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Music Appreciation Lesson Plans
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Students analyze propaganda used during World War II and complete research and art activities. For this World War II lesson, students access the www.nara.gov website and complete an activity sheet using the site as a resource. Students create a World War II poster based upon their research.
Students participate in various activities which address Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. In this holiday lesson, students are exposed to Hebrew songs and construct Haiku poems about Yom Kippur.
Students explore music appreciation by listening to a piece of music with classmates. In this musical composition instructional activity, students listen to the tune "Carnival of Animals" and identify the different animals they hear in the song. Students examine their classroom and identify the sounds that are made from everyday objects.
High schoolers discuss aesthetics using an existing and student-created program music. They describe music, propose meanings in music and defend their points of view.They also describe and defend music and visual arts representations of subject matter not related to the arts.
Students listen to pieces of classical music by Handel and Palestrina. They explore the concepts of timbre and polyphony. In groups, they are to identify when different tones of music are being played.
Students explore sound production. In this choir lesson, students will use Oscilloscope software, to examine the sounds from various singing tones and how it relates to science.
Students explore the concept of environmental stewardship. In this rain forest lesson, students explore the Monteverde Cloud Forest in a virtual field trip. Students paint and write about rain forests as they consider how to protect rain forests from deforestation.
Learners tour the Grand Canyon on the Internet. In this Grand Canyon lesson students use the Internet to view tourism of the Grand Canyon.
Students practice the words of a new song in chunks. Using a CD, they sing along with the original version singing some parts in English and Spanish. They discover movements to accompany the lyrics of the song and work together as a class to continue the song further.
Students engage in a unit about the country of Japan. They explore different subjects to get a holistic perspective of the Japanese culture. Students take a look at the history of the culture and how it has changed over time or not. They answer the overall question: What makes Japan unique?
