The ArtsEdge website by the Kennedy Center provides resources for educators, families, and students. It includes arts-integrated lesson plans aligned with core subjects and standards. It also offers tips for incorporating arts at home and cultural experiences. Students can make connections between classroom learning and outside experiences through "cue-sheets". The website features multimedia content organized by theme and provides ways to search for lesson plans integrating different arts topics.

1. ArtsEdge
An Arts Education Program by
The Kennedy Center
http://artsedge.kennedy-
center.org/educators.aspx
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2. Resources available for educators,
families, and students.
Includes lesson plans which melds together the common core subjects
with the arts, instructions on incorporating arts and cultural experiences
into the classroom, and learning standards of the arts.
Includes tips and plans for families to help incorporate the arts into their
lives at home and out on the town as well as making sure their children
are getting the most out of the art education going on in the school.
Includes “cue-sheets,” a way for students to make connections between
what they’re learning in school and what they experience out of school,
plus features on important authors, musicians, songs, and films.

3. Spotlight: Lesson Plans
It’s easy to find lesson plans
that suit your needs while
also enriching your students’
lives with various aspects of
the arts! Under the
“Educators” tab, one can
search through the “Lesson
Finder” for lesson plans. In
this example, I searched for
a high school level math
lesson plans that also
incorporate the theme of
music! The “Lesson Finder”
filtered through two lesson
plans that integrates
everything I was looking for!

4. Themes and Multimedia
This website also includes a “Theme” section, from which one could select from
collections of videos, audios, websites, and articles such as “African-American History,”
“Civil War,” “Poetry and Literature,” “Space,” and “Women in Literature.” It also features
a “Multimedia” tab which offers various videos and audio files upon a myriad of

5. Statement From The Website
“Since the Kennedy Center’s opening in 1971,
schoolchildren, parents and educators have turned to us
as the nation’s premiere cultural resource. Embracing this
responsibility, the Kennedy Center instituted
ARTSEDGE in 1996 as its educational media arm,
reaching out to schools, communities, individuals and
families with printed materials, classroom support and
Internet technologies. […] We’re focused on ways to
support innovative teaching with the arts, and meet
changing trends in education and to accommodate the
ever-evolving impact of technology in our lives.”
- “About The Site”