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Exploring Music and Movement

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students explore a variety of music types and movements with an emphasis on moving "with" or "against" the music. They move with and against the music, complementing or contrasting the music, and discuss their connections with the music...
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Perkins School for the Blind

What Do I Hear?

For Teachers K - 6th
Being able to give positive reinforcers to a child starts with knowing what the child likes. Intended for children with blindness, this lesson gives you a way to determine the types of music your learners like best. You are given a set...
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App
Wimbledon Sound

DanceTime Deluxe

For Students K - 12th
Do you know the dance moves, but just need some tunes to rehearse to? Then put on your dancing shoes, grab a partner, and let the rehearsal begin! Practice a wide variety of popular ballroom dance rhythms from around the globe at a tempo...
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Activity
Anti-Bullying Alliance

Anti-Bullying Lesson Plan

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Wicked is not just a Tony Award winning broadway musical. It also makes for a strong base to teach character education, specifically anti-bullying. Scholars listen, discuss, role play, and show what they know through a group presentation...
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Syracuse University

Harlem Renaissance

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
The music and literature of the Harlem Renaissance defined American culture, including its poetry. Using a poem from the period, individuals explore its musical qualities and how it is reflective of the period. Then, they use what they...
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Acoustical Society of America

Musical Instruments: Part II

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
String together how instruments produce sound. Using pieces of string, learners find ways to create sound. They investigate changes to the string and the effect of adding a cup. Finally, pupils experiment by changing the way to create...
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Talking About Pop Music and Musicians

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students focus on using a True or False game as a means of motivation to discuss their favorite types of music and musicians.
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Worksheet
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English Folk Music

For Students 8th
In this English folk music worksheet, 8th graders read about the characteristics, instruments, and purpose of traditional music. They read about the history of folk music and contemporary uses of this type of music. They answer 10 short...
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Lesson Exchange: Musical Mathematics (other, Music)

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners explain note values and relationships, especially dotted rhythms and tied notes by giving them a visual, hands on representation
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Teaching the Musical Concept of Tempo

For Teachers K
Intended for an Autism class, this lesson plan teaches self-expression through music while facilitating an understanding of the concept of tempo. Pupils engage in a call-and-response song, clap, discuss, and sing keeping feelings and...
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Lucha Music

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers listen to four styles of Mexican music, and create percussion instruments which they use to play each style. Additionally, learners create Lucha Libre masks which are also a part of the colorful culture of Mexico. These...
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Holiday Poetry and Music

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students discuss Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays and family traditions. After brainstorming how holidays are celebrated, students write a poem about a chosen holiday and create their own hand-made instrument. They share their poems...
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Worksheet
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Boombox Classroom: Migration of Music

For Students 5th - 6th
In this music worksheet, students complete two multiple choice questions about music moving from one culture to another. They write a sentence explaining why slavery is wrong. Students name types of music African-Americans brought with...
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Hawaiʻi State Department of Education

Instruments from Various Cultures

For Teachers 2nd
After a review of orchestral instruments and instrument families, learners make their own. They listen to the song "Simple Gifts" and identify the instruments heard in the piece. Then they draw an instrument of their own invention,...
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Symphonic Poetry

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students interpret the themes in Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture, create a 6-line poem based on the themes in the Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture, and define musical terms related to the study of programmatic music in...
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App
Dr. Panda

Dr. Panda's Veggie Garden

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Friends arrive at the farm and aspiring agronomists help the farmer to grow what the friends want. With adorable animation and charming background music, little ones practice virtual gardening and farming while developing cognitive...
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Jazz and Math: Improvisation Permutations

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students observe that there are myriad combinations of rhythms to choose from when improvising jazz and blues music, and recognize that while the variations seem infinite, they are in fact finite. They notate a 12 bar blues progression...
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Feel the Beat of the Drums

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
These percussion instruments have a rich history and a variety of uses.
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Duking It Out

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students read and discuss 'Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra: Mixing Treasures by Duke Ellington and Edvard Grieg,' exploring how jazz transformed European music and the influence jazz has had on modern music. They write musical reviews.
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Who Wants To Be A Mini Maestro?

For Teachers K
Students are introduced to classical music. They listen to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. They interview each other in regards to their feelings about the music and the paintings they produced while listening to the piece.
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Types of Popular Music

For Teachers K - 8th
Students listen to different types of music, such as bluegrass, rap and blues. They identify different styles of music and musical instruments. They discuss how the music reflects culture.
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Music, Culture and War

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students see that music serves as a major conduit for the transport of knowledge. As they watch video, students tabulate the variety of music artists listed by different soldiers.
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Worksheet
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Music Terms Puzzle

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this music activity, students complete a crossword puzzle of fourteen basic music terms about instruments, beats, and performance groups.
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Worksheet
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Medieval Music: Year 7

For Students 7th - 12th
In this Medieval music crossword puzzle, students use the 17 clues to help them appropriately complete the crossword puzzle based on the instruments and music of Medieval times.

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