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- Grade Range
- 1st - 3rd
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Students design a unique instrument using containers, beans, markers, crayons and colored construction paper. At the end of the lesson each student have a working rhythm instrument decorated with at least two colors. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 8th - 12th
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Students invent a musical instrument to be played by them. They invent a nonstandard notation for music and compose a short piece to preform for the class using their instrument. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students investigate the families to which the instruments of an orchestra belong. The identification of the instruments and their function in the playing of symphonies are made as they listen to the piece, "Peter and the Wolf." Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 6th
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Students work together to design a musical instrument. They choose their own supplies that allow the instrument to produce three different sounds. They share their creation with the class. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 6th
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Students apply the principles and concepts associated with energy and the transfer of energy in an engineering context through the designing and making of a musical instrument. After the accomplishment of the design, students must explain the energy transfer mechanism in sufficient detail and describe how they could make their instruments better. Each student gives a performance on their instrument for the class. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 5th
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Students listen and look at examples of instruments from the Renaissance Period. Using the internet, they practice navigating between websites, using the scroll bar and using a media player. They participate in a class discussion about the instruments and which ones are still around today. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students create advertisements for a weather instrument. They conduct Internet research, write a descriptive and persuasive advertisement for the instrument using the flyer template of desktop publishing software, and print a copy that includes an image from the Internet. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd
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Students participate in a class discussion about Sergi Prokofiev, his music, country, and his life. After viewing "Peter and the Wolf", students discuss the story and the instruments used in the story before using Kidspiration to map out the different instrumental families in an orchestra. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 5th
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Students identify various instruments within a symphony. Using the instruments, they group them into families based on their similarities and differences. In groups, they review each family and the instruments in them. They listen to music that match the various families while completing the activity. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students examine a variety of instruments in the band and orchestra. In groups, they catergorize the instruments into either strings, woodwinds, bass or percussion. To end the lesson, they compare and contrast the different look of the instruments along with their sound. Full Review »

