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Musical Mysteries

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students examine the changes that occur to sound as the pressure changes. Echoes and sound changes in caves and tunnels are explored in this activity.
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The Three Little Pigs

For Teachers K
Students identify high and low sounds in the "Three Little Pigs" song, sing a song that includes vocal sound effects and identify ways that music relates to language arts. Before singing the song, they have listened to the teacher read...
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I Can Dance to the Music of Everything

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students examine Keith Haring's art work. They apply visual imagery to rhyming, rhythmic words with Haring's "Dance" book. They make impressions on styrofoam plates to explore printmaking process.
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Sharing the Beat

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students discover what it means to be a giver. In this service lesson plan, students create a story and art project to be shared with a local preschool or nursing home. They reflect on the impact of this experience on their own lives...
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Teach With Movies

Title: "Pygmalion" - Topics: Drama/England; World/England

For Teachers 7th - 12th
“What do you mean that my language is improper?” Prior to My Fair Lady was Pygmalion. Fair Eliza’s struggles with English, which according to George Bernard Shaw “is not accessible even to Englishmen,” come alive in the 1938 film version...
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ESL Kid Stuff

Christmas Lesson 2

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Wrapping presents, singing Christmas carols, writing Christmas cards and learning holiday vocabulary are all wrapped into this one exciting ESL lesson.
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Rhythm - "Yankee Doodle Dandy"

For Teachers 1st
First graders practice rhythm and beat. In this music lesson plan, 1st graders sing and clap to the song "Yankee Doodle Dandy".  They find the rhythm of the music and practice making rhythm with other instruments.
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Creating an Original Opera

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students research the lyrical and dramatic structure of opera through Internet sources and audio examples, cooperatively discuss elements of opera stories vs. their own lives and create one-act opera based on their own life experiences.
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"Ricercare" from Musical Offering by J.S. Bach

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students sing pounds or partner songs. They listen for one melody in a polyphonic texture. Afterward, they use a pencil to draw the "shape" of the melody on paper.
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Musical Line Movements

For Teachers K - 1st
Students work on balance by traveling along lines on the floor; and by starting and stopping a variety of locomotor movements with control.
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Music

For Teachers K
Students develop listening skills through repetitive singing. They develop an appreciation of melody.
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Children's Books

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students explore daily dilemmas students face. They write and illustrate a story book dealing with one dilemma. Students write reviews of their books. They read their books to second grade students. Additional cross curriculum activities...
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Bum, Bum, Beat the Drum

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students experience practicing sorting words and pictures to build letter and sound recognition. They identify /b/ in spoken words and learn how to write the graphemic representation of /b/. Each student also practices with the tongue...
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Music/Craft

For Teachers K
Students develop an appreciation of melody. They gain enjoyment from singing. They participate in an art activity.
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Making Waves, Making Music, Making Noise

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders watch a demonstration on how talking cans produce sounds. In groups, they compare and contrast the sounds from different sized cans. They participate in a variety of activities to discover how sounds are made and how...
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Music - Lesson 3 - Orchestra

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders study the four families of orchestral instruments and patriotic songs in this unit of lessons.
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Children's March Teacher's Guide, Activity 1

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Students study how political movements involve students as well as adults. They discover that students of all ages have the power to make a difference in the world.
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Composing Music on Computers

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students compose pandiatonic works using computers as a compositional tool. Following the anticipatory set, they work individually to create their own pieces. The lesson concludes with a "concert" of the created student compositions.
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Math: Musical Patterns

For Teachers K
Students employ their five senses to interpret and duplicate instrumental patterns. Following the teacher's patterns, students clap their hands and later use instruments such as bells, triangles, or cymbals to create their own "songs."
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Far AwayTo encourage children

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students move as safely through general space as possible.
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Summer Safety Activity: Stop, Drop, and Roll!

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students practice stop, drop and roll. In this fire safety lesson plan, students learn to stop when the music stops, drop when the music stops, and then roll when the music stops. That can be translated to stop, drop, and roll in case...
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Birds, Bees and Butterflies

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Students complete a variety of activities surrounding science, music and art.  In this nature and animals instructional activity, students sing songs, color a picture of make a butterfly, listen and dance to music, make a butterfly,...
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Rhythmic Ribbons

For Teachers K
Students practice various locomotor skills and to provide students with the opportunity to experiment with movement to music.
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Singing And Making Rhythm

For Teachers 1st
First graders engage in a lesson that emphasizes the use of music to form a rhythmic beat that incorporates singing. They create a song in freestyle and some of them create a song. Students are assessed at using hand movement to track...

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