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The Star Spangled Banner
Young scholars perform Star Spangled Banner, and analyze purpose and meaning of patriotic songs.
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Draw Me the Music
Learners explore and investigate the foundation and history of jazz music. They listen to various pieces of music while creating drawings, develop a timeline of jazz history, and read and discuss biographies of famous jazz musicians.
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Jammin' to Jazz
Pupils identify integral parts of jazz music by listening to Quincy Jones' We Be Doin' It. They note the bass and drum sounds, scat solos, and also sing parts of the ostinato and chorus.
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Nature's Magic Elixir
Students do research to discover the importance of water in the world and its effect upon our daily lives. They will also appreciate the beauty of water and how it is so adaptable within nature.
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Somebody's Knocking At My Door
Students perform animal sounds and movements, demonstrate a steady beat using both feet, and perform portions of the song "Somebody's Knocking At My Door" in this Music lesson for the Kindergarten classroom. State and National Standards...
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Adverbs
Third graders identify the function of adverbs and use them in sentences. They discuss how adverbs answer when, how, how often, and where, and identify the nouns, articles, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs in sentences. Students then act...
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Idiom Quizzes - Numbers
In this online interactive grammar skills worksheet, students answer 15 multiple choice questions regarding the meaning of idioms. Students may check their answers immediately.
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The Adverb Clause
In this adverb worksheet, 9th graders study adverb clauses. Students read 20 sentences to identify and circle the adverb clause in each.
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Rules and Laws
Students investigate the difference between rules and laws. In this justice system lesson plan, students discuss the presence of rules of their lives and compare them the "Code of the West."
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Five Fat Turkeys
Students sing a Thanksgiving song called "Five Fat Turkeys." In this holiday lesson, students create a Turkey acrostic poem then memorize and sing a turkey song. Students will focus on singing on key, pitch , and seeping a steady...
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Basic Cause/Effect Intro
In this cause and effect learning exercise, students answer 8 questions about cause and effect adverb clauses. They identify the cause and effect in sentences and then combine them using "because" and "now that" where appropriate.
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Music Creations
Learners 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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Parts of Speech
In this grammar instructional activity, students focus on the various parts of speech. Students respond to 10 multiple choice questions in this online interactive instructional activity.
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Music
Third graders incorporate two formal music lessons into the core curriculum. They study whole notes and rests, syllables of the musical scale and practice singing.
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Centennial: Simple Gifts...Personal Contributions To Utah
Fourth graders consider how the concept of giving can affect a society for the better. They read various essays on giving and examine obituaries to highlight individuals who contributed to society over the course of their lives.
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Groovy Time
High schoolers compose their own eight measure melody in a D scale. Using a software program, they enter the half, quarter and eighth notes in the order they prefer. To end the lesson, they play their music for the class and critique...
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John Carpenter- Student A and Student B
For this ESL vocabulary building worksheet, students collaborate with a partner to fill in the blanks in a story. Each of the 2 stories provided is identical, but with different words omitted. Students read the story together and fill in...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: A Piano Timeline
A detailed chronology of the piano, beginning with Bartolomeo Cristofori's invention of the pianoforte in Florence, Italy, in 1700.
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Piano Music Sight Reading Practice
Actually this clever site drills pianists on note names and note placement on the keyboard. Kids can access this site at home for practice. Both treble and bass clef are used.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Theodore Robinson
Theodore Robinson is profiled at this site in a format that begins with a brief biographical sketch of his life. His works are then listed by appearance in the museum's database. Each work is presented in thumbnail format with brief...