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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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- 5th
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Students become acquainted with the coded lyrics of Follow the Drinking Gourd, Wade in the Water, The Ballad of the Underground Railroad, Get on Board and many other songs of the Slavery era. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students use music to hear the "voices" of the Cold War. They listen to music from Sting and Billy Joel to hear how Americans felt at the time. Full Review »
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- Higher Ed
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Students view the film Fog of War and discuss the most striking elements of the film. They focus on chosen lessons from robert McNamara's life such as: empathy, rationality and proportionality. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students examine the history of blues music and discover how it relates to the music of today. As a class, they listen to the drum songs of Africa and compare it to the use of drums in pop music today. Using the internet, they research the history of the blues and its early artists. To end the lesson, they write in their journals to reflect on the music. Full Review »
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- 7th - 12th
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Students explore their own responses to sound by hearing the music as a regular part of the class structure. They develop an awareness that certain art evokes certain sounds and moods and develop an intuitive responses to the music. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students actively participate in discussions and experiments about sound production. They use correct terminology, choosing language from the basic elements of music and science. Full Review »
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- 11th
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Students examine aesthetics using existing and student-created program music. They describe music, propose meanings in music and defend their descriptions and propositions.They also describe and defend music and visual arts representations of subject matter that are not from the arts. 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 »
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- 5th - 8th
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Students label and experience their vocal productions. They identify different ways they can use their vocies: whispering, talking, singing, and yelling. Students discuss each voice for the appropriate use. They are told that are going to use all of their voices today in music except for yelling, which should be reserved for emergenices or special circumstance. Full Review »
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