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- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students, ingroups, make a board game which demonstrates their knowledge of music history and music theory. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students explore the three main forms of music elements: melody, harmony, and rhythm. They listen to, analyze, evaluate, and describe music. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd - 7th
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Students analyze the functions of musical scores as they relate to percussion instruments. They follow an audio and video presentation as they count and follow beat patterns. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students explore the basics of musical notation to name notes and gain a musical vocabulary. Student constructed worksheets and technological applications provide the basis of this lesson. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students examine how nature influences music composers. In small groups, students take a field trip to collect colors, sounds, and water samples at a nearby river, and use the data collected to compose a piece of music based on the water encounter. Full Review »
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- 5th - 8th
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Students use the internet to research musical periods and composers. They examine how Medieval and Renaissance instruments worked and compare how they sounded. They discover the criteria to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Full Review »
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- 4th - 8th
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Students create an awareness of sounds found in our everyday urban environment. Students observe and describe habitats of organisms within an ecosystem, and create a song reflective of something within the students' experience. Students write a one- to two-page essay supporting his answer choice about music being essential for survival. Full Review »
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- 4th - 12th
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Students review what they already know about music theory. In groups, they research the information more in depth and place the information on note cards. They participate in a game of basketball in which the music theory material is tested and if answered correctly, they score a basket. Full Review »
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- 7th - 8th
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Students play Musical Jeopardy. They first make up questions over the materials covered in class. students make up a game with note cards on the board and play the game. They make more questions and other versions of the game. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students engage in a lesson that is about the beginning music theory and rhythmic notation. They write the music for a percussion ensemble that is 16 measures long. Students incorporate quarter and eight notes with rest that includes fixed percussion. Full Review »

