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Music
Fourth graders are introduced to the ABA form of music through singing and playing instruments. Using music, they practice reading the notations and improvising melodies. They also sing in duets and trios in various keys to end the...
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Dancing Hands, Abstract Drawings
Students discover African musical rhythms by performing Ancestral Spirit Dances. For this musical lesson, students research Willis "Bing" Davis and the abstract work he created. Students listen to Yoruba drum music and...
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Cracking Up
In this words into smaller words worksheet, 1st graders divide words into smaller words by putting them inside a picture of a pecan and splitting them up. Students split up 4 pecans.
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Pitch Drills
Stduents reinforce pitch recognition. Changing passing tones to hums and later to just thinking them in the mind s ear, the pitch phrase is reduced to the skip or interval desir
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"All About Me"
Students perform creative movement to music, sing and improvise using the Solfege syllables do, me, so, and la, and recognize beat vs. no beat in this lesson plan for the Kindergarten General Music class. Emphasis is on a song called...
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All About Me - 2
Pupils recognize beat vs. no beat, sing and improvise on do, me, so, and la, and perform creative movement to music in this Kindergarten Music lesson. Emphasis is placed upon the Wiggy Wiggy Wiggles CD and creative movement exercises.
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Design and Texture
Students experience how texture is one of the six basic elements of design. It gives an image authenticity and 'flavor'. It invites the audience to enter a piece and encourages each viewer to experience rather than simply observe.
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Poetry Unit
High schoolers, after examining three forms of poetry, review and document a variety of literary terms. Vocabulary words are enveloped into the literary terms as well and are cited from each selection by each student.
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Poetry Unit Test
In this poetry worksheet, students complete multiple choice questions on different aspects of poetry. Students complete 40 questions total.
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Successful Paragraphs
Students write a five sentence paragraph with varied sentence beginnings. In this paragraph writing lesson, students use a teacher modeled procedure. They complete a worksheet about their favorite things, happenings, and places before...
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Summarizing
Students summarize articles, editorials, and news programs. In this writing skills lesson, students take notes on news stories about one issue from more than one source and then write summaries of the issue using rule-based summary...
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Shortenin' Bread Shuffle
Young scholars learn a line dance that corresponds with the recreational dance curriculum of North Carolina. They respond to directional cues and terms in folk an line dancing.
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It's Waltz Time!
Students, after hearing and viewing a video of the waltz scene from the musical, "Cinderella," by Mary Rodgers, "physicalize" a three beat rhythm with accompaniment video and discuss and evaluate triple meter. They master a song in 3/4...
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Stravinsky and the Rite of Spring
In this Stravinsky worksheet, students answer the 20 short answer questions and write 1 essay in relation to the extract, "The Rite of Spring".
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Jingle Bells Streamer Routine
Students perform movements with streamers as part of a P.E. activity. They dance to the song Jingle Bells, following explicit directions. They practice a dance routine, and can create their own dance.
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Caribbean Music - Reggae
In this Caribbean music worksheet, 9th graders examine a graphic organizer that describes the characteristics of reggae music. They answer 6 short answer questions using the details from the graphic organizer.
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Look At Those Leaves!
Students explore botany by researching plants in class. In this tree identification lesson, students examine a group of leaves and list the different characteristics before guessing what types of trees they came from. Students read about...
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Family Traditions
Students research their family traditions. They select a tradition that has meaning to them and write about the traditions. They retell the story to a partner and add details. They write a draft of their story to a partner and...
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Ii is for Igloo
For this printing learning exercise, students form the upper and lowercase letter Ii. Students also color in pictures that begin with the letter Ii.
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Ii is for Igloo
In this literacy instructional activity, learners look at the formation of the letter I and practice creating it. Then they use the pictures to make cognitive connections to help with spelling.
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Working with Clay
Second graders investigate how to work with clay after examine the book "Being Friendly to Trees." They make a clay square which they decorate with leaves that they find while taking a nature walk. They glaze their artwork and then...
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Expressive Mixed Media Collage
Students create a collage that expresses color, symbols, and collage techniques. They view and discuss paintings, create a collage book that communicates their interests, and write a question about each collage in the class.
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Paper Architecture - Designing Human Spaces
Students design, then construct an architectural structural model of a two-person dwelling. Then, Students, in groups, plan a city layout.
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Rhyming With Ramon
Students study the importance of being clean and healthy while working with rhyming words. They waddle like penguins when the hear rhyming words in sequences, and tap their feet and clap their hands in tune to a rap about being healthy....