RubiStar is a tool that helps teachers develop rubrics. After students have done the project and the rubric has been used to grade it, you can enter the data into RubiStar to determine which items are problematic for the class as well.

In this lesson, students interpret a poem called 'The Little Blue Engine' by adding music, movement, visual art, and drama. After performing their creation, they will discuss any mathematical and/or scientific connections that have a...

In the last third of this professor's article from UCLA dealing with how media culture helps to "forge our very identities," he considers MTV as a way of making cultural studies "multiperspectival" and therefore more varied and valid.

At this site explore the energy transfer that is involved in making sound through playing a kazoo.This activity is wonderful for both science and music teachers.

Students create a jamboree using the science concepts learned in the other "Sounds Like Science" activities. Great for a music and science team.

Through the analysis of his own guitar solo, the writer of this column presents good ideas and advice on how to become a better soloist. Included are sheet music samples to aid the viewer in understanding the concepts being addressed.

Using Fourier and Harmonic series, the line spectrums of functions are derived and represented on graphs. Several music examples show the connection between harmonics and sound.

This ibiblio.org site deeply explores the truth behind the legend of John Henry. Content includes interviews with numerous scholars who take a look at how this legend may have been created. Scholars also analyze historical facts versus...

Famous jewels have been stolen from the Country Music Hall of Fame! The Dastardly Disguiser is a suspect, but we need to find out just how many disguise combinations he can use.

Search the data base for a private teacher in your location for any instrument/voice. Teacher contact information, resume, etc. is included.

Comprehensive interactive learning module explores the Vietnam War and includes maps, a timeline of important events, primary source documents, photographs, personal accounts, music, and teacher resources.

For this investigation, students will observe and experiment with how sounds are made. They will use various elementary music instruments as well as tuning forks, combs, rubber bands, books, bottles, etc. They will collect data on how...

A comprehensive and interactive study of Dante Alighieri's most famous work, The Divine Comedy. Study this enormously rich text with the help of maps, diagrams, music, a timeline and a gallery. See the Italian/English text side-by-side...

This Kindergarten unit introduces young scholars to the concept of change over time by examining the historic counterparts of objects in children's daily lives, e.g., toys, food, cars, music, telephones, and toothbrushes. This develops...

Complex but rich history of player pianos and their function in music. Studies pianola and assorted organ music in detailed analysis.

Examine the causes of the Civil War using primary source documents. This lesson plan gives background on the Civil War, includes a timeline, and a bibliography for further reading. Primary source documents include music, newspapers,...

After listening and analyzing song lyrics and, subsequently, doing the same analysis with poems, learners will discover how similar song writing and poetry writing can be. Students will get their own chance to write a small version of...

A landing page for a course on the art history of Asia.

A landing page for a course on African art found in regions and in individual countries.

This site features an outline of how to implement the use of curriculum maps into a school district curriculum program.

At this site explore the relationship between audibility and frequency of sound, and the difference between frequency and volume.

This site provides an experiment where students create a guitar to discover what variables will change sound.

This resource features an authority on Schubert's Lieder, whose extensive reviews of many of the recordings available would be helpful to the collector/enthusiast.

Complex but rich history of player pianos and their function in music. Studies pianola and assorted organ music in detailed analysis.