Digital Resources Library

Digital Resources Library

Infuse the arts into your educational practices with our robust collection of free digital learning resources.

Kennedy Center Education is here to help you succeed with lesson plans and digital resources that incorporate best practices for the classroom—providing you with tools to infuse the arts across the curriculum and engage all learners.

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Digital Resource Collections Our Best Resources, Organized by Subject

Explore our resources arranged by topic. From arts genres like dance, music, theater, opera, visual and literary arts, to non-arts subject areas like math, science, history, and literature, to seasonal and cultural celebrations—this is an easy way to find the digital resources you need.

Media & Interactives Digital Media for Students of All Ages

Discover digital resources for students of all ages. Here’s where you’ll find video and audio stories produced with artists appearing on stage at the Kennedy Center, plus fun, media-rich self-guided explorations of arts learning and digital interactives that let the learner set their own pace.

Articles & How-To Guides Tips and Best Practices for Educators

Investigate practical, creative tips about how to engage your administrators and bring the arts into your classroom. For families, learn how to become an arts advocate and support arts education in your child’s school, as well as ways to support your young artist at home. 

Lessons & Activities Arts-Based Lessons for Your Classroom

Evoke creativity, success, and growth with your students using our arts-centered, standards-aligned lesson plans for your K-12 curriculum. Each lesson in our extensive collection has been revised and updated to meet the needs of your classroom.

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Kennedy Center Education provides resources and experiences that inspire, excite, and empower students and young artists, plus the tools and connections to help educators incorporate the arts into classrooms and learning spaces of all types.

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Generous support for educational programs at the Kennedy Center is provided by the U.S. Department of Education.

Gifts and grants to educational programs at the Kennedy Center are provided by The Paul M. Angell Family Foundation; Bank of America; Capital One; The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation; Carnegie Corporation of New York; The Ednah Root Foundation; Genesis Inspiration Foundation; Harman Family Foundation; William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust; the Kimsey Endowment; The Kiplinger Foundation; Laird Norton Family Foundation; Lois and Richard England Family Foundation; Dr. Gary Mather and Ms. Christina Co Mather; The Markow Totevy Foundation; Dr. Gerald and Paula McNichols Foundation; The Morningstar Foundation; Myra and Leura Younker Endowment Fund; The Irene Pollin Audience Development and Community Engagement Initiatives;

Prince Charitable Trusts; Dr. Deborah Rose and Dr. Jan A. J. Stolwijk; Rosemary Kennedy Education Fund; The Embassy of the United Arab Emirates; The Victory Foundation; The Volgenau Foundation; Jackie Washington; GRoW @ Annenberg and Gregory Annenberg Weingarten and Family; and generous contributors to the Abe Fortas Memorial Fund and by a major gift to the fund from the late Carolyn E. Agger, widow of Abe Fortas. Additional support is provided by the National Committee for the Performing Arts..

The content of these programs may have been developed under a grant from the U.S. Department of Education but does not necessarily represent the policy of the U.S. Department of Education. You should not assume endorsement by the federal government.