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- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 6th
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Students create music that celebrates the excitement of making new friends. They tell or write stories about their friends and the music they created for a classroom music program. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students study merchandising in music. They examine how music is used in merchandising and associated intellectual property, and compose lyrics for an advertisement. Full Review »
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- 5th - 8th
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Students hone research skills while using the World Wide Web, almanacs, Reader's Guide, and other reference books to research topics that center on their birth date and personal interests. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 8th
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Students watch a video showing Sesame Street's featured musical guest stars and discuss what kind of moods and emotions are elicted in the songs. They discuss what songs evoke different emotions in their life. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 4th
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Students demonstrate an awareness of music as part of daily life. They recognize that music is found throughout their neighborhood and see that music is found in neighborhoods of other cultures. Full Review »
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- 4th - 11th
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Students discover compositional techniques through the study of a current young composer and listening examples. This 30-minute lesson is an introduction to a unit on current classical music trends. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students compare and contrast the television viewing habits of teenaged Germans to those of their counterparts in the United States. They examine cross-cultural influences, media distortion, and the benefits of cultural diversity. Students keep a lot of German characters appearing in television programs. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students examine influence The Blues had on Rock and Roll and the concomitant social, political, and economic factors and movements during the post-World War II period. Students then research and create multimedia reports on teacher-approved bands, including timelines of bands' careers. Full Review »
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- 7th - 9th
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Students discuss a play, movie, or TV show that included a character that they sympathized with. They examine Broadway musicals and discuss the history, ideas, social movements, and individuals that are examined in this art form. Students participate in an improvisation scene, first performing naturally, then speeding up the scene. They discuss musical theater and how this form differs from the other forms of theater. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students engage in a lesson about TV violence and how it used. They participate in an experiment that measures the violent content while being guided by adult supervision. Then students write a public announcement about the content of TV violence. Full Review »

