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Bass Clef Spaces - 3

For Teachers 1st - 12th
For this bass clef spaces worksheet, students read the sheet music and identify the letter names of the notes that are missing as they fill in 30 blank spaces.
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Bass Clef Lines and Spaces - 1

For Teachers 5th - 12th
In this bass clef lines and spaces sheet music worksheet, learners read the sheet music and identify the bass clef lines and spaces as they fill in 36 blanks.
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Bass Clef Lines and Spaces - 3

For Teachers 5th - 12th
In this bass clef lines and spaces sheet music worksheet, pupils read the sheet music and identify the bass clef lines and spaces as they fill in 36 blanks.
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Bass Clef Lines and Spaces - 2

For Teachers 5th - 12th
In this bass clef lines and spaces sheet music worksheet, students read the sheet music and identify the bass clef lines and spaces as they fill in 36 blanks.
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Clerihew Dances I

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders demonstrate locomotor movements and define non-locomotor movement. They discuss a story and perform a "name" movement.
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Treble Clef Lines and Spaces

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
In this music worksheet, students fill in the names of the notes that are show on the sheet music. They write the names on lines below each note.
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Rhythm Dictation - 3

For Teachers 5th - 12th
In this rhythm dictation worksheet, students listen carefully to teacher-selected music and write the correct rhythm by placing note heads on the 5 blank lines.
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From Remus to Rap: A History in Theory and Practice of the African-American Storytelling Tradition

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine the specific form and function of tall tales and toasts. They discover the importance of performance in the telling of a story and the importance of rhythm in the telling of toasts. They create stories of their own, in...
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Water Music

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars explore music about water. They listen to various pieces of music, play instruments, and plan and create a piece of art that includes a water motif.
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Got The Beat

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Young scholars listen to song in which they identify the beat. Listening to the song again, they clap and march to the beat after being introduced to the new vocabulary. They complete the same exercises for other songs played in class.
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Music Accomplished Practice #4

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders create their own rhythm with a time signature. They examine notes, rests, and how many beats for ech type of note. Students clap in rhythm. They perform their own rhythm for the class.
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Mural to Music 2

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students make a collaborative mural drawing to music using invented sign language, music and their responses to music. They select the music to be played while they are drawing. As the music stops, students move to a new location on the...
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Musical Art

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students create pieces of Abstract art by listening to various genres of music and reacting to the music with a pencil on a piece of paper and their eyes closed. This activity is intended for a middle-level Art class and can be used as...
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Creative Watercolor Painting - K-6 Art Lesson Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Learners express themselves with watercolor painting and music. In this Pre-K - 6th grade lesson plan, students experience watercolor painting to a rhythmic beat. Learners are encouraged to paint using brush strokes according the beat...
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Mysterious Music

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders investigate how to compose music for a detective program. The goal is for them to discover the method needed. The idea was simple, they were told to compose the music with emotional tension that climaxed and then relaxed...
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Browsing Music

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students survey how the Internet has changed the way we listen to music. Research the powerful new music browser called SIMAC. Test the music field and see if this new concept helps to put in words on a sound track what couldn't be...
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Musical Instrument Workshop: Somerset Waste Action Programme

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars use recyclable material they bring from home to create a musical instrument. They play their instrument for the class and work as a class to play as in a band or orchestra. Students discuss recycling, and other uses they...
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Musical Instrument Activity

For Teachers K - 1st
In this musical instruments worksheet, students color instruments along a path, helping "children find their instrument and join their friends in a band." A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Music: Zim, Zim, and La Tarara

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students establish the correct way to sing and play melodies in Spanish. In this music lesson, students review the correct pronunciation of the song "Zim, Zim" and participate in singing it correctly.
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Woodwind Instruments and Pitch

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore musical pitch. In this cross curriculum musical instruments and "sound" physics lesson, students identify and describe common traits of woodwind instruments. Students research "pitch" and what causes pitch fluctuation by...
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Fun Dance

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students perform a dance step in physical education class. They move to the beat of the music, counting eight beats to a set of movements. Students walk forward four counts and do two jumping jacks. They walk backwards four counts and do...
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The Shape of a Melody

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore the melody in music. In this music lesson, students listen to samples of music and interpret the color of the melodies.
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Rock & Roll through Literary Terms: An Upbeat Lyrical Adventure

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars participate in a variety of activities surrounding Rock & Roll music, lyrics, drama and visual art and how they all help demonstrate examples of literary terms. They use Rock & Roll as an effective aid to stimulate...
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Counterpoint Activities: Listening and Discussion

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students assess whether or not a piece of music is contrapuntal. In this music education lesson, students listen to various pieces of music and identify whether the music is contrapuntal or not contrapuntal.