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Creating Music
This online, interactive environment for music creation and exploration includes games and puzzles and interesting activities that teach about music in a visual way.
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Open Stax: Catherine Schmidt Jones: Melody
Learn about one of the basic elements in music, melody. Discover the ideas of melodic shapes and phrases as well as motifs and themes, and how to present these topics to children.
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Open Stax: Catherine Schmidt Jones: The Shape of a Melody
Here is a lesson plan that will allow your students to learn about melodies and their shapes. Recognizing when the notes are high or low and if they move up or down will help your students understand melodic contour.