekly Review and Pictorial Parade newsreels as well as one-off documentaries.

Art and Craft Activities for Christmas

This page from Australia's key education portal, EDNA, provides a wide range of links to Christmas arts activities for children.

Art and Creativity in Early Childhood Education

This site has lesson plans, as well as handouts on art and literacy and how art impacts on overall learning.

Art and the Land: On Disk at Film Archives

This programme tracks the changing and varied relationships of selected New Zealand artists with the land.

Art Auctions Were Just the Beginning!

An amazingly visionary series of visual arts projects and events at Macandrew Intermediate School are described by specialist visual arts teacher Lesley Hirst. Practising artists are integral to the school's visual arts programme, which has transformed the culture and appearance of the school, engaged and enriched the wider Dunedin arts community, and is enthusiastically supported by local organisations and individuals.

Art Criticism Tour

This webquest gives students an opportunity to search the web, in a guided way, and to work through a range of art analysis tasks. The main gallery link is the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Students are encouraged to work in groups and to focus on description, analysis, interpretation and judgement skills. This site webquest would be suitable for junior secondary students.

Art for Children and Adults with Disabilities

KinderArt® features many activities and lesson plans which have proven successful with children and adults with disabilities.

Art History Database

The art history index of famous artists leads to imagery and in-depth information such as biographies of over 22,000 artists, with links to over 200,000 images from museums.

Art History Painting Analysis Handout (Word 38.5KB)

A handout for students examining how to analyse a painting (Level 2)

Art History Resources on the Web

This site provides in-depth hyperlinked lists divided by period. It is well organised and readily usable by art history teachers. Lots of useful resources and links for teachers of Levels 2 and 3.

Art History Sample Lesson Plan Template (Word 21.5KB)

A sample lesson plan template in downloadable form

Art History Year Planner (Word 33KB)

A Sample Year Planner for 2007 in downloadable form

Art in Aotearoa and the New Zealand Curriculum

These downloadable level 2 Art History tasks, for the Art in Aotearoa area of study, integrate aspects of the New Zealand Curriculum (2007) with internal assessment activities for AS 90231 and AS 90229.

Art in the Picture

This website provides an introduction to art history and includes information on artists, painting and styles and movement.

The Art Story

The Art Story site is a guide to modern art and explores modern art movements, artists, theory and the progression of art.

The Art Studio Chalkboard

A resource University of Evansville Indianna for artists and art students that focuses on the technical fundamentals of perspective, shading, color and painting.

Art Zone

NGA Kids from the National Gallery of Art (USA) provides several tools that allow kids to create art interactively. The site includes: a Collage Machine; Pixel Face, an interactive portrait maker and drawing board; Cubits, a geometric sculpture maker; 3-d Twirler, for designing and texturising three-dimensional shapes; Diamonds; and RiverRun where 'young children orchestrate a flowing array of colourful shapes and patterns'.

ArtEdventures: From Cave Art to Your Art – 30,000 Years of New Media

Encourage your students to explore how artists, including themselves, use art media, with this interactive site from Sanford ArtEdventures. Students  can create their own video, by selecting  from a range of clips related to using oil paint, acrylics, watercolours, markers, and coloured pencils. They upload images of their own, and add text and music to complete their video.

Artes Mundi

This Welsh site provides access to an extensive education package and online gallery that can be downloaded (if you have enough memory). The package provides lesson plans and ideas for engaging students at all levels in critical dialogue. Foci include global warming and climate change.

ArtExpress

ArtExpress is a comprehensive expressive arts curriculum for young children with disabilities. The curriculum discusses the importance of the arts as a way to communicate thoughts, feelings, and ideas to others. The expressive arts can be used across learning domains, impacting on children's cognitive, communication, motor, and social and emotional development. Suggestions for activities are included in the curriculum.

Artifact Interactive Tutorials

This website comprises of some excellent flash game making turorials. The instructions are well laid out and are complemented with free downloads of flash files that support the tutorials.

Artists of Brucke: Themes in German Expressionist Prints

This Museum of Modern Art exhibition fosters interactive study of the Expressionist movement illustrating over 120 works in more than 50 comparative groupings.

ArtLex: Dictionary of Visual Art

Great reference material in art, art history, art criticism, aesthetics, and art education. Definitions of thousands of terms, illustrations, quotations, and links to other resources.

Arts Alive: Choreographic Process

This site talks you through the ways of making dances, including some short video examples of structures (or forms), and a very basic virtual dance studio where you can put together movements and choose some music.

Arts Alive: Music

This site has been set up by the National Arts Centre of Canada and, as well as web content specific to the NAC orchestra it features sections on Music Resources, an Instrument Lab, Great Composers, and Activities and Games for Kids. In each area there is video footage, audio clips and excellent links to other resources that will support teachers.

Arts and the Festival of Diwali

A site that give some ideas for arts and history learning around the Festival of Diwali.

The Arts Community - Te Kete Ipurangi

Te Kete Ipurangi, TKI - The Online Learning Centre, is a bilingual portal-plus web community which provides quality assured educational material for New Zealand teachers, school managers, and the wider education community.In the Arts Community there are links to over 2000 quality-assured materials for Dance, Drama, Music and Visual Arts.

Arts Connected

Dedicated to Arts teachers Art Connected is part of the Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis Institute of Arts website. Available are a range of visual arts lessons for all levels including some interactive activities mostly based around elements, composition and galleries. Activities are linked to samples of artists' works.You can also link back to the Walker Art Centre to view art works and related material.

Arts Curriculum Teaching and Learning Guides for Senior Secondary

These New Zealand Curriculum guides provide comprehensive elaborations of the arts learning area including the disciplines of dance, drama, music – sound arts, visual arts, and art history. Pedagogies, indicators, context elaborations and learning progammes support underpinning key concepts. All materials strongly support arts teaching and learning in each discipline at curriculum levels 6 - 8 (NCEA).

Arts Pasifika

This NZ Film Archive On Disk programme looks at Pacific Island people participating in a broad range of New Zealand arts including Fine Art, Music, Dance, Theatre, Film and Literature. You can view the Teacher's Booklet (PDF) and order to loan this resource online.

Arts Resources

An Australian arts website with materials, newsletter and useful links. You can purchase materials online for each arts discipline.

Arts, Federal Resources for Educational Excellence

This American site offers free resources and materials relating to all arts disciplines and links to key organisations and repositories for the arts.

Asia Knowledge

This website is designed to support schools with the process of school curriculum design and becoming more Asian Aware. Asia Knowledge is a priority in the New Zealand Curriculum (2007) and therefore has official status as a context for integrated learning and as a context for the future-focused themes.

Asia Knowledge - Chinese Lantern Festival (Levels 1-2)

This New Zealand curriculum resource from the Asia Knowledge website encourages students to explore how the Chinese lantern festival is celebrated and to discover why this festival is significant to people of Chinese descent. An inquiry approach is used. Links to online resources and information. The unit is suitable for lower and middle primary levels.

Asia Knowledge - Chinese Lantern Festival (Levels 3-4)

This New Zealand curriculum resource from the Asia Knowledge website encourages students to explore how the Chinese lantern festival is celebrated and to discover why this festival is significant to people of Chinese descent. An inquiry approach is used. Links to online resources and information. The unit is suitable for middle and upper primary levels.

Asia Knowledge - The Arts

This page from the Asia Knowledge website contains resources (unit plans) that relate to the New Zealand arts curriculum. Includes teaching and learning resources that have an Asian focus or context for learning and are suitable for primary and secondary levels.

Assessing in the Arts

This site gives some background and ideas used for assessing students' arts knowledge and skills, as used in the US.

Assessment Glossary

This assessment glossary defines a collection of terms relating to assessment. It provides definitions relating to arts assessment, readings, and links to NZQA and TKI assessment sites.

Assessment in Music Performance (Word 78.5KB)

This resource by Chris Archer, challenges teachers to think about how they report on performance assessments and how they might structure their performance assessments. Good for teachers new to NZ.

Auckland Museum Teacher Resources

Access an array of education kits designed to support teachers with information, activities and ideas for visiting the museum. Resources also include pre-visit and post-visit activities. Though based on the Auckland Museum, many of the kits contain material that would be useful to teachers elsewhere in the country. Of particular note are the kits on Maori Arts, including kowhaiwhai and tukutuku patterns, whakairo and more.

The Australian Children's Music Foundation

The vision of ACMF is to use the power of music to inspire and enrich the lives of all Australian children and youth, particularly the disadvantaged and indigenous. The site promotes the research that show that through music, children can find a way to express their emotions and channel their energy and abilities into something positive and creative.

A Background to Commedia

An interesting background article on Commedia.

Banding Together

In this lesson, students explore the crossroads between music and culture, with reference to an article from the New York Times. They discuss the effect that a particular culture can have on popular music and develop their own music group, each representing a style of music and an historical culture.

Bangarra Dance Theatre Videos

This is the site of the Bangarra Dance Company, containing a wide range of video clips that are particularly useful for the study of Aboriginal dance, and especially of Corroboree.

Baseline Data Template (Word 60KB)

A template for teachers to use in their courses for NCEA data collection.

BBC Arts and Culture

This BBC site has many resources of interest across the curriculum. Includes audio clips of famous people. Teachers of English will find useful resources contained in the following sections: Arts, Music and Entertainment, Learning English, English Language, Arts and Society.

BBC Blast - Music and Audio

Learn about hip-hop music with a masterclass on MCing and hip-hop culture. Get top tips on rapping, rhyming, stage presence and battling.

Beginning Clowning

The site features a basic lesson in clowning with some basic background notes to the topic and a list of some print resources.

Being Eve

This website supports the teaching and learning of drama for years 9 and 10, using "Being Eve" the teen drama television series of the same name as a model. It is packed with interesting facts, interviews, and information about the show. Includes teaching notes, activities, curriculum links, a student home page, a look at behind the scenes, and a glossary.

Being Eve for ESOL Students

This Arts/Ngā Toi unit 'Being Eve' has been adapted for ESOL students. It supports the teaching and learning of drama for years 8 to 10, using 'Being Eve' the teen drama television series of the same name as a model. There are interesting facts, interviews, and information about the show. Includes teaching notes, curriculum links, a student home page, a look behind the scenes, and a glossary.

The Bellbird

These drama teaching and learning materials for years 11 and 12 were developed around "The Bellbird," by Stephen Sinclair. Based on the resource kit for teachers produced by the Auckland College of Education and the Auckland Theatre Company (ATC) Education Unit, they include background material on the playwright, play and relevant dramatic forms, detailed director/actor/designer interviews, and specialised classroom activities. Teachers may find these materials and activities valuable both for direct use, and as a comparison and template for studying other plays/productions and performance practice.

Bells and Butterflies - Teachers' Notes

This page provides teachers' notes for an article by Asha Patel from School Journal Part 2, Number 1, 2005, that tells how a young Indian girl, Nileesha Parbhu, prepares for and performs in a concert, dancing in the traditional Bharata Natyam style. Includes an overview, suggested teaching purpose, features to consider, readability, sharing learning outcomes with students, a lesson framework, revisiting the text, and associated websites.

Berklee Shares

Online music lessons from the faculty and alumni of Berklee: Production and Technology, Songwriting and Arranging, Music Business and Careers, Music Education, Music Improvisation. Free lessons for Bass, Brass, DJ and Turntable, Drums and Percussion, Guitar, Keyboards, Voice, Winds. A library of MP3 audio, QuickTime movie, and PDF files.

Body Language - An Introduction

With a number of basic body language tips, this is a good place to start to get students to talk or write specifically about techniques.

Bollywood

This multi-media Bollywood unit is one of an extensive number on units that have been developed by Australian educators to support their Studies of Asia scope and sequence documents of English, SOSE and The Arts.

Born to Weave - Teachers' Notes

This page provides teachers' notes for an article about ten year-old Rangimarie Hetet who describes how weaving has always been part of her life (from School Journal Part 2, Number 2, 2004). Includes an overview, features to consider, readability, supports and challenges, responding to the text, suggested activities, cross-curricular links, and related websites.

Boys Can Dance

This site has a Boys Can Dance unit that could give teachers ideas of how to develop a unit that focuses on gender in dance, using NZ contexts and examples. The interview and writing activities might be used in connection with a live dance performance in the school.

Bringing Stories to Life - Teachers' Notes

This page provides teachers' notes for an article by Caren Wilton from School Journal Part 2, Number 3, 2002, that gives a factual account of Ali Teo's job as an illustrator. Includes an overview, features to consider, readability, supports and challenges, responding to the text, suggested activities, cross-curricular links, and related websites.

Busy Teachers Cafe

The focus of this site is for teachers of K-6, years 0 - 6. It contains a range of resources and activities, links to web sites, and books that the teacher could read to a class. Teachers need to develop the actual learning intentions and curriculum focus/art elements and principles to make best use of the activities.

Capital E

Capital E is a centre for Creative Technology and Live performance for Children. Located in Wellington’s civic square it houses ONTV and Soundhouse as well being the home of the National Theatre for Children, a professional company that tours New Zealand theatres annually with a programme of works for children aged 2-7 and 8-12. All programmes offer free teachers resource enabling teachers to extend the experiences back into the classroom.

The Case of the Missing Object

Promote interest in sculpture, by using this interactive website from Tate Online. Students take on the role of an art detective, and solve clues about the meaning, making, and context of Henry Moore’s Recumbent Figure.

Cézanne's Astonishing Apples

This art feature allows you to explore and learn about Cezanne and his work, and to interact online through a range of activities and written tasks. You can also hear a story about Cezanne - An Apple a Day - inspired by his paintings.

Celebrate Art NZ

Celebrate Art NZ book and poster sets are targeted for an Australasian audience and accessible to students and teachers primary through to junior secondary. They fulfill a niche market in bringing accessible contemporary NZ art practice into NZ classrooms as well as linking activities and resource use to the NZ Arts Curriculum. Online ordering and details are available on the website.

Characterisation in Drama - An Introduction

This wikipedia page provides a liberally linked introduction to characterisation in drama.

Chartwell Collection

This website details the vast number of contemporary New Zealand and Australian art works that have been collected since 1974 by the Chartwell Collection, a private trust. The site gives information about the artists, including images and essays. There are also links to writing by well known critics and curators. It is particularly relevant for those teaching contemporary New Zealand art, especially at Level 3.

Child Drama

A website providing plays, monologues and lesson ideas.

Child Drama Website

An interesting bank of resources including ready-made lesson plans organised by age level, lesson type and cross-curricular links.

Chinese Culture: A Visual Source Book

This site contains an array of information, student activities, discussion questions and teacher guide notes. It aims to support teachers and students to gain an understanding of Chinese culture. Specialist topics include calligraphy, painting and graphic design.

Choreographic Process

An interesting site for information about the choreographic process. Also, check out the Choreographers Toolbox (listed in the headings row). This has text and animated illustrations of the effects that different uses of the dance elements in choreography produce. The materials would be suitable for Year 7-13 dance teachers and students.

City Gallery Education Resources

Wellington City Gallery’s Education programmes and resources support the New Zealand Curriculum with a focus on Visual Arts and Māori Arts and make links to Art History, English, Social Studies, Science and Technology where appropriate.

Classics for Kids

Classical music's great composers come to life through music and stories. Listen to classical music, find out more about the great composers, discover the instruments of the orchestra and play interactive games such as 'Composer Time Machine'.

Clay Candleholders - Teachers' Notes

This page provides teachers' notes for a text by Jan Trafford from School Journal Part 2, Number 1, 2002, that explains how Phebe and Sephrah make some animal-shaped candleholders to sell at the Saturday market, where their mum sells her pots. Includes an overview, features to consider, readability, supports and challenges, responding to the text, suggested activities, and cross-curricular links.

Clay Sculpture - Relationships

A unit plan related to the Ministry of Education's resource series Exploring the Visual Arts Years 1-6. (level 2)

Colin McCahon French Bay House: Teacher Resources

This site provides teacher support materials for years 7 - 10 and NCEA Visual Arts and Art History standards. It links to other key sites for art education.

Commedia Costumes

This is an amusing but potentially useful and educational site when you follow the links at the bottom of the page for Commedia character costumes presented as paper cut-out dolls.

Commedia dell’Arte - The Social Hierarchy (PDF 985KB)

This is a coloured, printable pdf showing the social hierarchy of Commedia stock characters wearing the traditional masks.

Commedia Stock Characters and Canovacci

This site has good outlines of stock characters – personality, mask, movement, costume - and an example of a basic canovacci (plot outline).

Commedia Vignettes for Major Stock Characters

This is an excellent site for background on the Venice “Carnivale” and its relationship to Commedia. Of note is the left hand menu that links to interestingly illustrated vignettes of the major stock characters.

Communicating Through the Body

A very practical site for using body language to communicate. The site will help students talk about and find techniques to use body and movement to complement dialogue in their roles.

Connexions

Connexions is a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organised as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute: authors create and collaborate, instructors rapidly build and share custom collections, learners find and explore content

Contemporary Maori Artists: On Disk at Film Archives

Part One: From 1950 onwards a renaissance of Maori culture was seen in New Zealand. Contemporary artists felt free to produce works that reflected both their urban lives and cultural backgrounds. This programme examines the first wave of these artists. Part Two: The alternative Maori art exhibition ‘Choice’ held at Artspace in Auckland in 1990 is now seen as a turning point in Maori Art. As Maori artists became concerned with more global issues their work focused less on politics and identity. This programme examines the work of a range of such artists.

Contemporary New Zealand Artists

This New Zealand Film Archive education resource comprises three disks with downloadable (PDF) teaching materials. The overall resource is a chronological examination of the contemporary artists who have influenced the development of New Zealand Art.

Contemporary Pacific Artists: On Disk at Film Archives

A look at the work of Pacific Island artists living in New Zealand.

Costume and the Process of Costume Design

An interesting site to explore for costume ideas and for the process of costume design.

Costuming for the Theatre

This large and comprehensive site seems to cover all periods and a wide range of aspects of costuming for the theatre including the design and making of costumes and accessories.

Creating Music

This is an online creative music environment for children of all ages. It is a place to compose music, play with musical performance, music games and music puzzles. It includes a musical sketch pad, games and puzzles, a rhythm band section where students create and listen to their own compositions, cartoon conductor, and a section on melodic contours.

Creative Drama and Theatre Education

This is a resource site for educators, students, artists, and interested parties in creative drama and theatre. Book lists, play information, theatre games, and lesson plan ideas are provided.

Creativity and Culture: Art Projects for Primary Schools

This is a portal site with links to information about art education in the UK, teaching art in primary schools and about contemporary ideas about teaching creativity and culture. It has been compiled by Nigel Meager, the author of 'Creativity and Culture - Art Projects for Primary Schools' for the National Society for Education in Art and Design - NSEAD.

Critiquing Dance

Some suggestions for helping students to critique dance. Suitable for high school teachers.

Curriculum Corporation, Victoria, Australia

A comprehensive list of hard copy resources in the arts as well as other curriculum areas including generic resources on topics such as classroom management multiple learning styles etc. Includes resources with an Asian focus.

Dance Composition Rubric

An example of a dance rubric for a student composition task. Suitable for intermediate and secondary teachers.

Dance for Young Children

A UK website that contains a variety of dance units for young children. Contains some useful teaching points to consider.

Dance Lesson Ideas and Plans

These American Dance lesson plans are for physical education teachers, classroom teachers, and parents. The dance/rhythmic lesson ideas may be helpful to those who teach dance and rhythmic movement.

Dance Lesson Plans

This American site has a wide range and large number of dance lessons in different genres, styles and contexts, from early childhood through primary education. A rating scale show those approved by teachers.

Dance Posters

A website page that shows some examples of dance posters that have been created by intermediate school students using desktop publishing tools.

Dance Styles

This web page provides information about dance styles including ballet, Irish reel, flamenco, tap, and ballroom. It is part of the teachers' notes for the New Zealand Ministry of Education video and DVDs "Discovering Dance: Dance Styles in Aotearoa New Zealand", and includes links to related tracks on the video/DVDs.

Dance Using Still Art Sources (PDF 1.8MB)

This resource of looking at dance via still art could suggest a way to link aspects of visual arts to dance. The 3 1/2 page resource shows 3 examples of still art (sculpture and stained glass painting) from the New York Metropolitan Museum which depict dancers and/or dancing. There is some background information about each art work and some starter questions to ask children. Suitable for primary-intermediate teachers.

Dance Wall Charts

This website provides eight wall charts (in PDF format)which were developed by the Ministry of Education to support the teaching of dance as described in The Arts in the New Zealand Curriculum. Includes dance exercises, discussion ideas and background information related to each chart. There are two resources under each strand, corresponding to the charts for years 1–6 and years 7–10.

Dance, Dance, Dance (PDF 58KB)

This lesson plan for Early Childhood to Year 3 is on a dance-a-thon. Students learn a selection of dances to be performed during the dance-a-thon.

Dance: Part One

This On Disk NZ Film Archive programme is the first part of an overview of New Zealand’s dance history. It includes the infamous 1946 footage of Freda Stark and Harold Robinson dancing covered only in gold body paint; the experimental dance group of the same period ‘New Dance Group’; documentary extracts on the prima ballerina Rowena Jackson, Alexander Grant, Gisa Taglight, Sir Jon Trimmer, Shona Dunlop MacTavish and The Royal New Zealand Ballet; and a 1980 Kaleidoscope piece on ‘Limbs Dance Company’ performing ‘Pyramid’ and ‘Melting Moment’.

Dance: Part Two

This On Disk NZ Film Archive programme is the second part of an overview of New Zealand’s dance history. It includes documentary footage on Deidre Tarrant and the ‘Footnote Dance Company’, Michael Parmenter, Douglas Wright, Taiaroa Royal, Neil Ieremia and ‘Black Grace’, Catherine Chappell and ‘Touch Compass Dance Company’, Hamiora de Thierry and ‘Fusion Dance Company’, and Daniel Belton. It also includes an extract showing ballroom dancers Cherie Clark, David Yeats, Linda Duke and Edward Rainey at the 1984 Australasian Championships.

Dancemakers - Teachers' Notes for Years 11-13

The online teachers' notes that accompany the DVD resource Dancemakers. Each section relates to a section of the DVD, and includes a general outline, viewing suggestions, and suggested activities with links to relevant unit and achievement standards. Available for download as a print version in PDF format.

Dancemakers – Teachers’ Notes for Years 11-13

Use these online teachers’ notes that accompany the DVD resource Dancemakers. Each section relates to a chapter/section of the DVD, and includes a general outline, viewing ideas, and suggested activities, with links to relevant unit and achievement standards.

Dances from the Balkans

A site of video and photograph examples of different dances from the Balkan countries, with some background notes. Useful for primary and secondary teachers, or for student research.

Data Analysis of NCEA Music Results (Word 54.5KB)

Data analysis can create a culture of informed practice and goal setting. It can move us from relying on perceived anecdotal evidence to ‘informed reality' in order to obtain information on what is, and what is not working effectively. This document, written by Chris Archer, provides key information on the use of student data in NCEA music teaching.

Digital Tapa - ICT Learning Experience

This ICT Learning Experience involves students using drawing and desktop publishing software to create a digital version of tapa cloth. Students explored the symbols and meanings in tapa, and also geometrical aspects such as rotation, translation, and reflection. Help sheets and examples of student work are available. Developed by Glen Eden Intermediate Cluster as part of the ICT Professional Development Clusters Project.

Discovering Dance

A resource sent to schools in term 4 2005 which follows a group of four young dancers as they discover and learn about a wide range of dance genres and styles. It offers students a chance to explore the multicultural dance heritage of Aotearoa New Zealand.

Discovering Dance – Teachers’ Notes

 This website provides teachers' notes for the New Zealand Ministry of Education video and DVDs "Discovering Dance: Dance Styles in Aotearoa New Zealand". The notes follow the order of video/DVD 1, and are structured into sections that relate to its seven themes. Each section provides brief background notes, focus points and questions to consider when viewing the dances, suggested activities in relation to curriculum levels, a list of suggested resources, and links to a glossary. Suitable for all levels of the New Zealand curriculum.

Downloading YouTube Videos (Word 52KB)

This document summarises how to download and save videos sourced from YouTube with tried and true links and instructions.

Drama and Theatre Lesson Plans

Lesson plans providing ideas and activities on drama and the theatre.

The Drama in Education Site

Although the question and answer part of this site has not been used for some time there are some areas of interest. Drama As Method and Drama As Subject both have resources worth a look.

Drama NCEA Matrix 2007 (Word 192KB)

This NCEA matrix for Drama Achievement and Unit Standards provides a comprehensive overview of all standards for Levels 1 - 4 and includes notes regarding exclusions.

Drama Posters – Teachers' Notes

These online teachers’ notes support the recently published Drama posters for years 1–13 and provide starter questions and suggestions for classroom use as well as links to the curriculum and to other drama resources. For more information about how the notes relate to The Arts in the New Zealand Curriculum and how they can be used in the classroom, read the introduction. For a summary of the key aspects of learning which relate to The New Zealand Curriculum Exemplars: The Arts drama matrix, refer to the section key aspects. You can download the Drama Poster Teachers’ Notes in both Word and PDF formats.

Drama Unit Standards (Word 30.5KB)

This downloadable document provides details of all unit standards available for NCEA Drama.

Drama: Voice and Improvisation

This British Columbia curriculum site contains teaching materials for the arts. This page focuses on teaching and learning in drama - voice and improvisation. Suitable for adaptation for years 7 - 10.

Drawing Plants - Botanical Art

The approach is quite traditional. The works are sometimes very beautiful, botanically accurate, formal and the images are somewhat “flattened”.

Drum Lessons Database

This online resource for percussion players and music educators contains free lessons, drum tips, drum websites, industry news and information on contests and products.

Early Childhood Activities and Craft

This Edna site contains a wide range of cultural and topical arts and crafts activities for young learners.

Earth Paints - Teachers' Notes

This page provides teachers' notes for an article by Jill MacGregor about Aboriginal art from School Journal Part 1, Number 5, 2004. Includes an overview, features to consider, readability, supports and challenges, responding to the text, suggested activities, and cross-curricular links.

Educate the Children - Music lessons and units

This section of the UK Schoolsnet has music lessons and units suitable for years 1 and 2.

Education and Disability Resource Center

Use this British education site as a reference tool for various issues in education that affect the entire community- Including Job Tips, Neurological, Developmental & Learning Disabilties, Salary Statistics, SATs, Classroom Management, Home Schooling, Lesson Plans, Bullying, ADD, Student Loans and Articles in Education.

Educators Reference Desk Lesson Plans - Arts

The Educators Reference Desk Lesson Plan Collection contains more than 1,000 unique lesson plans which have been written and submitted to AskERIC by teachers from all over the United States. This page is focused on the Arts.

Electronic Musician

A collection of ideas and resource tips aimed at music technology teachers.

The Elementary Dance and Creative Movement Curriculum and Assessment Model (PDF 2.5MB)

This American model is intended to help teachers and students to 'get moving'. It is a springboard for teachers to use in planning and implementing dance explorations for the elementary classroom. The model is organized in three grade level strands: K-1, 2-3, 4-5. Within each grade level, dance explorations are grouped according to the key dance element or skill introduced (Space, Time, Energy, Movement,Choreography).

Enchanted Learning

The seasonal craft projects on this site are for preschool, kindergarten and elementary school children. The crafts use materials found around the house, like egg cartons, cardboard, paper, boxes, string, crayons, paint, glue, etc.

Essentials of Music

If you are studying music, find information on classical music featuring musical eras, composer biographies and musical terminology.

The Evolution of Painting Techniques During the Renaissance

This site about Renaissance painting techniques includes a forum discussion, lesson ideas, and links to many useful resources.

Examples of Music Planning

These unit plans from the Into Music 4 support material, have been developed and used by teachers. Some have templates to fill in, others are examples of classroom practice. Topics include creating soundscapes, composition, listening, using the pentatonic scale, singing, and using disco music as a basis for learning about beat and rhythm.

Exercises for Exploration of the Voice

This web page from the radio drama resource 'Bow Down Shadrach', provides a series of exercises to use as vocal warm-ups for drama or singing. Includes exercises focusing on awareness of the jaw, lips, and tongue; articulation; inflection; intonation; and volume.

Explore Dance

For teachers and/or interested senior primary/intermediate students, this webquest  provides some ideas for independent dance activities and links to a variety of dance genre sites. These include Ballroom Dancing, American Folk Dance Association, Archives of the Early Lindy Hop (the Original Swing dance) and Modern Dance. After exploring sites, students are given some activities to do.

Exploring Te Ao Kori

Te Ao Kori (the world of movement) is a Māori celebration of life through movement and its many expressions. This resource describes learning experiences derived from customary Māori cultural practices, and integrates the arts with health and physical education.

Face It!

This interactive website explores four portraits from the National Portrait Gallery's collection. Students can read about the paintings, explore their visual elements, create digital portraits, write and print out gallery labels and stories and print out line drawings of each portrait.

Figure Drawing Lab

A useful and comprehensive guide to drawing the human figure from the University of Evansville Indianna.

Film Archive On Disk NZ Video Resources for NCEA Art/Art History

The Film Archive has updated and re-edited On Disk programmes. These are available in Art/Art History supporting topic coverage in NZQA/NCEA prescriptions. Background materials for each title are available to download as pdf files and include: teacher's disk booklet for a perusal of content, new online units aligned to many disk titles, and an online order form for On Disk loans.

Film Music

This site contains number of online articles abut film music and very useful links. There are also links to online study units including The Composer’s Toolkit, The Performer, Music as Drama and Case Studies on The Empire Strikes Back and West Side Story.

First School Years - Music Lessons

This section contains worksheets, online activities, flashcards and other educational resources to support the teaching and learning of music in Early Years, Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2.

Focussed on Playwriting

Along with other aspects of playwriting, this site looks at structure, exercises in playwriting, formats and more.

Format for Radio Play Scripts

This web page, from the 'Bow Down Shadrach' radio drama resource, provides a format for creating a radio play script. Includes a link to a template based on extracts from the play, 'Bow Down Shadrach', and a suggestion for finding modern and old-time radio scripts on the internet.

Freeze-Frame Characters

The unit has been adapted for ESOL from The Arts/Ngā Toi Materials Unit. In this level 1 drama learning example the students and teacher talk about characters from stories and then, in groups, develop and share freeze-frame images to represent specific moments from the stories. Includes ideas for planning and assessment, notes on elements, conventions and techniques, links, and references for teaching and learning materials. The adaptations written by Charine Van Pittius for ESOL students are shown in green text.

From Cave Art to Your Art

The site enables years 7-10 students to make their own videos,adding their own text and sound to produce a snippet of art history for presentation to others. A great way to hook students into learning using technology.

From the New Zealand Curriculum to School Curriculum

These materials, designed for school principals and curriculum leaders, support the implementation of the New Zealand Curriculum.

Fusion Dance - Dance Styles

This web page provides information about Indian dance styles including Indian classical dance, Bharata natyam, Kathak, and Bollywood. It is part of the teachers' notes for the New Zealand Ministry of Education video and DVDs "Discovering Dance: Dance Styles in Aotearoa New Zealand", and includes links to related tracks on the video/DVDs.

Garden Party Art Lesson Plans

This Australian site shows how K-6 students can create individual projects by viewing Van Gogh, Matisse, and Eric Carle examples. Each grade completes a garden painting using various techniques and medium while learning about artists, insects, and flowers. Projects are mixed media incorporating different art techniques. All projects can be integrated with science, reading, writing, and computer skills.

Getty Centre: Resources for Teachers

This site is focused on helping teachers develop programmes of study. While it’s based on the Getty’s collection and American education system, the information is easily transferable. The Building Visual Arts Lessons is divided into a number of sections, including discussion of Elements of Art which looks at formal qualities in relation to images. Information is developed for practical classroom use and teachers can search lesson plans.

A Gift for Aunty Ngā - Teachers' Notes

These online teaching notes support the fluency (gold) level fiction book of the same name from the Ready to Read series published by Learning Media Limited. In this sequel to A Quilt for Kiri (Purple), Kiri visits Rarotonga with her parents to meet Aunty Ngā and gives her a tīvaevae that she and her mother have made. These notes include background information about tīvaevae and aspects of Cook Islands culture. The notes identify text features, and provide guidelines for teachers on setting the scene, how to approach the first reading with the students, ideas for revisiting the text, and suggestions for further activities.

GraphicsDEN

GraphicsDEN will teach you how to use a computer graphics program to create unique digital art. Each lesson takes you from start to finish of a digital project. You can follow our step-by-step instructions to complete a similar project. Or, you can create your own project.

Group Activities, Games, Exercises and Initiatives

A site with a large index of free and purchasable team-building exercises, games and group activities.

Guidance on Teaching Gifted and Talented

This site on gifted and talented students in music provides background readings, teaching methodologies, examples of units of work, activities beyond the classroom, resources, and a section on monitoring and evaluating learning.

Guide to Field Trips (Word 26.5KB)

A downloadable guide to organizing trips and designing tasksheets for exhibition.

Guitar Chords

An online guitar chords finder where users can find, hear chords and see chord positions on a realistic virtual guitar. Includes chords for left or right handed players, the use of a capo, and users can also save the chords that they construct.

A Handbook for Students in Music at Year 11, Level 1 NCEA (Word 199KB)

This handbook guides students through ways to plan for success, and to understand NCEA processes and assessment practices.

Hei Waiata

Accompanying the waiata is a songbook with lyrics, song sheets, curriculum achievement. Hei Waiata, Hei Whakakoakoa has been developed to support the teaching and learning of te reo Māori in English-medium schools. It has been aligned with Te Aho Arataki Marau mō te Ako i Te Reo Māori.

The History of Commedia

An interesting background article on Commedia.

History of New Zealand Theatre

This NZ Film Archive education resource comprises 2 disks - part one and part two - with downloadable (PDF) teaching materials. Part one looks at ‘Early New Zealand Theatre’ and ‘Amateur Theatre’ while Part two focuses on some of New Zealand’s best known playwrights including Roger Hall, Bruce Mason and Briar Grace-Smith. It also takes a look at the experimental theatre of companies such as Red Mole and Blerta.

Hop Pop Town

Hop Pop Town is an interactive music site for younger children that focuses on specific elements of learning music and presents game styles in three stage settings. The music elements include recognising differences in intervals and tone-quality, remembering phrases and improvising.

HotChalk's Lesson Plans

HotChalk's LessonPlansPage.com is a collection of over 3,000 lesson plans for primary and secondary levels developed at The University of Missouri, and more recently by the users of the site.

How to Teach Art to Special Needs Students

This page provides a series of steps designed to help all students, including those with special needs, to have productive art-making experiences.

Humanism (Word 39.5KB)

A resource developed by Sandra Chesterman which details the circumstances which gave rise to Humanism. It could be used purely as teacher notes or could be a very purposeful student handout.

Icons of Imaging

This website is dedicated to showcasing samples of high quality imagery with the hope that these Icons of Imaging will provide inspiration to other digital photographers to create the best photographic images possible.

Implementing the Key Competencies

This NZCER research includes publications and resources relating to the Key Competencies as outlined in the NZ school curriculum.

Impressionism

A site organised into two sections, Teach Impressionism which contains eight browse-able/downloadable lessons which deal with the major themes of the style and Experience Impressionism. The latter offers an informative and enjoyable tour through turn of the century France and allows teacher/student to explore in readily accessible form the concepts that defined the Impressionism art movement. Very useful indeed.

Improv Encyclopedia

Improv Encyclopedia has downloadable (PDF)resources for drama warm ups, games, references and glossary.

Incredible Art Lessons

This American art education website provides art lessons, news, links, art departments and cartoons. Sections of the site are aimed at Early Childhood, middle and senior school age students.

Indian Rangoli and Chinese Calligraphic Scrolls

Visit the Asia New Zealand Foundation for visual arts units on Rangoli Patterns and on Calligraphic Scrolls. These units have examples of student work made in response to the recorded units

Integrated Arts Programme - Arizona

This video and accompanying materials describe and justify an arts-integration programme in primary schools. While the programme relies on visiting arts specialists in the classroom, there are ideas and rubrics that could be adapted by generalists.

Interactive art lessons and activities - Illinois State Museum

This site has a variety of lessons including interactive lessons experimenting with composition and colour, and activities using a variety of media, and approaches to engage students in the discovery and analysis of artworks. Innovative ideas such as the use of text messaging could be adapted to a variety of different contexts.

Interactive Music Sites

This Australian education site contains an extensive range of links and resources for music teaching and learning at all educational levels.

Internal Assessment Resources for NCEA

These assessment resources have been developed by the Ministry of Education for use with the internally assessed achievement standards. They are available in both Word and PDF format.

Into Music 3 MIDI Files

This web page has two downloadable MIDI files intended to support the "Twelve-bar Blues" unit in "Into Music 3" chapter 3: Playing. Into Music 3, for teachers of students in years 7–10, is the third book and CD set in a series designed to support the music discipline of The Arts in the New Zealand Curriculum. The book has four main chapters – Listening, Singing, Playing, and Creating and Representing – and each chapter includes three teaching units. NB: The download versions require Winzip which can be found on the TKI download tools section.http://www.tki.org.nz/e/tki/help/plugins.php

Into Music 4 - Classroom Music in Years 1-13

This website provides the online support material referred to in Into Music 4, a resource for teachers of years 1–13 students. This online material contains examples of music planning (including school-wide music programmes), full unit plans, and learning ideas. There is also advice on assessment in music, and planning and reviewing a school arts policy.

Introduction to Costume Design

Although titled “Paper Dolls” this site covers a wide range of periods and provides an interesting possibility for introducing students to the concept of theatre costume design.

It's Show Time!

This wickED topic is part of an integrated series of activities that fit within the New Zealand curriculum. These activities involve viewing, comparing, and contrasting aspects of dramatic performance using ICT. Includes activities in te reo Māori.

Jandals Collage

The robot activity could be an engaging investigation using recycled materials which could link to story writing, animations, design, technology and themes related to the future, or the environment.

Japanese Arts festival Quest

In this primary visual arts and social studies webquest, students are set the task to learn about one traditional Japanese art form in order to teach and motivate younger students at a school festival day. There are four art forms to choose from: Origami, Shodo, Ikebana and Haiku. Students can research aspects such as the history and description of the artform, and the materials required. For the origami artform animated examples are provided and there are samples to make step by step as well as museum displays to view. Links are also provided to other websites although some in the teacher notes are outdated.

Japanese Dance

A Kids Web Japan website for Primary teachers (or students) which has several pages explaining Japanese dance. Very useful for an integrated dance and social dance unit.

Jazz Dance and Music

A unit outline and some hard-copy resources for introducing intermediate-high-school students to jazz dance and music.Includes an musical interactive exercise for students.

Jazz Dance Sequence Examples

Included in the video clips on this site, is an example of a beginning jazz sequence that might give ideas for a Year 9/10 dance. The dancers use a hat as a costume and prop.