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Animal Alphabet Book
Students identify each letter of the alphabet. They listen as the teacher reads an animal alphabet picture book. Students listen to the alphabet song. They create their own movements for the alphabet song. Students are asked to name...
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Color and Shapes
In this shape coloring worksheet, students color the squares red, the circles blue, and the triangles green. There are 9 shapes on this page to color.
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Sunset Silhouette (primary colours)
Students draw and paint the sunset, learning about the primary colors while painting and mixing.
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JANE AND THE DRAGON
Third graders act out a play called Jane and the Dragon. Students develop vocabulary through dialogue. They delve into the feelings of others through learning about the characters. They also identify the characteristics of various types...
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Heartfelt/Handmade Activity: Hand-Molded Pottery
Students view and discuss examples of pottery. They discuss how pottery has always been made by hand and use a ball of clay to roll and shape into a form of their choice.
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Phytochemicals
Students create movement, improvise rhythmic accompaniment, practice, and perform the song "Phytochemicals" in this excellent elementary-level General Music activity. The activity includes activity challenges for more advanced students.
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Using Numbers to Teach The Major Scale
Middle schoolers study the numbers to the diatonic major scale using C note as a basis in this standards-based 45 minute lesson. Emphasis is placed on singing correct pitch, rhythmic accuracy, and proper breath control.
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Colors of the Rainbow
Students explore primary and secondary colors through the use of colors represented in the rainbow. They read and discuss the book, 'What a Wonderful World,' mix paint colors and paint rainbows, and create scratchboard paintings.
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B is for Banana
Students practice and perform the song "B is for Banana" using their knowledge of basic rhythms in 4/4 and student-created rhythm accompaniment based on speech. This excellent lesson is provided by the MENC (National Association for...
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Chinese Dragons
Students discover the world of the Chinese dragon by creating their own festive dragon using texture, line, shape, pattern, and color. This lesson is ideal for the early-elementary classroom and includes a recommened reading list.
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Composing Project
Students design, compose, and present short musical compositions for keyboard in this lesson plan meant for the high school choir class. This lesson can be adapted to any time frame, but the author suggests a considerable amount of time...
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Starfish Project
Students discuss ocean waters, tides, tide pools and the animals which live in the tide pools. They practice the push and pull method with a chink of clay to create a starfish from clay. They apply texture and decorate the starfish...
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Box of Mystery
Students are given a box and wrapping paper and are asked to decorate it in a style that is original and creative. The project could be used for content area learning if adapted to include curriculum content. The lesson is designed to be...
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Fishy Yarn Printing
Students use crayons and yarn to create an underwater scene while building fine motor skills.
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Mixing Primary and Secondary Colors
Students create their own color wheel by mixing colors of Playdoh. Each child names the primary and secondary colors.
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Rhythm Compositions
Fourth graders collaborate in small groups to create simple rhythmic patterns in different time signatures. Each group creates rhythms in a competitive "game" atmosphere and then constructs entire rhythmic groups for presentation to...
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Enrichment Activities - "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH"
Fifth graders read the novel "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH." They discuss the various characters in the book, and the different types of conflict that take place within the book. They also research owls and rats to make comparisons...
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Collecting and Pressing Plants
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the study of native plants and classifying them according to a kind. They press them into a journal while identifying them according to species. Students compile the samples into a...
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Colorful Dogs
Students make dog collages using triangles and rectangles. In this collage lesson, students use cut-out triangles and rectangles to make a dog collage after looking examples of Keith Haring's work and listening to Emma Dodd's, Dog's...
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Experimenting with Colors
Students experiment with mixing primary colors together using frosting and pretzel sticks.
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What Are They Feeling?
Students role play and identify different feelings in pictures that people are having. In this feelings lesson plan, students also make a list of 15 feelings.
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Our Country, Our Community, Our Jobs
Fifth graders analyze jobs that are of interest to them. They create graphic organizers explaining how jobs affect the world in which they live with at least five supporting details. They, in groups, make presentations to the class.
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Broccoli
Students compose, notate, and evaluate their own rhythmic compositions using the song "Broccoli" for inspiration in this excellent elementary-level General Music lesson. Emphasis is placed upon four-measure patterns and the classic...