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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Reading With Cups, and More! [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
For this lesson, students will explore how music and language arts naturally overlap to promote literacy as they cultivate their creative and critical thinking.
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Reading With Cups, and More! [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, students will explore how music and language arts naturally overlap to promote literacy as they cultivate their creative and critical thinking.
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Creating a Compelling Story [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
Using music from a wide variety of cultures, students will develop good listening skills and write from the heart using their own voices. This aural exercise will help students begin to think creatively.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Noodle Alliteration

For Teachers 2nd - 6th Standards
This lesson allows students an opportunity to explore the dictionary and thesaurus to write creative alliterations about pasta after reading Jack Prelutsky's poem, "Spaghetti, Spaghetti."
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: My Adidas: Letting Your Possessions Tell Your Story

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For this lesson, students will listen to Run D.M.C.'s classic, "My Adidas", then they will think about everywhere their shoes have taken them and the story they have to tell. Using literary devices such as personification, point of view,...
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Arizona State University

Arizona State University: Water

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This online instructional activity from the Arizona State University teaches students about earth's water cycle yet uses music as a part of the instructional process. Creative and simple. Non-music specialist could easily use the...
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HotChalk

Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Fly Butterfly, Fly!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This is a fun, creative lesson relating movement to music for very young kids. If done properly, it should enable kids to get a sense of musical form while listening to a Chopin waltz.
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Kentucky Educational Television

Ket: Lincoln Bicentennial: I, Too, Am a Kentuckian: A Lincoln Travelogue [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students prepare for and present a play, I, too am a Kentuckian: A Lincoln Travelogue. The play showcases stops on the Kentucky Lincoln Heritage Trail, incorporates music and dance, and shows the strong influence of Kentucky and...
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Library of Congress

Loc: Teachers: The American Dream

For Teachers 9th - 10th
With the help of digitized primary documents -- pictures, photograph, recordings, and written accounts -- students will explore and define what the "American Dream" meant for people over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth...
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Dr. Seuss Is on the Loose [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
The rhythmic and melodic elements of Theodor Geisel's children's literature provide many opportunities for knowledge of language, vocabulary acquisition and use, and creative expression and communication in music. Students work with two...
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Explore Wedding Traditions

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A lesson plan that gives young children the opportunity to learn about weddings and to experience different wedding traditions. Includes ideas for making props and role-playing wedding ceremonies and celebrations.