Arts and Humanities

The Arts and Humanities is a great section on Khan Academy. Much of it is also included in Partner content. Some examples of partner content here include the music section and content sponsored by various art museums. The history and Art content contains quizzes and yes, you can get speed badges fairly easily on these. The music content contains a lot of long videos. Most of the art content is probably not appropriate for children, though it is included for the child accounts. The Art History Basics section should be ok for kids, though younger kids may find it boring. The Getty Museum is also a good area for kids to learn about art. This is under partner content, so should be discussed there. There are further details below.



Art content

The art content is mostly provided by the SmartHistory non-profit. Smarthistory videos are about art pieces and narrated by two or three individuals, primarily Beth Harris and Steven Zucker. There are some videos with other curators, in addition to them or replacing one of them, as well as a few with Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy. There are also some videos created by various art museums about their pieces in the art section. The art section has quizzes. Some are tricky quizzes with ordering several steps in a art or craft process, but many radio button multiple choice quizzes.

Breaking this down further

History-

1900 to present: The recent past

1700 - 1900: Enlightenment and Revolution

1500 - 1600: Renaissance and Reformation

Before 1300 Ancient and Medieval history

Surveys of history

American Civics

Crash Course: World History

Music-

Music Basics-contains information on notes and rests and gets one started or provides a nice review on reading music. The examples come in symphony music. It would have been nice if it had been geared towards vocal music reading for chorus and choir participation, instead.

Masterpieces old and new-They analyze and provide background for the music famous musicians like: Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Schumann, Brahms, Dvorak, Mahler, Stravinsky, Ravel, Glass, Rands, Augusta Read Thomas, Sheng, Danielpour.

Instruments of the Orchestra:
 * Strings-harp, violin, viola, cello, bass,
 * Woodwinds: piccolo, flute, E flat clarinet, clarinet, bass, oboe, bassoon, english horn
 * Brass: french horn, trumpet, trombone, bass trombone, tuba
 * Percussion: timpani, piano, general percussion (bass drums, triangle, crotales, gong, snare drum, bongos, tambourine, crash symbols, glockenspiel)