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Africa

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students will participate in a popular song game of the Zulu People. This lesson helps children understand how music, ceremonies and dance are an important part of African culture.
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Who's Here Today?

For Teachers Pre-K
Students sing a song while clapping their hands and listening for the first letter of their name. In this attendance activity, students participate in locomotor activities such as turning around and squatting down. Students jump up and...
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Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students participate in various activities which address Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. In this holiday lesson plan, students are exposed to Hebrew songs and construct Haiku poems about Yom Kippur.
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Singing And Making Rhythm

For Teachers 1st
First graders engage in a lesson that emphasizes the use of music to form a rhythmic beat that incorporates singing. They create a song in freestyle and some of them create a song. Students are assessed at using hand movement to track...
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Spanish: La Fiesta!

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students sing a Spanish song to celebrate Latin American culture. In this fiesta lesson, students sing the words and do hand motions to the song "Que Linda Manito." They create paper bag maracas and enjoy a fiesta. 
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Animal Movements

For Teachers Pre-K
Students become familiar with the movement of various animals.  In this animal movement lesson, students relate their knowledge of animal movements to the music they are moving to.
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Learning Crescendo and Decrescendo

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders examine the sounds and notes for crescendos and decrescendos. They attend a concert by a symphony orchestra and when they return to the classroom they identify the crescendos and decrescendos in music they hear.
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AB Form Through Movement

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students listen to music by Ludwig Van Beethoven and figure out the form of the piece. They create binary forms for additional songs, and then practice the rhythms with eurythmic movement.
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Karaoke in the Classroom

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
In this word recognition lesson, students use a karaoke program to read and sing songs, enhancing their sight word recognition. Students preform these songs to each other. This could also be a fun way to introduce new...
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Rhythmic Pattern and Movement

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students practice repeating rhythmic patterns in unison. Next, students work in groups to practice an alternate rhythmic pattern to Row, Row, Row Your Boat. They create their own rhythmic patterns for the song.
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The Flea's Sneeze Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students read a book and engage in three different activities. In this lesson about repetitive story patterns, students read a story, The Flea's Sneeze, and examine how the story has a rhythmic pattern of rhyming verse that sounds like a...
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Twist and Shout Stations

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Pupils participate in three different physical education stations while Chubby Checker's song Twist and Shout plays. They pump up an empty bicycle tube at station 1, jump rope at station 2, and dance at station 3.
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Triple Meter

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students chant "Mabel, Mabel, Set the Table" in beats grouped in 4's using a percussive pattern. They repeat using 3's. Students sing a song in 4's and in 3's. they move to recorded music to practice threes. Students create Orff...
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The Wonderful World of Colors

For Teachers 1st
First graders imagine what life would look like in one color, then many. They play a game with colored cards where students call out the names of colors. They match colored cards with objects of same color. They read "The Color Box."
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The Letter Ff: Alphabet Theme

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students complete several cross-curricular activities to learn the letter Ff. In this letter recognition lesson, students complete activities that include geography, music, physical education, science, seasonal, space science, and online...
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Bird Feeder

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students make bird feeders In this spring craft lesson, students follow the provided instructions to make peanut butter bird feeders. A game, a song, a craft, and a recipe are all included with the lesson.
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How Many Apple Seeds?

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students complete activities for an apple themed instructional activity. In this math and language arts instructional activity, students read an apple book and guess how many seeds are in an apple. Students draw pictures of apples and...
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Feliz Navidad: A Mexican Christmas Unit

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students participate in interdisciplinary activities related to a Mexican Christmas celebration. They inquire about Christmas in Mexico through story, Spanish language, song, art, and dance.
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911 As History

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers recognize persuasive techniques, think criticaly about the messages contained in various media, and discuss controversial issues in constructive ways. They analyze the deeper messages contained in children's literature,...
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Is Your Heart Getting a Good Workout?

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students practice raising their heart rates through exercise.  In this physical education lesson plan, students discover the key to a healthy body is a healthy heart that must be exercised often.  Students perform a sing along...
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Who Fed the Chickens?

For Teachers K
Students use the Ella Jenkins' song "Who Fed the Chickens?" to study the pronouns I, you, we, she, he, and they. After singing the song a few times, students utilize a worksheet imbedded in this plan to gain practice with pronouns, and...
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America the Beautiful

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students listen to story America the Beautiful, discuss places in America they have visited, define beautiful, and create and illustrate class book with pictures and words from song, America the Beautiful.
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Rockin' Robin

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice weight transfer skills to the song "Rockin' Robin." students warm-up with this activity during a tumbling unit.
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Shape Sandwich

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students create sandwiches with an adult. In this shapes lesson, students are familiarized with shapes while making their sandwich.