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- 5th - 6th
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Students perform rhythmic compositions using vocal or instrumental skills and make choices from the elements of rhythm in classroom repertoire to create rhythmic compositions. Full Review »
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- 1st
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Students compose and notate simple rhythms using shapes. They use a variety of rhythm instruments to play their compositions. Full Review »
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- 1st
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Students explore rhythm using poetry and their own names. Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Students experience artistic perception of rhythm in music and see how to move their bodies and tap their sticks to the rhythm of a particular song. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st - 3rd
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Students design a unique instrument using containers, beans, markers, crayons and colored construction paper. At the end of the lesson each student have a working rhythm instrument decorated with at least two colors. Full Review »
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- 4th - 6th
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Students listen to how sounds in music can emulate sounds in life. They practice counting whole, half, quarter, eighth, and sixteenth note and rest values. They experiment with various rhythm instruments. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 6th
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Students explore music, patterns, notes, and instrumentation. They practice the proper technique at a keyboard and perform a simple three note pattern. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st
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Students use rhythm instruments to explore dynamic fluctuations in music. They experiment with clapping, body movement, recorded music and pitch instruments to explore the concept of tempo. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students explore the rhythm instruments as part of a rhythm band to accompany the well-known poem, "Five Little Pumpkins." They study instrument names, playing techniques, and playing at the appropriate time. They study how to perform a vocal solo. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st
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Students compose four measures of music using a variety of shapes to denote the quarter and eighth notes. They listen to and participate in a teacher-led demonstration, create their own composition with the shapes, then play the combined compositions using rhythm instruments. Full Review »

