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- 1st
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Students discover how to read quarter notes, rests and repeat signs using a traditional folk song. They sing I've Been Working On The Railroad. They use percussion instruments along with their voices to keep the rhythm. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students improve their ability to listen to a pitch and match that pitch through singing. They try to overcome pitch intimidation. Students match an interval with a song. They access a hand held computer to assist them. Students pair up and work through five different intervals covered in class. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students listen to and discuss Don Henley's song, "Johnny Can't Read" and the 10,000 Maniacs song, "Cherry Tree." They research reading literacy and find statistics, evidence, stories, facts, and sources which will support their beliefs and prepare them for a class discussion on literacy. 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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- 1st
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Students identify ways in which math and language arts relate to their music. After being read a book, they sing a song about who took the cookies from the cookie jar. They recognize repeated patterns in the melody and rhythm and count from one to ten forewords and backwords. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students discover the events that led to the formation of orphan trains. As a class, they listen to facts about the trains to spark their interest. They read excerpts of a book with a partner and identify any generalizations about the orphan trains. They write an essay organizing their thoughts. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students sing and play the song "Page's Train" using soprano and alto glockenspiels, alto metallophones, alto and bass xylophones and a cabasa. This fourth grade general music lesson utilizes the Orff teaching method and emphasizes improvisation. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd
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Students, after playing the instruments, identifying the sounds and creating rhythmic and melodic phrases, create expression in a performance. They create and arrange music within specific guidelines including rhythmic phrases and melodic phrases. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 8th
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Students practice combining relative pitch and reading music. They create, read and perform music on their own as they combine music and art to the concepts of differing pitches and reading music. Each student present their creations to their classmates. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st
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Students listen to and identify the different sounds of a variety of musical instruments. They take turns sitting blindfolded in a chair in the middle of the classroom, as students play a selected instrument. The blindfolded student walks in the direction they hear the music coming from and identify the sound and the instrument making the sound. Full Review »
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