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- Grade Range
- 6th - 12th
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Students read and discuss 'Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra: Mixing Treasures by Duke Ellington and Edvard Grieg,' exploring how jazz transformed European music and the influence jazz has had on modern music. They write musical reviews. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students explain the role that each staff member plays in the production of a publication. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st
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Students mix secondary colors from primary colors and simulate a rainstorm by using body percussion. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 6th
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Students, using excerpts from Mozart's 'Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra in A Major', explore the ability of music to spark the imagination of the listener. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd - 5th
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Students examine the characteristics of the four families of instruments. They read an eBook, unscramble instruments and categorize them in the correct families, take a quiz, and explore the San Francisco Symphony website. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st - 3rd
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Students use recyclable material they bring from home to create a musical instrument. They play their instrument for the class and work as a class to play as in a band or orchestra. Students discuss recycling, and other uses they can put to their rubbish before discarding it. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd - 5th
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Students identify brass, woodwind, string, and percussion instruments and group them into appropriate families in this technology-based Music lesson for 2nd through 5th grades. Each students is required to have a handheld device or laptop. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students listen as the Dallas Symphony Orchestra retells the story of Pegasus and Bellopheron in both words and music. They listen to the story as the goddess, Athena appears to Bellopheron in a dream and tells him he needs three things to succeed in his mission. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students recognize all the necessary criteria to consider when purchasing a violin outfit for orchestra. students will learn what options are available through catalogs sales, store fronts, and Internet sales. They will learn the purpose of a Luthier as well as the difference in sound quality of different price ranges. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 10th
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Students study composer, Arnold Schoenberg. They compare landscapes to soundscapes and study abstract art and abstract music. They answer questions and write about both in their journals. They identify abstract artist and composers from their works. Full Review »

