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Getting to Know You

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create a women's history trail. They interview residents of their local community. They create information brochures on different women as well.
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Clay Tiles: Family Mosaics

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders design and create a clay tile to represent their families. They research and discuss similarities and differences among families of different cultures, create a tile to represent their own and then compile the tiles in a...
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Pathways to the Future

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students draw a pathway and create a movement phrase along that same path using specific movement vocabulary. The phrases are performed in class and rubrics are used for assessment. Meets State standards for the arts.
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Great Big House

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders sing and play the song "Great Big House" in the Orff style using soprano and alto glockenspiels, bass xylophones, bass marimbas, triangles, woodblocks, and the singing voice. The lesson includes step-by-step teacher...
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Status Games

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders, in groups, participate in a simulation activity in which they are assigned a certain "status" role to play in a given situation. After the simulation, they reveal their status roles and discuss what they observed. They...
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Edward Elgar

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the music of Edward Elgar. As a class, they listen to Elgar's "Nimrod" and the "Adagio Cantabile" from Beethoven's piano Sonata. They listen to the music, write down the moods and discuss their feelings. Students compare...
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Simulation: Urban Planning for An Ancient Mayan City

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students participate in the simulation of planning an ancient Mayan city. In this urban planning activity, students role play as citizens of an Mayan city. They act out their roles in a classroom that has been rearranged to simulate the...
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Slang Words Beginning with W

For Students 4th - 6th
In this slang worksheet, learners complete 9 multiple choice questions, choosing the correct idiom for a bold phrase in a sentence. Students may click on an answer button for immediate feedback.
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Posture and Pantomime: Total Body Movement

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students analyze posture and pantomime in an analysis of total body movement. In this body movement lesson plan, students read a chart of movements and the mood or attitude they convey. Students complete several space and observation...
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ESL: Multiple Choice Vocabulary

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this ESL vocabulary worksheet, learners fill in blanks to correctly complete sentences, choosing from 4 possible answers. Page has links to additional activities.
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3-5: Rhythm Beginnings

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Young scholars explore tempo.  In this rhythm beginnings activity, students differentiate between steady and unsteady beats.  Young scholars clap a variety of tempo and then move to the tempo of a song. 
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Activity
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Kwanzaa Flash Cards

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students study Kwanzaa. In this art lesson, students compare Kwanzaa with the American holdiay known as Thanksgiving. Students decorate seven cards with the seven lessons of Kwanzaa written on them.
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Goldilocks and the Three Bears Pantomime

For Teachers K
Students investigate acting and performing arts by portraying a story in class. In this pantomiming instructional activity, students read the story Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and discuss the characters amongst themselves. Students...
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Word Bank; Theater

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students are given a word bank relating to theater. In this word bank lesson, students are introduced to a list of words and their definitions. Students then build their vocabulary regarding theatrical concepts.
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Jazz Improvisation Primer

For Students 9th - 10th
An info-packed lesson on jazz improvisation and jazz history. Very useful for musicians aspiring to play in the jazz idiom.
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Website
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Improvisational Theater Structures

For Students 9th - 10th
List of definitions of improvisational terms or "structures," each with a link that explains in detail with lots of exercises!
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Exploring the World of Music: Composers and Improvisers

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video, composers and improvisers are compared and contrasted with use of different types of music showing variation and fixed elements. The video is part of the Exploring the World of Music instructional series. [26:48]
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National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: Wassily Kandinsky, "Improvisation 31"

For Students 3rd - 5th
This site analyzes Kandinsky's abstract painting "Improvisation 31." Discusses colors, shapes, line, and mood. Has a short matching exercise involving simple geometric shapes.
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PBS

Pbs: Blues Improvisation

For Teachers 9th - 10th
After learning the 12 bar blues progression, students will practice their improvisation skills. After performing their solo, they will also transcribe it.
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PBS

Pbs: Improvise a Short Story

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson incorporates the art of improvisation with writing a collaborative short story. Students will learn the relationships music has with other disciplines outside of the arts.
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Music for People: Improvising Techniques

For Students 9th - 10th
Music for People (MfP) offers workshops in music improvisation for almost 20 years. This page provides improvisational techniques.
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Website
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European Free Improvisation Pages

For Students 9th - 10th
A site about the European free improvisation scene. Contains articles, mp3's bibliography and videos.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Garden of Love (Improvisation Number 27)

For Students 9th - 10th
From the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, here is the image "The Garden of Love (Improvisation Number 27)", an expressionist painting by Wassily Kandinsky.
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PBS

Pbs: Jazz and Math: Improvisation Permutations

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson deals primarily with the number of rhythmic combinations that can be found in a four beat measure of music. Students will learn through trial and error and derive a mathematical formula to calculate the number of possible...

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