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\nProducing Beats\n

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\nTurn your classroom into a music studio as groups work together to determine why music sounds different when performed live versus a recording. After listening to some different music, each group picks a poem, creates a recording, and...\n
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\nUsing Music to Tell a Story or Describe a Scene\n

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\nYoung composers demonstrate their understanding of the stylistic features of descriptive music, including pitch, tempo, dynamics, rhythm, and timbre, by developing a melody and countermelody for a main character in a story. As part of...\n
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\nNative American Music and the Flute\n

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\nYoung scholars study the role of the flute in Native American music while determining what an exemplary example of flute music sounds like. They develop a method of assessing a Native American flute performance. They perform a Native...\n
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\nIndividuality: India Arie Music Video\n

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\nStudents examine individuality.  In this music video instructional activity, students listen to music by India Arie to determine how music shapes our ideas of what normal is as well as how music is a form of poetry.  Activities...\n
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\nBuild a Bat House!\n

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\nBats usually get a bad rap. Scholars learn about the importance of bats and the threat their declining population has on the environment. They then build bat houses to attract and welcome bats into the area.\n
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\nConnecting Literature, Writing and Music\n

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\nStudents assess the impact of music to portray emotions and tell stories. Examples are taken from the life of Rosa Parks and a piece of band music called \"A Movement for Rosa\". Evaluation is accomplished through in-class participation...\n
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\nOur Own Water Music\n

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\nLearners listen to a portion of Handel's Water Music Suite and hypothesize about what would happen if you tapped on the edge of a glass with varying levels of water. They experiment with the glasses and, in small groups, compose their...\n
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\nPerformance Evaluation\n

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\nStudents evaluate in class performance of music previously prepared by the ensemble. The rubric and assessment criteria are adaptable to any orchestra setting which allows the teacher to choose music to be assessed. Critical thinking...\n
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\nA Scale Model Solar System\n

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\nBetween the time scientists discovered Pluto and reclassified it as a dwarf planet, it did not even make one full revolution around the sun. In two activities, scholars investigate scale models and their properties. Pupils find that it...\n
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\nElvis\n

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\nIn this excellent music and history lesson, 1st graders watch movies and listen to music sung by Elvis Presley, then draw and write as if they were a famous singer. This entertaining and inventive lesson has a terrific assessment...\n
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\nSilent Movies: A Year 7 Scheme of Work\n

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\nEven an outline can give you enough information to execute an awsome project. The tasks for each of the seven weeks of this project are defined, as well as the objective and specific content facilitated through the project. Learners will...\n
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\nMusical Instrument Workshop: Somerset Waste Action Programme\n

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\nStudents use recyclable material they bring from home to create a musical instrument. They play their instrument for the class and work as a class to play as in a band or orchestra. Students discuss recycling, and other uses they can put...\n
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\nHow to Write a Movie Review from a Pet's Perspective\n

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\nWhen would two paws up denote a blockbuster film in your classroom? Only when young writers create movie reviews from a pet's perspective in this imaginative expository writing practice. This engaging topic begins with a class discussion...\n
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\nDancing Fast, Medium and Slow\n

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\nSecond graders practice dance using different speeds of music and types of movement. In this dance lesson, 2nd graders view a clip of tap dancing and analyze the speed of music in coordinating with the speed of dance movements. Students...\n
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\nMedia Violence - The Good, the Bad and the Future\n

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\nThird graders define, identify, measure, and assess the level and impact of violence in media. The media forms evaluated include music, sitcoms, news, and other programs that are identified and shared by the class. \n
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\nOn with the Show!\n

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\nStudents perform in musical ensembles using the district adjudication sheet to assess their performance. They practice for the district music festival.\n
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\nOriginal Rhythm Compositions for Poetry\n

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\nStudents create and perform original musical compositions using poetry as a basis for the creative process. This cross-curricular two-day lesson plan can be done in two 45 minute class periods. Students evaluate performances as part of...\n
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\nAssessment Task Assessment Task\n

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\nThe high schoolers discuss what the purposes of performances are and what different types of performances a musician can participate in. The students analyze both visually, and audibly different performances, discuss the performances,...\n
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\nPresenting final product\n

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\nYoung scholars in groups present their research as a group and each student delivers a shoe box of their total work. They assess the process of how to research a topic and present it in a meaningful multimedia presentation. Each group...\n
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\nPresentation Culturelle\n

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\nLearners explore various aspects of French life. They determine\nwhich topic dealing with French history, art, food, music, dance, celebrations or traditions they research and present.\n
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\nLabeling the Body\n

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\nFirst graders sing about their body. In this music instructional activity students sing the songs \"I Shake My Thumb\" and \"Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes\". After they sing the songs and add different body parts to extend the songs they...\n
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\nPoetry Continued\n

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\nStudents are introduced to the elements in poetry. After listening to music, they discuss how it made them feel and what the lyrics mean to them. Individually, they are given specific elements to write their poem and share it with the...\n
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\nRapping Regions in America\n

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\nStudents determine what designates a place as a region. They apply their criteria for a region to the US map. They work in groups to write a rap about their region that describes its organization, type and structure.\n
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\nScience, Sounds And Hearing\n

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\nLearners examine various sounds that are played on musical instruments. They conduct an experiment to listening to different instruments. They define significant vocabulary like \"vibration\" and \"oscillation\". Students suggest ways that...\n
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