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Quia

Quia: World Music: Rags to Riches

For Students 9th - 10th
Test your knowledge of music from around the world with this who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire-style game. Click on the correct answer to each multiple-choice question, and move closer to "winning" a million dollars!
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Music for Kids: How String Instruments Work

For Students 3rd - 8th
Kids learn about how musical string instruments work. Understand what makes the music and notes on this website.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Energy Transfer in Musical Instruments

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This lesson covers concepts of energy and energy transfer utilizing energy transfer in musical instruments as an example. More specifically, the lesson explains the two different ways in which energy can be transferred between a system...
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Other

The Mudcat Cafe: Make Your Own Drums

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Hands-on-activity for making music. Find out how to make your own drums at this website. Explore and have fun with music.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Musical Instruments

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How musical instruments make sounds, music and change pitch.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Music as a Language

For Students 9th - 10th
Can learning to make music be as unstructured as learning to speak as a small child? Bassist Victor Wooton makes that argument in this TED Ed talk. Free registration is required to receive full access to the the complete lessons.
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Catherine Schmidt Jones: Scoring Music: Write for Specific Instruments

For Students 9th - 10th
If you are interested in arranging your own music, you should check out the tips offered at this website. Including a history of how music was arranged, this site also gives several good ideas of how to make your arrangements interesting.
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Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Make Your Own Rainstick

For Students 9th - 10th
Create a traditional instrument called a rainstick in this activity.
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John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Woodwind Instruments and Pitch

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, pupils will enjoy making their own woodwind instruments. They will also discover how the instruments change pitch based on the length of the airpipe.
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Other

Chord Studio

For Students 9th - 10th
Have fun composing your own music with this easy to use online tool. Select the chords you want your song to have and choose the various instrument styles. You can sign up for a free account so you can save your songs and edit them later.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Energetic Musical Instruments

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students will learn to apply the principles and concepts associated with energy and the transfer of energy in an engineering context through the designing and making of a musical instrument. The students must choose from a variety of...
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Smithsonian Institution

Lemelson Center: Spark!lab: Invent a Musical Whirligig

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students can easily create a musical whirligig to study sound production. These instruments are constructed out of everyday materials and allows students to use their imagination to make music.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Simple Instruments

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this activity, students work with partners to create four different instruments to investigate the frequency of the sounds they make. Students may chose to make a shoebox guitar, water glass xylophone, straw panpipe or a soda bottle...
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ABCya

Ab Cya: Marvin Makes Music Storybook

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
ABCya! presents its fifth children's storybook for the classroom. It's called Marvin Makes Music, an original work by Michelle Tocci. The story is about a frog that is sad because he cannot sing like his friends, until one day when he...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 8.sp.4 Music and Sports

For Teachers 8th Standards
This task looks at a possible relationship between playing a sport and playing a musical instrument. Students collect data from classmates, summarize the data into a two-way table, make some observations, and construct a bar graph of the...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Dividing Notes

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students create an altered musical melody by dividing fractions. They compute the value of notes in terms of fractions and make their sum equal to the time signature.
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Other

Homemade Instruments

For Students 3rd - 5th
Do you want to make an egg shaker? Come to this website and find out how. Homemade instruments can be made from different household items. Don't miss out on all of the music that can be made at home or school.
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Staten Island Children's Museum

Staten Island Children's Museum: Music Camp at Home

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Enjoy doing these outdoor activities with your family such as making a Guiro or kazoo, or learning how to play the flute.
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Handbell World

Handbell World: Handbell Notation Symbols and Definitions

For Students 9th - 10th
Handbell ringing is a unique form of music-making and uses techniques that don't apply to other instruments. Music written for handbells looks much like piano music, with the addition of symbols which indicate these unique techniques....
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PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Slavery & the Making of America

For Students 9th - 10th
Using primary documents, oral histories, and other historical resources, discover how the arts of Africa, Europe, and pre-Civil War America influenced the culture of enslaved African Americans.
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Other

The Mudcat Cafe: Gourd Rattlers

For Students 3rd - 5th
What is a calabash? Use this website and find out what it is but also how to make it. This gourd rattler can be constructed with the easy to follow directions.
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Other

The Mudcat Cafe: Blocks, Bells, Box Drums and Mallets

For Students 3rd - 5th
Have you ever wondered how to make homemade musical instruments? Use this site to find out how to construct sandpaper blocks and mallets.
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Other

Oddmusic

For Students 9th - 10th
You will find many creative and imaginative musical instruments on this site. If you are creating your own instrument you'll be inspired by what others have invented.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Music for Kids: How Woodwind Instruments Work

For Students 3rd - 8th
On this website, students can explore how woodwind musical instruments work. Explore how wind vibrations make sounds.

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