PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Tour Through New York State Lesson Plan
This lesson is a cool and hip way to tour across New York State. The teacher takes learners on a virtual tour of NYS while using music and movement.
Other
Hong Kong Education City: English Campus
English Campus is an excellent site for Chinese speakers learning English. It includes seven channels - Watch, Read, Practice, Play, Create, Meet, and a Teachers' Corner. Learn by playing word and grammar games, watching movies and...
PBS
Pbs: Continental Harmony
PBS presents several activities and lesson plans that cover the concepts of identifying different forms of music, learning about musical imagery, writing in response to music, and creating lyrics. The Sound Lounge has many interactive...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: The Energy of Music
Students are introduced to sound energy concepts and how engineers use sound energy. Through hands-on activities and demonstrations, students examine how we know sound exists by listening to and seeing sound waves. They learn to describe...
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Arts Edge: Tuneful Bugs and Birds
Arts Edge at the Kennedy Center provides this lesson plan for teachers of ESOL students that integrates music into language arts. Students create their own poetry while listening to music about bugs and birds.
NASA
Nasa Star Child: A Song for All Seasons
After listening to excerpts from four of the violin concertos from "The Four Seasons" by Italian composer and violinist, Antonio Vivaldi, decide which excerpt was meant to go with which season, and also decide where the earth would be in...
TES Global
Tes: Languages and the Olympics
[Free Registration/Login Required] During this three week Olympics unit, primary young scholars will pair with secondary students. Young scholars will learn basic French and Spanish vocabulary through music and physical education...
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Esl Kid Stuff: Esl Songs Sheets
Fun song sheets for six well-known children's songs like the ABC Song and Old MacDonald. Sheets include words and pictures featured in the song.
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Chinese Instruments
Help your students identify and classify Western instruments and traditional Chinese instruments.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Magnetism and Sound: Creating Your Own Headphones
Middle schoolers will explore how magnets can create a current by making their own headphones and listening to music from their iPods.
PE Central
Pe Central: Dance Lesson Ideas: Larger Than Life Line Dance
Learn and teach a few simple moves that will help students feel comfortable with line dancing. Students practice listening and moving to music during this simple and fun gym-class activity.
Cyberbee
Adventures of Cyberbee: Copyright Lesson Plan [Pdf]
This is a wonderful instructional activity about copyright. One of the activities allows students to actively think about copyright issues by listening to music and reviewing interesting court cases.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Hearing and Balance
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] What do listening to music and riding a bike have in common? It might surprise you to learn that both activities depend on your ears. The ears do more than just...