Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Animal Alphabetizing

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders observe a stack of folders, papers, notebooks or other materials that need to be organized. They discuss what the word organize means and then practice alphabetizing books according to first names of students as a class....
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

A Poster is Worth a Thousand Words

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students list observations of PSA posters. They provide evidence/examples of their observations through class discussion. Students explore public health posters. They investigate historical public health campaign posters.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

"Braiding and Weaving" Dance Lesson Plan

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore braiding and weaving through dance. They create their own braiding and weaving dance.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Salmon and Steelhead Life Stories Web Search

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students conduct an Internet investigation to discover the natural history of local salmon and/or steelhead. They then write a story that describes the life of a salmon or steelhead from the local creek, including a description of each...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Diseases Are Real

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders research industries that contribute to sanitation and pollution problems. They investigate the direct result of unhygienic practices including disease outbreaks or specific illnesses. They create a Power Point...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Social Studies: Personality Development

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners investigate the development and influence of personalities on individuals. After examining a kaleidoscope, they discuss how people's personalities are analogous to the instrument's different designs. The lesson concludes with...
Handout
Music Education

Learning to Read Music: Basic Counting

For Students 3rd - 8th
Apply basic knowledge of reading music by counting beats and reading notes. Here are some simple lines of music which incorporate different types of notes and patterns in common time.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Finding the Common Beat

For Students 3rd - 8th
The CyberSquad figures out how to represent the patterns of music played by four instruments in this Cyberchase video segment.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Everyday Learning

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Learning does not take place only in the classroom. Learning occurs naturally, every day! This KET collection uses original animation and wonderful, visual images to introduce basic concepts of math, science, social studies, art, and...
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: The Sound of Numbers [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
For this lesson, students will explore numbers and their relationships through rhythm and learn how every aspect of music can be described mathematically.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Musical Patterns

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students will become familiar with the concept of patterning by using musical instruments to repeat and create patterns of sounds.This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in Math and Science, GEMS Project funded by...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Cyberchase: Crack the Code

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Cyberchase video in which the CyberSquad must get into a vault before Hacker, Buzz, and Delete by cracking a code of shapes and numbers. [3:20]
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Stomp

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this video segment from Cyberchase, performers from STOMP! illustrate patterns using inventive and exciting rhythmic melodies.
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Music Theory

Music theory.net

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
Lesson Plan
ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Rhythmic Experiences [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson. learners will learn that musical symbols have numerical values as they divide beats and meters, perform and create rhythm patterns, and practice operations with fractions.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Performance by Music of the Spheres

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this video segment from Cyberchase, Music of the Spheres plays a song using the correct beats and patterns, which helps to restore balance and harmony at Mount Olympus.
Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Don't You Fret! Standing Waves on a Guitar

For Students 9th - 10th
In this project, you will investigate the physics of standing waves on guitar strings. You will learn about the different modes (i.e., patterns) of vibration that can be produced on a string, and you will figure out how to produce the...
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs: Mathline: Tessellations Wow! [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
An integrated geometry lesson plan on spatial sense in which young scholars identify and use different shapes to create a tessellation. "Through a variety of modalities such as writing, music, art, poetry, and literature, students are...
Handout
NSTATE

State Symbols of Kentucky

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about Kentucky's state symbols and their official state places and events. In most cases you can click on the word to see a picture and find more information about the symbol, place, or event.