PBS
Pbs: Frontline: Discover How Music Could Change a Country
Embrace cultural diversity and the social and economic benefits that might arise if citizens integrated music into their lives in Paraguay. Encourage students to think about how music can change a country.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Musical Images
Students are introduced to the concept of the image of music. After listening to a song, they draw images of it by deciding where different musical instruments were placed during recording. They further investigate audio engineering by...
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!
Other
Children's Music Web
Although you'll have to hunt around a little, you'll find some great resources to integrate music into your classroom. Click on "Resources for teachers," to find some fun classroom management ideas. Or find sound effect ideas in...
Other
The Center for Public Integrity: Home Page
Excellent site for journalists and others who feel that it is their beat to keep a watchful eye on the political culture of the country through investigations and analyses of public service.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Connecting With the Arts: Why Integrate the Arts?
A video workshop for middle school teachers that demonstrates the effect integrating the arts can have on student engagement by addressing different learning styles, promoting creativity, and giving students an alternate means to...
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Lesson 26: Individual vs. Social Responsibility
Using an artistically integrated approach in teaching literary themes helps students to explore more fully the universality of those themes. Rock music is a form of cultural expression which, because of its mass appeal, can become a...
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
One of the finest sites of its kind on the Internet, ArtsEdge is dedicated to supporting arts education through such initiatives as curriculum development, cross-curricular teaching, and technology integration. Find arts-related...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Teaching With Tunes
Invite your students to sing, dance, and learn alongside their favorite PBS KIDS friends! Discover new and fun ways to integrate music into lessons, routines, and activities to inspire everyday learning. The curated songs center around...
Other
Harvard University: Project Zero: Artful Thinking
Find engaging ways to integrate visual art and music into regular classroom instruction and strengthen cognitive thinking skills and abilities to reason creatively from multiple perspectives. Get great classroom questioning tips, case...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Sound
Students learn the connections between the science of sound waves and engineering design for sound environments. Through three lessons, students come to better understand sound waves, including how they change with distance, travel...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Pingus Penguins: Writing Good Instructions
Students use the free computer game Pingus to learn how engineers, specifically environmental engineers, use their technical writing skills to give instructions and follow the instructions of others. Students learn to write instructions...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Sound and Light
The Sound and Light unit provides students with an understanding of sound and light waves through the theme of the "Sunken Treasure," a continuous story line throughout the lessons. In Lessons 1-5, students learn about sound, and in...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: The Sound of Numbers [Pdf]
In this lesson, students will explore numbers and their relationships through rhythm and learn how every aspect of music can be described mathematically.
PBS
Pbs: Mathline: Tessellations Wow! [Pdf]
An integrated geometry lesson on spatial sense in which students identify and use different shapes to create a tessellation. "Through a variety of modalities such as writing, music, art, poetry, and literature, students are introduced to...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Rhythmic Experiences [Pdf]
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.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: What Class Are You In? [Pdf]
Drawing evidence from informational text and using it to compose text for ABA form in music, 5th graders will add onto a poem about vertebrates and how they are classified.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: The Sound of Numbers [Pdf]
In this activity, students will explore numbers and their relationships through rhythm and learn how every aspect of music can be described mathematically. Includes a probability challenge for students.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: I Pod
A Wikipedia article on the iPod which contains background information on the iPod name, history, capabilities, design, use and models. The multiple generations of iPod are covered as is integration with iTunes.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Connecting With the Arts: What Are Connecting Concepts?
A video workshop designed for middle school teachers. This program focuses on planning for arts integration by identifying common themes and concepts across disciplines and creating activities that bridge these disciplines. Includes...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Lango
The Lango are one of the largest of the non-Bantu ethnic groups in Uganda. Since Ugandas independence, the Lango have become integrated into national political life. Music and dance are important aspects of Lango life; the finger piano,...
Other
Danielle's Place: Bible Theme Crafts for Kids
If you teach religion to elementary students, then you have to see this site! It is overflowing with creative ideas to use in your classroom and will get your students excited about the Bible. Many of these lessons also integrate math,...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: What's a Wavelength?
Students measure the wavelength of sounds and learn basic vocabulary associated with waves. As a class, they brainstorm the difference between two tuning forks and the sounds they produce. Then they come up with a way to measure that...
Other
Lego Foundation: The Role of Play in Children's Development
This article reviews research that has been conducted in relation to the five types of play, namely physical play, play with objects, symbolic/semiotic play, pretend play, and games with rules.