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Louisiana's Legendary Musicians

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students identify and interpret what legendary traditional musicians of Louisiana that allows them to hear new genres of traditional music. They also identify what it means to be a legendary artist and read, write, and create a project...
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Let's Trade

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders engage in a lesson which focuses on adding two-digit numbers and the regrouping process. They identify when the regrouping process is necessary and make appropriate "trades" to complete an addition problem.
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Larger than Life Line Dance

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students are encouraged to enjoy dance, feel comfortable dancing, and perform a few simple moves to the beat of the music
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Teaching Rhythm and Pitch Reading

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars practice correct rhythms and pitches during this short instructional activity for the middle school instrumental class. Objectives vary depending on music used for the instructional activity. Students assessed through...
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Various words: 18

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this various words worksheet, students choose the correct answer based on number of years, prepositions, and completing sentences. Students complete 7 problems.
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Button Bonanza

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Collections of data represented in stem and leaf plots are organized by young statisticians as they embark some math engaging activities.
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Create a Popstar

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students develop an awareness of one's media and consumer habits. They recognize advertising techniques, such as the use of celebrity spokespersons and music.
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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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Rhythm - "Yankee Doodle Dandy"

For Teachers 1st
First graders practice rhythm and beat. In this music instructional activity, 1st graders sing and clap to the song "Yankee Doodle Dandy".  They find the rhythm of the music and practice making rhythm with other instruments.
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See What I Hear

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students 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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Showman Webelos Activity Workbook

For Students 4th - 5th
In this Webelo activity worksheet, learners decide which activities they would like to complete in order to earn a badge in puppetry or music. They check off which activities they choose and their leader rates their abilities.
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Exploring the Families of Instruments

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars investigate the families of instruments. For this instrument lesson, students discuss how each instrument family makes their sound. Young scholars then make their own instruments. Students write a paragraph about their...
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Presentation Culturelle

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore various aspects of French life. They determine which topic dealing with French history, art, food, music, dance, celebrations or traditions they research and present.
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Lesson Plan for Scheherazade by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study the music of Russian composer, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. They compare the sounds individual instruments make. They listen to and study the story of "Scheherazade" and compare it to other pieces that also portray a story or...
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Alligator

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students investigate the musical concept of rhythm through the use of creating a beat. The beat must have a specific and purposeful rhythm. Student can then define the term of rhythm easier after performing the activity.
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Alligator

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students perform musical routines with lummi sticks and motions. As they hit the sticks together in time to the music, students move the sticks over their head, sit on their knees, lay on their tummy, on their side, and on their back....
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Shape Hokey Pokey

For Teachers All
Students identify different shapes by using music. They use the shape in a song which follows the Hokey Pokey music. They participate in the song using different shapes.
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Freezamania

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students improve their throwing and catching skills with a variety of balls. They throw and catch while music plays, as soon as the music stops they play a game of chase until the music begins again.
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Opera on the Net

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders, with this opera exchange, increase their knowledge of the opera process. They use opera as a vehicle to better comprehend the relationship music has with all arts and other disciplines across the curriculum.
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Rock and Poetry: A Thematic Project

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students explore poetry. In this literature lesson, students examine music and lyrics by Natalie Merchant in order to make the transition to analyzing poetry by Keats and Wordsworth.
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Be An Incredible Songwriter

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students write songs about something incredible they have experienced or know about. They consider topics of events, dreams, ideas, feelings, or animals. They accompany themselves with small musical instruments while performing the songs...
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Special Delivery

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars are given an envelope with the name of a locomotor skill. As a class, they practice reading the name of the skill and practice doing the movement. To end the lesson, they complete the movement only when the music is playing.
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Jazz Scenes of the Harlem Renaissance

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars identify and connect themes of selected nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and art to Harlem Renaissance jazz. They compare and contrast historical and fictionalized versions of the jazz scenes of the Harlem Renaissance. They...
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Rhyming With Ramon

For Teachers K
Students study the importance of being clean and healthy while working with rhyming words. They waddle like penguins when the hear rhyming words in sequences, and tap their feet and clap their hands in tune to a rap about being healthy....