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CCMixter: Creative Commons provides an exceptional library of royalty free music for playing, downloading, sampling or remixing. I love to watch you play: The impact of 6 special words to children. Super Cool Art Lessons: Use this Pinterest pinboard to follow some very cool visual ideas. |
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This high school lesson by Cheryl Davis focuses on the Impact of Photography. It would be appropriate for either a Computer Arts class or an American History class. It uses both Google Docs and Google Sites, but can be adapted. |
- Art and Culture
Edsitement sponsors these Art and Culture Lesson Plans. - Free Art Lessons
The Denver Art Museum provide a wealth of free resources for the classroom. - Photo Editing and Multimedia
- GIMP: Need free photo editing software? Use GIMP, the GNU Image Manipulation Program. Powerful; contains many Photoshop-like features and tools. Get GIMP tutorials here.
- Adobe is best known for Photoshop and
multimedia software. Student and Teacher Edition of Creative Cloud (includes very large suite of their products) is available for $29.99 per month.
- Learn for free from Adobe TV.
- Learn more for free from Creative Cow.
- Silly Movie. Something simple created by me in Flash with background music composed as the spirit flowed.
- From the archives: I've got a really old version of Dreamweaver. Can you help? Yes. Old version still work beautifully.
- Blick
This company is well known for art supplies. Check out their free lesson plans (including videos). - CLRN
The California Learning Resources Network (CLRN) evaluate open educational resources. See Visual and Performing Arts search results.
- National Association for Music Education
Despite the plain landing page, this is a must for music teachers. - Opus Music Worksheets
Free music theory worksheets for self-study. - Learn Music through YouTube
YouTube provides a wealth of free resources. The key is to pick a full Playlist (not just a single lesson). If you like it, then "subscribe." - Music Production Software
They make a variety of music production products. Interested? Here is some great music creation software. On a PC? You might try Steinberg Sequel for $79.99. On a Mac or iPad? You might try Apple's GarageBand. You may need an interface depending on what you want to do.
- Physical Fitness
- For elementary students. Sometimes a workout video works. From Human Kinetics.
- See the Presidential Physical Fitness Challenge.
Presidential Physical Fitness song by Diggity Dudes. - Kids Health.
- Understanding the California Physical Fitness Test.
- Drama and Dance
Cross-Curricular Resources
- FREE
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. It is truly encyclopedic in scope, yet it is very well organized and easy to search. - Schrockguide
Kathy Schrock's Guide to Everything maintains a list of excellent Internet resources organized by Subject Access. It is extremely easy to navigate. You will also find Teacher's Helpers and Kathy's own new picks of the month. This site is a "must bookmark" for all.