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Folk Art In Response to Folk Music

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students respond to the song, "This Land is Your Land" in writing and create an original painting in the style of folk art. They identify the characteristics of folk art and identify how the works of folk artists reflect the culture of...
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Introduction to Technologies in Music Education

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers identify and define a canon. Then, they create a canon in as many parts as they can and describe the various canons. Students also identify and interpret history of canons that includes their origins in Italy and France,...
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Three-Dimensional Ceramic Sculptural Forms Inspired by the Paintings of Wassily Kandinsky

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze / deconstruct elements of design used in Wassily Kandinsky's paintings in order to synthesize the elements into a three-dimensional form. Works may be functional or non-functional.
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Malambo

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use appropriate terms to reflect a working knowledge of the musical elements and use terminology from music and dance to analyze and compare structures of musical and other artistic works. They also identify the purpose of the...
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Puppet Frogs

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students identify the elements of line, shape, and color and expressive qualities of pictorial representation. Students create their own puppet frog using emotion and perform in a reader's theater. Students listen to various pieces of...
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Moving Rhythms

For Teachers K - 4th
Pupils explore the elements of tempo, beat and rhythm. They create rhythm patterns and an original dance. In groups, students perform their phrases for their peers. As a class, they explore choreographic principles, processes and...
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Sing a Tale

For Teachers 7th - 12th
This activity allows students to explore the elements of traditional folktales in folk music.
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See What I Hear

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Learners examine relationships between music and color, emotion and imagery, listen to different passages of music, and visually depict what they hear.
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A Song By Any Other Name Would Be a Poem

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Students examine the poetic elements of a piece of music. They discuss favorite songs, select a song, and write a persuasive essay identifying the poetic qualities of the song lyrics.
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The Sorcerer's Apprentice

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders listen to "The Sorcerer's Apprentice". Using the music, they identify the high and low parts in the orchestal composition. They compare the elements of a story to the piece of music and respond to the music and state how...
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ART- LANGUAGE OF SYMBOLS

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students discuss how color construct meaning in art. They will demonstrate a technical knowledge and creative use of formal elements and principals of design. Students then discuss the way their selection of color contributed to their work.
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Locomotion, Time And Shapes

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners practice the concepts of time and rhythm using drum beats. They also create body shapes using verbal cues. The shapes made include stretched, curled, angular, or twisted. The rhythm of beats is increased or decreased to explore...
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Classification is Sweet

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students classify, weight and organize items during this lesson. This lesson works great as or with an introduction of the Periodic Table of Elements.
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Drama: A Streetcar Named Desire

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders examine all the descriptions of costumes, props, movement, lighting and music in the stage directions of A Streetcar Named Desire. They begin to imagine this drama as a production, not simply a script. Students perform...
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ABBA - Lesson 2

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students identify and notate the musical device known as a "hook". They notate and perform rhythmic and melodic patterns in the ABBA song "Mamma Mia".
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Wyclef Jean for VH1 Storytellers

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use different folk songs to learn chords and other musical elements.
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Copyright, Sampling and Mashing

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Pupils examine copyright laws in regard to sharing, sampling and mashing music. After listening to pieces of music, they create their own music sample by combining musical elements and expression. Students visit a specified website to...
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VH1 Road to Fame: Harry Connick Jr.

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars sing songs by Harry Connick Jr. and then learn different musical terms.
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Percussion Family Lesson Plan

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students gain an appreciation for percussion instruments. They can identify the instruments by sight and sound and associate them with different musical styles. Using Microsoft Musical Instruments, students hear other percussion...
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Overcoming Pressures

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers view a video that presents the musical career of vocalist Josh Groban and pay special attention to his performance anxiety and how he has dealt with these fears. They identify ways in which they can combat other types of...
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Hoe Down: An Integrated Unit on Social, Folk & Square Dancing

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders experience the movements required to perform social, folk and square dancing. They describe each dance movement. Students discuss the elements found in folk art, folk music, and fold dance.
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I am Special and You are Special Too #9

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders will explore the rhythm and rhyme of poems to understand the basic elements of poetry.  In this poetry and literary lesson, 8th graders relate their love for rap music to poetry.  Students will discuss...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Pupils study the life and music of the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. They practice listening for the downbeat of a musical selection. They participate in a physical exercise where they march around in a circle and clap to the...
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Listening To A Fanfare

For Students 6th - 8th
In this music worksheet, learners read the biography of a composer and then focus upon his primary work of creating graphic compositions.

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