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Poetry4kids

How to Write an Acrostic Poem

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Acrostic poems are perfect for any topic! A quick tutorial guides learners into writing acrostic poems with the basics and key examples.
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Poetry4kids

How to Write a Clerihew

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Writing funny poems is the best part about learning poetic forms! Young poets learn all about clerihews—humorous four-line poems about people—with an explanatory lesson.
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Poetry4kids

How to Write a Repetition Poem

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
A repetition poem is the focus of a lesson that challenges scholars to compose an original piece. To add meaning to their poem, authors choose words to repeat at the start of most lines.  
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Poetry4kids

How to Write a Silly Song Parody

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery—and it's a great way to learn about poetic structure! Young poets use familiar tunes to write a song parody based on straightforward guidelines.
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Ereading Worksheets

Figurative Language for Edgar Allen Poe

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Are your classes weary of dreary worksheets? Are the learners nearly napping? Thrill them, fill them with delight with an interactive instructional activity that asks them to identify the figurative language Edgar Allen Poe uses to add...
Interactive
American Museum of Natural History

Sounds of the Silk Road

For Students 6th - 12th
Young explorers may not be able to travel the Silk Road but they can listen to music that was played on instruments of the time and create their own songs with the help of an interesting interactive resource. 
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PBS

Reading Adventure Pack: Farms

For Parents K Standards
A Reading Adventure Pack features a fiction and nonfiction text—The Oxcart Man by Donald Hall and illustrated by Barbara Cooney and Farming by Gail Gibbons. Following the readings, scholars make a collage showcasing foods farmed from...
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Amani Project

Write a CoronaKindness Song

For Students 3rd - 8th
And the beat goes on! Finding a way to connect during the isolation imposed by the Coronavirus pandemic can be challenging. This activity from the Amani Project offers a way to stay close during a time of physical distancing....
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Curated OER

Japanese Poetry: Tanka? You're Welcome!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore tanka, a form of Japanese poetry. They read and analyze tankas to determine the structure and intent, and compose a traditional and a non-traditional tanka.
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Curated OER

Bali and Indio Pop

For Teachers 7th - 9th
How has music influenced culture? This can be a great way to start this presentation on Bali and Indio pop. Balinese music from the past and how it has changed because of modern pop influences is covered in this informational resource....
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Curated OER

Draw the Bar Lines

For Students 5th - 12th
For this bar line recognition music worksheet, students decide on the meter signature, if it is missing, and draw the bar lines that are missing.
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Curated OER

Draw the Bar Lines

For Students 5th - 12th
In this bar line recognition sheet music worksheet, students read the sheet music provided and draw the bar lines that are missing.
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Curated OER

Draw the Bar Lines

For Students 5th - 12th
In this bar line recognition sheet music activity, students read the sheet music provided and draw the bar lines that are missing.
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Curated OER

Draw the Bar Lines

For Students 5th - 12th
In this bar line recognition sheet music worksheet, students read the sheet music provided and draw the bar lines that are missing.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Draw the Bar Lines

For Students 5th - 12th
In this draw the bar lines worksheet, students draw the bars lines needed to create measures of music in the 5 lines of sheet music provided.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Circle the Missing Note

For Students 5th - 12th
In this reading musical notes activity, students read the notes in 8 different lines and then select what the missing note in each line from the possible answer choices.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Identify Time Signatures - 2

For Students 5th - 12th
In this identify time signatures worksheet, student determine the correct meter signature for each of 8 lines of music when they identify the correct answers by circling them.
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Curated OER

Identify Time Signatures

For Students 5th - 12th
In this identify time signatures worksheet, student determine the correct meter signature for each of 8 lines of music when they identify the correct answers by circling them
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Curated OER

Poetry Pals

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create the components for a slideshow featuring their own poetry, illustrations, and music. This lesson uses auditory, visual and kinesthetic (signing and clapping) learning styles.
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Curated OER

Poetry in Motion

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students choose a poetry theme. They write a poem, illustrate it with digital images and record it using a digital video camera.
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Curated OER

All About Me

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students examine who they are through the arts and sciences. They create a portfolio entitled, " All About Me."
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Curated OER

High School Lesson Plan

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students compose and arrange music within specific guidelines. They # identify and explain compositional devices and techniques used in a musical work. They compare and contrast the use of those techniques between different compositions.
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Curated OER

Water

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders study different bodies of water and how they fit into the water cycle. They explain that materials exist in different states (solid, liquid and gas) and change from one to another, that there are systems, order, and...
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Curated OER

"I am a pirate with a wooden leg": Stomping Iambic Pentameter

For Teachers 7th - 9th
What is blank verse? Iambic pentameter? Meter? Use the attached document to review these ideas with your middle schoolers. This plan has learners get up and stomp to iambic pentameter, which is a fun change from just clapping the...

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