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- Kindergarten - 3rd
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Students use the elements to make movements according to the particular rhythm given. They also develop an understanding of how music can be used in learning math. Full Review »
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- 10th - 11th
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Students demonstrate and describe the roots of the blues in the music and text of the spirituals, the church music of early African-American slaves. They improvise the pentatonic scale, used in the spirituals, on small xylophones. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students demonstrate and/or describe the form, instruments, vocal techniques, scale, rhythm and improvisation of the Chicago blues style as expressed in "Long Distance Call Blues" by Muddy Waters. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 5th
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Students are introduced to several drawing elements including line, shape, space, value and color. They complete several art projects that invite experimentation with these elements. Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Students examine sayings and phrases required by the Core Knowledge Sequence for second grade through a variety of 17 lessons. Full Review »
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- 1st
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Students examine a variety of poems in this six lessons unit. The rhythms, rhyme, and repetition found in many poems are identified. Various reading, writing, and speaking activities help the poetry in this unit "come alive." Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students are introduced to the culture of African American art. Using the internet, they research the events surrounding the Harlem Renaissance and discover how it produced a wide variety of art and literature. To end the lesson, by analyzing different pieces of artwork by various artists to identify the political statement in the art. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students explore how each generation has sought to identify itself through the music of their time. They research how these identities were formed and what influence the various genres of music have had on this formation. Students gain insight into the significance of specific historical events that have had their footprints on lyrical content, instrumentation and compelling rhythms in music for decades. Full Review »
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- 4th - 8th
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Students discover how energy flows through communities because of the relationship between producers, consumers and decomposers. Examining various ecosystems, they identify the materials that cycle continuously through them. They label the major biomes of the Earth and discover their characteristics. Full Review »
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- 4th - 8th
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Students create an awareness of sounds found in our everyday urban environment. Students observe and describe habitats of organisms within an ecosystem, and create a song reflective of something within the students' experience. Students write a one- to two-page essay supporting his answer choice about music being essential for survival. Full Review »

