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Fifty States In Rhyme

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students perform "Fifty States in Rhyme" with correct posture, correct rhythms, and accurate pitches. They also identify and perform such musical terms as tone color, tempo, dynamics, phrases, and accents. Emphasis is placed on the...
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The Joy of the Body

For Teachers K
Students participate in a read aloud of the poem, "My Body" then perform several different movement activities such as a finger play, a letter dance, and a body puzzle. They then create a drawing of their body using a prepared outline.
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The Star Spangled Banner

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Pupils perform Star Spangled Banner, and analyze purpose and meaning of patriotic songs.
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Apples, Oranges, and Bananas

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students sing songs about fruit to learn colors. In this colors lesson plan, students sing a song about apples, oranges and bananas. Students use a movement activity to help reinforce the lesson plan.
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Music

For Teachers 4th
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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Night On Bald Mountain

For Teachers K
Students sing songs, improvise musical responses, maintain steady beats, and move to music in this Halloween Music lesson plan for the Kindergarten classroom. Emphasis is placed upon meeting State and National Standards in Music.
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What Does a Cowboy Do?

For Teachers K
Students participate in a variety of activities as they study cowboys and the cowboy culture. They read stories and sing songs about the cowboys. They study the area of the United States cowboys are from and review the tools cowboys...
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Rabbits Rhymes and Finger Plays

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students sing songs about bunnies and pick out the rhyming words. In this rhyming lesson plan, students develop an understanding of rhyming words at the end of each verse of a song or poem.
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Matching Game: Fish and Turtles

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students participate in a matching game.  In this memory instructional activity, students conduct a memory experiment by playing a matching game with pictures of fish and turtles.  Students sing songs about the animals during...
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Birds, Bees and Butterflies

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Learners complete a variety of activities surrounding science, music and art.  In this nature and animals lesson, students sing songs, color a picture of make a butterfly, listen and dance to music, make a butterfly, recite riddles...
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Once I Was a Baby Trout

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners sing a song about the trout life cycle. In this trout life cycle lesson plan, students learn trout vocabulary and make motions while singing this song.
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When Turtle Grew Feathers

For Teachers Pre-K
Students discuss being a friend and sing songs about friendship.  In this friendship lesson, students listen to When Turtle Grew Feathers.  Students  answer questions about the friends in the story. Students discuss the...
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The Pilgrims' First Thanksgiving

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students explore holidays by participating in class singing activities. In this Thanksgiving history lesson plan, students discuss the importance of Thanksgiving Day and read several poems which discuss the history of Thanksgiving....
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Sing that Tune

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars sing Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star without accompaniment, and maintain the tonal center.
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Hello Song

For Teachers K
Students sing song during meeting circle time to learn and practice their new school friends' names.
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Broccoli

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Young scholars sing a song and figure out the rhythm notation for pharases while describing the benefits of broccoli. They compose a four-measure pattern using the rhythms of these phrases. They play the rhythm patterns with the recording.
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The Ants Go Marching

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Integrate art, math, life science, music, and fun in this beginning addition and subtraction activity. Children kinesthetically represent adding and subtracting numbers to 10; they stand up one at a time as you count forward and sit down...
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Capturing the Reader With Vivid Images

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine the use of imagery to hold a reader's attention in an excerpt from John Deever's memoir "Mr. John and the Day of Knowledge". They are introduced to background information about the Ukraine and create original imagery.
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Hanky Panky

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners learn to sing the song, "Hanky Panky" accurately and are able to properly participate doing the motions while singing. They are also able to keep the beat of the song and speed up and slow down the tempo.
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My Love And I

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils practice singing the song "My Love And I" by Sonja Poorman and Berta Poorman in this High School music lesson plan for the SSA choir. This lesson plan can be accomplished in under an hour and includes warm-up ideas to begin the...
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My Love And I

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners practice singing the song "My Love And I" by Sonja Poorman and Berta Poorman in this High School music instructional activity for the SSA choir. Emphasis is placed on proper singing techniques. This is part of a unit of...
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Festival Hosanna

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students sing and perform the song "Festival Hosanna" by Carole Stephens in this Choral lesson for the High School classroom. Emphasis is placed upon the National Standards for Music and singing proper Latin text in a group setting.
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Language Arts: Rhyming Words

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders discover words that rhyme and how to recognize them. After reading a book and singing a song, they identify the rhyming words in each. Students add their own rhyming words and complete a worksheet.
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Music

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders incorporate two formal music lessons into the core curriculum. They study whole notes and rests, syllables of the musical scale and practice singing.

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