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Grade Levels:

7-12

Length:

15-72 minutes

Taping Rights:

Unlimited

MARC Record:

Downloadable

Web Site:

KET Distance Learning

This KET-produced series introduces the basic elements of various art forms, providing both background information and classroom ideas for teachers and performance and discussion segments to use with students. These short, fast-paced units fuse the wisdom and experience of seasoned performers with our own solid research base. They are written to correspond with Kentucky’s Core Content as well as the National Standards in the Arts.

In addition to demonstrating how art is created, the series explores the why of doing art. Humanities Connections will help students understand the historical and cultural contexts of respected artistic works, explore the idea that art is both a reflection and a catalyst of social and cultural change, and begin to think creatively about their own experiences and about the multicultural society of the 21st century.

As further enrichment for these thematic units, KET has also produced a set of video segments titled "Class Connections," excerpted from our Humanities Through the Arts distance learning class, that explore a variety of art forms within a particular culture or time period.