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A Melody Activity
Young scholars explore melody. In this music lesson, students define "melody" and identify the melody line present in increasingly complex musical pieces. Young scholars sing or hum the melody line after listening to an excerpt of music.
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Timbre Activities
Young scholars investigate the concept of timbre. In this music lesson, students listen to several recordings of musical pieces and identify the name of the instrument playing with its picture.
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Clerihew Dances I
Third graders demonstrate locomotor movements and define non-locomotor movement. They discuss a story and perform a "name" movement.
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Come Together: The Music That Made John Lennon
Students form opinions about the notion of artistic influence. They research and present biographical information, read and share information about the artists who inspired Lennon's music, and create projects tracing the evolution of...
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Music from a Place Called Half Moon
Students read the novel, Music from a Place Called Half Moon. They are assigned chapters to analyze for literary elements and to assign titles to the book chapters.
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Treble Clef Lines - 3
In this treble clef lines worksheet, young scholars read the sheet music and identify the letter names of the notes that are missing as they fill in 30 blank spaces.
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Treble Clef Spaces - 1
For this treble clef spaces worksheet, young scholars read the sheet music and identify the letter names of the notes that are missing as they fill in 30 blank spaces.
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Treble Clef Spaces - 2
For this treble clef spaces worksheet, young scholars read the sheet music and identify the letter names of the notes that are missing as they fill in 30 blank spaces.
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Treble Clef Spaces - 3
In this treble clef spaces worksheet, students read the sheet music and identify the letter names of the notes that are missing as they fill in 30 blank spaces.
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Treble Clef Lines and Spaces - 1
In this treble clef lines and spaces worksheet, students read the sheet music and identify the letter names of the notes that are missing as they fill in 35 blank spaces.
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Treble Clef Lines - 1
In this treble clef lines worksheet, young scholars read the sheet music and identify the letter names of the notes that are missing as they fill in 30 blank spaces.
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Bass Clef Spaces - 2
For this bass clef spaces worksheet, young scholars read the sheet music and identify the letter names of the notes that are missing as they fill in 30 blank spaces.
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Bass Clef Spaces - 3
In this bass clef spaces worksheet, students read the sheet music and identify the letter names of the notes that are missing as they fill in 30 blank spaces.
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Bass Clef Lines and Spaces - 1
In this bass clef lines and spaces sheet music worksheet, learners read the sheet music and identify the bass clef lines and spaces as they fill in 36 blanks.
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Bass Clef Lines and Spaces - 3
In this bass clef lines and spaces sheet music worksheet, learners read the sheet music and identify the bass clef lines and spaces as they fill in 36 blanks.
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Bass Clef Lines and Spaces - 2
In this bass clef lines and spaces sheet music worksheet, learners read the sheet music and identify the bass clef lines and spaces as they fill in 36 blanks.
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Rhythm Dictation - 3
In this rhythm dictation worksheet, students listen carefully to teacher-selected music and write the correct rhythm by placing note heads on the 5 blank lines.
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Treble Clef Lines and Spaces
In this music worksheet, students fill in the names of the notes that are show on the sheet music. They write the names on lines below each note.
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From Remus to Rap: A History in Theory and Practice of the African-American Storytelling Tradition
Students examine the specific form and function of tall tales and toasts.
They discover the importance of performance in the telling of a story and the importance of rhythm in the telling of toasts. They create stories of their own, in...
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Water Music
Young scholars explore music about water. They listen to various pieces of music, play instruments, and plan and create a piece of art that includes a water motif.
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Got The Beat
Students listen to song in which they identify the beat. Listening to the song again, they clap and march to the beat after being introduced to the new vocabulary. They complete the same exercises for other songs played in class.
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Music Accomplished Practice #4
Second graders create their own rhythm with a time signature. They examine notes, rests, and how many beats for ech type of note. Students clap in rhythm. They perform their own rhythm for the class.
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Mural to Music 2
Students make a collaborative mural drawing to music using invented sign language, music and their responses to music. They select the music to be played while they are drawing. As the music stops, students move to a new location on the...
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Musical Art
Learners create pieces of Abstract art by listening to various genres of music and reacting to the music with a pencil on a piece of paper and their eyes closed. This activity is intended for a middle-level Art class and can be used as...