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Cultural Music Festival

For Teachers K - 6th
Students participate in planning a multi-cultural community event. In this cultural music lesson, parents, community members, and teachers provide time, music, advertisement, and refreshments to create a community multi-cultural music...
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Rhythmic Movement Skills

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students practice using their physical skills while performing physical activities.  In this physical education lesson, students participate in musical orchestrated dances with their classmates.  Students utilize a jump rope...
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Percussion Composition

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Learners create and present a short composition. Using skills, techniques and processes, students select, combine and manipulate sound and silence.
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Loop-based Composing based on Visual Stimuli

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Pupils search the World Wide Web to locate an artistic image that inspires an aural composition. They compose a musical piece using loop-based composition software and use file management and storage techniques to archive project work....
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Study Guide for Lelavision's Physical Music

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students complete activities for physical music analysis. In this physical music lesson, students read the biography for Lelavision musical sculptures, complete a sound and motion activity, and a making music activity. Students also...
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Europe: Indigenous Musical Genius

For Teachers 8th
Students are introduced to several forms of indigenous European music. Students become familiar with instruments, musical and forms and styles from Spain, Sardinia, Austria and Switzerland. Students recreate selected rhythms and styles.
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Moving to Music Self-Assessment

For Students 6th - 8th
In this Louisiana musical landscape worksheet, students evaluate that they learned about folk movement or dance by scoring themselves using on 18 performance elements.
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Keyboard centers with Music You Can Read

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils play the letters provided in the format "Keyboard/Xylophone/Tone Bells" with the intention of using the "Music Only" format as skills progress. They study fingerings and chords when appropriate to skills.
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Say It Loud!: A Celebration Of Black Music In America

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students listen to and discuss the characteristics of Motown music. They recognize Motown music by its titles.
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Music in Other Cultures

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers examine the musical concepts of timbre, melody, and rhythm. They listen to and identify characteristics of music from other cultures.
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The Songs of Afroman

For Students 9th - 12th
High school pupils learn valuable research skills as they search on the Internet for answers to this on-line instructional activity, which asks them to investigate the rapper, Afroman.
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AC/DC: 1980s

For Students 7th - 12th
Music in the 80s includes the various lyrics and notes of AC/DC. While teaching a unit on the 80s, don't forget to include AC/DC during a discussion on pop culture. There are 10 multiple-choice questions about AC/DC in the 80s on...
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Adam Ant Lyrics

For Students 9th - 12th
High school learners can hone their research skills by employing the Internet to find the answers to trivia questions. This resource focuses on questions about the musician, Adam Ant. There are 10 questions posed.
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More Folk Songs

For Teachers 1st
First graders explain that texts of folk music are handed down by tradition. They sing two folk songs.
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Arctic Monkeys Lyrics

For Students 9th - 12th
Research using the Internet is an important skill for High schoolers. Here, they can sharpen these skills by searching the Internet to find the answers to trivia questions that focus on questions about the band, Arctic Monkeys. There are...
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Headbangers' Radio: As I Lay Dying

For Students 9th - 12th
Challenge the research skills of your High school pupils with this on-line activity. They must search the Internet for answers to questions that have to do with the band, As I Lay Dying.
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Musical Phrase Completion

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Pupils get to encounter simple musical notations, basic keyboarding and improvisation. Students exercise on creative thinking skills. Pupils create their own musical notes.
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Grouping Musical Instruments

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students study about musical instruments and group them into these categories: percussion, strings, woodwinds, and brass. After discussing these instruments, they independently complete the worksheet.
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Introduction to musical reading for Drumset and Percussion.

For Teachers 2nd - 7th
Students analyze the functions of musical scores as they relate to percussion instruments. They follow an audio and video presentation as they count and follow beat patterns.
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Viennese Music Clock

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore the music concepts of ryhthm, melody, form, and harmony in a three-lesson unit. They listen to the Viennese Music Clock and demonstrate moving to the beat, create improvised melodies, and play percussion accompaniment.
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WebQuest 1: Design and Build a Music Technology Lab for Our School

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students complete a WebQuest related to music. They work together to develop a design for a music technology lab. They build the lab for all students to enjoy.
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Musical Roles

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students watch a videotape on the musical career of Aretha Franklin and explore the different careers in the music industry.
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Final Performance of a Play

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders study theatre by designing a play, studying actors, and work in partners to create a story to perform. In this theatre study lesson, 2nd graders discuss theatre as live theatre, television, film, and radio. Students act...
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The Sound of Music and Passage to Freedom

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders examine music examples to investigate a conflict in history about Hitler's invasions during WWII. In this music analysis lesson, 7th graders discuss vocabulary and the history for the Holocaust and Hitler's invasions....