Getting Ahead by Looking Back Using our most-popular resources of 2009 to inspire your teaching in 2010

We’ve looked through our Web stats from the past year to round up the "most clicked" lists for 2009. We hope seeing what other users are looking at, teaching with, and sharing with others will make this year your most creative!

Coming in at Number One

The ARTSEDGE Top 5 for the year—each garnering more than 50,000 accesses—came from across the site, with Lessons and How-to’s represented along with three long-standing favorites from our collection of multimedia resources :

1. Drop Me Off in Harlem (Microsite)


2. Duke Ellington: A Celebration (Microsite)


3. Perfect Pitch (Interactive)


4. Arthur Miller and The Crucible (Lesson)


5. Formal Visual Analysis: The Elements & Principles of Composition (How-to)

Most Searched term: Podcast

Our top Podcasts spent most of the year in the top 100 of iTunes’ K-12 Education category—driving enough traffic that we were awarded “featured provider” status on iTunes, making our content even easier to find in the world’s largest online media catalogue.

1. Classical Music in America


2. Music of the Arab World


3. An Evening with Stephen Schwartz

Access all our Podcasts from our directory page, or directly through iTunes.

Lessons

The Lesson collections, along with the portal to the National Standards for Arts Education, were the most-trafficked areas of the site again this year. We’ve broken the most-visited lessons out by grade band.

Jump to Grades K-4 | Grades 5-8 | Grades 9-12

Top Lessons for K-4

Our most visited lessons for kindergarten through fourth grade were:

1. A Listening Doll


2. Exploring American Tall Tales


3. Animal Habitats


4. Harriet Tubman Integrated Unit


5. Creating Comic Strips


6. Cinderella Trilogy


7. Sunflowers


8. Masks and Aesop's Fables


9. The Great Migration


10. Comparing Tales through Performance

1. Elements of Dance


2. A Character Lifebox


3. Writing Myths


4. A Way with Words, or Say What?


5. Fiction, Setting the Story


6. A Tribute to Miró


7. Elements of Folktales


8. Civil War Music


9. Lift Every Voice and Sing


10. Systems of the Body: Movement and Choreography

1. Arthur Miller and The Crucible


2. The Poetics of Hip Hop


3. Characterization in Literature


4. Exploring A Streetcar Named Desire


5. Rhythm and Art: Elements of Art


6. Five Artists of the Mexican Revolution


7. Corridos About the Mexican Revolution


8. Oxidation & Combustion: Chemical Reactions in Fire


9. Shadows & Light, Science & Puppetry


10. Baila! Latin Dance in the Spanish Classroom