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\n\"Music\n\n
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\nMusic Assessment: 8 measure piece\n

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\nEighth graders compose an eight measure piece in a major key that utilized some form of wind instrument, body percussion and voice. They notate their composition on staff paper prior to the assessment and perform their composition.\n
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\nWhy It's Impossible to Tune a Piano\n

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\nExplore the physics of tuning most musical instruments. The video instructor explains the pitches of string and wind instruments with an emphasis on the sound waves. After discussing the ratios between pitches, it compares harmonics and...\n
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\nStraw Oboe\n

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\nTrim the end of a straw to construct a vibrating wind instrument. Everyone in your class can make their own during a lesson on sound waves.\n
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\n\"Wind\n\n
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\nWind\n

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\nStudents make a wind vane, anemometer, wind spiral, and wind streamer to calculate wind movement. In this wind lesson plan, students test each of their wind instruments, and graph the results of the wind speed in different locations.\n
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\nBuild an Anemometer\n

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\nStudents investigate wind speed. In this wind instrument lesson, students build an anemometer to measure wind speed and discuss the importance of wind speed knowledge in various professions. \n
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\nTeaching Musical Instruments in Kindergarten\n

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\nStudents explore the sounds of different instruments through the nne lessons of this unit. Instruments representing the elements of percussion, string, and wind are utilized in this unit.\n
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\nGood Vibrations\n

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\nThird and fourth graders should enjoy this easy-to-implement activity involving a straw, and bottles filled with water. Learners manipulate the end of a straw in a way that results in a sound being made when it's blown. There is also an...\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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\nBreezy Energy\n

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\nThird graders view photos of machines that measure wind energy and chart what they observe in the pictures and the questions they have about the pictures.  In this wind energy lesson, 3rd graders make a pinwheel.  Students show...\n
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\nMaking a Musical Instrument\n

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\nStudents determine how music is produced through sound waves and how instruments produce music differently than others. They construct flutes out of straws and explore how to adjust the sound.\n
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\nAfrican Music\n

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\nIn this music learning exercise, students read an excerpt about African Music. Once completed, they respond to eight short answer questions related to the reading. Students also imagine that they are an African musician and suggest how...\n
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\nPeter And The Wolf: Instrument Listening Game\n

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\nLearners match the instruments to the characters they represent in Peter and the Wolf. They also identify the instruments by name from listening to their sound.\n
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\nPeter and the Wolf: Instrument Listening Game\n

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\nListening to this piece of music will foster the pupils ability to recognize individual instruments and the sounds they create. The art of music inspires the students to become sensitive listeners able to make aesthetic judgements and...\n
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\nOpen Curriculum: Wind Instruments: Some Basics\n

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\nTo introduce the different wind instruments and the components of the instruments\n
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\nYale Collection of Musical Instruments: Wind Instruments\n

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\nLearn about woodwind instruments in this image gallery with descriptions of each instrument in this page from the musical instruments collection of Yale University.\n
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\nOpen Curriculum: Standing Waves and Wind Instruments\n

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\nTo explain how musical sounds in aerophones are created by standing waves\n
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\nExploratorium: Science Snacks: Sound Sandwich\n

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\nMake a simple wind instrument and use it to experiment with pitch.\n
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\n\"Unite\n\n
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\nUnite for Literacy: Create and Play: Musical Families\n

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\nLearn about the different groups of musical instruments. Book includes audio narration in 6 additional languages with text in English.\n
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\nPhysics Aviary: Resonance Tube Lab\n

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\nThis lab is designed to help students visualize the formation of standing waves in a wind instrument. Students will be able to view fundamental waves as well as some higher harmonics. They can work with a tube with two open ends or just...\n
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\nNorth American Saxophone Alliance\n

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\nAlthough membership is required in order to participate in the North American Saxophone Alliance Discussion Group, non-members can view this website for archived discussions and upcoming events. Also included are links to information on...\n
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\nExploratorium: Science Snacks: Water Bottle Membranophone\n

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\nTry making this instrument that incorporates a stretched membrane. As air is blown into the attached bottle, sound vibrations are produced. With the addition of finger holes, different sounds can be made.\n
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\nExploratorium: Science Snacks: Straw Oboe\n

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\nTry making this straw oboe to explore the resonance characteristics of the sound it makes.\n
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\nLoc: America's Story: See, Hear and Sing\n

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\nLots of history of American music with fun links and audio clips, most from the 20th century. A neat site to learn more about America's past.\n
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\nHistory and Literature of Music: Renaissance Instruments\n

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\nThis resource classifies Renaissance instruments in the following categories: winds, plucked strings, bowed strings, keyboard, and percussion.\n
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