EducaTion REsouRcEs - KET

ARTS & HUMANITIES
• Visual Arts Toolkit DVD in four sections: Responding to Art (review of ..
the elements and principles, tips on how to “read” a work of art, and
insights into artists and artworks); Visual Arts and Culture (traditional
arts of China, Native American cultures, West Africa, India, and the
United States); Through Artists’ Eyes (explores the creative process of
a variety of Kentucky artists); and a chaptered version of the Electronic
Field Trip to The Speed Art Museum.
• Spectrum of Art in five sections: Making Art (arts project demonstrations);
Subject Matter and Genres (excerpts from Looking at Painting
exploring techniques and ideas of Kentucky painters); and artist profiles
in three areas—2D Media/Processes, 3D Media/Processes, and
Folk/Traditional Arts.
Kentucky Virtual Art Museum on CD-ROM. This unique resource
includes images of more than 250 artworks from 20 Kentucky museums—from
Old Masters to contemporary works, cultural artifacts to
Kentucky folk arts and crafts. A special gallery spotlights examples
of art created by children out of found materials.
Lesson Plans and Informational Resources. Find information,
guides, and lesson plans in two versions—PDF format on a Visual
Arts Toolkit flash drive (you will get a price break on this new
e-edition) or printed and organized in a binder (limited quantities
available).
BONUS FEATURES. The new e-edition includes Social Studies and
World Languages Connections, a guide to using images across the
curriculum, and a new collection of images for classroom use.
The Visual Arts section of the Arts Toolkit website (www.ket.org/
arts toolkit/visual) offers additional lesson plans and idea cards,
video previews, and special features that include an online version of
the Kentucky Virtual Art Museum with works by Kentucky students
and teachers and a Kentuckians in Visual Arts career feature.
KET Arts Toolkit Collections
Now available on KET EncycloMedia
Website: www.ket.org/encyclomedia
Some of the outstanding resources found in the KET Arts Toolkits
are now available as special collections in KET Teachers’ Domain.
These video segments are accompanied by background essays, discussion
questions, and activity ideas. In some cases new video has
been added.
Collection TITLES
1. Native American Culture (see page 21)
2. African/African-American Culture (see page 21)
3. Arts in the Renaissance (see page 21)
4. Japanese Culture (see page 21)
5. The Civil War Era (see page 21)
6. Drama Based on HIstorical Characters (see page 21)
7. Early America (see page 23)
8. Kentucky Appalachian Culture (see page 22)
9. Integrated Teaching (see page 27)
dance
DanceSense
Understanding dance elements, styles, and history
Grade Levels: 5-10
Program Length:
Streams Online:
15 minutes
KET ED On Demand via
www.ket.org/encyclomedia
Explore why people dance, the elements of dance, dance styles,
dance in a multicultural and historical context, and dance as an art
form through performance, archival photographs and footage, and
interviews.
Program TITLES
1. Understanding Dance
2. The Dance of Culture
3. Dance in America
4. The Elements of Dance
5. The Moving Body
6. Making Dance
7. Ballet
8. Modern Dance
9. Jazz Dance
10. Tap and Percussive Dance
A chaptered DVD version of DanceSense includes bonus video segments
and classroom resources and is available in the Dance Toolkit.
Dancing Threads: Community
Dances from Africa to Zuni
Traditional folk dances from various cultures
Grade Levels:
Program Length:
Streams Online:
Primary-8
30 minutes
KET ED On Demand and Discovery via www.ket.
org/encyclomedia
Step-by-step instructions, plus student performances and interviews,
teach students traditional Appalachian, African-American, and
Native American dances and “play party games,” involving patterns
of singing, dancing, poetry, mimicry, and play-acting.
Program TITLES
1. Goin’ to Boston
2. Little Johnny Brown
3. Weevily Wheat
4. Zuni Harvest Dances
More Dance
Fit Kids Classroom Workout gets your students up and dancing!
These 5- and 10-minute workouts based on contemporary,
African, and Latin dance routines can be used anytime your
class needs a pick-me-up. See page 47.
Find classroom ideas and lesson plans using resources from the
Dance Toolkit at www.ket.org/artstoolkit/dance.
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