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Fair Use and Music

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers examine fair use. In this character education instructional activity, students discover copyright and fair use laws regarding media. Middle schoolers discuss the ethics of movie and music sharing.
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Copyright, Sampling and Mashing

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students 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...
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Queen's Printer for Ontario

Composers in Music History

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
What do Johann Sebastian Bach and Miles Davis have in common? Much more than class members might imagine. The comparison of these two famous composers is just one lesson in a unit that investigates many facets of the music industry...
Worksheet
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Over and Under: Learning Position Words

For Students Pre-K - K
In this worksheet on position words, students practice learning over the under. Students cut out a set of small pictures, then place them in the appropriate place on a larger picture of a tree. Pictures logically belong either over or...
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Activity Guide for Snow

For Teachers K - 3rd Standards
Create a cross-curricular learning experience around a shared reading of Cynthia Rylant's book Snow. From writing poetry and a singing a song about snow, to creating paper snowflakes and solving math story problems, this resource...
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Copyright Ethics

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers examine the issues surrounding intellectual copyrights. They research the examples of DVD and CD piracy and participate in a class discussion about the related ethics.
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Let's Learn About Money

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
In this let's learn about money worksheet, pupils explore how every coin has a fixed value. Students solve the answers to seven word problems associated with money.
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To Recycle, or Not Recycle?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
To recycle or not to recycle, that is the question. Your class can find the answer by taking a teacher created WebQuest, where they assume a role of a community member taking a stand on implementing a community wide recycling plan. The...
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Project-Based Songwriting

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Project-based learning in a music theory class? Take note. Young songwriters compose, record, copyright, and promote their original songs. They even design their own CD cover.
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Little Miss Muffet: Rhyming

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Little ones will love learning this classic nursery rhyme. This resource includes a large, printed version of the rhyme, a page to color, a pre-colored image, and three sets of rhyming words found in the passage. 
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Creating a Cartoon

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this journalism worksheet, students learn the guidelines for creating a political or editorial cartoon. Students complete 5 questions which help them plan the purpose, characters and setting for the cartoon. Students then draw the...
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Wyclef Jean for VH1 Storytellers

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners watch a video with Wyclef Jean. They identify lawful uses of copyrighted materials and explain the interrelated roles of composer, lyricist, publisher, performer, agent, and record company.
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Children's Literature Across the Curriculum Ideas

For Teachers K - 2nd
You can keep this printable idea sheet and use when you're in a tight spot. It contains cross-curricular ideas that span every subject while relating to the African tale, "Anasazi the Spider." Learners will act, write, move, count,...
Worksheet
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Weather Cut and Paste

For Students K - 1st
A charming learning exercise for your young artists, they color and cut out four pictures of different types of weather and then paste them next to a picture of a child who is dressed for that type of weather. This learning exercise...
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Learning about Vincent Van Gogh

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students conduct research on the life and artwork of Vincent Van Gogh. They explore various websites, answer research questions and write a paragraph about the information found online, and discuss as a class what makes Van Gogh's...
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Learn to Build a Rocket in 5 Days

For Teachers K - 5th
Students explore physics by participating in an engineering activity. For this rocket lesson, students define a list of scientific vocabulary terms such as "re-engineering" and "trade-off." Students identify the rocket creation process...
Worksheet
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I'm Learning About Shapes

For Students K - 2nd
Students trace the shape of a large triangle and write the name of the shape, triangle, on the line provided. An excellent basic shapes worksheet for young learners!
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I'm Learning About Shapes

For Students K - 2nd
Students trace the shape of a large square and write the name of the shape, square, on the line provided. An excellent basic shapes learning exercise for young learners!
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I'm Learning About Shapes

For Students Pre-K - K
In this instructional activity on shape, students practice making and naming the oval. First, students trace an oval, than practice writing the name.
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Painting with and Learning From Art History - Extend the Composition

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create a painting based on an artist from a chosen period in history. They research a modern artist and write a critique.
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Time Signatures

For Students 2nd - 12th
You'll never miss a beat with a resource packet filled with puzzles, quizzes, and activity worksheets that focus on time signatures. Don't quaver or rest until you score this packet.
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It's Really Heating Up in Here!

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students create and observe a greenhouse effect model and discuss the implications of global warming theory for engineers, themselves and the Earth. They discover that Global warming is becoming an increasing concern as we learn more...
Worksheet
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In a Million Words or Fewer- Home School Activity

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this learning about oneself home-school worksheet, students work with a home partner to complete the worksheet. They describe themselves by writing on the back of the sheet, and the partner does the same. They discuss and write about...
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Hero Portrait done in Micrography

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discuss heroes, choose hero of their choice, write short biographies, and create drawings of heroes.