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Introduce the music concepts of rhythm and beat with this inspiring new resource.
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Plan your outdoor music classroom today with this inspiring new resource.
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Immerse yourself in the culture of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples the Nyikina and discover how their creation ancestor, Woonyoomboo, preserved and passed down their history through intricate song, dance, art and stories of the Bookarrikaara (Dreamtime).
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The new Music Classroom Collection is a series of high-quality, practical resources to help primary teachers manage time, plan lessons and set-up their music class for success.
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Bring First Nations culture and learning into the classroom with the Deadly Arts collection. This series will help teachers and students to develop cultural knowledge and respect for Country through the arts.
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Get started with the basics of music education with this easy to follow resource, which will deepen students’ musical skills, confidence, and understanding.
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Provide students with the opportunity to explore lyrics, themes and musical patterns in each resource to ignite their interest in creating their own original songs.
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Include music throughout the day to foster children’s love of music and lay the foundations for their greater musical development through our Transition Songs for Early Years.
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This resource introduces children to the remote Northern Territory locale of Canteen Creek and the cheeky animals that live there. Children will be able to participate in a range of activities using drama, music, creative play and visual arts to bring the story to life.
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Children will have the opportunity to see, feel and play as the award-winning book, ‘Too Many Cheeky Dogs’ is brought to life in this resource, with an Auslan interpreter present in the animated video.
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Transition songs resource provides educators with practical songs that teach children to work together while supporting language development and facilitating classroom routines.
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The Musical Games resource includes six original music games, with age-appropriate techniques that encourage young children to play instruments, use notation or compose in small and large groups.
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Engage children in imaginative thinking through DNA Puppetry’s Cloud Child craft puppet show! Cloud Child is a highly visual, non-verbal narrative performed with Makaton sign language for children with diverse learning requirements.
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The Shoe and the Clue resource provides children with bite-size information about animals through a series of animated videos and invites them to participate in their own animal orchestra!
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The Sound Bites collection introduces students to a diverse mix of up and coming and established Australian musicians. Each artist shares some of the tips and tricks they use to ignite and develop their music making.
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Designosaurs invites students to participate in an enquiry based research project about local threatened species. Through the course students develop their understanding of puppet construction and puppeteering guided by theatre company Erth to create an awareness-raising endangered animal puppet presentation to a broader community.
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This course introduces students to Queensland Ballet’s Little Red Riding Hood and invites them backstage to meet the production team. Students are encouraged to consider how fairy tales have been adapted throughout history then choreograph their own interpretation of the fairy tale using movement. They also explore how production elements like lighting, composition and costume can enhance their movement pieces inspired by tips from the creative team behind the production.
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This resource features a community art installation by Queensland artist Amelia Kalifa. This cross-curricular inquiry-based course provides students with a dynamic avenue for engaging with others, exploring diverse ways of thinking and developing empathy.
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This resource features renowned children’s theatre-makers and authors The Listies (AKA Matt and Rich) as they demonstrate how to put on a show in a lounge room. This resource incorporates a kinesthetic approach to learning and uses fun, spontaneous and playful activities to help anyone create, refine and perform theatre.
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The Tree and The Key is an enchanting course that immerses young children in learning through the arts. Each of the lessons in Tree and the Key will give you phonemic awareness of the ‘ee’ sound family in many different creative ways. A Magical Story Map, several colourful animated music videos and a series of playful creative learning activities will connect exciting storytelling with literacy learning.
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From Page to Stage is a Drama resource that guides you through transforming a narrative text into a performance. This course uses the Children’s Book Council of Australia Award-winning book Go Home, Cheeky Animals! by author Johanna Bell and illustrator Dion Beasley as a stimulus, however the process and development of this course is designed to be applied to any text you can think of!
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This series introduces the six key elements of music including rhythm, tempo, dynamics, pitch, form, and timbre. Children will build their knowledge of basic music techniques through a set of fun activities based on each element, and they’ll grow their confidence and collaborative skills along the way.
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Ever wanted to learn more about the craft of theatre making? Stories from Home will take you through a structured ten lesson project to help you develop and stage an original show.
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We’ve all played with our food, but when was the last time you actually played your food? Sustainable Songs is a fun and imaginative music project that encourages children to make connections between food, sustainability, and music.
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Step inside the pages of Johanna Bell & Dion Beasley’s warm and entertaining children’s book Too Many Cheeky Dogs to explore the colourful characters, animals and landscapes of Tennant Creek in the remote Australian outback.
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Are you ready to rock?! Learn how to play air guitar like a pro! PlayAir is a fun series of lessons that will inspire you to start your own Air Band. You’ll learn how to play all the best air instruments like the air guitar, saxophone, drums, air decks and last but not least, the air triangle!
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For Hayden Fowler, creating artwork provides a way to express his thoughts and ideas about problems facing humanity. Discover how his work refers to the past, present and future – all at the same time!
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Children will investigate the significance of being critically aware of their involvement in the creation and recording of history. They’ll investigate how our understanding of the past impacts our actions in the future.
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Head back to the 'golden era' of radio drama with this fun and imaginative resource. Develop your performance skills using voice and sound effects to create a play for radio.
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Esme Timbery is an elder of the La Perouse Aboriginal community. Her works are held in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. Find out how Esme’s contemporary art-making is a celebration of traditional practice. You’ll use social media conventions as the context for your own artwork as you make and share a journey of discovery.
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Hone your stage skills with help from some of Australia’s most passionate performers and bands The resource helps develop song writing techniques and for those considering a future in music, you’ll develop a deeper understanding of the role of the music industry in supporting and marketing musicians.
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By challenging viewers to rethink their wastefulness, contemporary visual artist Ash Keating explores the growing environmental problems facing our society - including issues of over-consumption and waste.
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Ukuleles are easy to learn, cheap to buy and fun to play! Over 15 lessons, you'll learn tuning techniques, chords, picking and strumming patterns and how to play a range of songs!
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Learn about how hands have been used to create artworks by many different cultures. Over three lessons, develop effective techniques using your hands to create fun drawings.
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Explore the relationship between subject, artist and audience through portraiture. Investigate image, identity and representation by exploring significant portraits in the collection of one of Australia’s most important art museums – the National Gallery of Victoria.
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Can music inspire your art? Join Cat Sewell as she combines visual and performing arts techniques by using music to inspire what she draws and paints.
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How do artists express their feelings and memories through sculpture? Look at and respond to Sweeney's Keepsake (1987) by Les Kossatz – part of the collection of the Heide Museum of Modern Art, then make your own sculpture based on your feelings and memories.
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Visual storytelling is one of the oldest forms of storytelling. In this resource you’ll enlist a range of art forms including song, dance, drama, mime, craft, sign language and visual arts to tell a story.
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Shapeshifting Stories provides handy tips and techniques to create compelling and dramatic stories. With the help of characters, including superhero show-off Frostica and the trainee warlock Solpadon, you will learn the fundamentals of story building – who, what, how and where.
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In a series of group activities, children will be led through a ‘story building’ process, creating and taking on character roles and bringing ideas to life. Children will be encouraged and supported to lead the story themselves - they will make decisions, solve problems, create images and sounds, imagine settings, and stay in character throughout the process.
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Learn how to create stories using photos. Step by step instructions show you how to plan and make your story using photos, and then how to change the meaning of a story by rearranging the photo order.
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Apply your knowledge of sport to create a basic movement phrase and extend it using the elements of dance. Create your own unique Fizzie Dance.
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There are close links between the extreme physicality required by an elite sportsperson and a dancer. They are more similar than you may think. Discover the physical and technical skills used in both dance and sport.
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Explore the environment around you to identify, collect and record sounds using a digital recording device. As you will find, music can be created from some VERY unexpected sounds!
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Explore the spaces around you to spark your theatrical ideas. Students from The Australian Theatre for Young People share their theatre-making knowledge and skills to help you create your own site-specific performances.
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Theatre has a great tradition of borrowing from other art forms. Photographs are great for drawing inspiration when creating plays or dramas. Use dramatic and thought-provoking images to enhance artistic expression in your performance. Write your own play using photographs.
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See how leading Australian contemporary dance company, Chunky Move, uses light in innovative ways in its productions. Then, create your own improvisations based on their methods.
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Making a music video is a collaborative process involving musicians and film makers. Gotye’s music video for his 2011 hit Somebody That I Used to Know, was downloaded more than any other music video at the time worldwide. It’s had around 1 billion YouTube views!
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How do you get your music heard? Find out how to get your music out there from industry insiders.
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Contemporary, award-winning Australian songwriters and creative collaborators, Helen Croome (aka Gossling) and Henry Wagons, share their perspectives on where to find inspiration, giving meaning to your songs and great techniques on how to finish a song!
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Sing, Scat and Scoo Be Doo introduces younger children to the joys of active music-making through singing, speaking, moving, dancing, playing and creating.
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Musical Fun With Fuzzy introduces younger children to the joys of active music-making through singing, speaking, moving, dancing, playing and creating. Make your own Fuzzy the Clown pop-up puppet and learn the basic elements of music.
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Let people know about a topic or subject that you’re really passionate about by producing a podcast. This series of lessons provides helpful tips and tricks to help you produce a podcast and promote it to your target market.
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Shocko Doco introduces you to the concept of video interviewing. You will see the common mistakes that are made, and consider ways to fix them. Once you know the pitfalls to avoid, you can plan and shoot your own video interviews.
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Take a look at how magazine covers are designed to attract attention by using colour, fonts, words and images that appeal to their target audience. Over five lessons, you’ll learn how to plan and lay out your own magazine cover based on a topic of your choice.
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Masks have been used in ceremonies, festivals, performances and rituals in many cultures for centuries. This resource will show you how to create a character and performance using your own papier-mâché mask.
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Decorating a Mask is the second component of the Mask Making course, where you will complete your papier-mâché face mask by decorating it with paint, craft supplies and found objects. You can use our simple mask template, or be inspired by your own culture and background to decorate your mask in your unique style.
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Making a mask is a fantastic way to begin exploring the history and use of masks in different cultures around the world – from the fierce tribal masks of Africa to the lavish designs of the Venetians. Learn how to design and make a papier-mâché mask over six fun-filled lessons.
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Funfair High takes a look at how art transforms the way we view the world by making the ordinary appear extraordinary. Over five lessons, redesign your school as a theme park drawing upon images that relate to the school’s history, how people use the spaces, and the architectural style of its buildings.
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Perhaps without even knowing it, as audience members we are aware of the codes and conventions of genres from an early age – from TV programs for pre-school to adult dramas. Genre-nators explores the way filmmakers manipulate production elements for different genres.
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In this set of five lessons you’ll learn how to use a collection of found objects to create a fun and interesting sound score to bring a stop motion animation to life.
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Stop Motion Animation is a really fun way to learn the basics of film making and animation. This course, over six lessons, will teach you how to turn a 15-second story into a visually exciting animated movie using this simple process.
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Storyboarding is a way of telling a story through pictures, and is often used to develop concepts for TV and film. This process involves writing a story, breaking it down into simple actions, and then drawing it in pictures.
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This course offers a number of fun improvisation activities. Improvisation is a great way to motivate and focus children while they are learning. It can be used to introduce concepts, recap learning, and explore creativity.
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The How to Play Drums course has been developed to teach the fundamentals of drumming and rhythm techniques. The course is designed for group ensembles and individuals over 13 comprehensive tutorials.
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Learn the fundamentals of playing a guitar, reading music, composing music and individual practice techniques with this comprehensive 12 lesson guitar course.
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Learn a simple Hip Hop dance routine. The routine covers the key moves for Hip Hop and is perfect to learn on your own or with a group.
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Kids love Hip Hop dancing. An Introduction to Hip Hop provides the basis to start learning this contemporary dance genre.
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This is the second course in ARTS:LIVE’s Dance Your Socks Off series. Now you’ve created a ‘dance vocabulary’ or Alphabet Dance, we’ll take you through a process of inventing transition moves and forming simple choruses to combine all the elements of the dance. The lessons will also support students to consider the role of music and timing. Through the lesson series students have an opportunity to explore different dance styles, exercise their bodies in creative ways and practice spelling at the same time. Remembering all the moves is a workout for both your memory and your body!
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This is the first course in ARTS:LIVE’s Dance Your Socks Off series. Create an Alphabet Dance combining movements and chants, using your body in a percussive and rhythmic way.
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A school of fish moves together in exactly the same way at exactly the same time. Explore what it looks and feels like to be part of a school of fish as we go on an underwater adventure using drama and dance techniques.
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For Indigenous cultures, a song cycle is so much more than a song. It represents journeys and secret knowledge that belong to a clan or community. It’s a way of passing on knowledge and skills.
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Discover perspectives on Australian Indigenous dance and culture with experts from Australia’s leading Indigenous dance college, NAISDA. Watch NAISDA students rehearse and perform, and use the experience as a springboard for your own dance making.
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This is the second course in ARTS:LIVE’s Composition series. Compose Some More has been created to teach students the fundamentals of music composition. The resources provide students with the language, knowledge, skills and techniques to organise musical ideas into notation systems and symbols.
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Compose your own music by learning the fundamentals of sheet music and music notation – a must for all budding musicians! Learn through simple online notation software to guide you through the basics of music theory.
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Discover the historical, social and political context and influences of hip hop culture and rap music. Identify the musical and poetic elements used in a range of rap songs. From there, undertake the process of developing and performing your own rap at an ‘open mic’ session.
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Concrete Poetry is where the visual arts meets language. Reflect on several concrete poets' works from the collection at Melbourne’s Heidi Museum of Modern Art, and use the techniques you have learned to create your own concrete poem.
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Poetry and Drama introduces the process of breaking down a poem for performance, and also offers ways to explore the rich language used in contemporary and traditional poems.
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