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Musical Chair Review
Students play a simple game designed to reinforce letter names, sounds or sight words. They walk in a circle as music plays, and stop in front of a chair when the music stops. Each chair has a letter or sight word that the child must...
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Activities Using Music From Saint-Saens & Moussorgsky
Student create a fish and listen to music while imagining their fish are swimming. In this music lesson, students identify instruments played and move their fish to the movement. Students work with kangaroos and elephants to music as...
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Rap Music and Hip-Hop
Students explore rap and hip hop music. In this music and culture lesson, students experience the music of Will Smith in order to work on language and communication skills such as rhyming words, writing, and public speaking.
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Cultural Music Festival
Young scholars participate in planning a multi-cultural community event. In this cultural music instructional activity, parents, community members, and teachers provide time, music, advertisement, and refreshments to create a community...
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Study Guide for Lelavision's Physical Music
Learners complete activities for physical music analysis. In this physical music instructional activity, students read the biography for Lelavision musical sculptures, complete a sound and motion activity, and a making music activity....
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Enjoying Latino Music
Students view different musical instruments from around Latino world, predict what sounds instruments will make based on their appearance, listen to and evaluate music from different Latino genres orally or in writing, and make...
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Japanese Music-Some Songs for Children
Students explore songs from Japan. In this music lesson plan, students listen to four Japanese folk songs and identify the characteristics of the music.
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The Love and Safety Club for Children
Child safety and bullying is the focus of this sociology lesson plan. The Love and Safety Club is a program for children which is designed to help reinforce important information regarding how to stay safe at home, at school, and when...
Pimsleur
Book Report: Children Return to Their Roots
Based on the book Victoria Goes to Brazil (Children Return to their Roots) by Maria de Fatima Campos, this lesson will teach learners about family, geography, sports, music, and transportation. Learners read, summarize, and use the book...
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Teaching the Musical Concept of Tempo
Intended for an Autism class, this lesson teaches self-expression through music while facilitating an understanding of the concept of tempo. Pupils engage in a call-and-response song, clap, discuss, and sing keeping feelings and tempo...
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Music for Alice
Third graders explore Japanese culture. They read the story Music for Alice. Students write a paragraph defining what happiness means to them. They discuss Alice's culture and their own cultures. Students create a brochure about Japanese...
Little Baby Bum
Number Songs: 100 to 1000 - Big Numbers!
Go on an undersea adventure with a music video featuring a children's song about counting numbers. A friendly octopus swims freely while he counts to 1,000 by hundreds.
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Count to Ten
Reinforce counting skills with a captivating music video that follows a young boy and his dog as they explore the outdoors, all the while a choir of children count to 10 to the tune of This Old Man.
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ABC Song: Alphabet Party!
Come join the party! Watch and sing along to a music video featuring a host of friendly characters that carry letter balloons and float to a party in the clouds while the alphabet song is sung.
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Numbers Song: Number 4
Discover the number four with a music video equipped with captivating graphics, a fun rhythm, and a singer that features items such as shapes with four sides, a table with four legs, and more!
Little Baby Bum
Shapes Song: Circle Song
Bright colors and a calming singing voice make up a music video highlighting a shape—the circle.
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Explore and Discover
Inspire scholars to explore and discover with a music video that highlights the fun of unearthing new things. Captivating graphics take viewers through several learning experiences such as science experiments and unearthing lost treasures.
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Beat the Beat!
Students develop a sense of pulse by listening to music with strong beats. In this music beats activity, students listen to marching band music examples. Students then practice showing the beat while listening to the song.
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Global Music Lesson Plans: Singing Games - UK and Botswana
Learners perform and compare two singing games from Botswana and from the United Kingdom. For this singing games lesson, students identify and respond to singing games and their changes in meter. Learners compare the two singing games...
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Dancing Hands, Abstract Drawings
Young scholars discover African musical rhythms by performing Ancestral Spirit Dances. In this musical lesson, students research Willis "Bing" Davis and the abstract work he created. Young scholars listen to Yoruba drum music and...
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Native American Music and Dance Activity
Students demonstrate keeping steady beat through practice exercises and stepping to the beat using instruments such as conga drums, tambourines and rhythm sticks.
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Exploring African Music
Students appreciate African Music and the rich culture it represents. They identify two characteristics of African Music in their journals.
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African Popular Music
Pupils explore popular music of West Africa. In this musicians lesson, students complete listening tasks that challenge them to analyze the music of Oumou Sangare, Angelique Kidjo, and Baaba Maal.
Rockin' English Lessons
Possessive Adjectives Song–"My Heart and Your Heart"–Rockin' English
Get ready to snap along with the cool jazz beat! In this music video, example sentences are featured using the possessive adjectives my, your, our, his, her, its, your, their, and my.