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PEC: Lesson Plans for Physical Education
Learners practice passing skills in a team setting using basketbal chest pass, basketball bounce pass, inside of the foot soccer pass.
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Shapes and Review of Locomotor Skills
Pupils engage in a series of loco-motor activities based on shapes. In this loco-motor lesson, students demonstrate physical skills through races, jumping, hopping, galloping in circles, squares, rectangles and triangles.
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White Bear Lake Fitness Challenge
Learners participate in fitness challenge. After choosing a destination they would like to visit, students record their mileage to their destination after riding on bikes and walking on treadmills. Learners receive an incentive...
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Rehearsal and Sightreading Techniques
Eighth graders prepare the two pieces "American Celebration" and "Patriotic Bits and Pieces" for an upcoming performance. This lesson is a forty-five minute lesson geared towards a middle school advanced band (8th Grade). National and...
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Compositional Techniques: Are There Similarities Between
Students recognize how chromatic scales create tension and pentatonic scales create relaxation as compositional techniques used to create tonality. Also, students aurally recognize the use of mixed or alternating meter as a means of...
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Of Mice and Men
Eighth graders successfully create a newspaper that reflects the Great Depression Era using texts and clues from the literary work Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck and Something Permanent by Cynthia Rylant and Walker Evans.
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A Wing and a Prayer
Fourth graders improvise missing harmony accompaniment for a soloist performing "The Star Spangled Banner." Groups select several familiar melodies that they can produce while individual students take turns improvising a new harmony part.
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Sing that Tune
Students sing Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star without accompaniment, and maintain the tonal center.
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Health and the Community
Students illustrate cause and effect of pollution to human health through the analysis of an image from the American Industrial Era. They investigate how industry affected rest of the community or city.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Catherine Schmidt Jones: Interval
Learn about simple intervals and compound intervals in this well writtern lesson. You will also learn how an interval is classified. Included are several self checking problems.
Music Theory
Music theory.net: Generic Intervals
A description of intervals and how they are used in music. Provides audio clips and illustrated examples to supplement this lesson.
University of Kentucky
The Physics and Math of Music
Read about a math research project done by three college students which helps us see physics and math in music. Here's a great approach for integrating curriculum!
Cosmo Learning
Cosmo Learning: Courses: Guitar Music Theory
A series of 16 video lessons that teach basic guitar theory. Lessons discuss intervals, perfect and diminished notes, and octaves. Videos vary in length.
Other
Intervals Forwards and Backwards
This column explains the importance of knowing your intervals both forwards and backwards. It also provides advice on how to use intervals in your musical performances.
BBC
Bbc: Music Theory
This resource presents a fun and interactive way to learn all about the elements of music. It offers links to information, definitions, assessments, and examples of melody, harmony and tonality, structure, tempo, metre and rhythm,...
Music Theory
Music theory.net
An online beginning music theory and ear training site. This site is for students to use at home to reinforce what they learn in class.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: How to Make a Guitar Sing
This is a great project for musicians interested in the physics of stringed instruments. If you have ever played an acoustic guitar, you may have noticed that picking a single string can make one or more of the other (unpicked) strings...
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Sti Lesson 44: Compositional Techniques
Young music students rarely see or, better still, hear a connection between the different types of scales, modes, intervals and other compositional techniques such as meter, tonality, and form used in both traditional 'Art' music and...
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Sound Properties and Their Perception
The concept of pitch and frequency is covered in this tutorial. Learn what frequency and pitch are, the difference between infra sound and ultrasonic frequencies, and how pitch is related to the frequency of a sound.