Starting Points for Purchase of Resources
The following short list of resources supports Arts Education: A Curriculum Guide for the Middle Level (Grades 6-9). The intent of this listing is to help teachers begin to build a suitable collection of resources. These titles are annotated in the "Titles and Descriptions" section of the bibliography.
Dance Strand
Adventures in Creative Movement Activities
Building Dances: A Guide to Putting Movements Together
Building More Dances: Blueprints for Putting Movements Together
Creative Dance Inspirations: Facilitating Expression
The Modern Fancy Dancer
The Northern Traditional Dancer
Teaching Creative Dance: A Handbook
Drama Strand
Beginning Drama 11-14
Drama for Learning: Dorothy Heathcote’s Mantle of the Expert Approach to Education
Drama Worlds
Dramaform: A Practical Guide to Drama Techniques
Lessons for the Living: Drama and the Integrated Curriculum
Live on Stage! Performing Arts for Middle School
The New Dramathemes
Role Drama
Structuring Drama Work: A Handbook of Available Forms in Theatre and Drama
Music Strand
The Arts Propel Video Handbook
Canada Is…Music Series (Grades 5-6)
Music Builders VI
Visual Art Strand
Adventures in Art Series
Art First Nations: Tradition and Innovation in the Circumpolar World
The Arts Propel Video Handbook