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And The Oscar Goes To?
Third graders complete a graphic organizer to determine what a good story looks and sounds like. Using various forms and conventions, they determine which style to use for different audiences and purposes. They write their own story and...
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The Sound of Calm
Students examine the relationships that exist between ocean currents, wind and climate. Using those relationships, they discuss how they affect the oceans. They create their own music to represent the sounds of the ocean and share them...
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Robert Henri, the Harlem Renaissance and You
Students examine the artwork of Robert Henri. Using his pieces, they compare and contrast it to the works during the Harlem Renaissance. They create a HyperStudio project showing the Ashcan School of Art with music accompanying the...
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Learning Abstract Concepts
Middle schoolers create iMovies depicting abstract concepts, such as sorrow, future, wishes, infinity, etc., in this technology-based Visual Arts/Language Arts lesson. Music can be used to enhance created movies.
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Teaching Serialism with Technology
Eighth graders compose serialistic tone-row melodies using music notation software. This lesson includes an email address to receive all materials and worksheets involved in the week-long study.
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Cyberspace
High schoolers create original works of art or music and upload them to the Internet. They work individually or in a group. Then they collaborate with others to interpret, analyze, or alter the work.
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Name Songs
Students use music to help them with the names of children in their class. They identify the letters used in their own name and practice saying them. They create a class book as well.
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Rhythm Compositions
Young scholars investigate the concepts that focuses upon the musical rhythms. They conduct class discussion and use questions in order to clear up any misconceptions. Students create art compositions that illustrate rhythm and then...
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Identifying Major, Minor, Dominant 7, and Augmented 6 Chords
Eleventh graders engage in a lesson that is concerned with the concept of deciphering major, minor, dominant 7, and augmented through participating in listening exercises. Then students use the knowledge of cords to create their own music.
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Pease Porridge
Practice using different ways to express a single pattern. The class uses concrete, pictorial, and numerical modes to represent patterns found in a simple rhyme. They will move their bodies, use body percussion, draw, and use numbers to...
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All About Me
Students examine who they are through the arts and sciences. They create a portfolio entitled, " All About Me."
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Aboriginal Web Design
Learners explore world history by participating in a web design activity. In this aboriginal history lesson, students discuss the different jobs associated with designing a web site and identify the types of media that are often shown on...
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Decimal Multiplication
Students use base ten blocks to lead them in the concept of understanding multiplying numbers with decimals. In this multiplication of decimals lesson plan, students also use digital activities to help them with the multiplication.
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Detectives in the Landscape
Fourth graders explore landscapes. In this landscape activity, 4th graders investigate different elements of landscapes. Students design a visual presentation using photographs taken during a nature walk.
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Black and Blue: Jazz in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
Students analyze the impact of jazz on the novel, "Invisible Man," by Ralph Ellison. They read and discuss excerpts of the novel, write an essay on the influence of jazz on Ralph Ellison as a writer, and view video excerpts on jazz...
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Puppet Frogs
Students identify the elements of line, shape, and color and expressive qualities of pictorial representation. Students create their own puppet frog using emotion and perform in a reader's theater. Students listen to various pieces of...
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Rain Orchestra
First graders mix secondary colors from primary colors and simulate a rainstorm by using body percussion.
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Storytellers: Coldplay
Students discover the importance of lyrics in the successful combination of music and words in the process of composing a song. They discuss how emotion-based lyrics influence the creative aspects in composing a song.
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A Shape-Note Singing Lesson
Learners discover the shape-note method of singing. In this reading and notating music lesson, students learn the four shapes of the shape-note method and the tradition of Sacred Harp singers. Learners sing the shapes of "Yankee Doodle"...
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William Tell Overture
Students explore the musical concepts of rhythm, melody, expression, and tone color in a three-lesson plan unit about the William Tell Overture. They identify dynamics and tempo and play a vocal tone color singing game.
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Songs of Fela Kuti – Nigeria
Students explore the music of Fela Kuti. In this music lesson, students listen to the fusion protest music of Fela Kuti of Nigeria. Students reflect on Kuti's music and message.
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Composing To A Video Clip
Students assess pre-recorded music and sound effects to create an accompaniment to a video clip to express the mood and actions occurring in the video. They incorporate with today's lesson the program GarageBand to assist them with their...
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Animal Alphabet Book
Students identify each letter of the alphabet. They listen as the teacher reads an animal alphabet picture book. Students listen to the alphabet song. They create their own movements for the alphabet song. Students are asked to name...
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Kindergarten Mural
Students trace their bodies, color them in, outline them in black, and hang them on the wall to create a mural. In this mural lesson plan, students base their mural on the work of Keith Haring.