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Translation Into Reality

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students read a variety of short stories that focus on teenage protagonists. In groups, they answer comprehension questions and discuss the characters and setting for each story. Individually, they choose one writing assignment to...
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Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie -The Story

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students explore lighthouses in literature. In this reading lesson, students read Keep the Lights Burning, Annie as well as Birdie's Lighthouse. Students participate in pair/share activities regarding plot and literary devices. Student...
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St. Patrick's Day -- History and Traditions

For Students Pre-K - 6th
In this St. Patrick's Day worksheet, students answer questions about the history and traditions of the holiday. Students complete sentences about the history and traditions and a word search.
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Arts have Emotional Impact

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Learners explore how various artists use color, line and composition to create a mood. In comparison, students explore various elements of specific art forms that affect the viewer's emotions in dance, theater music and the visual...
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International Festival - Cultures of the World Research Projects

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders identify common elements of cultures from around the world. They create a group research project, which illustrates the elements of culture from a specific country of the Eastern World. Finally, they compare these...
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See What I Hear

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate the link between music and visual art by applying principles of design to convey the emotions/expressions in different types of music.
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Sheryl Crow and Willie Nelson - Lesson 2

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners use appropriate terminology to describe the instrumentation and style of a musical example. They identify common elements between musical styles and vocal styles.
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Composing From a Thread

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students listen to music composed in the 20th century and discuss varying interpretations. They play a contemporary piece of music and explore techniques available to a modern composer.
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the Richness of Rattles: a Lesson in Making And Decorating Clay Rattles

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Learners study the history behind clay rattles. They form and create a clay rattle using ceramic sculptural techniques and important composition and design elements.
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And The Oscar Goes To?

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders complete a graphic organizer to determine what a good story looks and sounds like. Using various forms and conventions, they determine which style to use for different audiences and purposes. They write their own story and...
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Storytellers: The Dixie Chicks

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students compare/contrast compositional devises. They describe events occurring within a musical example. Students explain the roles of creators, performers, and others involved in music productions and presentations.
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Lesson Connections

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders listen to, analyze, and describe music. They are assessed as to whether they are distinguishing between A and B sections through different types of music. Students imitate echo, motive, phrase and AB or ABA. Finally,...
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Sonnet 130

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students identify and interpret the structural features of literature through the study, analysis and production of Poetry. Including the structural characteristics. Students write a sonnet including required elements, such as length,...
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Small Group A String Lesson

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students investigate the A string and the musical note related to it. They locate the note on the staff, the finger number, and identify the note by name. They perform different musical pieces while playing different fingering patterns.
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Using several learning modalities to teach about the Periodic Table.

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students identify how to relate the position of an element in the periodic table to its atomic number and atomic mass. They identify how to use the periodic table to identify metals, semimetals, nonmetals, and halogens, and also,...
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"Carnival Overture"

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students assess that music can be used to express feelings and create a story portraying many different feelings based on "Carnival Overture," by Antonin Dvorak. They become more educated listeners as they listen to and interpret...
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Dance

For Teachers K
Students participate in different types of dances in which they explore time, action and other elements of dancing. They dance with a group or a partner and explore how to work together.
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Story Writing

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers master their compare and contrast writing skills by choosing an American cultural element (fashion, food, religion, etc.) and comparing it to the same element of another culture.
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THE TRAVELS OF BABAR: An Adventure in Scale : Integrating Visual Art and Social Studies

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Pupils comprehend how the use of color impacts a work of art. They research how a theme can be rendered in a variety of ways (words, music, visuals). Students analyze how an artist's choices affect the aesthetic quality of artwork.
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Pavane pour une Infante Defunte

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students describe the music in terms related to basic elements such as melody, rhythm, harmony, dynamics, timbre, form, style, etc. They identify timbres heard in "Pavane" by movement and respond by movement to timbre.
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Noh Theater

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils compare Noh drama to western drama and trace the influence of Japanese theater on modern western drama.  In this Noh drama lesson, students read the play Black Tomb (Kurozuko) defining the elements and conventions of Noh...
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

For Teachers 5th
Students research the American Revolution through the story of the Legend of Sleepy Hollow. In this American Revolution lesson, students research folktale and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Students view illustrations for the story....
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Small Group Acting: Enlivening Canadian History

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders research the elements of Canadian identity and history. They analyze and organize the information. They investigate the concept of Small Group Acting, storyboarding, and writing a good script.
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Body and Mindscapes

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders view artwork by Robert Harris of landscapes and mountains. Using a map, they locate and identify the physical features of the Canadian province they live in. In groups, they use one of his paintings and add music to...

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