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Do you feel part of the crowd or do you feel alone in the crowd? 'Assembly', a collaboration between Chunky Move and Victorian Opera, explores these ideas through dance, choral music and sound.

Little Kids Rock has introductory resources and video tutorials that teach students how to play musical instruments. The 'Body Drumset' lesson shows you how to play the drums without a drumkit. All you need is your body.

This downloadable resource is designed for secondary students and teachers of music, drama, English (poetry), design and technology (textiles), and creative arts. Students in years 5 – 10 can participate in a range of activities, ranging from beginner to advanced music options.

This website covers a broad variety of subjects and year levels, all linked to AC, ready to use.It can be used by:teachers to guide and plan learning families to work with their children, orsenior students for independent study.

This teaching resource helps students to learn and share ideas about Indigenous Australian music. It will help families and teachers to authentically present examples of Indigenous Australian music in education.

Art can stimulate thought and imagination among students of all ages. The Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA) has extensive learning resources that help students to think, explore and respond to the exciting world of art and ideas.

Students can learn about arts performances and festivals, past and current. This includes performances in a range of genres and production elements, such as costumes and staging. The site also includes background information about artists and artwork.

Art In Motion is a free, innovative online teaching and learning resource designed for primary school students. It's also useful for lower secondary school students.

The Kennedy Centre website features a vast range of free quality arts lesson and unit plans for teachers to use on a wide variety of topics. It is suitable for teacher planning from Reception to Year 10, and covers all the art areas: Dance, Drama, Visual Arts, Media Arts, and Visual Arts.

Beep Box is an online tool that automatically plays your notes for you. Families and students can use it for sketching and sharing instrumental melodies.

This indoor craft activity is as large as your imagination. Create one building or make an entire city with people, castles, bridges, trees and more.

Bunraku puppetry is a classical and enduring art and performance form that theatremakers still look to for inspiration and guidance. Explore the traditions of Bunraku, and the techniques used to perform this ancient style of drama.

A free website to create music through simple, fun, hands-on experiments.

The Song Maker experiment lets you make and share your own songs. You can play with these experiments across devices like phones, tablets and laptops. Google Chrome browser is required to run the website.

In this introduction to classical music, students from reception to year 6 can explore games, instruments of the orchestra, musical dictionaries, podcasts, tips and music resources.

ARTS:LIVE provides extensive lesson plans and interactive learning materials that cross over a wide range of subject areas including science, maths and literacy. Students of all ages can use ARTS:LIVE to explore, learn and develop their arts and music skills from anywhere in the world.

Fun activities that combine dance with learning in science. The resource includes detailed descriptions of activities for home or use in the classroom.

Become a ‘designosaur’. Learn about local threatened species through contemporary Australian puppetry. Raise awareness about endangered species through research, construction and improvisation. Then, go on a collaborative journey to design, construct and bring to life your own animal puppet.

These four websites explore the world of creating digital art for younger students. To begin the projects, parent supervision and assistance is recommended.

This free media arts and drama activity from the Kennedy Center teaches students about the 'golden age of radio'. They'll explore how sounds were made for drama radio, and create a mini-drama of their own featuring sound effects from home.

Introductory activities that show how the JavaScript language can be used to create fun drawings and animations.

Families and teachers can access 7 free and engaging educational resources provided by the Australian Children's Television Foundation. These include 'Hardball', 'Mustangs FC', and the 'Little Lunch' TV series and app.

Teachers can use this free resource to guide students through a short, engaging series of learning modules to examine the book and film, and the theme of environmental sustainability. Students can explore the film techniques used and formulate a response to the choices made by the animators.

An engaging online experience to explore the inner workings of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, and learn about the instruments that talented performers use to make musical magic.

This resource includes fifty five creative ideas for families to do together.

Students will explore 10 small modules to learn about game mechanics and storylines, game artwork and music, game coding, and what makes a good game. Teachers can guide students through the process of making a video game as a unit of work.

An online interactive website that provides engaging movement and mindfulness videos. The website also has apps for download with options to help keep students moving and active.

Groove Pizza lets you play different rhythms using mathematical concepts like shapes, angles and patterns. It's a circular rhythm app made by the NYU Music Experience Design Lab (MusEDLab).

Explore how sound is made with these fun activities, and make your own sounds with different types of household items. Students in reception and year one may need a helper for some of the tasks.

A large collection of improvisation ice breakers, warm ups, and drama games. The content is split into three collections that include improvisation games, improvisation references, and an improvisation glossary.

Incredibox is an engaging and easy to use online music tool to create beatboxing tracks.

Immerse students in the world of 'The Muppets'. They can use this resource to learn about story and character development in a fun way. This free resource can form a discrete unit of work in media arts, or be used as part of an interactive literacy and ICT project.

Access in-depth information on the clay animation and stop motion animation process. Investigate the features of animation and stop motion, learn about character motion, and explore how to create characters.

Create plays with this free iPad app featuring a library of 8 animated fairytale characters and 5 background scenes. Children could use the app to:retell a story or event take photos to create new backgrounds to help retell events create short stories.

A great online resource portal of a wide variety of engaging songs, activities and games from around the world. The website includes some video clips and music tracks, and all have English translations.

Music bingo has twelve creative music activities for you to choose from.

A free downloadable e-book of music technology resources, including websites, software and more.

Students can use these online instrument resources to compose and play music, with no need for any physical instruments at home. Experiment with chords, mix unique music with a DJ turntable, play drums, or compose a song on piano.

'Strictly Ballroom' is a successful film with fabulous dance scenes, and has been adapted into a popular musical. This resource helps students develop their understanding of how dance and production elements communicate meaning.

This resource is designed for students and teachers of drama, English and literacy. It provides a free, on demand digital recording of author Jessica Townsend reading two of her books: 'WunderSmith' and 'Nevermoor' (approximately 45 minutes).Teachers can use this resource including information, activities and worksheets to guide and plan learning, or families can use this

Connected to the Tate gallery, this website hosts a variety of materials that teachers can use in their planning, and families can also use with students.

The Australian Ballet's website explores many famous ballets in the company's repertoire. It also has short videos of warm up routines for a range of age groups. All teacher resources are downloadable.

Access a huge range of Visual Arts and Design lessons. Students and families can use this site together to engage in a range of visual art activities, but teachers should guide the choice of lesson to align with a particular purpose or intention.