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Open Stax: Catherine Schmidt Jones: The Circle of Fifths
A way of organizing the various key signatures, the circle of fifths is a good tool to help visualize the relationships of the different keys. This tutorial includes several self checking quizzes to test your knowledge.
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Open Stax: Catherine Schmidt Jones: Enharmonic Spelling
Understand what enharmonic notes are and why they are needed. Included are several self checking problems to test your knowledge.
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Open Stax: Catherine Schmidt Jones: Scales That Aren't Major or Minor
As the title suggests, this site defines and gives examples of various other types of scales including chromatic, whole tone, blues scales and more.
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Open Stax: Lydia E. Kavraki: Protein Folding
This module introduces students to the problem of Protein Folding, its importance, and current computational methods used to attack its complexity.
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Open Stax: Catherine Schmidt Jones: Keys and Scales Are Sets
Help your students identify sets and intersections of sets with this musical activity. Using the concept of key signatures, students will learn that scales are sets of notes. Included with this lesson plan are downloadable worksheets and...
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Open Stax: Catherine Schmidt Jones: The Staff
The staff and all of its parts are explained in this very easy to understand tutorial. This lesson can also be downloaded as a pdf file.
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Open Stax: Catherine Schmidt Jones: Theme and Motif in Music
Explore a set of activities covering motif, opera motif, and melodic themes and movies. Several ideas and procedures are listed to help you teach this musical concept to your students.
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Open Stax: Catherine Schmidt Jones: Percussion Fast and Cheap
Here are some great ideas to assist you in helping your students make their own percussion instruments with little or no money.
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Open Stax: Introduction to Sociology: Theoretical Perspectives on Deviance
Why does social deviance occur? Read about three theories that are grouped according to the three major sociological paradigms: functionalism, symbolic interactionism, and conflict theory.
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Open Stax: Catherine Schmidt Jones: Dynamics in Music
This lesson focuses on the use of dynamics in music. Learn what the most common terms mean. Includes several activities to use with your class.
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Open Stax: Catherine Schmidt Jones: The Shape of a Melody
Here is a lesson plan that will allow your learners to learn about melodies and their shapes. Recognizing when the notes are high or low and if they move up or down will help your students understand melodic contour.
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Open Stax: Catherine Schmidt Jones: Germanic Music: Christmas Carols
Two Christmas carols are taught in this lesson plan, Silent Night and O Tannenbaum. Students will learn the carols in German and English. They will also learn the background and history of each of these well known carols.
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Open Stax: Catherine Schmidt Jones: Talking Drums
Engage your students in a lesson about talking drums. Included are various activities that allow the students to experience the concept of the talking drum.
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Open Stax: Catherine Schmidt Jones: Fractions, Multiples, Beats, and Measures
Engage your students in a lesson that uses music to identify multiples and fractions. Your students will enjoy participating in this activity as they learn and explore music and math.
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Open Stax: Catherine Schmidt Jones: Caribbean Music: Calypso and Found Percussion
Have your students learning about calypso music with this engaging lesson plan. Learn about calypso rhythms and learn a calypso song.
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Open Stax: Catherine Schmidt Jones: The Music of the Romantic Era
Here is a nice introduction to the Romantic Era. It describes the various elements and the composers of this time.
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Open Stax: Catherine Schmidt Jones: Conducting
The basics of conducting are presented here in this well written tutorial. Included are simple pictures and animations of simple conducting patterns.
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Open Stax: Catherine Schmidt Jones: Dots, Ties, and Borrowed Divisions
Read and learn about how dotted notes and ties work. Included on this page is a self checking quiz.
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Open Stax: Gary Martin, Angus Mac Neil: Require Students Use Problem Solving Steps
This is a well thought out and detailed lesson that can teach students how to problem solve using real-life situations. It also teaches students about the importance of respect as well as being responsible for their own actions.
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Open Stax: Structural Organization of the Human Body
Try considering the structures of the body in terms of fundamental levels of organization that increase in complexity: subatomic particles, atoms, molecules, organelles, cells, tissues, organs, organ systems, organisms and biosphere....
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Open Stax: Nervous Tissue Mediates Perception and Response
Learn here all about nervous tissue, a tissue that is excitable and capable of sending and receiving electrochemical signals that provide the body with information.
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Open Stax: Anatomy and Physiology: Overview of Muscle Tissues
This site provides information regarding the three types of muscle tissues: skeletal muscle, cardiac muscle, and smooth muscle.
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Open Stax: Anatomy and Physiology: Male and Female Reproductive Development
Find out about the development and hormonal changes associated with reproductive development for both males and females.
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Open Stax: Catherine Schmidt Jones: Musical Travels for Children
A series of lesson plans geared toward elementary learners. These lessons explore various musical cultures such as Germanic music, Korean songs, Ugandan music and Mexican music. You can use all of the lessons or simply choose which ones...