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- 1st
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Students use rhymes, songs and games to help them study music. They discover how music can be used with movement, speech and singing. Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Students, through 6 lessons, explore a variety of railroad work songs and explain that music can often explain various historical events. They sing railroad work songs, explore famous people associated with the first railroads. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students examine the role of music in changing the cultures of the indigenous cultures in New Zealand and Australia. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students are introduced to a brief history of musical theater in America. They listen to various pieces of music, watch videos, and study their composers and lyricists. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students distinguish several sequences of sound as they explore the asic elements in musical compsitions in this seven lesson unit. Spoken sequences lead to the use of the major musical scale to create songs. Full Review »
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- 1st - 5th
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Students discover the significance of similarities and contrasts of three separate cultures of the United States through music. They take out maps and trace the expedition of the Spanish along the coasts of Mexico and North and South America and the Caribbean Islands. Full Review »
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- 7th - 8th
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Students examine the Caribbean in terms of its music, art, and folklore. As a class, they listen to a folktale and discuss the difference between telling a story and reading a story. In groups, they write their own folktale and share it with the class. They use the internet to research what it was like to grow up in Cuba during the 1970s. To end the lesson, they view examples of artwork and reflect on them in their journals. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students research the origins of Samba in Brazil using the internet. After defining new vocabulary, they locate the cities in Brazil using latitude and longitude which practice the Samba. In groups, they compare and contrast the different types of Latin American dances and music and write an essay to end the lesson. Full Review »
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- 1st - 3rd
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Students review the musical alphabet A, B, C, D, E, F, G and examine how to identify skips going up. They study how the definition of skipping us is to go from one letter to the next higher letter with one in between. They then study how the difference between stepping up and skipping up. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students participate in a variety of lessons/activities designed to teach them about Mexico. They discuss the language and the flag of Mexico. Students learn about the celebrations, family values, music and food of Mexico. The final project, a Pinata, ties together different aspects of the unit into a final celebration. Full Review »

