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- Grade Range
- 6th
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Students study about listening strategies, as well as the culture, music and two prominent composers of the Baroque period, namely J.S. Bach and G.F. Handel. They demonstrate their understanding of the content through several assessments. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd
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Students complete a short unit of lessons on the relationship between the Arabian Nights and the musical work, Scheherazade. They listen to music, trace the route of icons on a music map, play a simple rhythm, and listen to the story of Sinbad. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 10th
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Students go on a tour of how and why music styles have changed over the years, and discover where they can gather some insight about their favorite musical styles and artists. There are excellent websites imbedded in this lesson. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students explore the background of Haydn's Surprise and the texture of the music. The teacher uses mouse and lion puppets to demonstrate soft and loud music. They tiptoe and stomp to display the concept. and play a soft/loud singing game. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students examine the history of blues music and discover how it relates to the music of today. As a class, they listen to the drum songs of Africa and compare it to the use of drums in pop music today. Using the internet, they research the history of the blues and its early artists. To end the lesson, they write in their journals to reflect on the music. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 10th
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Students examine the effect of music on society. While listening to music, they identify the beat, rhythm and write down their reaction to it. Listening to longer selections, they assign a color to the music and share it with the class. They create a piece of art using that color reflecting on the music pieces to end the lesson. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 8th
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Students follow along with a teacher lead lesson to find information by skimming and scanning a resource booklet. They examine different types of resources that are available in a library. They practice skimming skills and complete associated worksheets. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th
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Students actively participate in discussions and experiments about sound production. They use correct terminology, choosing language from the basic elements of music and science. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th
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Students research the life and music of Beethoven through reading informational texts and answering questions about what they have read. The musical study of Beethoven includes reading music notation, reading geographic maps and music listening maps, reading organizational diagrams and time lines in addition to the informational texts. 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 »
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