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Copyright Alliance members have partnered with educational organizations like Weekly Reader, i-Safe and Young Minds Inspired to develop curriculum designed to help you incorporate copyright lessons into your classroom plans. The following chart will help you identify curriculum options most relevant to your grade level and subject area. Click on © to view each curriculum.

Resources and position papers related to curriculum and comprehensive assessment & Music Education from Wisconsin State Education Department (Arts). Includes issues related to: - Creativity - Arts Propel - Comprehensive Musicianship and CMP - Grading & Student Learning - Standards

A guide for creating interdisciplinary curriculum using essential questions

Updated perspective by Grant Wiggins on UBD essential questions and inquiry. Critiques approaches that are not conducive to inquiry and misapplications or misunderstandings of EQs and inquiry

Information on project-based learning

Welcome to Portraits of Practice: Construction Zones for Musical Understanding. The purpose of this site is to share with others my work, as a music teacher, that is grounded in constructivist theory of learning. Visit The Journey, a collection of experiences and moments of discovery that have informed my beliefs about teaching and learning. Explore Project Design, a collection of ideas that can be put into practice to create a holistic and constructive learning environment for musical understanding. Observe Frameworks that are used to scaffold learning. Look in on Portraits to view project designs and artifacts., watch students realizing their musical knowledge and skill as they engage in collaborative problem-solving. Visit the Archive to view classroom documents and students involved in collaborative problem-solving. Learn More about the theory and research that supports and validates constructive learning experiences for students in our classrooms. Phil Greco Music Teacher Farmingdale Public Schools Farmingdale, NY

A WIKI with resources on Understanding By Design

A teacher explains misconceptions about essential understandings and after clarifying the concept of essential questions, describes how they can be used for planning units. 

Example of a unit plan that uses Essential Questions

PDF file from May McTighe's website summarizing Understanding by Design

Examples of Essential Questions

Information on inquiry-based learning Inquiry-based learning is often described as a philosophical and pedagogical response to the changing needs of the information age, but its roots are much deeper. It assumes that all learning begins with the learner. That is, what people know and what they want to learn are not just constraints on what can be taught; they are the very foundation for learning. Aspects of this idea appear in the earliest writings on education, including Plato/Socrates in the West and Confucius in the East, but is more commonly traced back to Rousseau and Pestalozzi. Its fullest articulation can be found in the writings of John Dewey, whose wisdom derived in large part from his ability to see the unity across the social work of Jane Addams, the schools work of Ella Flagg Young, and the pragmatist philosophy developed by Charles Sanders Peirce and William James.

Project Zero is an educational research group at the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University. Project Zero's mission is to understand and enhance learning, thinking, and creativity in the arts, as well as humanistic and scientific disciplines, at the individual and institutional levels.

EFF's Teaching Copyright curriculum was created to help teachers present the laws surrounding digital rights in a balanced way. Teaching Copyright provides lessons and ideas for opening your classroom up to discussion, letting your students express their ideas and concerns, and then guiding your students toward an understanding of the boundaries of copyright law.

information on inquiry-based learning