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- Grade Range
- 1st - 5th
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Students use software to compose and play a short retrograde composition. They experiment with the sounds of different instruments and become familiar with shortcuts in musical notation used by the software. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd - 5th
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Students work together or individually to complete a WebQuest. They gather information on topics related to music. They also practice their piano lessons in class. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd - 4th
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Students sing a song following along with the notes on the board. They compare it with another song and identify the elements in a melody. They work together in groups to create their own melody and share them with the class. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 8th
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Students practice composing some of Beethoven's musical pieces. Students listen to Beethoven's music and watch a video about his life. Then, students practice composing their own pieces that emulate his work. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th
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Students recognize affixes common to the language in a meaningful and communicative context and to use their knowledge of affixes to determine word meanings. original story. Students present a personal narrative about an experience they have had playing a sport, a game or an instrument. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 11th
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Students examine aesthetics using existing and student-created program music. They describe music, propose meanings in music and defend their descriptions and propositions.They also describe and defend music and visual arts representations of subject matter that are not from the arts. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 8th
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Students investigate how historical events tie to musical periods of the past and present (setting), how larger works can contain smaller sections, how to listen for these smaller sections, how to identify major tonalities (keys) and how music vocabulary is used in the process. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students are introduced to the 19th century German custom of serving coffee and cake at small parties. They read old cookbooks, sort recipes, prepare foods, compare old German recipes to recipes from home and convert measurements and temperatures. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students listen to the song and fill in the lyrics on a worksheet. They translate the meaning of the song into English. They concentrate on the correct verb tenses in the song. This activity is used as a warm up for a verb Spanish lesson. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 12th
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Students demonstrate the canon form and Bach's Two-Part Inventions by composing an aesthetically pleasing left-hand part after being given only the right hand part to J.S. Bach's Invention No. 8 in F Major. Keyboard lab suggested. Full Review »

