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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\"Singing\n\n
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\nSinging en espanol\n

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\nCongratulations! You've been hired as a song writer! Assign your class this webquest so they can research a Hispanic musician and their country, and then write a song in Spanish!\n
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\n\"Unifix\n\n
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\nUnifix Cubes\n

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\nUnifix cubes are wonderful tools that can be used to model a variety of mathematical concepts. Children will compose number two through eight by placing Unifix cubes on their paper and then coloring in the cubes they used. \n
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\n\"Bessie\n\n
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\nBessie Smith\n

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\nIn this online interactive history quiz worksheet, students respond to 41 multiple choice questions about the accomplishments of musician Bessie Smith. Students may submit their answers to be scored.\n
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\nWorld's Largest Concert (WLC). Aaron Copland, selected composer\n

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\nStudents explore the life and work of Aaron Copland. . They create a \"brochure\" about Mr. Copland, one of the composers highlighted in the World's Largest Concert (WLC), and explore and summarize information about the man.\n
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\nCan You Compose?\n

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\nFourth graders investigate musical notes. In this music lesson, 4th graders compose a short song while clapping the rhythm and singing the syllables using the appropriate notes or rests.\n
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\nPasse Compose\n

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\nMiddle schoolers discuss past weekend activities. They become familiar with the Passe Compose. New vocabulary is intertwined into this lesson. Students apply new knowledge to a relevant, but different situation.\n
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\nPractice Boards\n

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\nFACE it. Every Good Boy Deserves Fruit! (And so do girls.) Provide young musicians with music worksheets that enable them to practice musical notation. The six boards included in the packet are templates that focus on notes, rests,...\n
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\nCompare and Contrast Composers\n

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\nStudents identify various pieces of music that are familiar to them and define how the music made them feel. Then they select their favorite piece of music heard and the activities in which they like to do. Students also attend a...\n
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\nI Am A Musician- Interview A Musician\n

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\nStudents, as a class, interview musician to find out more about him/her as an individual. Students then write thank you notes and include, by naming or drawing, one fact learned about the musician.\n
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\nComposing From a Thread\n

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\nStudents listen to music composed in the 20th century and discuss varying interpretations. They play a contemporary piece of music and explore techniques available to a modern composer.\n
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\nComposing Your Melody\n

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\nIn this music instructional activity, students perform a given melody of four phrases. Students also improvise their own melodies using notes G, A, C, D, and E.\n
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\nTone Poem Composing Project\n

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\nStudents explore role of music in storytelling by watching and discussing effect music has on perception of scene from movie, and using Sibelius program to compose single excerpt of music, considering dynamics, timbre, and articulation,...\n
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\nWrite About This\n

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\nLooking for an easy way to encourage youngsters to write about a variety of different topics? Users simply choose an image to write about from a large selection of beautiful photographs and then compose original opinion pieces and...\n
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\nThe Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky\n

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\nOver the course of six lessons, scholars try their hand at composing and dancing after a thorough examination of the famous ballet, The Nutcracker, by Tchaikovsky. Participants watch and discuss the performance of two dances, create...\n
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\nTalking About Pop Music and Musicians\n

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\nStudents focus on using a True or False game as a means of motivation to discuss their favorite types of music and musicians.\n
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\nThe Role of the Musician and His Instruments in the Civil War\n

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\nFifth graders listen to and discuss the music of the Civil War Era in order to better explain society during this time period. They identify the musical instruments and write their own word to accompany the music of one of the songs.\n
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\nThe Romantic Period \n

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\nWhat does the term romantic mean? As you introduce your class to the Romantic period and famous authors, artists, and musicians from the time period, make sure they know what sets this movement apart from previous movements! Several...\n
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\nJingles\n

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\nYoungsters compose their own jingles using a model pattern. The jingles are meant to be composed for a favorite food. After a class discussion on jingles, and listening to some recorded jingles, learners set out to make up one of their...\n
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\nMusical Families\n

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\nPlanning a trip to the symphony? Prepare first-time attendees for the experience with overheads that identify the roles played by the concertmaster, conductor, musicians, and even the audience. The musical families are introduced...\n
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\nFormal instruments are not the only tools that can play beautiful music. Check out this video of Natalia Paruz; she plays music with an actual tool, the saw.\n
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\nSolving Problems by Function Composition\n

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\nArt to Zoo: Life in the Promised Land: African-American Migrants in Northern Cities, 1916-1940\n

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\nOrganizing Writing/Composing a First Draft\n

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\nDoes your language arts class have a hard time with writing transitions? Use this organizational writing lesson to create three effective transition sentences that middle schoolers will use in their research of renewable resources.\n
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