Island Online
share . . . Click here to visit the student storytelling exchange and resident artist project.
listen . . . Click here to learn more about the music exchange between students in Ithe U.S. and Ireland.
learn . . . Click here for lesson plans and online resouces.
look . . . Click here to tour virtual exhibits of irish paintings.

Learn: Lesson Plans and Resources About the Irish Arts

Explore the richness and diversity of Irish cultural traditions highlighted at the Kennedy Center's festival, "Island: Arts from Ireland." The standards-based lesson plans and resources presented here will bring the Irish arts to life in your classroom.

CURRICULUM UNITS:

Magic Words, Magic Brush: The Art of William Butler Yeats and Jack Yeats
Integrate the arts into your classroom with our interdisciplinary curriculum for 7-12 grade students spotlighting the Irish Arts. This curriculum unit uses the work of William Butler Yeats and Jack Yeats to integrate the study of poetry and art with geography, history, social studies, media and technology.

Storytelling: Mythology Across Time and Borders
As a part of Share: Storytellers Online, ARTSEDGE has created an Online Workshop for Teachers. This group of lessons, will help you teach the art of storytelling while exploring within your classroom aspects of cultural identity.

The Celtic Revival and the Struggle for an Irish Free State 1860-1940
This curriculum unit, designed for grades 5-8, focuses on parallels between a revival in Irish arts between 1860 and 1940 and the political and social struggles of the time to create an Irish Free State. These lessons begin with the resurgence of interest in the arts of Ireland and recent political and social events at the end of the twentieth century.

 

 

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