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- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students explore traditional music of different societies around the world by listening to number of different musical recordings, discuss how music makes them feel, examine how music is central to cultural traditions, and compose short written responses. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st
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Students identify ways in which math and language arts relate to their music. After being read a book, they sing a song about who took the cookies from the cookie jar. They recognize repeated patterns in the melody and rhythm and count from one to ten forewords and backwords. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 4th
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Students listen to an African American spiritual. After listening to the music, they identify words that were repeated and musical ideas. In groups, they write new lyrics to the song and locate new locations on a map of the United States. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students are introduced to the music of African Americans. Using the internet, they compare and contrast the types of music African Americans produced during the 19th and 20th centuries. They research the origins and history of the Blues. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th
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Students sing and play the song "Page's Train" using soprano and alto glockenspiels, alto metallophones, alto and bass xylophones and a cabasa. This fourth grade general music lesson utilizes the Orff teaching method and emphasizes improvisation. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 12th
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Students examine events of historical significance in music. In groups, they are given pieces of sheet music and work together to try to determine the social and political conditions of the time based on the lyrics. They write their own lyrics and create their own covers to explore a topic during the Progressive Era. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd
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Students, after playing the instruments, identifying the sounds and creating rhythmic and melodic phrases, create expression in a performance. They create and arrange music within specific guidelines including rhythmic phrases and melodic phrases. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st
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Students listen to and identify the different sounds of a variety of musical instruments. They take turns sitting blindfolded in a chair in the middle of the classroom, as students play a selected instrument. The blindfolded student walks in the direction they hear the music coming from and identify the sound and the instrument making the sound. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd
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Students categorize a variety of musical sounds, including children's and adult's voices. They are taught how to recognize a variety of musical sounds. Students find a piece of paper so they can take notes. They listen to the CD. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students analayze social commentary in music using the song "America" from the musical West Side Story. They are given a brief biographical overview of Leonard Bernstein his major accomplishments, and contributions to American music. Students are given a overview of West Side Story. Full Review »