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Lesson Ideas for Any Music

For Teachers K - 12th
Music is a wonderful tool you can add to enhance the learning process for every subject. Here is a list of music selections that are categorized by subject, along with some neat teaching suggestions. You'll find songs suited to...
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Las Frases Correctas

For Students 7th - 9th
Assess your budding Spanish speakers with this page-long sheet. Learners view eight pictures and choose a sentence that fits each picture the best (there are four options to choose from for each picture). Increase the challenge by asking...
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Vocab-u-lous! Build a Fabulous Vocab

For Students 9th - 10th
In this vocabulary worksheet, learners select the best word choice to complete the sentence. All words begin with the letter "I."
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How New Words Are Created

For Students 6th - Higher Ed
How are new words created? Study the list of ways a word can be created, and then have your class attempt to define a list of words. Word examples include snail-mail, coffee-matic, teleshopping, etc. More words and their definitions are...
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Simple Future Tense: Exercise 5

For Students 6th - 8th
Here’s a practice set for the simple future tense and the present tense with an adverb form. No answer key is provided, but a brief explanation of these tense forms does precede each exercise set. This resource could be used as a pretest...
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The American Five - Pentatonic scales in early American melodies

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Through vocal warm-ups and exercises, budding musicians will attempt to grasp the five pentatonic scales, commonly used in early American songs. They'll sing and work to identify the pitch, tone, melody, and scales being expressed in the...
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Music Tutor (Sight Reading Improver)

For Students 1st - Higher Ed
Elegant in its simplicity, this app accomplishes precisely what it sets out to do: improving the user's sight reading of musical notes. Taking the concept of flashcards to the next level, the designers also add in the element of sound so...
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K12 Reader

Simple, Compound, or Complex?

For Students 3rd - 7th Standards
Check your class's understanding of compound, simple, and complex sentences with a quick and straightforward exercise. Pupils read ten sentences and choose whether each one is a simple, complex, or compound sentence by checking one of...
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Night on Bald Mountain

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use appropriate terms to reflect a working knowledge of the musical elements. Then they use terminology from music and other arts to analyze and compare the structures of musical and other artistic and literary works. Students...
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Giants of American Music

For Students 5th - 6th
In this music worksheet, students answer questions about composers George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, John Philip Sousa, and Leonard Bernstein. Students also reflect on why they are called the Giants of American Music.
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Giants of American Music

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this music worksheet, students match a description with the following composers: George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, John Philip Sousa, Leonard Bernstein. Students also reflect on why they are called Giants of American Music.
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"Mambo" from West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students encounter and study "Mambo" from "West Side Story," by Leonard Bernstein. They practice utilizing musical elements (instrumentation, tempo, and dynamics) to create a certain mood for a scene with music. Each student interprets...
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Revising Comma Splices, Fragments, and Run-on Sentences

For Students 7th - 8th
In this grammar worksheet, students correct comma splices, fragments and run-on mistakes in twenty-five sentences to help make each one grammatically correct.
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Revising Comma Splices, Fragments, and Run-on Sentences

For Students 8th - 11th
In this grammar worksheet, students correct any comma splices, fragments or run-on sentences found within twenty-five sentences. Students mark the correct sentences as correct.
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Verbs: Present Tense

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this present tense verb worksheet, students read about occupation activities in sentences with bold print nouns. Students complete seven sentences inserting the verb that goes with the bolded noun in the first sentence.
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Math Review

For Students 8th - 10th
In this algebra instructional activity, students review least common multiples and word problems. There are 10 interactive questions with an answer key.
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"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star"

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders sing the son "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star." They are asked:"How many of you have looked at the stars in the sky on a clear night? Have you ever wished on a star? What did you wish?" Students are explained the concept...
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Fill in the Nouns

For Students 5th - 6th
For this grammar worksheet, students fill in 10 sentences, the first 5 using a common noun the last 5 using a proper noun. Students are provide with a brief description of common and proper nouns.
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Beginning Paragraph Correction #12

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this paragraph correction worksheet, students read a passage and determine the types of errors that are numbered in sentences. Students choose eight multiple choice answers that correct the errors.
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Ebony and Ivory Revisited

For Students 8th - 12th
In this current events activity, students analyze a political cartoon about the state of New Orleans after Hurrican Katrina and respond to 3 talking point questions
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Thanksgiving Music Lesson Plans

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Thanksgiving holiday songs and music lesson plans.
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Music Education, Playing the Blues

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
This lesson plan enables students to gain a broader awareness of the basic blues scale and the harmonic structure of the standard blues progression. Students will be given introductory exercises on blues improvisation and will also...
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Song Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners write an original song using music composition software such as Music Time. By doing this, students identify another use for the computer besides word processing and games.
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Making a Musical Instrument

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students determine how music is produced through sound waves and how instruments produce music differently than others. They construct flutes out of straws and explore how to adjust the sound.

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