"NEA Jazz in the schools is a web-based curriculum and DVD toolkit that explores jazz as an indigenous American art form and as a means to understand American history. Designed for high schoolteachers of social studies, history, and music, this resource includes a teacher's guide of five curricular units with teacher tips, cross-curricular activities, and assessment methods. Each kit also includes student materials, a timeline poster, and audio and video resources."

Includes glossary and resources. "The curriculum is released in partnership with IAJE (The International Association for Jazz Education)

Lesson 1: The advent of jazz, the dawn of the 20th century -- Lesson 2: The Jazz Age and the Swing Era -- Lesson 3: Bebop and Modernism -- Lesson 4: From the New Frontier to the New Millennium -- Lesson 5: Jazz an American story.