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RAINSTICKS
Students create a rainstick from recycled materials and begin learning about the "nature" of the rainforest.
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The Sounds of Rain
Students create rainsticks. In this rainstick lesson, students use rainsticks as instruments to create the soothing sounds of rain. This lesson contains the directions to creating large and small rainsticks.
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American Indians
Fourth graders explore the American Indians and the music from their culture. They discuss the music of American Indians and compare that music with the music that we listen to today. Students create rainstick and perform their own...
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Rainsticks
Middle schoolers create their own set of rainsticks. Using a pattern they designed, they make the sticks out of tubing and toothpicks. They place a combination of dried beans and rice inside and then decorate the outside of the stick. ...
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Rainsticks
Students create a rainstick decorated with repeated patterns of shape and color, out of paper towel tubes.