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Using Prior Knowledge from Personal Experiences-Understanding Duke Ellington

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners research the life of Duke Ellington.  In this music history lesson plan, students draw comparisons between the early life experiences of Duke Ellington and themselves.  Learners work in small groups to compare...
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One Word Posters

For Teachers 2nd - 11th
Students explore the universal themes they find in the complete set of One World Posters, including art, history, literature and music.
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The Joy of Friends

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students begin to build friendships with people of all ages. They identify their misconceptions about people when they first meet them. They interview an elderly person and draw a picture of them. They develop a slideshow of the person...
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Wagon Train

For Teachers 3rd - Higher Ed
Students use educational software to examine the hardships and problem solving skills needed by the pioneers as they endured frontier life. They work as teams while using the game simulation. They work a number of project while not on...
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Myths

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students complete activities using a software program that allows them to read about myths, magic and monsters, and answer multiple choice questions about main idea, prediction clues, details and sequencing. They participate in a number...
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An Introduction To The Instruments Of The Orchestra

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students explore a variety of instruments to discover their sound. After watching an orchestra play, students discover the categories of instruments such as woodwinds, brass, strings, and percussion. In teams, they listen to music and...
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Compose Your Own Melody

For Students 4th - 5th
In this music instructional activity, learners compose their own melody. Students read and play two lines of an example melody and simple bass part.
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Yingtao's New Friend

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this literature worksheet, students locate and identify various vocabulary terms related to a piece of literature and music. There are ten words located in the puzzle.
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Treble Clef Lines and Spaces

For Students 4th - 5th
In this music instructional activity, students name five treble clef lines and spaces. Each of the five lines contain from six to eight lines.
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Intervals Within the Scale

For Students 5th - 12th
In this intervals within the scale sheet music worksheet, students identify the intervals and write the correct notes for each interval in the spaces provided.
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Treble Clef Lines

For Students 4th - 5th
In this music activity, learners name four treble clef lines. As an example, the first treble clef line is already filled out.
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Not the Note 2

For Students 4th - 5th
In this music worksheet, students name twenty-five notes. As an example, the first five notes are already labeled for the students.
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Treble Clef Lines 1

For Students 4th - 5th
In this music worksheet, students name four treble clef lines. As an example, the first treble clef line is already labeled for the students.
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Draw the Bar Lines

For Students 5th - 12th
For this bar line recognition music worksheet, students decide on the meter signature, if it is missing, and draw the bar lines that are missing.
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Ear Training - 7th chords

For Students 5th - 12th
For this ear training worksheet, students listen to each measure containing the bottom note of the triad they hear played and write the correct notes that are missing and construct the requested chords on the this sheet music worksheet.
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Name the Note--1

For Students 4th - 6th
In this name the note activity, students, after being shown how to read five bass clef notes, read and decide what the next twenty nine notes are on four bars of music.
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Name the Note- 2

For Students 3rd - 6th
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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My Spelling Words: Spelling List #129

For Students 5th - 6th
For this spelling worksheet, students practice reading and writing given words. The look up each word in the dictionary and identify the guide words on the page. All 11 words are music terms.
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Percussion Fast and Cheap

For Teachers 1st - 5th
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...
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Persuasive and Emotive Language Lesson Plan

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Young scholars explore persuasive language. In this emotive language lesson, students consider the use of language that incites readers as they participate in reading and writing activities that require them to describe a tourist...
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Music: Solo and Group vVcal Practice

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders individually sing and record "Child of the Universe" and play their performances back to the class for evaluation. Next, in groups, they sing "Deck the Hall," and sing the countermelody for evaluation. Then students...
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Music Technology

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Learners 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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Fifth Grade Music: Reformation Music, Lutheran Chorale

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore the chorale hymn by echoing a Lutheran chorale tune line by line. They examine the reasons for the importance of Gutenberg's movable type and the role of Martin Luther in the Reformation.
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"Ricercare" from Musical Offering by J.S. Bach

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Learners sing pounds or partner songs. They listen for one melody in a polyphonic texture. Afterward, they use a pencil to draw the "shape" of the melody on paper.

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