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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Cultural Characters [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
For this lesson, students look at photographs (portraits and people, historical events and images depicting strife or struggle, etc.) based around a given time period and contemplate the impact a photograph has on the perception of a...
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Scott Alexander

Lucille Bogan ( Bessie Jackson)

For Students 9th - 10th
Information on the life and discography of blues artist Lucille Bogan, also known as Bessie Jackson. Includes audio samples.
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Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: How to Blues

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This site has ten lessons to teach about the blues in which middle schoolers learn the geography, historical events and performers associated with the blues. The unit has been recognized by the American Music Education Initiative as one...
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Poetics by Aristotle

For Students 9th - 10th
Well here it is, the basis for Art Imitating Nature! This site is all text translated by S. H. Butcher. 26 chapters on the subject. If you wondered about the origins of the concept, here it is.
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Other

Online Mallet Lessons

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains numerous tips and suggestions dealing with many facets of playing the vibraphone and marimba. Although much of the information is jazz oriented, some is general enough that it could easily be applied to xylophone and...
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Other

Vic Firth: Educator's Resource Library

For Students 9th - 10th
This website is a cornucopia of resources for percussion instruction. There are videos, audiocasts, podcasts, interviews with talented percussionists. Please check out this website is you are interested in any aspect of percussion.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Childe Hassam

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides biographical information on Childe Hassam in addition to an extensive listing of his works as displayed at the museum.
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BBC

Bbc: Music Theory

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource presents a fun and interactive way to learn all about the elements of music. It offers links to information, definitions, assessments, and examples of melody, harmony and tonality, structure, tempo, metre and rhythm,...
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Virginia Tech

The Alan Review: Exploring Prejudice in Young Adult Literature

For Students 9th - 10th
Use the power of role-playing to help students experience Mildred Taylor's powerful novel "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry." This lesson plan includes a variety of scenarios and suggestions for use with a group.
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Black Past

Black Past: Monk, Thelonius

For Students 9th - 10th
This encyclopedia entry gives a brief account of Thelonius Monk, jazz pianist, and his influence on the jazz scene.
Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Volume of Rectangular Prisms With Unit Cubes

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Find volume of 3-dimensional figures by counting unit cubes. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 5.md Box of Clay

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
This task provides an opportunity to compare the relative volumes of boxes in order to calculate the mass of clay required to fill them. Aligns with 5.MD.C.
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: We Are the Parts [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th Standards
In this lesson, 4th graders will investigate equivalent fractions using their bodies and space.
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Rocky Movement [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd
In this lesson, 3rd graders will investigate the three types of rocks and personify the formation of each type with movement.
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Proficient Puppeteers

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, young scholars create puppets for the characters in a Reader's Theater script called 'Georgia State Animals & Plants: Habitats and Adaptations.' The puppets showcase the adaptations for each plant or animal. Students...
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Multiplication / Division Hula [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd Standards
In this lesson, 3rd graders use their physical bodies to solve multiplication and division problems, using Hula Hoops to help group and enact math problems.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Compare Volumes With Unit Cubes

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Recognize volume as an attribute of solid figures and understand concepts of volume measurement. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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Other

Wayne State College: Baroque Early [Based on Grout/palisca, 5th Ed., Ch 9]

For Students 9th - 10th
These appear to be notes taken from a college lecture and contain considerable information on the Baroque period of music.
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South Carolina Educational Television

Etv: Gullah Net: Got the Blues

For Students 2nd - 5th
Learn about music called the Blues, and then write, play, and sing an original blues song.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Jack & the Giants: Jack Spends His Pay

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this lesson plan, students will create and solve word problems involving money (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of decimals), and develop a script for a short scene and perform it using the elements of performance....
Handout
Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: Adelaide Hall

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Adelaide Hall, an American-born jazz improviser whose wordless rhythms ushered in what became known as scat singing.
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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: Art Pepper

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Art Pepper, an American jazz musician noted for the beauty of his sound and his improvisations on alto saxophone, and a major figure in the 1950s in West Coast jazz (see cool jazz).
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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: Bobby Mc Ferrin

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Bobby McFerrin, an American musician noted for his tremendous vocal control and improvisational ability. He often sang a cappella, mixing folk songs, 1960s rock and soul tunes, and jazz...
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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: Carmen Mc Rae

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Carmen McRae, an American jazz vocalist and pianist who from an early emulation of vocalist Billie Holiday grew to become a distinctive stylist, known for her smoky voice and her melodic...

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