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From Sacred to Secular: Exploration of Vocal Styles/Crossing between styles - Lesson 2

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students identify some of Aretha Franklin's vocal qualities and techniques. They have a discussion of styles of music they heard on the video, including gospel, jazz, pop, rhythm and blues, and opera.
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Compare and Contrast Composers

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify various pieces of music that are familiar to them and define how the music made them feel. Then they select their favorite piece of music heard and the activities in which they like to do. Students also attend a...
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Dazzling Digital Poem Project

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders create a digital poem using PowerPoint, Audacity.com, and www.freeplaymusic.com. In this digital poem lesson, 8th graders write and edit original poems. Students utilize figurative language and imagery in poems and review...
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Just the Facts, Jack

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders listen to music and discuss their responses to different styles separating their comments into facts and opinions. They evaluate a worksheet of statements by classifying the statements into fact and opinion.
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Introduction to Poetry

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are introduced to poetry and music. They discuss what the two have in common. They identify a song as their favorite and explain why.
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Instrumental Rehearsals for Excellence - Lesson 3

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students identify some characteristics of successful music teachers and rehearsals. They develop a list of criteria for evaluating the quality of a performance, and apply those criteria to a specific performance.
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Peter and the Wolf

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students create movements to music that reflect focused listening, write story using complete, coherent sentences, design and perform class play speaking clearly and at an appropriate pace, and retell Peter and the Wolf story, including...
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Frog Raps

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students analyze the different charateristics of frogs and toads. Students analyze how frogs/toads live, what they look like, where they live, their stages of life and how they compare to each other. Students create in small groups...
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Critical Consumerism: Videos and Teen Culture

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students analyze music videos as a study on teen culture. In this teen culture lesson, students view music videos and track a different aspect of the videos for male representation, female representation, racial representation,...
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Notable American Composers

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Young scholars visit web sites for each of the composersand listen to selections of each composer's music and place important dates of the composers into a pre-printed time line.
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Let's Call It Automatic

For Teachers 3rd - Higher Ed
Students write whatever comes into their minds quickly and extend that strategy to art. They draw whatever ideas come to mind and students create in a stream of consciousness style. They listen to different types of music while drawing.
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Accelerando - Israel, Peru, Russia

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students complete activities to learn about the music concept of accelerando. In this accelerando lesson, students sing songs and learn tempo. Students use the Yiddish circle dance 'Bim Bam' to complete a circle dance. Students also...
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Bringing the Rain to the Kapiti Plain - Kenya

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students accompany music to the story Bringing the Rain to the Kapiti Plain - Kenya to show how sound and music can accompany story description. In this music lesson, students learn how to show sound during a story.
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Karaoke in the Classroom

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
In this word recognition lesson plan, students use a karaoke program to read and sing songs, enhancing their sight word recognition. Students preform these songs to each other. This could also be a fun way to introduce new vocabulary or...
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Understanding Tone

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders define tone and determine the tone of a particular passage making a web of tone words on Inspiration. They write a journal entry expressing how a piece of music makes them feel and create a PowerPoint to share.
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The Young One

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students explore the challenges faced by a woman in the male-dominated music business. They consider all information from a film or television production carefully, and come to personal conclusions based on all available evidence
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Similarities Between African Folktales And French Folktales

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students study the importance of the Storyteller in ancient times as well as in modern times. They realize that this is an art essential to the development and evolution of the mind and that today more than ever we need to rely on...
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We Are Super-Duper!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners explore the concept that each person is unique, special and valuable and assess how to express that concept with positive attitudes through role play, music and art. They email a friend or family member a special message with a...
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Rock and Poetry: A Thematic Project

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students explore poetry. In this literature lesson, students examine music and lyrics by Natalie Merchant in order to make the transition to analyzing poetry by Keats and Wordsworth.
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Digital Parts of Speech

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers investigate different parts of speech by creating digital skits. For this digital education lesson, students collaborate in groups to research the Internet for clips and music that represent the different parts of speech....
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Journey to Understanding the Elements of Media

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the elements of film. In this media awareness lesson, students view film clips and discuss the impact of lighting, music, setting, and costumes on the films. 
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Rhyme Game

For Teachers K
Students match rhyming picture cards. They use a musical timer and each student has the opportunity to show his or her card to the class. They must match them and show them to the teacher.
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The Poetry of Langston Hughes

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students read aloud Langston Hughes poems. They select a poem and read aloud to music.
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Lessons in Drama: Learning About American Political Thought

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students develop critical thinking skills so that they may produce their own written plays or music from their thoughts and feelings. They express their thoughts based on what has been presented to them over the duration of the course.

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