PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Musical Math Facts: Lesson Plan
Combine mental math with physical activity to engage students and increase overall fitness. This lesson plan describes a twenty to twenty five minute series of activities that require pre-made math flashcards that can be easily created...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Tour Through New York State Lesson Plan
This instructional activity is a cool and hip way to tour across New York State. The teacher takes young scholars on a virtual tour of NYS while using music and movement.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Lesson 46: Feminism Does Not Have to Be an F Word
The women's liberation movement of the 1970s is suffering a tremendous backlash and is frequently viewed as obsolete. Many young people feel as though feminism is irrelevant and sexism no longer impacts their lives. Through the...
PBS
Pbs: Jazz Music and the Crisis Over School Desegregation
Working in cooperative groups, your students will learn how jazz musicians expressed the Civil Rights era in their music. This lesson focuses on the Civil Rights movement in Little Rock, Arkansas. Also, they will learn to about the...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Freedom Riders and Popular Music of the Civil Rights Movement
In this lesson plan, learners will consider "The Freedom Riders and the Popular Music of the Civil Rights Movement." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Learning the Blues
This lesson plan introduces learners to the blues. The origin and development of the blues is explored as well as its distinctive structure.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Civil Rights Movement Photo Story Timeline
In this instructional activity students will be able to explain various events that took place during the Civil Rights Movement. The students will be divided into groups of 5. Each student within the group will receive an individual role...
HotChalk
Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Fly Butterfly, Fly!
This is a fun, creative lesson relating movement to music for very young kids. If done properly, it should enable kids to get a sense of musical form while listening to a Chopin waltz.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: February One (Lessons on the Greensboro Sit in of 1960)
Find two lesson plans developed for a PBS documentary about the Greensboro Four, whose sit-in at a whites-only Woolworth's lunch counter was a key event in the unfolding history of the civil rights movement. The lessons ask students to...
PE Central
Pe Central: K 2 Pe Lesson Ideas: Hoop Jumper
Students practice and improve their jumping and landing skills through using different types of jumping patterns. This fun gym-class activity, which is a variation of "tag," reqires music, hula hoops for each student, and vests and foam...
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: All Around the Baseball Field
Here's a lesson plan that combines art, music, movement, critical thinking, math, and baseball. The plan gives complete instructions, printable resources and web links, assessment, and application of national standards.
A to Z Teacher Stuff
Lesson Plan Z: The Arts
LessonPlanZ, a searchable online database of lesson plans, provides links to lesson plans for arts and crafts, movement and dance, drama, and music.
A to Z Teacher Stuff
Lesson Plan z.com: Movement & Dance
LessonPlanZ.com, a searchable online database of lesson plans, provides a listing of movement and dance-related lesson plans.
PBS
Pbs: Jazz Is About Collaboration: Jim Crow Laws: Segregation
Engage your students in discussion about segregation and the Jim Crow laws with this in-depth lesson plan. Using jazz music, you will contrast the ways in which America's most significant contribution to the arts depended on...
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Influence of Folk
This site, which explores the influence of musical folk traditions in the poetry of Langston Hughes and Nicolas Guillen, provides lesson plans, a biography, examples of Hughes' poetry, and details about his meeting with Nicolas Guillen.
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology
Ciese: Musical Plates: Designing an Earthquake Resistant Structure
A lesson where students look at how the sudden movement in an earthquake causes a building to collapse, and how to design a building that can withstand it.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
This lesson teaches learners to sing along to a cumulative song, maintain a steady beat while singing, and create movements that go with the song's rhythm.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Drum Beating & Foot Stomping
In this lesson, students watch African dance and calculate tempo. Students also calculate heart beats at rest and after exercise and convert beats per second to beats per minute. Media resources and teacher materials are included.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Dancing to New Heights
Lesson plan for young students to move their bodies in specific ways. Warm-up exercises are done to culturally diverse music. (Note: Lesson references a book that is not included and contains a link to a song that does not work.)
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Albright Knox Art Gallery: Personified Sculpture
After learning about Fernand Leger's sculpture, students will learn basic concepts of modern dance, create their own movements, select sounds or music, and combine all of these in a modern dance performance.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Realizing the Power of Your Own Creativity [Pdf]
In this lesson, students interpret a poem called 'The Little Blue Engine' by adding music, movement, visual art, and drama. After performing their creation, they will discuss any mathematical and/or scientific connections that have a...