Links
PBS Arts
www.pbs.org/arts/
(Grades 9-12) Help bring your students directly into the creative process, foster individual artistic expression, and promote experimentation and exploration with this website. Find videos on everything from Shakespeare to typography, to video games as an art form.
Great Performances
www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/
(Grades 9-12) Watch master actors perform Macbeth, Hamlet, and King Lear. Learn the history of jazz and soul music. Find more on how musicals a created. Great Performances offers a wealth of resources on number of topics in the arts.
Chuck Vanderchuck's Something Something Explosion
pbskids.org/chuck/
(Grades 3-5) Designed to help students understand music, sociology, and music composition by teaching basic musical concepts and performance skills through the study of popular song styles from across the globe.
American Masters
www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/category/for-educators/
(Grades 7-12) A documentary series that examines the lives, works, and creative processes of some of our most outstanding cultural artists, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Langston Hughes, and Harper Lee.
Wunderkind Little Amadeus
www.iptv.org/series.cfm/19639/wunderkind_little_amadeus
(Grades PreK-3) This series educates children between the ages of four and eight about music and inspires them to make their own.
Independent Lens
www.pbs.org/independentlens/classroom/
(Grades 9-12) This series builds cultural understanding, sparks discussion, and fosters global citizenship through the power of documentary film.
Art 21
www.pbs.org/art21/education/index.html
(Grades 9-12) Teach students about the works of living artists. The series helps provoke critical thinking and problem solving skills and inspire an appreciation of contemporary art.
National Gallery of Art
www.nga.gov/podcasts/video/index.shtm
(Grades 9-12) Series that explores a wide variety of artists, subjects, techniques, and styles of art.
Subjects: The Arts
