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Middle School General Music Unit Plans
Here's a collection of unit plans for middle school musicians. Topics include the mbira, opera, rhythm and culture, music in Africa, music in the movies, music theory and notation, blues and jazz, and the ocarina. Definitely worth a look.
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Not Your Grandma's Music: A Lesson in Music History
Students experience and discuss the different musical periods such as Baroque, Classical and Romantic. In this music lesson, students discover musical theory and apply it to the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic periods. Students will...
Johnny Mercer Foundation
Project-Based Songwriting
Project-based learning in a music theory class? Take note. Young songwriters compose, record, copyright, and promote their original songs. They even design their own CD cover.
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Africa: Small Sounds From a Big Country
Students explore the music from Burundi, Zimbabwe, and Pygmy cultures. They listen to and discuss music from the African cultures, analyze the musical elements, write a song, and perform music.
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Second Graders Create Their Own Social Studies Book (Part I, The 5Ws of the Constitution)
Students develop their own social studies textbook using a blank theme book as they complete activities and learning experiences throughout the year. The activities are in art, music, simulations, read alouds, shared writing and a class...
Annenberg Foundation
Exploring Borderlands
What motivated Europeans to explore the New World, and what effects did their exploration have on Native American populations? The second installment of a 16-part American Passages series prompts pupils to watch a video and read several...
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Second Graders Create Their Own Social Studies Book
Students develop their own social studies textbook. Students gain knowledge of American immigration and Ellis Island. Students discover the process of becoming a naturalized citizen and what it means to be a citizen
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Second Graders Create Their Own Social Studies Book (Part I, The 5Ws of the Constitution)
Students study the United States Constitution and create a year-long cumulative activity for social studies. In this social studies lesson, students complete activities throughout the year to learn the 5Ws for the United States...
Open Curriculum
Open Curriculum: Acoustics for Music Theory
To understand the physics underlying music theory
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Tone Savvy: E Music Theory
This site provides good online learning games and exercises for music theory. It also has a lot of options for teachers if they choose to subscribe.
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Tone Savvy
You will find many free games that will help you develop your music theory knowledge. Learn rhythmic dictation, key signatures and intervals as well as several other topics concerning music theory.
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Open Curriculum: Introduction to Music Theory
To understand the meaning of music and music theory
BBC
Bbc: Music Theory
This resource presents a fun and interactive way to learn all about the elements of music. It offers links to information, definitions, assessments, and examples of melody, harmony and tonality, structure, tempo, metre and rhythm,...
Open Curriculum
Open Curriculum: Cadence in Music
To understand the concept of cadence in music and the different types of cadences
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Open Curriculum: Classifying Musical Instruments
To explain the different instruments and the classification system for all musical instruments
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Open Curriculum: Form in Music
To provide an introduction to recognizing form in music
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Open Curriculum: Standing Waves and Musical Instruments
To provide an explanation of standing waves in intruments and how music is produced with particle pitches and timbres
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Group Theory 101: How to Play a Rubik's Cube Like a Piano
Mathematics explains the workings of the universe, from particle physics to engineering and economics. Math is even closely related to music, and their common ground has something to do with a Rubik's Cube puzzle. Michael Staff explains...
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Open Curriculum: Timbre: The Color of Music
To provide an introduction to the concept of timbre and words used to describe
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Open Curriculum: Modes and Ragas
To summarize the modes and ragas in music and their use in many musical traditions
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Open Curriculum: Scales That Are Not Major or Minor
To explain the various musical scales that cannot be classified as major or minor such as chromatic, whole-tone, pentatonic, blues, and scales from non-Western music
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Open Curriculum: Consonance and Dissonance
To describe the concept of consonance and dissonance and their affects on music
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Open Curriculum: Octaves and the Major Minor Tonal System
To introduce the relationship between frequency, octaves, major, minor, and chormatic scales, and tonal music
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