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Exploring the CTK-671

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students demonstrate the operational aspects of the CTK-671 by selecting various tones, advanced tones, and rhythm patterns based on parameters set by the teacher.
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Using Shanties to Create Lyrics

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students demonstrate an understanding of shanties, a traditional music form. They listen to several shanties and create their own verses to add on to these songs. They express their feelings through music by using rhythm and rhyme to...
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Innovative Celebration of Enrichment

For Teachers K - 5th
Young scholars start at the beginning of the day and move and rotate individually or with friends. They go to as many or as few centers as they wish such as: PE, Art, Music, Media, and Computers. Students do not have to stay together. ...
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The Letter Qq

For Teachers K - 1st
Students complete a variety of activities to examine the uses for the letter Q. In this letter theme lesson, students complete arts and crafts, language arts, math, physical education, music, science, home economics, social studies, and...
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Carnival Stations

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice tossing, catching, and balancing in a fun, theme-based setting.
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Courage

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students become familiar with dance vocabulary and, with their bodies, create shapes and transitional movements to depict emotions related to the theme of 'courage.' They coordinate their movements to music and critique each others'...
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Angle Aerobics

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders review angle criteria and then stand. They demonstrate with their hands each type of angle called out by the teacher: right, acute, or obtuse. Music is added and students follow teacher in an angle aerobics class peppered...
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Lesson 2-Explore/Explain Sound Communication

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Young scholars watch and listen to human speech and explore visual and audio cues that aid their understanding. During a short walk, students listen to the sounds around them and classify them as environmental, voiced, or musical.
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Sounds Like Science - Jamboree

For Teachers 7th - 11th
Students create a delightful-sounding ensemble. They explore the subjective distinctions between noise and music. They use jars, buckets, boxes, strings, rackets, frames, string, rubber bands and bottles to make their own jamboree.
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Multiplication Movement

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders experience multiplication facts through movement and music. They view the Multiplication Rock video, choreograph a movement or dance to teach the multiplication facts of threes, and perform their dance.
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THE TRAVELS OF BABAR: An Adventure in Scale : Integrating Visual Art and Social Studies

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students comprehend how the use of color impacts a work of art. They research how a theme can be rendered in a variety of ways (words, music, visuals). Students analyze how an artist's choices affect the aesthetic quality of artwork.
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National Anthems of the World

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students compare and contrast music and lyrics of national anthems from around the world. They listen to their national anthem and other countries' anthems and compare the music. Working in groups, they write an anthem for their class or...
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Lesson Plan Project

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students demonstrate how to compose a string quartet by working together in small groups to write a short composition based around a pentatonic scale for all four instruments. They synthesis composing by creatively integrating their...
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Lesson Plan Project

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students demonstrate the composing of a string quartet piece by working together in small groups to write a short composition based around a pentatonic scale for all four instruments. They evaluate their peers compositions by...
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Mahler: Ruckert Lieder: ‘Urn Mitternacht’ [1905]

For Students 10th - 11th
In this music worksheet, student analyze an extract of the given piece of music by answering a series of 11 questions about the music in general. They then answer 16 questions about the structure of the two specified sections of the music.
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Spark Activity: Louisiana Line Dance

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students learn and practice 1 step at a time of the Louisiana Line Dance, then put all steps together and practice the dance to music.