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Where Blues And Jazz Started

For Students 4th - 8th
In this music history worksheet, students will read five paragraphs about the history of blues and jazz music and respond to 10 short answer questions.
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Animals of Asia

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students explore three animals indigenous to Asia. They dress up like an Asian animal, listen to Asian music and explore the countries the animals are native to.
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2002: The Year In Review

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars research and create a book highlighting significant events and trends throughout the world in the year 2002. Then, through creative writing, they respond to the events or trends themselves and how they affected our world.
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Do You Really Know What Wealth Is?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars examine what it means to have wealth-a concept that turns out to be philosophical as well as economic-and examine the importance of music. They examine the concepts of wealth in Mali and in the United States and consider...
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My Hero Learning Circle

For Teachers K - Higher Ed
Students participate in a collaboration activity. In this My Hero Project lesson, students discover what a hero is to someone halfway around the world and themselves. Over the 16-week session, circles, made up of between 6-9 classes from...
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Trash or Treasure?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore their experiences and reflect on how one person can make a difference in our world. In this service learning lesson, students analyze themes in music related to encouragement. Students perform a service learning project...
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Lomax the Songhunter

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students write in their journals about the role of music in their lives. They discuss the media's use of music and watch a video clip about someone who prohibited the use of music. They create an illustration to show the folklife in...
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Vienna in 1900

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Vienna in the 1900's was a place alive with new ideas, music, and innovative art.
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Create a Greener Place- Adventures in Podcasting

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students create a podcast. In this environment lesson, students learn what a podcast is and why it is used. Students make a podcast about making the world a greener place.
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Letters from the Japanese American Internment

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students examine letters of Japanese-American children during internment in World War II. They discover what it was like in the camps and how they were treated once they were released. They also view photographs of the camps.
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Touring Tradition

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students study about the Venezuelan government's promotion of the Dancing Devils ritual in San Francisco de Yare as a tourist attraction. They investigate a number of traditional regional events around the world to explore the...
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International Festival: Greece

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students celebrate the culture of Greece. In this multicultural lesson, students participate in several activities which examine the culture of Greece. Students study the Greek alphabet, identify the country on a world map, and make...
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Folk Dancing Fun

For Teachers 1st
First graders discuss different kinds of music they have heard. They listen to a short selection of folk music and discuss where they think it is from. Using a globe, the teacher shows students where the music is from. They spread out on...
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Using Effective, Evocative Writing as a Model

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students analyze the author's style to learn techniques for strengthening their own writing. They re-read "Music in the Fields" and highlight images that create vivid pictures in their minds-places where Young "shows, not tells" and...
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Crossroads Blues

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
The crossroads, and the decisions made and entities met there, are a common theme in literature, pushing readers to examine the choices and encounters that shape life experience. The theme has also been explored in blues music, most...
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Isn't It Romantic?

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders investigate the ideas, literature, music, and art of the Romantic Movement. They apply romantic ideals to their original writing and art, analyze poetry, discuss key vocabulary, and analyze artwork from this era.
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Mozart's Piano Sonatas

For Students 9th - 12th
For this music worksheet, students examine the work of Mozart while focusing upon his works of piano sonatas. They answer the questions at the end of the passage.
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Passing Down Family History Through Oral Tradition: Corridos

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students create and perform Corridos which are oral tradition ballads. In this Passing Down Family History Through Oral Tradition instructional activity, students interview family members using a predetermined list of questions. In...
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Yes We Can! Students with Autism & Down-Syndrome on the Drums!

For Teachers 1st - 5th
To learn about various topics and improve their social skills, learners with special needs play along with music on drums and other sound objects. Teachers take digital pictures of the students participation and use them to make bulletin...
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General Knowledge Questions- All School Subjects Lower Intermediate

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this interactive general knowledge worksheet, students complete 24 multiple choice questions based on their knowledge in several subject areas. These subjects include science, geography, sports and music.
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Creating a Thunderstorm

For Teachers 1st
First graders contrast sounds and make a thunderstorm rhythm.  In this rhythm lesson, 1st graders listen to Native American music and make an original rhythm with their hands and feet.  Students discuss Native Americans.
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The Foreign Policies of Harry S. Truman

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars read an article about the new interest in Harry S. Truman. In groups, they review his foreign policy decisions and how situations might have been different if he had made a different decision. They also examine the...
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Self-acceptance

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students assess the importance of acceptance of self and others via the development of self-worth and the looking for the good in others not the bad. They explore the task of looking at the world through the eyes of others. In addition,...
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Yodeling in the Swiss Alps

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers become familiar with the country of Switzerland, its geography and yodeling music.  In this Switzerland lesson, students recognize that Swiss cheese is a producct of Switzerland and write about the process of making...

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