This lesson engages students in the shared learning of different poems of the month. Students will clap different rhythms and then apply clapping patterns to different poems of the month. Each poem will contain different rhythms and...

The following lessons help students from grades 6-8 understand sleep and circadian rhythms. Lesson topics iinclude: day and night, seasons, sundails, clocks, sleep and sleep patterns and sleeping in space.

This site from Artlex provides a thorough definition of the Principle of Design known as Rhythm. There are links to other sources and terms as well as visuals from artists such as Klee, Matisse and Mondrian that show further examples.

In standard notation, rhythm is indicated on a musical bar line. But there are other ways to visualize rhythm that can be more intuitive. John Varney describes the 'wheel method' of tracing rhythm and uses it to take us on a musical...

An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This encyclopedia entry on rhythm and movement covers rhythm and repetition, alternating rhythm, and rhythm and movement.

Interactive activity explaining the principle of rhythm as it applies to visual art.

This is a glossary entry for the terms "Rhythm" and Rhyme" including the definition of each and literary examples of each.

Lesson introducing the Kodaly method to teach the rhythm tree and solfege. Students combine rhythm and solfege patterns and use them with familiar songs such as "Mary Had a Little Lamb."

Discusses the terminology needed to understand rhythm and meter in English poetry including the following terms: stressed and unstressed syllables, iambs, trochees, spondees, anapests, dactyls, monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter,...

Match the rhythm you hear by hitting a section of the drum set.

This curriculum unit from the Kennedy Center's ArtsEdge program presents an introduction to the concept of visual rhythm and explores the intersection of visual and auditory rhythm. The unit is divided into six lessons focusing on...

Pick one of these interactive activities to strengthen your knowledge of rhythm and musical notes. Play matching, concentration, flashcards, or a word search to review these musical terms.

This lesson engages students in learning about short vowel sounds. Connections to multicultural songs, books, music, stories, and activities immerse students into new content. Students will connect letter and sound cards to pictures of...

This site is a music tutorial, which helps one to learn how to count the beat in music.

An engineering design process project for students to create a regular rhythm of beats by spacing weights along a string and then dropping the string.

Rock out to a musical demonstration of math involved in constructing rhythms from groups of beats in this video from KQED. In the accompanying classroom activity, students consider how the note durations comprising a measure in 3/4 time...

Answer these four questions about your sleep habits, then see a graphic representation of your natural circadian rhythm of alertness and sleepiness over a 24 hour period.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book New and True: Rhymes and Rhythms and Histories Droll for Boys and Girls from Pole to Pole by Mary Wiley Staver (1892), a collection of illustrated poetry.

A brief biography of Hazrat Inayat Khan with a long excerpt from his book "The Music of Life," where Khan discusses the mechanism and machinery of the world, which keeps going "by the law of rhythm."

Study the rhythms of Puerto Rico through the musical form of the plena. Included are explanations of the different types of drums used in the plena. Audio examples and a pdf document of sheet music demonstrating the plena can also be...

This site looks at rhythm, terms and concepts, which include rhythm, score, note (parts of and kinds), rests, tie. Great information.

This page was created by a 5th and 6th-grade teacher "As a quick reference for [his] students when studying rhythm," although older students could easily use it too. The following terms are defined: rhythm, meter, scansion, iamb,...

A music theory worksheet regarding rhythm and its relationship to note/rest length. Requires Adobe Reader [PDF].

[Free Registration/Login Required] This quiz will tell us how easily we can identify note lengths, add note lengths together to form rhythmic measures, and identify problems in simple rhythm counting.