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Consonants Blended with Long Vowels and Endings

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students practice vowel and phonic sounds. In this grammar lesson, students practice rhythm, rhymes, voiced phonic sounds, unvoiced phonic sounds and voiced vowel signs. Students brainstorm words with the cvce patterns.
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A Round and A Round

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students practice singing rounds in daily warm-ups for 2 weeks prior to beginning this composition lesson. Students incorporate movement to the rhythm of each syllable, discuss syllables of words and their relationship to note values and...
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Insects: Bugs, Science, Entomology

For Teachers 7th - 12th
In this lesson, insects are explored through reading of children's literature, classifying insects versus non-insects, drawing and painting various insects, and learning how to clap to certain rhythms while reciting insect names.
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Do Be Square

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders perform a square dance using proper movements keeping the beat and the rhythm of the song. They explore basic square dance steps as well as a complete dance. Give a bit of background on square dancing.
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Collaborative Collage - A Lesson in Creative Chaos

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students examine the works of abstract and collage artists. They explore alternate methods of paint application that reinforce the elements of rhythm and movement and create collages based on these principles.
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William Tell Overture

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore the musical concepts of rhythm, melody, expression, and tone color in a three-lesson unit about the William Tell Overture. They identify dynamics and tempo and play a vocal tone color singing game.
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Riding the Gravity Wave

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students write a sketch of an artist or athlete that has pushed the limits on gravity. They explore concepts of rhythm, balance and friction. They examine how engineers design sports equipment.
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I Spy a Pattern-Kindergarten

For Teachers K
Students copy, create, describe, and extend patterns with objects. They explore a variety of patterns through the use of manipulatives, sound, rhythms, songs and movement. Cooperative processes are used to encourage partner discussion.
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Singing Lesson for Grades 5-8

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students practice their breath control and posture in this singing instructional activity. They sing with accurate pitch and rhythm. They sing the songs repeatedly while evaluating their breathing ability in small groups and then regroup...
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Salad Sisters

For Teachers K - 6th
Students practice and perform 8 and 16 beat rhythmic patterns in 4/4 using the song "Salad Sisters" as a basis in this elementary-level General Music lesson. An amazing lesson for teaching cooperative music composition techniques and...
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Simple Gifts

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Students explore music. They practice singing with correct posture. Students practice reading music using the correct rhythms. Students also learn the intervals Major 3rd and Major 6th.
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Music

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify ways in which math and language arts relate to their music. After being read a book, they sing a song about who took the cookies from the cookie jar. They recognize repeated patterns in the melody and rhythm and...
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Physical Education Demonstration Program

For Teachers K - 8th
Students demonstrate what they have learned in physical education class. In groups, they perform the different activities in front of teachers and parents. To end the activity, they practice their creative movements and dance to specific...
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Honor Choir Rehearsal

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers practice singing with complete vocal warm-ups in a unified tone. They perform sections of the following songs: "Lamentations of Jeremiah," "Soonah Will Be Done," and "Fairest Lord Jesus." As students sing, they practice...
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Hop Oh Bunny

For Teachers K
Students imitate, sing, move, and discuss musical techniques in this exciting kindergarten music lesson. Emphasis is placed on the song "Hop Oh Bunny", call and response, rhythms, tempos, and the direction of pitch movement.
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"Compression of Emotional Power"--Responding To Unseen Poetry

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders identify the structure, rhythm and style of a selected poem, experience utilizing poetic devices and analyze an annotated poem. They evaluate the themes and inferred meanings to a variety of poems from their textbooks.
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Kinder Poems & Songs

For Teachers K
Students complete a year-long unit for poetry and songs. In this poetry and songs lesson, students complete nine lessons for animal songs and animal poetry to improve their understanding of rhyme, rhythm, and poetry.
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African Chants

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners perform African chants. For this geography skills lesson, students read about African chants and watch videos about them prior to performing them in groups with appropriate rhythm and cadence.
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Halloween Music Lesson Plans

For Teachers K - 5th
Halloween music lesson plans can provide students a motivating way to learn about writing, dance, and rhythm.
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Robert Frost's "Mending Wall": A Marriage of Poetic Form and Content

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers examine the relationship between a poem's form and its content in Robert Frost's poem, 'Mending Wall.' They read and analyze the poem, explore websites, listen to an audio clip of Frost reading the poem, and write an...
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Poetry: Using Prosodic Devices

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine poetry examples in free verse focusing on their prosodic elements. After critiquing works by several authors, they write their own poems utilizing such devices as alliteration, repetition, rhyme, and stanzas.
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Strange Sounds

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students investigate sound as a form of energy. In this energy, forces, and sound lesson plan, students explore how different sounds may be made as they make a variety of materials vibrate. Students observe the effects of vibrations and...
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Wild and Wacky Warmups

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explore vocal music techniques.  In this vocal music lesson, students follow a series of warmup exercises modeled by the teacher, then participate in specific breathing and vocalizing exercises.
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Mom Will Find the Fox

For Students 1st Standards
Fox, box, shop, got... what do all of these words have in common? The short /o/ sound! Give your class some practice with the short /o/ poem by reading the poem on this worksheet. Learners also answer three included reading comprehension...

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