Knowing oneself and attaining a mature identity is the developmental task of adolescence. Successful resolution of the identity crisis involves making healthy choices and personal commitments to an occupation, religious belief, and a...

To introduce harmonic analysis of chords and provide an overview of the relationship of chords, keys, and triads

Nadir and his family play in a band. Can you help him get all the instruments together? In these activities, students will write data using symbols, use one object to represent one item, create a column graph, and determine whether...

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...

This site provides an excellent explanation and analysis of the Musical Offering with lots of pertinent links to musical terms.

This activity will use tuning forks and the CBR to gather sound wave data for students to use to write Sine (or Cosine) functions. In this activity we study waves of known musical notes before studying waves of unknown musical notes. I...

The production of a standing wave in a string is presented and discussed in this site. Exceptional diagrams are accompanied by thorough explanation and mathematical analysis to explain the various modes of vibrations.

Audio slideshow analysis of the musical score for the film "Mission: Impossible III," which uses the theme from the 1960s television series in different ways throughout.

Young scholars will use a data set to demonstrate that they know what it means for two variables to be associated. Explanations and solutions are provided.

This site is filled with information pertaining to the physics of sound and music.

Four part lab activity involves students using real-time data to solve a problem, study the correlation between earthquakes and tectonic plates, and determine whether or not there is a relationship between volcanoes and plate boundaries.

An online beginning music theory and ear training site. This site is for students to use at home to reinforce what they learn in class.

This analysis is well done with clear diagrams, concise text and online sound clips. Also available in Spanish.

A stylistic breakdown and analysis of traditional jazz. Distinguishes between the different types of this unique genre.

A tipsheet giving ideas on how to encourage students to think and speak critically about visual arts, music, dance, and even literature.

This activity has students access USGS earthquake information to plot the their locations on a world map. Doing this will help students discover for themselves the boundaries of tectonic plates.

Can you help Grace organize a dance show for her school?

This is a clever feature of National Public Radio's website. Each day of the year several events related to classical music that occurred on that date in history are listed.

Using what they learn about how heroes are depicted in art, literature, and music, students create their own definition of a hero, and then write an essay based on a hero they wish to research.

AMC's goal is to build credibility for music and music education. Its efforts in this regard appear impressive. Teachers will find useful resources such as survey results and research data that is accessible. Teens will enjoy visiting...

This PDF lesson plan uses the Lyrics to "I Was a Kaleidoscope" by Ben Gibbard and the song "I Was a Kaleidoscope" by Death Cab for Cutie to analyze the poem and determine its meaning.

Designed to help teachers and students make effective use of primary documents. There are well written section on how to make sense of numbers, ads, music, diaries, and more. included are interactive activities for students to help them...

Students are often hesitant to speak out with their own explications of literature, but usually have no qualms when asked to offer interpretations of popular musical lyrics. In fact, they seem quite eager to defend a lyrical explanation...

Many adolescent boys are consumed by theLed Zeppelinsong 'Stairway to Heaven.' The analysis of this song can be used to interest students in the music of the Renaissance minstrels. It will also serve as a means of making students aware...