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\nChanging One's Tune: A Music Therapy STEM Integrated Project\n

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\nA music therapy STEM integrated project combines science and language arts. Pupils listen to music, learn about music physics, build and play instruments, write songs, and share their musical creations. They study different intervals and...\n
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\nInstruments of Change: Making a Simple Stringed Instrument (CTE)\n

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\nWhat materials and skills does a person need to build a simple working instrument? With the first of four lessons from the Changing One's Tune: A Music Therapy STEM Integrated Project series, scholars learn about the basic structure of...\n
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\n\"String\n\n
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\nString Instruments and Pitch\n

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\nStudents make predictions and explore how pitch is altered in string instruments. In this acoustic science lesson, students learn the types and parts of string instruments and create their own. They listen to classical music and identify...\n
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\nName That Harmonic: Strings\n

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\nDon't string your class along! Physics scholars discover the fascinating forces behind the music of stringed instruments using an interactive. From a series covering sounds and waves, the interactive asks users to identify nodes and...\n
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\nScale City — Proportions and Music in the Real World\n

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\nMasterfully mix math and music. Pupils first watch a video about the music instrument calliope on the riverboat Belle of Louisville. They then conduct an activity where they investigate how the length of the strings on a string...\n
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\nAcoustical Science\n

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\nStudents explore musical instruments and the pitches and tones they make. In this acoustical science lesson, students create their own string instruments and explore how pitch is altered.\n
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\nMeet the Instrument Families\n

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\nFourth graders listen to a recording of a string quartet and ask questions about what kinds of instrument they think they are listening to and describe what they think the instruments look like. Then they discuss musical ideas such as...\n
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\nStudy Jams! Invertebrates\n

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\nStringed instruments play as viewers explore ocean invertebrates through nine nicely flowing slides. The captions describe the eight phyla: cnidaria, flatworms, roundworms, segmented worms, mollusks, arthropods,and enchinoderms. During...\n
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\nRubber Band Banza\n

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\nThird graders review ideas about sound and vibration to make their own stringed instrument. They review what a pictograph and bar graph are. Pupils conduct a survey within the classroom to choose the four favorite string instruments and...\n
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\n\"Strum\n\n
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\nStrum Along\n

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\nStudents engage in a lesson which takes something constructed by the class, that would be normally classified as just sound, then work together to make what can be perceived to be music. Students construct a basic stringed instrument...\n
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\nMusic- Found-Object Orchestra\n

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\nStudents construct simple musical instruments. In this music lesson, students read the text Max Found Two Sticks and construct their own instruments from classroom materials.\n
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\nSounds in Strings\n

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\nHow many of your pupils play an instrument? A musical science lesson will help all of them understand how string instruments work. Young scientists construct a string-and-pulley system to test frequency and pitch. The lesson...\n
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\nDesign of Music Instruments for a Rock Band\n

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\nCan you create a rock band? Scholars learn about the creation and transmission of sound in a hands-on STEM activity. First, they explore the transmission of sound using a tuning fork. Then, they must solve the problem of missing...\n
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\nHands-On Engineering Challenges to Bolster Your Electricity, Sound, and Force Units\n

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\nNeed some activities to go along with your unit? A collection of hands-on activities from PBS offers opportunities to add to your electricity, sound, and force units. The electricity activities revolve around building a...\n
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\nConsonance and Dissonance: Creating Intervals for Emotions (CTE)\n

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\nHow are music and emotion related? Using lesson plan two of four from the Changing One's Tune: A Music Therapy STEM Integrated Project Series, scholars explore the connection between the two topics. They learn to recognize different...\n
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\nSounds of the Silk Road\n

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\nYoung 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. \n
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\n\"Percussion\n\n
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\nPercussion Instruments and Pitch\n

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\nStudents play string instruments to discover how the pitch changes on various string instruments.  For this pitch lesson, students listen to video clips and play an online music game.  Students become familiar with music...\n
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\nSounds Like Music\n

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\nStudents define and examine the connections between sound and music and how engineers design instruments. They listen to examples of musical instruments, view a demonstration of a tuning fork and bottles filled with varying amounts of...\n
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\nShifting with Grace\n

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\nStudents who play stringed instruments discover how to shift with ease and accuracy throughout the range of their instruments, resulting in the ability to perform orchestral and solo music at a more advanced level.\n
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\nInstrumental Sounds\n

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\nWhat sound does a piccolo make? What's the difference between a violin and viola? What family does a timpani belong to? Take a tour through the different sections of an orchestra with an interactive reference tool.\n
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\nInstruments Have a Family\n

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\nAre the instruments in Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in the same family as those in George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue? Elementary musicians work on their music theory and their instrumental ear as they listen to clips of famous...\n
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\nA Composer Leads the Way\n

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\nWhat song is playing? A music activity focuses on composers throughout history, their famous works, and the instruments in each piece. As pupils complete the worksheet they play a short game to review music theory terms.\n
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\nListen to the Music\n

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\nDifferent pieces of music can elicit different emotions from audience members. A quick tempo can make you feel happy, while a largo piece may bring out a melancholy temperament. Elementary musicians learn more about the instruments...\n
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\nFun With Musical Words\n

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\nIs concertmaster another term for conductor, or is he or she another person entirely? Learn the specifics of the role of concertmaster with an activity focused on classical music. After learners define the term, they...\n
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