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Musical Elements Chart

For Students 6th - 8th
In this Louisiana musical landscape worksheet, students study 6 terms and their meanings as they pertain to music instruction to be used for further classroom activities.
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Music in South India-Kerala

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify various instruments and styles of music from South India-Kerala. In this music lesson, students discover main languages of South India and the Kathakali dance drama. Students discuss the types of singers and dancers in...
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Rap as a Modern Poetic Form

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students write and listen to rap songs. They discover how common themes in rap are indicative of the problems, as well as the empowerments, that can be seen in our urban cultures today. They discover how rap is actually an evolution of...
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Learning Musical Terms

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Young scholars investigate musical instruments and sounds by defining musical terms.  In this music appreciation lesson plan, students define many vocabulary words and utilize a study sheet for memorization.  Young scholars are...
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Musical Instruments

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this music worksheet, students write the name of a musical instrument that they would like to play. Students do research and list as many instruments as they can find.
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Clef music note

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this clef music note worksheet, students view a picture of a clef music note and trace and write the word clef. Students trace and write the word 1 time each.
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Topic - Musical Instruments Word Search

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this musical instruments word search puzzle worksheet, students locate and identify the 20 instruments from the word bank. The words may appear horizontally or vertically.
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Unscramble the Musical Instruments

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students unscramble musical instrument words. In this instrument instructional activity, students discuss the different types of musical instruments. They get a worksheet with their names and they need to unscramble them and spell the...
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Designing an Appalachian Folk Art Museum

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners investigate the concepts related to the Appalachian area and the movement of Folk Art. They conduct research using a variety of resources and use the samples as inspiration for creating their own works of art. They could...
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Music Dynamics - America the Beautiful

For Teachers 1st
First graders sing America the Beautiful and understand the words to the song.  In this singing social studies instructional activity, 1st graders become familiar with the images and vocabulary in America the Beautiful while singing...
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Itsy Bitsy Spider & His 2 Friends: Music, Pitch, High and Low Notes

For Teachers K
Students gain practice with high and low notes when singing an adaptation of the 'Itsy Bitsy Spider".
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Language with Linguistic Legos

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students visualize and manipulate sentences as building blocks, and, given a key, use Legos™ to demonstrate how to construct sentences of variety (simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex).
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Railroad Idioms Art Lesson Plan

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders research railroad idioms.  In this idiom lesson, 6th graders read through a glossary of different railroad idioms and their meanings. They illustrate a chosen idiom.
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Lesson Ideas for Any Music

For Teachers K - 12th
Music is a wonderful tool you can add to enhance the learning process for every subject. Here is a list of music selections that are categorized by subject, along with some neat teaching suggestions. You'll find songs suited to...
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Sports and Hobbies

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore vocabulary related to sports and hobbies. They consider their interests in sports and hobbies in relation to other students. They discuss music and describe a piece of music using simple adjectives.
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Erase the Quiet

For Teachers K - 12th
Students recognize how music, theater, dance, and the visual arts can be combined to contribute to their own active learning. They work in small groups to research and use critical thinking skills to identify ways in which the arts could...
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The Romantic Age in British Literature

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Put the Romantic Age into context for British Literature classes with a PowerPoint that defines and characterizes this movement in literature, music and art. Notable painters, writers, and musicians are listed, as are key romantic themes...
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Hey! What's the Big Idea?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the concept of the theme (the big idea) in a poem. They brainstorm thoughts and feelings about themes, e.g. war, pollution, music, etc., and create and idea web about a theme of their own choice.
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Write Acrostic Poetry

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore acrostic poetry and use names of their favorite personalities from television, music, or sports. They write descriptions for each letter of the person's name.
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Everybody Get Ready

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Learners identify and spell words containing the short /e/ sound. They rehearse a fun tongue twister which contains words emphasizing the short /e/ sound. They then read Red Gets Fed as a class. Have your group clap every time they hear...
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Poetry in Song

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Have your music lovers examine song lyrics and identify the poetry elements or tools used by a lyricist. They review the song individually before working in groups to discuss what they discovered about the song's narrator or character...
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The Twelve Days of Christmas

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Young scholars explore the origins of a traditional Christmas song. They adapt historic lyrics to have meaning in their lives today and fabricate, write, and illustrate an accordion book or card. They compare this song to the words of...
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Leprechaun Legends

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Explore the world of leprechauns. Learners do research on the folk tales, symbols, and characters found in Ireland's traditional stories, poetry, and music. They create a large, stand-up leprechaun to illustrate their knowledge about...
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Swirls and Smilies

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students listen to a variety of poetry and music that depicts emotions or feelings. As a class, they brainstorm a list of words that they use to show their feelings. To end the lesson plan, they listen to one song individually and make...

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