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Learning Adjectives through the Duke
Duke Ellington, jazz, and jive kick-off a fun and creative lesson on responding emotionally to music. The class will learn about jive talk used in the 1920s and the life and music of Duke Ellington. They'll listen to a selection of his...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Problem Solvers: Challenge Activities (Theme 4)
Creative activities help bring literature alive. The first of a set of lessons designed to accompany selections from Theme 4: Problem Solvers uses activities such as skits, responses to music, and social studies projects. These...
Curated OER
Media Literacy Analyzed
Fourth and fifth graders define the term media literacy, then come up with examples that they share with the class. The types of media studied are auditory, visual, and written. Learners get together in pairs and perform a media...
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Self and General Space in Dance
Students explore the different themes and strategies of dancing by performing in class. In this physical education lesson, students practice moving specific joints and muscles as they train to perform a dance. Students...
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Cultural Music Festival
Young scholars participate in planning a multi-cultural community event. In this cultural music lesson, parents, community members, and teachers provide time, music, advertisement, and refreshments to create a community multi-cultural...
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Music Appreciation Lesson
Students discover the freedom of dance by performing physical expression with music. In this physical education lesson, students discuss ways their body can make noise such as snapping, patting, or stomping. Students utilize...
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Global Music Lesson Plans: Singing Games - UK and Botswana
Learners perform and compare two singing games from Botswana and from the United Kingdom. In this singing games lesson, students identify and respond to singing games and their changes in meter. Learners compare the two singing games...
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Face Study: Draw the Other Half
Build fine motor, spatial, and drawing skills by having the class complete the other half of a portrait. They choose an image of a face from a magazine, then attempt to draw the other half of the face as accurately as they can. Two book...
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Puzzle Trees
Elementary artists use a collage and multi-media technique to create textured trees. They study the fall trees, discussing texture and what bare trees look like. They then use a variety of materials to create a textural piece.
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Leaf People
Kids create leaf people out of sticks, glue, and leaves. They use their imagination to construct leaf people and then glue them onto construction paper. Tip: Extend this craft by incorporating writing. Have learners write a short story...
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Toothpick Sculpture
You'll be surprized at how much engineering, design, and creativity can go into a toothpick and a marshmallow. Learners make toothpick sculptures where they construct three-dimentional models by sticking marshmallows and toothpicks...
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Color That Note | Free Note Name Worksheet - Treble Clef/G Position (Digital Print)
In this music notes worksheet, students identify the music notes and color them. They then complete four lines of musical notes.
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A Melody Activity
Students explore melody. In this music lesson, students define "melody" and identify the melody line present in increasingly complex musical pieces. Students sing or hum the melody line after listening to an excerpt of music.
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Ornament Notes
In this Christmas music activity worksheet, students examine 20 musical ornaments and mark each of them with the appropriate notes.
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Color That Note | Free Note Name Worksheet - Treble Clef/C Position (Digital Print)
In this naming musical notes worksheet, students analyze the five-letter names of music notes on a treble clef staff. Kids choose a different color to make each note. Using this color key, students color the notes on four treble clef...
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Color That Note | Free Note Name Worksheet - Bass Clef/G Position (Digital Print)
In this musical notes worksheet, students analyze the names of the five notes shown on a bass clef staff. Kids color each of the five notes a different color. In each of the four lines of music, students identify the names of ten notes...
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Music from a Place Called Half Moon
Pupils read the novel, Music from a Place Called Half Moon. They are assigned chapters to analyze for literary elements and to assign titles to the book chapters.
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When the Saints Come Marching In
In this "When the Saints Come Marching In" sheet music worksheet, students read the sheet music while playing their selected instrument.
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Ten Little Fingers
In this "Ten Little Fingers" sheet music activity, students read the sheet music while playing their selected instrument.
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Bingo
In this "Bingo" sheet music worksheet, students read the sheet music while playing their selected instrument. Students should follow the finger numbers provided.
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Old McDonald Had a Farm
In this "Old McDonald Had a Farm" sheet music worksheet, students read the sheet music while playing their selected instrument. Students should follow the finger numbers provided.
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Treble Clef Spaces - 1
For this treble clef spaces worksheet, learners read the sheet music and identify the letter names of the notes that are missing as they fill in 30 blank spaces.
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Treble Clef Spaces - 2
In this treble clef spaces worksheet, pupils read the sheet music and identify the letter names of the notes that are missing as they fill in 30 blank spaces.
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Treble Clef Spaces - 3
In this treble clef spaces worksheet, students read the sheet music and identify the letter names of the notes that are missing as they fill in 30 blank spaces.