Research Help: King Curriculum Lab: Physical Education and the Arts

E-Books on the Arts

Teaching Arts and Science with the New Social Media

Teaching Art History with New Technologies

E-Books on Physical Education Instruction

Early Elementary Children Moving and Learning

Selected Topics on Pre-K-6 Health Education

An Introduction to Primary Physical Education

Developmental and Adapted Physical Education

Health & Physical Education Websites

The links below contain lessons and resources for teaching health and physical education classes. The descriptions are from the sites.

British Broadcasting Company: It's Up To You
The site is aimed at 7-9-year-olds and promotes a healthy lifestyle. The interactive activities offered on the site will give children a better understanding of the importance of food and exercise and the impact they have on the body.
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
Provides resources about nutrition, physical activity, and obesity.
Cybraryman
Includes links to the following physical education topics: adapted physical education, associations, diseases and injuries, elementary physical education, exercise, field days, fitness sites, health sites, hygiene, lessons, motivational sayings, physical education sites, playground and street games, speed stacking, sports media sites, and sports sites.
Education World
Provides lessons for K-12 physical education and health classes. Physical education topics include games, exercise/movement, and team sports.
KET Dance Art Toolkit
"Videos in the Dance Arts Toolkit collection include the history and elements of dance. Through live performances and interviews, the collection represents a wide variety of cultures, periods, and styles of dance."
Kids Health in the Classroom
KidsHealth in the Classroom offers educators free health-related lesson plans for all grades and subject areas. Each Teacher's Guide includes discussion questions, activities, and reproducible handouts and quizzes – all aligned to national health education standards.
P.E. Central
The site’s goal is to provide the latest information about developmentally appropriate physical education programs for children. To motivate children, it offers fun kids fitness programs such as Log It and the PEC Challenge. We have over 2000 published lesson ideas, best practices and assessment ideas.
Open Phys Ed
Open is a is a public service of US Games and BSN Sports. It was created to provide free curriculum resources to schools for their physical education programs.

Art Websites

The links below contain educational lessons, games, video clips, worksheets and resources for the K-12 Art classroom. The descriptions are from the sites. Some of these resources were gathered from Florida Christian College's Elementary Art Education libguide.

A. Pintura: Art Detective
An online game about art history and art composition. In the game, you play a 1940's noir detective with a degree in art history. You must examine paintings by famous artists from Gauguin to Van Gogh.
Crayola Coloring Pages
Crayola has many free coloring pages you can print for your students to work on.
Crayola Lesson Plans
Find hundreds of artful, standards-based lesson plan ideas designed to integrate the arts into the daily curriculum and stimulate independent thinking through visual learning. Contains lesson plans on art techniques for K-12 students.
Discovery Education
Provides streaming videos and lesson plans for a variety of content areas, including Visual and Performing Arts. To access Discovery Education, you will need a passcode, contact Katrina Salley at extension 2467 or katrina.salley@asbury.edu.
Google Arts and Culture
This site contains high-resolution images, videos, and other resources that depict art and other cultural materials from around the world including museum tours.
Inside Art
Inside Art is an online game which explores a painting from the inside out. During an art museum tour, you're sucked into a vortex and find yourself inside a mystery painting. Your only hope of escape is to answer the questions "Who?/What?/Where?/How?" A fish named Trish is your guide in this exploration of Van Gogh's Bank of the Oise at Auvers in its artistic and historical context. Designed for 4th-graders and up.
Kennedy's Center Arts Edge
This organization focuses on ways to support innovative teaching with the arts, and meet changing trends in education and to accommodate the ever-evolving impact of technology in our lives. The collection of free digital resources—including lesson plans, audio stories, video clips, and interactive online modules—has been streamlined for easier browsing and upgraded to leverage best practices in educational media and multimedia-supported instruction.
KET Visual Arts Toolkit
"This web site provides K-12 teachers with high-quality teaching resources that bring the excitement of the visual arts into the classroom. You’ll find lesson plans, idea cards, glossaries, and many special features. These online resources augment those included in the boxed Visual Arts Toolkit." KET’s Visual Arts Toolkit can be checked out of King Curriculum Lab.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Contains curriculum resources, lesson plans, video resources, and more from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
National Gallery of Art
Contains art discussion questions, student activities, printable worksheets, related resources, and a glossary. Search by subject (art topic), artist, and curriculum (course subject).
Smithsonian American Art Museum
"SAAM's education resources use artworks as invitations to explore historical eras, literary themes, and connections to the present day. Contextualized within the people, movements, and stories of the United States, these artworks provide rich opportunities to uncover complexities and perspectives and put new knowledge to use."
Smithsonian Learning Lab
"The Smithsonian Learning Lab puts the treasures of the world's largest museum, education, and research complex within reach. The Lab is a free, interactive platform for discovering millions of authentic digital resources, creating content with online tools, and sharing in the Smithsonian's expansive community of knowledge and learning."
Tate Kids
This website has videos about art that may inspire children to create their own art. There is a gallery of children showing off their own artwork with their faces remove for anonymity. There are also games and quizzes for students to engage with.

Music Websites

Below is a list of sites that provide resources for teaching music. The descriptions are from the sites.

Cornerstone Confessions: Ultimate List of Online Music Education Games
"This Ultimate List of Online Music Education Activities is available for FREE to public and homeschoolers alike to have fun while learning more about music. Whether playing via iPad, SmartBoard, or laptop, each resource provides supportive games and activities to reinforce music concepts at home."
KET Music Toolkit
“This web site provides K-12 teachers with high-quality teaching resources that bring the world of music into the classroom. You’ll find lesson plans, idea cards, glossaries, and many special features. These online resources augment those included in the boxed toolkit.” KET’s Arts Toolkit can be checked out of the King Curriculum Lab.
National Association for Music Education
"Members of NAfME Societies and Councils have provided these resources from their own original teaching experiences, music educators in their school districts, universities, communities, peers, or other trusted sources. We thank them for their assistance and commitment to NAfME members as we all pull together to keep educating and making music."
Teoria.com
This is a website that has resources for practicing music theory and aural skills.

Drama Websites

Below is a list of sites that contain drama lessons. The descriptions are from the sites.

Educational Theatre Association
"In celebration of Theatre in Our Schools Month we are sharing samples of some of the best ideas and curriculum on Theatre Educator Pro which illustrate theatre arts education from grades K through High School."
KET Drama Arts Toolkit
Contains full lesson plans that relate to KET’s Drama Arts Toolkit resources. The Drama Arts Toolkit can be checked out of the King Curriculum Lab.
Royal Shakespeare Company Teacher Resources
"Search our wide range of classroom teacher resources on Shakespeare by play, Key Stage or format and discover: Teacher Packs
Image and video galleries"
Drama Trunk
Contains free drama, theatre, and improvisational games.