This document contains a sample list of fine arts careers by discipline, links and resources for exploring fine arts careers, and resources for workbased learning in fine arts courses.

Students will learn historical facts about William Shakespeare and apply those facts to hip hop music/spoken word. Students will identify contemporary grammar and vocabulary influenced by Shakespeare.  Students will create an original spoken word expressional/rap final performance. 

Digital Media is a growing artistic element in Theatre Production. This unit covers common film/media terminology, introduces the career field of the theatrical digital media director, provides instruction on best practices for filming using cell phones or a laptop, introduces editing strategies, and culminates in a creative product by the student.

Students will create and perform scenes using tableaux in order to further understand acting techniques, physical techniques, character development, and theatrical direction.

Students learn communication and collaboration skills for theatre with improvisation games. Once games are learned and practiced, improvisation teams are formed and opportunities are given for students to perform for a live audience.

Students will learn basic acting and improvisation skills through different activities. Students will be able to identify and use learned acting techniques during improvisation games through imaginative play.

Students will learn the common parts of any lighting instrument and which instruments are most appropriate for achieving certain lighting effects. This lesson covers traditional incandescent lighting instruments, not LED instruments. 

Students will be introduced to different aspects of theatre design and collaborate in groups as production teams. Each team will create and present a theme statement, a production concept, mood board(s), and basic technical designs for a work of dramatic literature. This unit could also be adjusted to work as a culminating activity for the course.

Students will understand that information passes from generation to generation through the ancient tradition of storytelling. Students will recognize that puppetry is a visual expression of storytelling used by many cultures for entertainment, community gatherings, to convey information and to encourage understanding and/or empathy. Students will create a shadow puppet and perform a short puppet show based on a folk tale, tall tale, or poem.

This lesson focuses on identifying and discussing the symbolism used in theatrical works. The culmination of the lesson is applying symbolism to a devised performance piece.

One of the most important functions of sound design is sound amplification. In this lesson, students will learn about basic audio equipment, to include cables, microphones, and the sound system. Students will also demonstrate how to set up a simple sound system.

Understanding intellectual property and copyright is crucial to theatre practitioners, be they actors, technicians, directors, or managers. Students will research terms and identify cases of copyright infringement in the theatre arts.

This unit utilizes readily available gaming technology to teach and reinforce principles of theatrical set design. Students will create an original set design using computer gaming applications involving building tools.

Students will apply the creative process to write original monologues. They will examine and incorporate elements of character, conflict, setting, plot, theme, and dialogue into their scriptwriting. Prompts may be used for making personal, cultural, or historical connections.

Explore African theatre techniques and learn how to apply critical thinking and communication skills to your classroom through a lesson of African Theatre history and activities.

This webinar and presentation is a previously recorded session, Digital Learning with eMediaVA presented by Lindsey Horner.Webinar Description: This webinar presents information about media and educational resources from WHRO Public Media for fine arts educators. Lyndsay Horner, Manager of eMediaVA will led the one-hour session in July 2020. The session includes how to access eMediaVA and how to find resources to support student learning in fine arts areas of dance, music, theatre, and visual arts.

This session will cover ideas and strategies using available technology to enhance the study of theatre in the classroom or through online learning.

This webinar will explore the digital resources of the Library of the Congress for fine arts instruction. Engagement with primary source images, objects and documents can spark critical thinking, deeper learning and interdisciplinary connections for students. Join Sherry Levitt and Cynthia Szwajkowski from Teaching with Primary Sources, Virginia (TPSVA) for a lively, interactive exploration of the Library's rich, digital collections for in-person and virtual instruction. As a demonstration, special guest Carolyn Bennett, former Library of Congress Teacher-in-Residence, will model an activity using WPA Posters.

Educational resources provided by Virginia's history and cultural museums offer educators the opportunity to form deep classroom connections to Virginia history and culture.

Participants will learn how to use #GoOpenVA to locate arts-based lessons (many of which are also cross-curricular). All such lessons are openly-licensed so they can be adapted to your own students and purposes. Additionally, #GoOpenVA provides a community space for teachers to connect with each other in these challenging times, when everyone is learning how to approach teaching in new ways.