Students create an art project using glue and food coloring. In this art lesson, students are given a piece of wax paper and glue is poured in the middle of the paper. Finally, food coloring is dripped on one drop at a time with the...

In this long e and short e practice instructional activity, students study 16 examples of word pairs that feature the long and short e sounds.

Students participate in a matching game.  In this memory lesson, students conduct a memory experiment by playing a matching game with pictures of fish and turtles.  Students sing songs about the animals during their activity.

Students create movements that illustrate opposites.  In this opposites lesson, students discuss what opposites do for writing and relate to dance.  Students make movements based on their opposites.

Students are introduced to classical music. They listen to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. They interview each other in regards to their feelings about the music and the paintings they produced while listening to the piece.

Display creative works of art after learning about Kwanzaa. Kindergartners hear stories about the history of Kwanzaa and its celebrations. They then create artwork, practice African dances and listen to African music.

Student's read Arthur's Nose and view the changes in Arthur's nose. For this Arthur lesson, students define difficult vocabulary, discuss choices and sing to the tune of Old MacDonald had a Farm. Students create a new nose for Arthur.

Students identify examples of philanthropy in poetry or song. In this philanthropy lesson, students examine several poems such as Give by Carrie A. Thomas and identify concepts of philanthropy in the poem. Students construct their own...

Students with logical/mathematical intelligence keep count of the tempo of each song and of the number of different movements that they can create to go with the folk songs heard.

Students study world cultures with an emphasis on languages and cultures. For this world cultures lesson, students study the countries of Spain, China, Italy, and the United States. Students read the story Everybody Cooks Rice and move...

Students explore different sounds. For this sound lesson, students participate in an egg hunt. The eggs are filled with different materials and hid around the room. Students find the eggs and chart the different sounds they hear....

Young scholars describe their feelings through writing, art or music.

Students participate in a game of musical chairs. For this music game, students listen to music for twenty seconds and when the music stops, the students must find a chair. The student without a chair is eliminated.

Students learn the musical alphabet. In this music instructional activity, students complete a worksheet which reinforces stepping up on the musical alphabet. Students are graded based on the correctness of the worksheet provided.

Students identify musical instruments.  For this musical instrument lesson, students groups instruments into brass, percussion, string or woodwinds. Students complete a worksheet. 

Pupils explore songs from Japan. In this music lesson plan, students listen to four Japanese folk songs and identify the characteristics of the music.

Pupils learn German Christmas carols. In this Christmas music instructional activity, students learn Christmas carols in either German or English. They study the background of the songs and learn about Germanic Christmas traditions.

Students will read a study sheet about skipping up from one note to another, and complete a worksheet, filling in blanks and writing a skip up from given letters. A grading rubric is included.

Learn about rounding by reciting songs alongside classmates, discovering the difference between singing together and singing in canon. For this musical lesson, students discover what a "round" is and the melodic effect it can have on a...

Here is a nice way to introduce your young learners to poetry and writing their own poems. Children create their own poems about their favorite quiet-time places. After listening to some poems read aloud by the teacher, each child gets...

In this creative music activity from Scientific American, students learn about musical notation and then design their own notations. Great web resource links are alsp provided

Students read the book The Snowy Day and discover various winter themes. In this winter lesson, students develop movements to express the feeling of a snowstorm. Students also construct winter-themed art pieces.

This lesson focuses on how the blues both operates as poetry and informs the poetry of many prominent African American poets. Young scholars consider the poetic devices and recurring themes in blues lyrics and the significance of the...

Young scholars explore, analyze and discuss family origins, special legacies, and racial/cultural groups in literature and art that exposes them to positive examples in African-American history and culture. They encounter examples from...