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What We Did: Everyone knows that middle schoolers have lots of emotions—most of which change multiple times within a single class period. During my ten years of teaching middle school, I have made an...
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Students will learn about using their imagination to act out a story in an imaginary location, using the setting and items around them. Students will think creatively and problem solve. After some...
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During this SmartARTS lesson, students will learn what life like during the early South Carolina Textile Mill Era. Students will analyze photographs and close read a poem in order to gain information...
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Students will look at and discuss landscapes and seascapes and learn how artists create space. Students will use the Elements of Art; line, color, shape, texture, and space to create a tri-fold...
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This lesson introduces the proper musical terms for loud (forte), soft (piano), gradually louder (crescendo), and gradually softer (decrescendo).
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Students will use plastic cups to create their own compositions using symbolic notation and traditional notation of half notes, quarter notes, and eighth notes.
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Using the Cup Game to practice rhythm, ostinati and read duple notation
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A music lesson for elementary music students that engages bodies and voices while taking a trip to the farm!
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During this lesson, students will convert digital hours and minutes to analog time while being the hands of a clock!
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This lesson will be the culminating lesson at the end of a unit on instruments, tone color, and how music can help tell a story. The students would have already learned about the families of the...