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ABC (Arts in Basic Curriculum)

The Arts in Basic Curriculum (ABC) Project provides leadership to achieve quality, comprehensive arts education (dance, music, media arts, theatre, visual arts and creative writing) for all students in South Carolina.
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Telling Time through Theatre!

Lesson

Grades

  • 2
Telling Time through Theatre!

During this lesson, students will convert digital hours and minutes to analog time while being the hands of a clock!

Making Music With the Pout, Pout Fish

Lesson

Grades

  • 2
Making Music With the Pout, Pout Fish

This lesson will be the culminating lesson at the end of a unit on instruments, tone color, and how music can help tell a story. The students would have already learned about the families of the...

“Inspiring Inventions!” (Design)

Lesson

Grades

  • 5
“Inspiring Inventions!” (Design)

This lesson falls into the second nine weeks of school, after the study of Westward Expansion. This design project will lead to a new unit that focuses on the Industrial Revolution. Collaborating in...

Theme and Variation

Lesson

Grades

  • 5
Theme and Variation

This lesson is the 4th of 6 lessons. The concept of theme and variation is introduced as another type of form which can be used in dance. Students will briefly review AB, ABA, and Rondo form and then...

History Comes Alive

Lesson

Grades

  • 4
History Comes Alive

This integrated unit will encompass three parts. Students will begin by selecting a historical key figure they have studied during their time in 4th grade. After selecting their key figure, students...

Adding Lyrics

Lesson

Grades

  • 7
Adding Lyrics

This lesson builds upon students' music composition skills by having them follow steps they have previously used, and then go one step further by adding lyrics. The objective is to have students...

Ballet Goal Development

Lesson

Grades

  • 7
Ballet Goal Development

This unit focuses on the history and development of ballet technique. Throughout this unit, along with notes, students will focus solely on ballet technique. In order to fully value ballet and its...

Form in Music

Lesson

Grades

  • 3
Form in Music

Students are using the elements of music to begin composing and performing simple melodies. Participate in a class discussion to repair a story that is incorrectly structured. Participate in a class...