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Designing the Careers Show

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners write a song. For this career lesson, students form groups based on occupational interests. Student groups write song lyrics about their chosen career. Learners present their songs to the class.
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Folk Rock Singers and Songwriters

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners listen to and analyze songs of folk rock musicians of 1970 and then compose and perform a song in a popular or folk style for acoustic guitar and voice or for two acoustic guitars.
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Haydn's Surprise

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students listen to Haydn's "Surprise" and use the score to create themes and variations with other rhythms. They create poems using Haydn's rhythm in the symphony and research his life. They also use "body percussion" to play parts of...
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Rhythmic Pattern and Expressive Movement

For Teachers K
Students use the song Row Row Row Your Boat to help them learn patterns and expressive movement. They recreate the movement over and over until it is a pattern and they feel comfortable doing it.
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Rhythmic Pattern and Movement

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars practice repeating rhythmic patterns in unison. Next, students work in groups to practice an alternate rhythmic pattern to Row, Row, Row Your Boat. They create their own rhythmic patterns for the song.
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Your Song

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners create instruments to demonstrate their understanding of how the science of vibrations is used to create sounds.
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SATIRE AND POLITICS

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students, after analyzing a satiric song written during the Prohibition era, illustrate how humor can be utilized as a political tool by writing satiric lyrics on a current political issue at the front of the news world today. They...
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The Dancing Flute

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students use a cardboard tubes as props as they create their own dance steps to express the emotions invoked in a portion of The Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky.
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Drama and Dance

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students create a dance that tells a story then they use the dance for inspiration and write their own. In this drama and dance lesson, students discover how the May and Aztec would dance to covey a concept or story. Students work in...
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(Inside) Out: Lisa Marie Presley

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students reflect on how being the child of a celebrity can effect one's life and career. They analyze the lyrics of Lisa Marie's song "Dirty Laundry" to determine the main theme and emotions expressed by the artist.
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Creating, Notating and Recording an Original Song

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are provided with a set of parameters, including theme, time signature, number of measures, and form. Working within these parameters, the class , step by step, goes through the process of creating, notating, and recording a...
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Halloween Fine Arts Activities

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders demonstrate their understanding of crescendo. They achieve dramatic effect in singing the Halloween Song. They sing this song with a gradual crescendo from beginning to end.
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VH1 Road to Fame: Harry Connick Jr. - Lesson 3

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students sing a vocal improvisation on a 12-bar blues progression. After watching a video on Harry Connick Jr., students try their own scat singing on the two-measure break.
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Ooooh, The Oud

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students listen to a performance of the instrument, oud. After watching a video, they discover how many parts of the world it is used in and locate the countries on a map. They compare and contrast the oud with other instruments from the...
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"Let's Write a Song"

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders brainstorm ideas that answer the question, "What is a song?" They determine the parts of a song, read lyrics, and listen to a song while identifying the chorus. They repeat the procedure with a new song before working in...
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Exploring the CTK-671

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Learners demonstrate the operational aspects of the CTK-671 by selecting various tones, advanced tones, and rhythm patterns based on parameters set by the teacher.
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Song Allouette - Oneida

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students practice singing the song Allouette. They discuss the meaning in both the English and Oneida languages and how the words to this song demonstrate important feelings for the Oneida people.
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Tapping the Trees-Traditional Oneida Song

For Teachers K - 5th
Young scholars practice singing the song, Tapping the Trees. They discuss the meaning in both the English and Oneida languages and how the words to this song demonstrate important feelings for the Oneida people.

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