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Save the Music Concert: Part 2 Composition

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine why music is considered to be the "universal language" and study the expressive quality of a musical performance. They compose a melody using a computer and software which they perform on an instrument.
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Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students sing "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" with others in small groups and as an entire class. Using correct posture, correct rhythms, and accurate pitches, students play improvised melodies as accompaniment to the song. This lesson emphasizes...
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CDV, CDV, What's a CDV?

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Introduce your class to the Core Democratic Values. The lesson focuses on defining the Core Democratic Values and related terms. Small groups look up terms and present a song based on the information they've found. After the...
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Don't Laugh at Me

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students describe how discrimination can grow within a school climate. They examine the work of Peter Yarrow for his work to help others end discrimination. They develop their own plan for decreasing the amount of discrimination in their...
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Japanese Music

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students experience the components of Japanese dance and music through the songs, "Soran-bushi nd Hanagasa Odon." The music is presented in relation to the country's history and culture.
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Mobile Cooking

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students investigate the history of Mobile, Alabama and then create recipes from the area, including Southern Pecan Pie and Mr. Carver's Peanut Brittle.
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Political Music Lesson Plan

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars review concepts of the oppressive system of apartheid and relate the significance of Mandela's freedom from prison. They also use music to understand a concept and to convey a concept by using music.
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North Carolina State Flag/Song

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders describe and identify the North Carolina state song and flag by listening to the song and drawing the flag. They use oral and written presentations with an awareness of purpose and audience by creating their own song...
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It's All Poetry to Me!

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore language arts by analyzing poetry styles. In this writing analysis lesson, 4th graders read several sample poems in class and identify similes, metaphors and other figurative language within them. Students analyze...
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Transportation Types

For Teachers K
Students answer questions after listening for details that identify many different kinds of transportation.
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Connecting Poetry with Philanthropy

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the different types of poetic conventions. They write a poem about philanthropy using these conventions. They illustrate their poem with artwork of their choice.
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Let's Make Lemonade Lesson 2: Philanthropy in Song

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students discover a working definition of the word philanthropy. They sing the definition to the tune of a familiar song. They establish phonemic awareness through rhyming text and identify philanthropic acts.
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Quatrain

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Learners write quatrains based on themes recently heard in songs.
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Memories

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders collect artifacts of their fifth grade school year and make a technology based Memory Book.
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Getting Out of the Box

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students define stereotype, discrimination and prejudice. They brainstorm a social action plan to heal racism.
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Dance with Me

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders create a simple dance that illustrates the changes in rhythm in a song. They identify the form of the song. Ask volunteers to show movement or steps that could be used for each section
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Inter-City Jazz Songbook Project

For Teachers 5th - 11th
Students choose a city with famous musical highlights and create a tourist brochure.
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Urban Concentration and Racial Violence

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars research one of the many urban race riots in U.S. history, from the New York City riots during the Civil War to the "Red Summer of 1919" or the hate-strikes of 1943. They present their findings in the form of a newspaper's...
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Stylistic Aspects of Spiritual Singing

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students sight-read a piece of music and analyze two unfamiliar pieces of music. They discuss performance aspects of a piece of music.
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Songs that Bring Us Together - Lesson 5

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students compose song as a classroom effort. They write a one-paragraph essay about "message" songs in 100 years and include three ideas for topics along with the style of music (such as folk, rock, blues, rap, etc.) that would match.
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Songs of Unrest - Lesson 4

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify popular songs from 1968 and make connections with the year's current events. They pretend that they are producing a new CD. The CD includes four songs that comment on today's social issues. They write the liner notes.
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Reaching the Solar System

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars sing the Rap of the Solar System, view pictures of the planets, and calculate their weights and ages on all the planets and the sun. They create a presentation comparing themselves with a planet or object in the solar system.
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Cooking Kansas City

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students investigate the history of Kansas City and then create recipes from the area, including Kansas City Barbecue Sauce, and Kansas City Corn.
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Fertilization and Pregnancy

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners use a KWL chart and describe their knowledge of fertilization, pregnancy and birth. They watch a video of fertilization and development and create a poem, song or dance about what they have learned.

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