Visual & Performing Arts

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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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Students will create a half self-portrait and write a poem about themselves in the background. Students can choose to write an 'I Am' poem, an Acrostic, or any other type of poem that they choose...

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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). 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, the 6th-grade student will learn the history of Chinese Shadow Puppet Shows. The student will participate in a shadow puppet activity where he/she will use voice to imitate a...

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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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