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- 1st - 3rd
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Students disover the art of reading music, introducing quarter and half notes and their values. It can can be a self-contained minilesson, or the beginning of a unit about Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 6th
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Students identify ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines taught in school, specifically math, are interrelated with those of music. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students, ingroups, make a board game which demonstrates their knowledge of music history and music theory. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd - 5th
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Students observe a "helping staff" on the board or overhead projector that shows them where the pitches are found on the staff. After experimenting with a variety of simple instruments (xylophones, tone bells, keyboards), students put original melodies down in musical notation. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students explore music about water. They listen to various pieces of music, play instruments, and plan and create a piece of art that includes a water motif. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students use classical music to create a context for the lesson. They pick a composer and use a variety of resources to conduct research. Students use the information to make cognitive connections to how music influences culture and society. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students practice singing with correct posture. They sight read music and sing in chordal harmony. Students identify the characteristics of a meledy. Students examine the style of Southern Baptist hymns. 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
- 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
- 9th
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Students plan and compose a short set of variations on a given musical stimulus. They manipulate, demonstrate and communicate compositional work. Students how music uses repetition, where they copy and paste important functions. Full Review »

