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\nMiddle School General Music Unit Plans\n

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\nHere's a collection of unit plans for middle school musicians. Topics include the mbira, opera, rhythm and culture, music in Africa, music in the movies, music theory and notation, blues and jazz, and the ocarina. Definitely worth a look.\n
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\nCompose Your Own Music\n

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\nChannel the masters with an interactive music composition activity! Learners use the online tool to create their own masterpieces one measure at a time.\n
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\n\"Musical\n\n
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\nMusical Hoops\n

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\nPre-schoolers gain a better understanding of personal space by playing this modified version of musical chairs. Played like musical chairs, students circle around a ring of hula hoops as music plays. When the music stops everyone needs...\n
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\nCountry's Music\n

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\nJazz, Blue Grass, Hip Hop, Swing. Gospel, R&B, Ragtime, Disco. So many music genres born in the USA. After reading an article about the fate of New Orlean's Jazz after Hurricane Katrina, class members investigate the life cycles of...\n
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\nProducing Beats\n

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\nTurn your classroom into a music studio as groups work together to determine why music sounds different when performed live versus a recording. After listening to some different music, each group picks a poem, creates a recording, and...\n
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\nThrilling Information: Music and Reading\n

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\nHere’s a cross-curricular program music activity that uses Peer Gynt to engage class members. Groups take one section of “In the Hall of the Mountain King,” choreograph their section of the tune to represent the story as they imagine it,...\n
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\n20th Century Music: Jazz\n

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\nA 67-page packet provides instructors with a complete course in the history of Jazz. Lessons look at the roots of jazz in early 20th century African American communities in the southern United States and continues to the New Orleans...\n
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\nJewish Folk Song: Ya Ba Bom\n

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\nSinging is a wonderful way to express an idea of any kind. This lesson plan is written expressly for use in directing a high school chorus. They work on using four-part harmony, expression, and melodic intervals while singing a Jewish...\n
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\nWriting About Informational Text: Music and the Brain\n

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\nEven if you've never picked up a musical instrument, chances are that music has directly impacted your mental and emotional development. Sixth graders engage in a reading activity in which they read two articles on the impact of music on...\n
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\nMood Music!\n

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\nGrouchy? Sad? Here's a great resource that shows kids how music can be used to lift their spirits. Kids collect and chart data on the effects of music on emotions. After analyzing the results of their experiment, they develop...\n
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\nMusical Theater Performance\n

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\nMusical theater is a trifecta, requiring cast members to be actors, singers, and dancers. Help theater arts students develop these skills with a unit designed to prepare them for a staging of a musical.\n
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\nUsing Harmonic Vision’s Music Ace Software to Reinforce Basic Music Skills\n

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\nIf you have access to Harmonic Vision’s Music Ace Software, then this lesson could work for you. Kindergarteners use the video music software to place, identify, and read musical notes. They listen in and identify both high and low...\n
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\nMusic: Off the Wall & Onto the Stage - Composing\n

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\nKids explore Gullah music from Africa and then create original compositions based on what they've learned. They practice traditional melodies and rhythms then make some of their own, which they then perform for the class. \n
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\nTeaching Improvisation to Young Students in a Music Technology Lab Using a Sequencer\n

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\nYou'll need to be a little tech savvy to teach this music lesson. Pupils will attempt to play along with an accompaniment piece you've created using music software. They will be assessed on their performance and ability to identify and...\n
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\nThe American Musical\n

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\nGeneral music students learn about the history of popular American music by creating and performing a one-act musical. After researching and creating an American Musical timeline, class members write a song with lyrics using Jam Studio,...\n
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\nA-rhythm-etic. The Math Behind the Beats\n

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\nYour learners will dance in their seats as this talented drummer connects math to music in a short video clip. Clayton Cameron shows how math puts the \"cool\" in various genres of music, including jazz, hip-hop, pop,...\n
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\nWhy We Love Repetition in Music\n

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\nWhy does music rely so heavily on repetition? This is an interesting video from which to explore not only the psychological answers to this question, but also the ways in which humans perceive and rate different types of music.\n
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\nMusic Teacher Resource Pack\n

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\nMusic teachers! Here's everything you need in one packet. Templates for two, four, and six stave manuscripts. Templates for merit certificates, practice schedules, progress reports, fees records, and much, much more. You'll score with...\n
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\nUsing Music to Tell a Story or Describe a Scene\n

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\nYoung composers demonstrate their understanding of the stylistic features of descriptive music, including pitch, tempo, dynamics, rhythm, and timbre, by developing a melody and countermelody for a main character in a story. As part of...\n
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\n\"Mars\" from The Planets\n

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\nGustav Holst's The Planets provide young musicians an opportunity to examine how composers can create a suite: a collection of smaller pieces grouped to explore a single topic. After listening to \"Jupiter,\" they examine \"Mars\" in...\n
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\nBring some music to your language arts lesson with a reading comprehension activity. Learners read an informational passage about different musical instruments before answering a series of comprehension and vocabulary questions.\n
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\nReady, set, write! Every great film begins with a script, and every presentation starts with a plan. Directors use their research and experience to compose an essay explaining the rationale behind their film's musical and visual choices...\n
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\n\"Uncle Sam's Got Himself in a Terrible Jam\": Protest Music and the Vietnam War\n

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\n\"And it's one, two, three...what are we fighting for?\" Use music to assess the climate of protest during the Vietnam War, listening to and analyzing Country Joe MacDonald's \"I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag\" (lyrics included)....\n
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\nCreate a Music Carnival\n

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\nThis outstanding lesson will encourage your students to combine their knowledge of rhythm, pitch, tone and color with their imaginations to create original compositions about animals. They create a music carnival to \"Peter and the Wolf\"...\n
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