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Everyone Has Feelings
These activities promise to provide a day full of fun for young learners as they explore feelings and emotions. Learners participate in two sing-alongs with the songs "Smile" and "If You're Happy", they color emotion masks, and finally...
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Bells 'n' Scales
Young scholars work together to arrange bells in order from low to high and play songs. They discuss differences in pitch and musical notation.
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Note Names & Piano Games
Students identify the letter names of notes, demonstrate simple rhythms, and combine the two to play short melodic phrases using Bug Band. They create their own melodies and play them using Bug Band and various instruments.
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Valentine Singing/Guessing Game
Students sing songs and explore different vocal sounds. As they sing songs, students discover and mark phrases. They sing songs as a class, in groups, and individually. Students, in groups, play a guessing game with the songs.
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About Life: The Photographs of Dorthea Lange - Images of Children in Dorothea Lange's Photographs
Students examine how visual artists tell stories with their work. In this visual art instructional activity, students study two of Dorothea Lange's photographs to find elements of art and narrative content, use descriptive language when...
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Kye Kye Kule
Third graders study the repeating patterns and basic dance movements used in traditional African drumming songs. In groups, they create a story that can be used with a ritual/tradition and a rhythmic piece that uses repeating rhythmic...
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Comic Strip
Students follow the tracks of listening, visualizing, and drawing. They create an original comic script. Students use pencils first and then trace their sketches in pen. They experiment with different methods of creating value...
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Water Bottle Flowers
Students create recycled art. In this visual arts lesson, students follow the provided steps to create their flowers made from recycled water bottles.
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Music Terms Puzzle
In this music worksheet, learners complete a crossword puzzle of fourteen basic music terms about instruments, beats, and performance groups.
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B is for Banana
Learners practice and perform the song "B is for Banana" using their knowledge of basic rhythms in 4/4 and student-created rhythm accompaniment based on speech. This excellent lesson is provided by the MENC (National Association for...
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California Strut
Students perform the line dance California Strut. In this dance lesson, students listen to the music "Hot, Hot, Hot" and perform a line dance.
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Corn Sayings
Students create corn sayings. In this visual arts lesson, students use kernel corn and other art materials to make autumn message artwork. A game, a song, a craft, and a recipe are all included with the lesson.
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Phytochemicals
Students create movement, improvise rhythmic accompaniment, practice, and perform the song "Phytochemicals" in this excellent elementary-level General Music lesson. The lesson includes lesson challenges for more advanced students.
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Fit Kid
Young scholars practice and perform the song "Fit Kid" while learning the basics of motion and music and dynamics in this elementary-level instructional activity for the General Music classroom. The instructional activity emphasizes...
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Salad Sisters
Pupils practice and perform 8 and 16 beat rhythmic patterns in 4/4 using the song "Salad Sisters" as a basis in this elementary-level General Music lesson. An amazing lesson for teaching cooperative music composition techniques and rhythm.
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What is Popular? Self Portraits in the Style of Roy Lichtenstein
Students examine and discuss art by Roy Lichtenstein and the Pop art movement. They discuss the phenomenon of popularity, list what is popular today, and create a piece of art using professional looking graphic design style.
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Getting to Know Your Round Brush
Learners discover art techniques. In this art tools instructional activity, students examine the round brush. Learners explore different techniques that may be produced using the round brush.
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Spur of the Moment Act
Students perform a skit. In this performance and creativity lesson, students brainstorm ideas to be performed such as playing basketball, cheerleaders, roller skating and doing the dishes. Students perform a skit and the...
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Digital Illustration- Partner Draw
Young scholars explore changes in their digital images using a wacom tablet. In this digital portrait lesson, students answer questionnaires and create a portrait of themselves using a digital paint program. Young...
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Mixing the Sea
Learners explore and experience mixing primary colors to create secondary colors and how to create tonal effects by adding white or black to the mix. They discuss color "temperatures" and form opinions about the works of Monet as well as...
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Musical Instruments
In this music worksheet, students match 12 instrument names with their pictures. Instruments include the saxophone, flute, recorder, guitar, and trombone.
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Timbre II
In this timbre of instruments worksheet, students explore the concept of timbre meaning four different kinds of sounds: string, brass, choral and percussion. Students locate those concepts in a word search puzzle.
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Color The Shapes In The Shape House
In this color the shapes in the shape house learning exercise, students utilize the primary colors red, blue, green and yellow to color the shape house as directed.
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Colour with Vlaminck
In this perspective instructional activity, students view a painting by De Vlaminck. They create their own version of the painting by coloring an included line drawing. Students are challenged to use dark colors in the foreground and...