Arts Integration
Resources
- Hip Hop's 44th Anniversary
- This is a Google Doodle where people can play with a variety of beats from older tunes to create a new hip hop sound. Connection Music, Music History, and Technology.
- Oskar Fischinger
- This Google Doodle introduces Oskar Fischinger, an animator and visual artist who linked his visuals with music. Play the game to create visual and musical patterns that can modify pitch, key, tempo, and instrument. Connection Visual Arts, Music, Music and Visual Art History, Technology, and Math.
- Keith Haring
- Keith Haring was a visual artist who used bold outline to create simple images reminding one of graffiti tags. Occasionally, he inserted vibrant colors filling in his forms. This resource has over 200 lessons going across grade levels and curriculum. Some images may be inappropriate for all students.
- The Literacy Shed
- This UK site has literacy from all kinds of subject areas with links to short videos, questions, and lesson ideas. There are also links to numeracy literacy, anti-bullying literacy, and genres.
Arts Elements
Elements of:
- Drama
- Acting Tools
- Voice
- Imagination
- Body
- Expression
- Acting Skills
- Cooperation
- Concentration
- Dance
- Body
- What we move (shape, size, locomotion)
- Energy
- How we move (weight, flow, quality)
- Space
- Where we move (level, direction, focus)
- Time
- When we move (tempo, rhythm)
- Visual Art
- Line
- A point a path has followed
- Shape
- A 2 dimensional closed object
- Color
- Reflection of visible light off an object
- Form
- An object that is 3 dimensional
- Texture
- Can be seen as well as felt
- Value
- Lightness or darkness of an object
- Space
- Area in and around objects including overlapping
- Music
- Rhythm
- Duration, steady beat, long/short sounds
- Melody
- Pitch/high and low
- Harmony
- Texture, ostinato
- Tone Color
- Quality of instruments/voices
- Form
- Organization, pattern instruments
- Tempo
- Speed
- Dynamics
- Volume
