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Line and Pattern

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Pupils create a silhouette of a simple figure and repeat it to create a pattern drawing with rhythm.
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Draw Me the Music

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explore and investigate the foundation and history of jazz music. They listen to various pieces of music while creating drawings, develop a timeline of jazz history, and read and discuss biographies of famous jazz...
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Pies and Rhythms

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders, using popsicle sticks. illustrate rhythms clapped by someone else. They use different types of pies to recognize and notate rhythms in standard notation.
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Notating a Rainy Day

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young singers learn how to notate the rhythms and melodies of a familiar song using Kodaly hand signals and manipulatives. Individuals then create their own compositions and sing them using Kodaly notation.
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Name the Rests

For Students 4th - 7th
Help your musicians learn rest counts and rhythm symbols with these 16 fill-in-the-blank questions. Questions ask learners to draw the matching rest symbol per given rest count. The next set of questions ask the opposite, the correct...
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Ice Cream

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Help your children discover the verbal ostinato pattern of a rhyme. Learners sing a rhyme about ice cream, practice it several times, then divide into groups to sing the rhyme analyzing the patterns and rhythm.
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Form, Rhythm, and Melodic Motives: Fiber

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students examine basic song form and 4/4 meter. They sing a song about diet and nutrition while identifying examining the rhythm of the song. They discuss why fruit and fiber are important to health.
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Reading Music Notation

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders develop an understanding of music notation and become proficient at reading rhythms by sight. They explore rhythms base on divisions of two and four and triplets.
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It's Waltz Time!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students, after hearing and viewing a video of the waltz scene from the musical, "Cinderella," by Mary Rodgers, "physicalize" a three beat rhythm with accompaniment video and discuss and evaluate triple meter. They master a song in 3/4...
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Alligator

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Young scholars investigate the musical concept of rhythm through the use of creating a beat. The beat must have a specific and purposeful rhythm. Student can then define the term of rhythm easier after performing the activity.
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Rock Till You Drop!

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Young scholars study rhythmic patterns and phrases on percussion instruments. They form a drum circle and take turns playing the beat. After listening to styles of rhythms, students compare styles of music. They compose a short piece...
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Dancing Hands, Abstract Drawings

For Teachers K - 8th
Young scholars discover African musical rhythms by performing Ancestral Spirit Dances.  In this musical instructional activity, students research Willis "Bing" Davis and the abstract work he created.  Young scholars listen to Yoruba drum...
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Rhythm Lessons Show The Link Between Music And Math

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Educators can use music lessons that show students how to learn about rhythm in a fun and exciting way.
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Lumini Stick Macarena

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students use lummi sticks to perform a routine and identify a rhythmical beat.
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Music: The Experience of a Lifetime

For Teachers 1st
Students use rhymes, songs and games to help them study music. They discover how music can be used with movement, speech and singing.
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Illustration # 1: Source of Illustration

For Teachers K
Students play a game of imitating steady beats by mimicking the instructor. They use drums and repeat the game by echoing rhythmic patterns. The patterns may vary in degree of difficulty according to each individual's ability.
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Dance is B.E.S.T.: Time

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Students demonstrate dance activities and rhythm activities to whole, half, quarter, and eighth notes. They clap and move to notes individually and in 16 count metric phrases. As they create different 16 count metric phrases and...
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Keyboard centers with Music You Can Read

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students play the letters provided in the format "Keyboard/Xylophone/Tone Bells" with the intention of using the "Music Only" format as skills progress. They study fingerings and chords when appropriate to skills.
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Note Bowling

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars practice recognition of different music notes and their values and work on throwing cues, scoring, and addition.
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Wyclef Jean for VH1 Storytellers

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use recordings of Wyclef Jean's music to study and explore different styles and techniques.
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RSC Activity Toolkit: Romeo and Juliet

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Is your head beating as if it would break into twenty pieces looking for activities to accompany a reading of the woeful tale of Juliet and her Romeo? Here's a weighty tool kit that won't hurt your back. The packet is divided into 20...
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VH1 Driven: Kanye West, Lesson 3

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners compose a beat in the style of Kanye West. They listen to and analyze the song, "Through the Wire" by Kanye West, compose a beat, and complete a worksheet.
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Caribbean Music

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this music worksheet, students identify and describe various famous dances and music of the Caribbean. They respond to questions about each of the three types described in the activity.
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Introduction to African Culture Through Music & Dance

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore various elements in West African Culture through the medium of a traditional music and dance from Ghana. They take an imaginary tour of a village dance-drumming event in West Africa.

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