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- Grade Range
- 8th
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Students use skills and attitudes appropriate to a range of music experiences in a variety of venues, as performer, participant, and audience, demonstrating: sense of community, audience and performer. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students practice hymn singing and participate as singers in the choir and as accompanists in the bell choir. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students examine influences on the creation and development of music. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 8th
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Students memorize and sing "The Presidents Song," while learning the presidents' names in order from Washington to Coolidge. They compose lyrics to "The Presidents Song," to include all the presidents up to the current president. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 8th
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Students explore the musical elements from Thailand, Vietnam, and Indonesia. They use singing, dancing, improvisation, and composition to duplicate a song from each country. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd
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Students relate dance movements to chants. They tap out the rhythm of poetry on different body parts. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 6th
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Students delve into the life and music of Duke Ellington as a major American musician and composer. The elements that made the sound of his orchestra unique and the talents of his band members are explored in this lesson. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd
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Students examine various stories and poems and identify characteristics that make each individual unique. After analyzing the readings, they create their own personality poems to accompany self-portrait drawings. The poems and drawings are mounted on construction paper and displayed in the classroom. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students begin the lesson by listening and singing along to various songs from different cultures. In groups, they research the ways different groups have used music to express themselves and compare and contrast them in an organizer. They work together to create their own piece of music that represents their own culture. To end the lesson, they develop a new culture and another original piece of music. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 8th
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Students practice the conducting patterns for 2/4, 3/4 and 4/4 meter, and other conducting gestures. Using score study and music vocabulary, each student selects one of the conducting patterns and conducts a piece of music containing the selected pattern. Full Review »

