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Art Changes You And the World

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Learners explore advertising as a way to change their world. They use the Internet to research an energy, an environmental, and a cultural issue and create three 'world changing' pieces of advertising/artwork to express their ideas.
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Music Technology

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students practice using keyboard and sequencing software to expand their compositions. They use the notes in the C Major Scale and playback their song written in an ABA song form. They complete pages in a basic piano workbook and...
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Music Creations

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students practice playing notes on the G and C scales in different rhythms. They complete worksheets and discuss the answers. They finish a short notation project as well.
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KinderArt Drawing for Kids

For Teachers K - 5th
Young scholars illustrate a creative adventure idea. In this arts and crafts lesson, students design drawings based on where they would like to go for an adventure. Before creating their illustrations, young scholars...
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Seaweed Art

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students read a book about seaweed. They create various types of seaweed by painting a variety of lines. Students utilize a variety of line techniques such as wavy lines, zigzag, and curly.
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Bass Clef Lines--1

For Students 4th - 6th
In this bass clef lines worksheet, students, after being shown how to read five bass clef notes, read and decide what the next thirty bass clef notes are and records each one on the lines provided.
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Fish Tunes

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students use their musical talent to create a song for the class fishtank. In a group, they compose two or three songs about their own tropical fish in which they can use any rhythm and musical instruments they choose. They perform...
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Accomplished Practice # 5

For Teachers 4th - Higher Ed
Students predict what music from different nations sound like by creating short musical pieces based on their assumptions. Students listen to music from different cultures and describe how their musical creations differed as well as how...
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Watercolor Experimentation

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Students create watercolors. In this art lesson plan, students allow music to inspire them to create a watercolor painting that reflects the beat patterns they hear.
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Accomplished Practice # 10

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders performs on instruments in an ensemble, maintaining a common tempo, blending instrumental timbres, and matching dynamic levels. They respond to the tempo and dynamics cues of the conductor.
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Life of a Navajo Weaver

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students explore Native American weaving patterns and dance movements. In this Native Americans lesson, students view examples of weaving patterns on the Internet and compare the patterns to a Native American dance. Students demonstrate...
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Simple Melody

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students write out rhythm to a song using stick notation.
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Major Intervals

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students listen to a recording of "Happy Birthday" and practice playing the first two notes of the song on the keyboard discovering that the two notes make up a major 2nd interval. They listen to "Mary Had a Little Lamb" to explain the...
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Animation Station

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students examine clay animation. For this technology lesson, students use the Internet to investigate the history of clay animation. Students use story boards and clay figures to create their own "animation."
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A Day In the Life of a 4th/5th Grader

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students design a photo essay. In this photo essay lesson, students take digital pictures of their daily activities such as their mode of travel to school, the lunchroom, their classroom and classmates. They choose the photos that depict...
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Comparing Composers: Beethoven and Mozart

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students read brief biographies of Mozart and Beethoven and identify the composer identified in each of 15 statements on the student work sheet.
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Dance: Sharp and Smooth Energy Qualities

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners use different qualities of movement to express themselves. In this lesson on movement, students use different qualities of energy and then use their experience as an inspiration for writing poetry.
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MAKE A PINATA

For Teachers K - 6th
Young scholars create a sculpture with a theme using a balloon and flour and water paste.
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More Maracas

For Teachers K - 8th
Students create and decorate paper mache maracas.
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Santa Countdown Calendar

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students draw Santa's face on white paper, add color construction paper for his hat, and use the beard section for a "countdown calender" until the end of the month in this creative December activity. Each day another cotton ball is...
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Create-a-Composition

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students creatively express themselves by creating simple pieces of music.
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Jingle Bells In Four Parts

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students perform for the class a four-part arrangement of the holiday song Jingle Bells (provided) with each student performing one part of the arrangement. This lesson plan requires the use of a networked keyboard lab.
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Hanky Panky

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students learn to sing the song, "Hanky Panky" accurately and are able to properly participate doing the motions while singing. They are also able to keep the beat of the song and speed up and slow down the tempo.
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A Jazz Talk Show

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students analyze and describe music while connecting it to history and culture. They gain experience in theatre arts skills and writing. They use the Internet to do research in order to find out the most about this subject.