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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Expressions of Culture, History and Politics Through Art and Music

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze a piece of music to identify its political, cultural, and historical messages. They discuss relationships between art, history, culture and aesthetics and examine how Hawaiian artists transmit cultural traditions,...
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Website
PBS

Pbs: American Experience: Hawaii's Last Queen: Liliuokalani's Musical Legacy

For Students 9th - 10th
At this site from the American Experience film on Queen Liliuokalani, you can hear an audio clip of "Aloha Oe", one of the Queen's best known original melodies and see the other music she wrote honoring the Hawaiian musical tradition.
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Article
Other

Aloha From Hawaii: The Ukulele

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource presents a short article about the ukulele that explains how the instrument came to be identified with Hawaii.