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This lesson introduces the proper musical terms for loud (forte), soft (piano), gradually louder (crescendo), and gradually softer (decrescendo). Students will learn that "dynamics" of sound make a...
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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...
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This lesson falls into the second nine weeks of school, after the study of Westward Expansion. This design project will lead to a new unit that focuses on the Industrial Revolution. Collaborating in...
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The teachers will show a PowerPoint presentation to review social studies standards, the Antebellum time period, social classes, and photos of people from the time period. Students will re-create the...
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Unit on performing instrumental accompaniments. Previous lessons which prepared the students for this lesson include working with the pentatonic scale, rhythmic understanding of quarter, eighth, half...
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This lesson is the 4th of 6 lessons. The concept of theme and variation is introduced as another type of form which can be used in dance. Students will briefly review AB, ABA, and Rondo form and then...