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An Introduction to Sonata
In this music instructional activity, students read an excerpt about the classical sonata and how it is defined. They also respond to seven questions based on what they read in the excerpt about sonata.
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Storymaking Through Pantomime
Middle schoolers explore performing arts by participating in a role-play activity. In this storytelling instructional activity, students utilize their physical expressions to particpate in a pantomime performance. Middle schoolers...
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Class in the Media: Writing a Television Show
Students look at popular media presentations to determine what type of messages they convey about class and class-linked behavior. They listen to contemporary music to explore how the songs touch upon social class issues. They read...
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Folk Dances of Eastern Europe
Students experience folk dance as a form of expressive art, and appreciate the rich cultural heritage of Eastern Europe.
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Lesson Plan for Granny Will Your Dog Bite and Other Mountain Rhymes
Sixth graders practice choral reading of poetry. In this creative literature instructional activity, 6th graders incorporate elements of performing arts into their choral readings of various poems. They discuss musical...
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Exploring Cultural Rituals
Students analyze images and music of common rituals in America with those of other countries. They use worksheets to compare and contrast the events.
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Poetry Continued
Learners are introduced to the elements in poetry. After listening to music, they discuss how it made them feel and what the lyrics mean to them. Individually, they are given specific elements to write their poem and share it with the...
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A Hero Biography Project
Fourth graders study historical significant people born in January and February and note their accomplishments. Using given websites, 4th graders collect biographical information and participate in activities about a specified hero. ...
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Song Writing: Recording Your Song
In this music worksheet, students read an excerpt on recording with a company, who the producer is, and what arrangements need to be made. They respond to six short answer questions related to recording their own song in a studio.
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English and Literacy: Children's Rights - Expanded Paragraphs
Learners write expanded paragraphs about children's rights. In this writing and children's rights lesson, students listen to Caroline Castle's, For Every Child, noting the points about children's rights on each page. They discuss each of...
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Writing: Parallel Structure
In this writing with parallel structure worksheet, students examine 20 sentences and note whether they are correctly or incorrectly written in terms of parallel structure.
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Contractions Fluency
Second graders read index cards with contractions on them. In this contractions lesson plan, 2nd graders try to beat the clock and each other by reading the contractions fluently in the shortest amount of time.
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Sounding out accuracy, Word Potato
Learning to sound out CVC words can be fun, when you turn skills practice into a game. Kids play "Hot Potato" by passing a bucket filled with phonetically regular words on cards. When the music stops, students choose a word and sound it...
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Hello Girls
Ninth grade girls get together to sing the song Hello Girls. They warm up with common voice exercises then work to maintain melody, harmony, pitch and tone.
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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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Conjunto Music from South Texas
Students listen to conjunto music and identify the instrumentation. After discussing the the history of South Texas, they examine lyrics of several songs and interpret them. As extensions, students can learn to partner dance to the...
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Vitamin A
Students identify and pat the beat, move to and play quarter notes, half notes and eighth notes to create a factory movement and instrument improvisation.
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Introduction to Music of the Civil Rights Era
Learners summarize the major events of the Civil Rights Movement. They examine leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X and what they did for the movement. They also listen to music from the Civil Rights Era and their...
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Blue Jazz Scale
Young scholars engage in a study of music that includes the Blue Jazz scale. They listen to pieces of music in the targeted style while becoming familiar with the scale. Students then describe how the scale is built and demonstrate by...
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VH1 And You Don't Stop - 30 Years of Hip-Hop
Students examine the origin and elements of Hip Hop music and the associated culture. They visit websites and listen to examples of the music.
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Tetrachords and Major scales
Students explore and analyze the structure of a tetrachord and major scales along with their origins and functions in music. They recognize tetrachords and major scales in the context of the music they are practicing at this point in...
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Understanding Story Elements-Who, What, Where
Learners create a rap using story details. In this creative writing lesson, students examine the use of rap lyrics to list important details of stories. They view a video example, and use their notes to create their own raps...
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Intervals
In this identifying musical interval numbers worksheet, student imagine the bottom note as 1 and count up each line and space from 1 to fill in the blanks with interval numbers learning how to recognize distances quickly.
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Intervals Within the Scale
In this intervals within the scale sheet music activity, students identify the intervals and write the correct notes for each interval in the spaces provided.