Annenberg/CPB: Learner.org
www.learner.org
Teacher resources and teacher professional development programming across the curriculum.

ARTSEDGE
artsedge.kennedy-center.org/artsedge.html
The Kennedy Center’s arts education website. Here you'll find:

• Teaching Materials: Curricula, Lessons and Activities; Curriculum WebLinks
• Professional Development: Standards & Exemplars; Advocacy Resources

Artswork: Curriculum Sites
artswork.asu.edu/arts/teachers/curriculum/drama&theatre1.htm
Elementary and secondary drama/theatre curriculum examples.

artswork.asu.edu/arts/teachers/curriculum/links.htm
Links to curriculum examples from national sites.  For elementary, middle and high school teachers and curriculum designers.

Artswork: Lesson Plans
artswork.asu.edu/arts/teachers/lesson/drama/index.htm
A dozen field-tested lesson plans.

artswork.asu.edu/arts/teachers/lesson/resources.htm All lessons are standards based for elementary, middle and high school teachers.

Artswork: Standards
artswork.asu.edu/arts/teachers/standards/index.htm
State standards documents are annotated and linked to the state sites. The Putnam Valley School link puts you in touch with all states.

Artswork: Assessment Resources
artswork.asu.edu/arts/teachers/assessment/resources.htm
Theater assessment materials plus web sites.

Arts Alive: English Theatre
www.artsalive.ca/en/eth/design/
A wonderful site from Canada. Check out: Playwright’s Corner, Director’s Table, Actor’s Green Room, Design and Production. InfoZone has some good links.

Drama in Education Site
www.kentaylor.co.uk/die/
A very good site from the internationally known leader, Kenneth Taylor, at Middlesex University, London. The two most helpful sites for U.S. teachers are probably:

• Lesson Plans, contributed by Drama teachers 7-12, and

Stimuli, including: Historical Material, News and Current Affairs, Images and Photographs, Lyrics, Stories, Reference Works

The Drama in Education Site
www.stemnet.nf.ca/~mcoady
Hosted by an educational network for teachers of Newfoundland & Labrador. There are some lesson ideas here and links to sites not often listed on U.S. pages.

A Deer Valley High School Production

Southeast Center for Education in the Arts
www.sceaonline.com
Discipline-based Theater Education: A Conceptual Framework for Teaching and Learning Theater from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Lists a number of available units of study that may be purchased.

TeachCircus.com
www.teachcircus.com
Dedicated to helping teachers, recreation professionals, and performers give effective instruction in Circus Arts. Member of the Physical Educator's Web Ring.

• Benefit of Circus Arts
• Juggling
• Manipulation
• Unicycling
• Products & Services
• Book Sales
• Conference Handouts
• Workshops
• Links

Theater Lesson Plan Exchange
www.geocities.com/shalyndria13
The work of Mesa, Arizona Youtheater teacher, Shalynn Reynolds. Materials are hers with some lesson plans from others. Of particular interest:

• Lesson Plans, based on the Arizona Theater Standards K-12
• Warm-ups, Games, Improvs
• Reference, Assessment, and so much more
• Links to Fabulous Graphic Sites
• Additional Spiffy Sites for Theater Lovers

TheatreBooks: Drama in Education
www.theatrebooks.com/drama_education/
One of the largest theatre bookstore with English titles.  It includes: Drama Games; Story Telling; Improvisation; Puppetry, Clowning & Magic; Teaching Shakespeare; Monologues; Plays for Young People; Theory.

The Tongue Twister Datatbase
www.geocities.com/Athens/8136/tonguetwisters.html
Hundreds of tongue twisters! Good for speech work.

Film/TV Education

AFI - The American Film Institute
www.AFI.edu
A remarkable site funded by the Federal Government in conjunction with the public schools. It presents rationales for the teacher about film education and hands-on materials for the students.

Cinema: How are Hollywood films made?
www.learner.org/exhibits/cinema
By Annenberg/CPB Exhibits, a wonderful site with information and activities to help the student understand film.

• Screenwriting
• Directing
• Producing
• Acting
• Editing

Links to Related Resources are also provided, as well as a link to a free satellite channel for schools, colleges, libraries, public broadcasting, public access channels, and other community agencies.

MEA - Media Educators Association
www.mediaeducators.org
"A screening organization of educators in the New York City area that encourages an appreciation of contemporary cinema through a comprehensive understanding of the filmmaking process." Has educators review a film a week. Maintains a web directory for sites related to film, essentially to buy materials, but there are some content sites.

Associations

AATE
www.aate.com
The American Alliance for Theater and Education's site. Includes Alliance information plus:

• Conferences
• Networks & Projects -- Networks, such as Preschool, Elementary, Middle and High School, Playwrights, Professional Theater, Youth Theater; each network presents its own materials
• Publications
• AATE Awards
• Resources – links to: Arts Organizations, Funding, Journals, Plays and Playwriting (a good list of publishers), Professional Theater for Youth (a comprehensive, alphabetical listing of many of the larger children's theaters), Professional Training/Universities (with child drama programs), Research/Reference Databases, Standards, Teacher Resources

ASSITEJ International
www.assitej.org
Established in 1965 by a global alliance of professional theaters for children and young people, ASSITEJ is an international network of youth theaters, linking thousands of theaters, organizations and individuals through national centers in more than 70 countries.

ASSITEJ/USA
www.assitej-usa.org
This is the site for the United States Center for the International Association for Theater for Children and Young People. In addition to information about the organization you’ll find:

• Events
• Contact – that includes the Board Directory and the ASSITEJ International Directory (both with addresses, phone, FAX and e-mail)
• News
• Hotline – major announcements, festivals & showcases, conferences, seminars & opportunities and news
• NEXT – interviews with theatre directors
• Members with addresses, Fax, phone, email and artistic director listed
• Resources – the 2002 International Directory of Plays, New Play Development (the Bonderman Symposium and New Visions/New Voices) and the Ann Shaw Fellowship
• Links to: American Alliance for Theatre and Education (AATE), ASSITEJ International, Bonderman Symposium, The Dramatists Guild, International ASSITEJ Center Directory, New Dramatists, New Visions/New Voices, Theatre Communications Group, USA Plays for Kids, International Performing Arts for Youth (IPAY), IPAY INTERNATIONAL SHOWCASE 2006, International Association of Marionettes.

ETA - Educational Theater Association and the Thespian Association
www.edta.org/
This site is devoted to materials for Thespian members and their sponsors. Current thespian and teacher/sponsor events and publications are listed.

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