Students create nonsense syllables and improvise on a familiar or created melody.
Storyboardthat.com is a website that allows students to use an electronic storyboard platform to create illustrations and graphics. This is a website that is free to use, and is a great way for students to visually demonstrate comprehension.
Storyboardthat.com is a website that allows students to use an electronic storyboard platform to create illustrations and graphics. This is a website that is free to use, and is a great way for students to visually demonstrate comprehension.
Storyboardthat.com is a website that allows students to use an electronic storyboard platform to create illustrations and graphics. This is a website that is free to use, and is a great way for students to visually demonstrate comprehension.
Storyboardthat.com is a website that allows students to use an electronic storyboard platform to create illustrations and graphics. This is a website that is free to use, and is a great way for students to visually demonstrate comprehension.
In this narrated presentation, the Coordinator of Fine Arts explains updates to the VDOE fine arts program for the start of the 24-25 school year.
Teachers will be able to use this lesson virtually or in-person! This Google Slide deck lesson can also be downloaded as a PowerPoint! Speaker notes are included which make it easy for teachers or substitutes to teach this lesson!Read Aloud: The VERY Impatient Caterpillar by Ross Burach*Literacy Objective: Students will be able to make text-to-self connections.*Science Objective: Students will be able to identify the stages of the butterfly life cycle.*Art Objective: Students will be able to draw a butterfly and show understanding of symmetry and warm and cool colors. Hampton Oaks Elementary School (Kari Nugent, Annie Schmidt, Lindsey Bruce, Melissa DiAscro, & Rebecca Fausett)
An infographic that shows best practices for web meetings.
Students will examine an image of civilians affected by the Vietnam War. They will research and discuss the reasons the Vietnam War began, why America became involved, and what some of the long-term effects of this war have been
This is a playlist that contains 5 videos that are designed to help Middle and High School music teachers incorporate Appalachian music and dance into the curriculum. It was produced by Blue Ridge PBS in collaboration with staff from the VDOE.
Virginia Roots is a video series for middle and high school music that focuses on the role of Appalachian Music and is designed to help teachers incorporate traditional music and art forms into the curriculum.
Episode 5: The jam session is at the heart of old time music in Appalachia. In this episode we travel to Floyd, Virginia to the Handmade Music School's Old Time Get Together, an event that brings over a hundred musicians together each year to learn tunes "knee to knee". We also visited the Floyd Country Store, which has been hosting old time music for generations to learn how anyone can learn the basics so that they can join a jam session themselves, and the Blue Ridge Institute and Museum in Ferrum, VA, which also hosts a weekly jam..
Virginia Roots is a video series for middle and high school music that focuses on the role of Appalachian Music and is designed to help teachers incorporate traditional music and art forms into the curriculum.
Episode 2: This video breaks down the classic old time tune, "Cripple Creek" into the individual instrumental parts and brings them all together for a live performance featuring the Biscuit Eaters, a family band comprised of the Wilkerson family. Viewers are introduced the A/B/A/B structure common in many Appalachian tunes and demonstrates the roles of the fiddle, guitar, mandolin, banjo, and upright bass.
Episode 1: This video discusses the most common instruments used in old time and bluegrass music. While the fiddle, guitar, and bass are largely unchanged in recent history, the banjo has consistently evolved to reflect advances in technology and manufacturing techniques. Music Historian and Program Director for Junior Appalachian Musicians' Jim Lloyd is joined by banjo player Lincoln Hensley to show the evolution of the banjo, the two main banjo playing styles, and tuning techniques.
Virginia Roots is a series produced by Blue Ridge PBS in collaboration with the VDOE and is designed to help music teachers incorporate Appalachian traditional music into the music curruiculum.
Becky Hill is a percussive dancer with extensive training and teaching experience, and she anchors this program while sharing the ways that Appalachian dancers are participants in the music and not just the audience.
Episode 3: In this video, Dr. Rene' Rogers, chief curator of the Birthplace of Country Music Museum in Bristol, VA/TN shares the importance of the 1927 Bristol Sessions, which resulted in the launch of prominent Appalachian musicians like the Carter Family and Jimmy Rogers, as well as producer Ralph Peer, among others. The evolution of recording equipment and techniques is tied to Bristol's central location for musical talent and traditions.
This dynamic exhibition features artwork and artifacts that portray the spirit of Virginia - its past, its present, its landscape, and its people. The Art Experience at the Executive Mansion was designed in collaboration with artists, museums, and curators throughout the Commonwealth to educate, excite and inspire those who visit. The exhibition highlights works from a mix of genres and mediums with particular focus on Virginia artists and themes. It is a living display which will evolve and change over time as additional works of art become available and as different parts of the Virginia story become the focus.
Virginia’s visual arts instructional programs reinforce Virginia’s 22 Workplace Readiness Skills These skills are organized around three core areas that promote opportunities and reinforce student understanding of Virginia’s workplace readiness skills: Personal qualities and abilities, interpersonal skills, and professional competencies.
Students will learn about basic shapes in Monet's painting "Wheatstacks, Snow Effect, Morning". They then learn about light and shadows through reading and experimenting with three-dimensional models and flashlights. Students will also learn about time of day and the seasons.
In this session, delivered August 1, 2024, the VDOE Coordinator of Fine Arts explains resources that support administrators and other leaders of fine arts instruction.
By listening to and looking at the qualities of various scales, students learn to identify the differences between the major, minor, and blues scales.