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\nThe Music and Message of Lauryn Hill\n

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\nStudents explore the music of artist Lauryn Hill and analyze the way she uses her music in a socially responsible manner. In this music artist lesson, students read the lyrics to Hill's songs and listen to some example songs. Students...\n
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\nStudying The American Musical Theatre\n

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\nStudents discover the group dynamics necessary to produce an American musical in this six day lesson. Themes and characterization techniques are explored during collaborative small group research projects.\n
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\nChanges of Musical Elements in Popular Music Through the Decades\n

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\nStudents probe samples of European classical, American jazz, and rock and roll to analyze the similarities and differences. The styles and form of these three types of music are examined for tempo, timbre, and rhythm.\n
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\nMusic Notes\n

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\nYoung scholars identify music notes. In this music notes instructional activity, students toss bean bags between partners the number of times of a note (quarter, half, dotted half, etc) value.  Young scholars also practice underhand...\n
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\nMusical Chair Review\n

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\nStudents play a simple game designed to reinforce letter names, sounds or sight words. They walk in a circle as music plays, and stop in front of a chair when the music stops. Each chair has a letter or sight word that the child must...\n
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\nTradition through storytelling and music\n

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\nStudents discover how storytelling can shape a person's tradition.Students examine different methods of storytelling such as music, biographies, and African folktales. They then demonstrate their knowledge of storytelling by writing...\n
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\nSignin' the Blues with Rock, Rap 'n Roll\n

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\nSixth graders listen to recordings and study jazz and the blues music. They identify the instrumentation and explore the 12-bar blues progression. After experimenting with different sound, 6th graders create their own arrangement, with...\n
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\nMusical Whole Numbers\n

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\nFourth graders participate in a musical chair activity in which they practice identifying whole numbers.  In this number sense lesson, 4th graders listen to a song and must get in the order of the number they hold on an index card...\n
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\nThe Influence of Jazz Music in Twentieth Century Art\n

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\nStudents examine the effect of music on society. While listening to music, they identify the beat, rhythm and write down their reaction to it. Listening to longer selections, they assign a color to the music and share it with the...\n
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\nJazz music, Dance and Poetry\n

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\nStudents view video and become familiar with the type of movement in jazz dance.  For this jazz dance lesson, students write a cinquain about jazz dance.  Students recognize the elements of jazz dance and the type of music...\n
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\nThe Virtuoso Phenomenon\n

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\nAfter reading the New York Times article \"Virtuosos Becoming a Dime a Dozen,\" learners answer eight who, what, when, where, and why questions. They post their answers on the New York Times Education Blog. A fun way to get learners...\n
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\nSounds of Pi\n

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\nListen to the beautiful musical compositions of ... pi? Pupils watch a video in the Numberphile \"Pi\" series that explains how people can use pi to compose a musical score. The video portrays a guitarist playing the first few notes of the...\n
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\nFinding Your Pulse Rate\n

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\nFifth graders demonstrate how to find their pulse and count the beats after a certain amount of time. In cooperative pairs, 5th graders use a stopwatch to keep track of their partner's heart rate in seconds. Pairs make a graph from their...\n
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\nDecode Multi-Syllable Long Words Song\n

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\nProvide a visual and auditory representation of how to decode multisyllabic words in a music video set to an upbeat jazz tempo.\n
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\nSound Game\n

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\nGet those little ears out and ready to listen to play a game! Youngsters listen to a variety of instruments, and then determine whether the instruments are made of wood or metal. This game is interactive with fun sounds. \n
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\nFairy Tale Variations\n

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\nHere are two great lessons that work together and are inspired by the Stephen Sondheim musical Into the Woods. Young writers and actors will retell the story of \"The Frog Prince\" through games, improvisational script writing, and...\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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\nHarriet Tubman: Secret Messages Through Song\n

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\nA lesson all about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad introduces scholars to African American spirituals. By way of reading, speaking, and listening, learners discover, analyze, and decode African American spirituals. They...\n
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\nHarriet Tubman: Retelling History Through Dance and Drama\n

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\nScholars listen to several pieces of music in preparation for a discussion about how instruments and lyrics convey emotions. With Harriet Tubman as the focus, small groups create an original song or dance. A reflection piece concludes...\n
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\nArts and Engineering Activity Packet: Grades 3-5\n

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\nArt and science sometimes go hand in hand. A set of four activities for learners in grades 3-5 teaches engineering concepts as part of art projects. Class members build homemade robots, elastic puppets, musical instruments, and...\n
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\nThe Recorder - B\n

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\nMake some beautiful music with a lesson about playing the recorder! After learning some of the basic fingering positions and notes, have kids practice their skills with two easy songs.\n
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\nSound Waves\n

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\nHow does sound travel through different mediums? Scholars explore this question by creating and observing sound waves as they learn the difference between transverse and longitudinal wave motion. Using their new knowledge, class members...\n
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\nThe Physics of Playing Guitar\n

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\nEveryone knows that guitar music rocks - but why? And how? Learn about the ways a single pluck can create sounds that resonate from string, to ear, to soul with a fascinating video about the physics of sound vibration.\n
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\nWar of 1812\n

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\nLuckily for those who aren't history buffs, anyone can guess that the War of 1812 happened in ... 1812. But how to cover the rest of the story? The resource does just that with effective direct instruction that includes statistics,...\n
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