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Meet the Instruments of the Orchestra
Students examine the characteristics of the four families of instruments. They read an eBook, unscramble instruments and categorize them in the correct families, take a quiz, and explore the San Francisco Symphony website.
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Arts Impact and Math
Third graders incorporate math into dancing. In this algebra lesson, 3rd graders identify different shapes and patterns using dance movements. They relate the different creations to polygons as they incorporate the use of stretchy bands...
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Visual Messages: Creating a Photomontage
Students create a photomontage. For this lesson on photography as a means of conveying emotion, students use images gathered from the Internet to create a photomontage comparing how water is used in Africa and the U.S.
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Ice Cream
Help your children discover the verbal ostinato pattern of a rhyme. Learners sing a rhyme about ice cream, practice it several times, then divide into groups to sing the rhyme analyzing the patterns and rhythm.
Azar Grammar
Song Lessons: Father and Daughter
Paul Simon's "Father and Daughter" offers language learners and native English speakers an opportunity to study adverb, adjective, and noun clauses.
Azar Grammar
Song Lessons: You Gotta Be
Des'ree's song "You Gotta Be" is used to model for language learners the forms that can be used to express necessity (must, have to, have got to). After examining the grammar in the song, the attention switches to a discussion of the...
Azar Grammar
Song Lessons: Never, My Love
Here's a clever way to introduce language learners to noun clauses. After a brief exercise that provides examples of different types of noun clauses, class members listen to the Association's "Never, My Love" and identify the clauses in...
Library Sparks
When Marian Sang: Reader's Theater
Put on an eight-actor show based on Pan Munoz Ryan's When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson. The resource comes with a color-coded script that includes some images from the picture book.
Activated Story Theatre
Orpheus- A Greek Myth: Reader's Theatre Script
Is this any way to treat a Greek Myth? By all means, turn the tale of Orpheus into a reader's theatre exercise.
Curated OER
Native American Friendship Dance
Pupils demonstrate the proper steps in sequence to the Native American Friendship Dance.
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Let Freedom Sing: A Patriotic Program for Grades 1 - 6
Students explore the history, meaningful background, and significance of Patriotic songs in the eight lessons of this unit. Each of the different grade levels experience a different amount of lessons all culminating in a Patriotic Program.
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Rhythmic Travel Around the World
Students explore and play rhythm sticks while listening to songs from around the world. They locate the countries of origin on a map, and tap their rhythm sticks to the beat of the music.
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Two Traditional Korean Songs
Students investigate Korean music. In this music lesson, students listen to two Korean folk songs, "Arirang" and "Doraji," and compare them to each other. Students discuss the musical similarities between the two songs.
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Aaron Copland
Students recognize how different characteristics effected American music. In these Aaron Copland lessons, students analyze the themes in American music and more specifically the style of Aaron Copland. Students investigate through...
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Name the Note-- 3
In this music learning exercise, students write the letter name of the musical notes (treble clef) in 6 staffs of music. There are examples to help students name the notes on the lines and spaces.
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Mango Walk
Pupils sing music representing the Caribbean culture in the calypso style. They discover the role that the event of African slavery and the history of Carribean culture played in generating calypso music.
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A Pedal for Your Thoughts
In this harp music worksheet, students read a brief piece pertaining to the use of pedal diagrams in harp music. Students then match 3 key signatures on the left to the 3 pedal diagrams on the right and complete 4 pedal diagrams.
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Bass Clef Lines and Spaces--2
In this music worksheet, students label the bass clef notes in 5 music staffs. Students observe that there are notes both on the lines and the spaces and put the correct letter name under each note. There is no information on the page.
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Treble Clef Spaces --2
In this music worksheet, students examine 6 staffs of music with notes in the treble clef on the spaces only. There are examples on the page. Students write the letter names of the notes.
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Jammin' to Jazz
Learners identify integral parts of jazz music by listening to Quincy Jones' We Be Doin' It. They note the bass and drum sounds, scat solos, and also sing parts of the ostinato and chorus.
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The Guitar Family
In this music worksheet, students analyze 5 pictures from the guitar family. Students also label the parts on a guitar by drawing a line from the correct word to the picture.
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Bass Clef Lines and Spaces--3
In this music worksheet, students label notes in the bass clef lines and spaces with the correct letter names. There are no examples on the page; prior knowledge is assumed.
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Name the Note- 2
For this musical notation worksheet, student name the bass clef notes using the lines that are placed below them They name 6 notes in each of 4 lines.
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Percussion Fast and Cheap
Students explore percussion. In this percussion lesson, students examine body percussion, drumstick percussion, beaters percussion, drum percussion, stick percussion, washboard percussion, and shaker percussion by using...