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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Teaching With Tunes

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Invite your students to sing, dance, and learn alongside their favorite PBS KIDS friends! Discover new and fun ways to integrate music into lessons, routines, and activities to inspire everyday learning. The curated songs center around...
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Teach With Movies: Lesson Plans Based on Shorts and Clips

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Links to many video-clip based lessons in the areas of health, English language arts & drama, mathematics, music, biology, earth science, inventions, astronomy, physics, chemistry, U.S. history and culture, and world history and...
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Forefront Publishers: Esl Through Music

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A wonderful resource for second language and ESL teachers interested in developing their students' language skills through song. It offers many ready-made ESL musical lesson plans, an annotated bibliography of songbooks and audio...
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Forefront Publishers: Esl Through Music

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A wonderful resource for second language and ESL teachers interested in developing their students' language skills through song. It offers many ready-made ESL musical lesson plans, an annotated bibliography of songbooks and audio...
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Songs for Teaching

Songs for Teaching

For Teachers K - 1st
Finding music to use to teach across the curriculum is no longer a problem once you use this site. Songs are grouped by subject area, and cover classroom management as well as content areas. There even lesson plans and ideas from other...
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Other

Musical English Lessons

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn English vocabulary and grammar through songs from a wide range of famous pop artists from the Beatles and Elvis to contemporary standouts like Avil Lavigne, Good Charlotte, and James Blunt. Find an exercise by grammar or vocabulary...
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American Heart Association

American Heart Association: Be the Beat!

For Students 9th - 10th
The American Heart Association wants to help create a new generation of life savers - teens who know how to perform CPR and use AEDs (Automated External Defibrillators) to save lives. Be The Beat! teaches teens about heart health and...
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Practical Action

Practical Action: Beat the Flood

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Flooding due to climate change can have a devastating effect on people's lives. Set on the fictitious island of Watu, pupils explore how STEM skills can be used to help communities be better prepared for flooding. Students will work as a...
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New Zealand Ministry of Education

Nz Ministry of Education: Playing Around With Poetry

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Students listen to and read various texts using figurative language including a ballad, poetry (Haiku, Cinquain, Limmerick) and rap music. They discuss language, meaning and ideas in a range of texts, relating their understanding to...
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Children's Music Web

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Although you'll have to hunt around a little, you'll find some great resources to integrate music into your classroom. Click on "Resources for teachers," to find some fun classroom management ideas. Or find sound effect ideas in...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Sound

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn the connections between the science of sound waves and engineering design for sound environments. Through three lessons, students come to better understand sound waves, including how they change with distance, travel...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: What's a Wavelength?

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students measure the wavelength of sounds and learn basic vocabulary associated with waves. As a class, they brainstorm the difference between two tuning forks and the sounds they produce. Then they come up with a way to measure that...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Sound and Light

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
The Sound and Light unit provides students with an understanding of sound and light waves through the theme of the "Sunken Treasure," a continuous story line throughout the lessons. In Lessons 1-5, students learn about sound, and in...
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Catherine Schmidt Jones: Form in Music

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This is a great resource for understanding and teaching musical forms to students. It thoroughly explains the various forms and provides activities to do with your students.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Fractions in Music

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this lesson, students explore the relationship between fractions and musical pitch. Media resources and teaching materials are included.
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British Library

British Library: Teaching Resources: Putting the Tempest in Context: A Summary of Sources

For Students 9th - 10th
This summary of sources is a quick and easy way to explore the contexts for The Tempest - from early modern ideas about magic, masques, and music, to controversial images and first-hand accounts of shipwreck and colonization. Included...
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PBS

Pbs: Jazz and Math: The Fibonacci Keyboard

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Teach a lesson about the piano keyboard using the Fibonacci Sequence. Explore with your students the various relationships the Fibonacci Sequence has with music.
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Curated OER

History Matters: Making Sense of Documents

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Designed to help teachers and students make effective use of primary documents. There are well written section on how to make sense of numbers, ads, music, diaries, and more. included are interactive activities for students to help them...
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Phil Tulga

Phil Tulga: Music and Math Teacher Resources

For Students 9th - 10th
This personal site is great for the music/math teacher looking for a new and fun way to teach math shapes with music and musical instrunments.
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Other

Ti:me the Technology Institute for Music Educators

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is dedicated to TI:ME, an organization whose mission is to assist music educators in using technology in their classrooms. Features include resources for music education for voice and instrument.
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Songs for Teaching

Songs for Teaching: Science Songs for Teaching

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Use a variety of forms of music to enhance learning in the classroom through these science-themed songs. Music must be purchased. Downloads are available along with lyrics, lesson plans, and downloadable lesson plan books.
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Songs for Teaching

Songs for Teaching: Science Songs for Teaching

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Use a variety of forms of music to enhance learning in the classroom through these science-themed songs. Music must be purchased. Downloads are available along with lyrics, lesson plans, and downloadable lesson plan books.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Energetic Musical Instruments

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students will learn to apply the principles and concepts associated with energy and the transfer of energy in an engineering context through the designing and making of a musical instrument. The students must choose from a variety of...
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Orca Book Publishers

Orca Book Publishers: 'Queen of the Toilet Bowl' Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Queen of the Toilet Bowl' by Canadian author Freida Wishinsky is about a Brazilian girl who gets a lead role in a school musical and then must learn to deal with a bully who is upset she was passed over for it. Freida Wishinsky is a...