Your learners will dance in their seats as this talented drummer connects math to music in a short video clip. Clayton Cameron shows how math puts the "cool" in various genres of music, including jazz, hip-hop, pop,...

In this capital city worksheet, students answer short answer questions based on different capital cities. Students complete 10 short answer questions.

Students examine why disco and other forms of music were not widely accepted.

Students sing songs by Harry Connick Jr. and then learn different musical terms.

Students are divided into groups of employees of a jazz radio station and a classical radio station. They role play their own broadcasts.

In this research skill worksheet, students use Internet searches or other reference materials to answer 10 questions about U.K. music hits. Students read the names of 2 artists and write which one spent the most weeks on the Top 75 UK...

In this United Kingdom hit singles instructional activity, students examine 10 pairs of song artists or groups. Students identify the musician or group in each pair who spent the most weeks on the UK Top 75 Chart.

In this online interactive English skills worksheet, students respond to 10 multiple choice questions that requires them to change sentences in active voice to sentences in passive voice. Answers are scored immediately.

In this magic square learning exercise, learners solve equations to determine the numbers to be placed in grids.  This one-page learning exercise contains 25 problems.

Students discuss common attitudes about aging that are found in popular songs and how music is a means to explore attitudes about aging in this one-day lesson plan ideal for a middle-level general music classroom. The lesson plan...

Learners explore what messages lyrics give to their listeners. They use music from Tony Bennett and the Backstreet Boys.

In this grammar activity on relative clause, students review the proper use of the relative. Worksheet is an "instructional" page only.

Tenth graders differentiate angiosperms and gymnosperms. In this biology lesson plan, 10th graders construct a musical phylogenetic tree from information they gathered on resource websites. They present their project in class.

This website from Everything New Jersey pays homage to "the voice from Hoboken, NJ" with a large collection of pictures, stories, tributes, audio, and video of Frank Sinatra.

This is a very detailed account of Frank Sinatra's career, year by year and recording by recording. There's little of his personal life, but lots of information about a career that lasted for decades.

An image of Frank Sinatra.

An image of Frank Sinatra.

Biographical profiles of famous singers in major musical genres. Includes photo and links to snippets of their songs.

Read a brief history of rock and roll and its roots. See why this form of music shook the establishment and shattered the idea of conformity.

A succinct biographical sketch that examines contributions to the jazz and swing eras by noted musicians, band leaders, and Pennsylvania natives, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey.