Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Jive Foil Puppets

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students engage in a instructional activity that is about the creation and use of Jive Foil Puppets. They conduct research using a variety of resources to gather information for differences in use by different cultures. Students create...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Advanced Sentence Completion 5

For Teachers 8th - 12th
In this sentence completion worksheet, students choose the best word(s) to complete each sentence from five possible answer choices.
Interactive
Curated OER

Advanced Sentence Completion Exercise 6

For Students 6th - 10th
In this online interactive grammar skills worksheet, students examine 10 sentences that are missing words and select the appropriate words to complete each of the sentences and match them to the sentences. Student answers are...
Interactive
Curated OER

SAT Sentence Completion Practice Test 05

For Students 10th - 12th
In this sentence completion worksheet, learners choose the answer that best competes the sentences.  Students have 10 minutes to complete 12 questions in this SAT practice worksheet.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Arrange the Words

For Students 4th - 6th
In this adjectives worksheet, students categorize adjectives given into 3 categories and read passages that include adjectives. Students complete 5 activities.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Clay Sculpture: Relationships

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students explore art history by conducting an in-class activity. In this sculpting lesson, students examine previously created art sculptures in a textbook. Students utilize clay, sculpting tools and grey paper to create their own...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Express Yourself: Make Art From Your Ideas

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners analyze and discuss various sculptures by the artist Andrea Arroyo. They discuss ways artists use symbols to express abstract ideas, design and create a plasticine plaque, and write a journal response.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Creating, Notating and Recording an Original Song

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are provided with a set of parameters, including theme, time signature, number of measures, and form. Working within these parameters, the class , step by step, goes through the process of creating, notating, and recording a...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Halloween Fine Arts Activities

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders demonstrate their understanding of crescendo. They achieve dramatic effect in singing the Halloween Song. They sing this song with a gradual crescendo from beginning to end.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Amandla!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students sing a South African song and fill in blank words. They draw images that the song brings to mind while working in groups. Then, they share their art projects with the class.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

"Laideronette, Empress of the Pagoda" from"Mother Goose Suite" by Maurice Ravel

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students are introduced to the active teacher, composer and pianist Maurice Ravel and his masterpiece "Laideronette, Empress of the Pagoda", from Mother Goose Suite by Maurice Ravel. They utilize aural skills to notate the rhythm of the...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Six Dynamic Designs for Arts Integrated Curriculum

For Teachers K - 12th
Students create a recipe for a certain aspect of a culture. They create a culture that has never existed before. They analyze either dance, history, geography, history or the future of space exploration. They compare and contrast...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Art Miles Mural Project

For Teachers K - 12th
Learners create over twelve hundred miles of themed murals for an art project. They discuss what they want their theme to be and practice drawing the pictures before painting the mural.
Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Harmony and Counterpoint I

For Students 9th - 10th
A complete online course on the topic of harmony in music. Resource offers projects and examples, assignments, and exams with solutions.
Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Harmony and Counterpoint Ii

For Students 9th - 10th
A complete, undergraduate level online class on harmony in music. Resource includes all course materials, projects, examples, assignments and exams with solutions.
Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Exploring the World of Music

For Students 9th - 10th
This 12-video series examines elements of music such as melody, harmony, rhythm, and texture, and how they are used in a wide variety of music genres in cultures around the world.
Unit Plan
BBC

Bbc: Music Theory

For Students 9th - 10th
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,...
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: Continental Harmony

For Students 3rd - 8th
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...
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs: Elements of Music: Exploring the Composer's Tools

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This online lesson will help middle schoolers understand how composers write music by engaging in a project which culminates in their own compositions.
Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Music Theory

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia offers detailed information on music theory, a set of systems for analyzing, classifying, and composing music and the elements of music.
Interactive
Quia

Quia: Musical Elements

For Students 3rd - 5th
A great matching game to reinforce music vocabulary and an understanding of the elements of music.
Website
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Learning Musical Elements Through Listening

For Students 3rd - 8th
This is a site created for teaching children the art of listening to music. Includes sections on the elements of music, composers, and genres with more under construction.
Unit Plan
Other

About Scotland: Pythagoras: Music and Space

For Students 9th - 10th
A study on Pythagoras and how he used geometry to explain parts of music, including harmony, proportion, and space.
Unit Plan
Open Curriculum

Open Curriculum: Harmony

For Teachers 9th - 10th
To introduce the concepts and related terms of harmony