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By the Great Horn Spoon!
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Students will complete two language arts activities for this lesson. In the first activity, students use folk
songs from the era of the California Gold Rush, which are introduced in the early chapters of By the Great
Horn Spoon! by Sid Fleishman, to identify folk song motifs in the classical music of Antonín Dvořák. This
will be explored by the students' creation of a labeled line drawing of one of Dvořák 's compositions. In the second activity, students will write a letter to Dvořák from the point of view of Master Jack, a character in Fleishman"™s novel, inviting Dvořák to continue his American tour into the gold fields of California for
musical inspiration.

Subject:
Arts Education
Music
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
San Francisco Symphony
Author:
Carolyn Roberts
Date Added:
02/26/2019
A Carnival of Animals and Children
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This lesson is designed to teach positional, directional and spatial skills, social skills, large motor skills, creative skills, and oral vocabulary using the "Aquarium" movement from Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint- Saëns. The lesson is designed specifically to teach early childhood developmentally delayed students but can the challenge can easily be increased to make it appropriate for older grades or ELL classes.

Subject:
Arts Education
Music
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
San Francisco Symphony
Author:
Kathy Davis
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Cartooning Stravinsky
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With a little help by Stravinsky, students understand music evokes mood, emotion
and feeling. In the process, students develop critical listening and thinking skills, and illustrate through
cartooning what they believe is expressed in selections of Rite of Spring.

Subject:
Arts Education
Music
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
San Francisco Symphony
Author:
Denise Stover
Date Added:
02/26/2019
The Chemistry of Fireworks
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Students will listen to Music for the Royal Fireworks by George Frideric Handel (commissioned to celebrate the signed Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1749) and design a virtual fireworks display to accompany the music. Students will learn that the specific colors in a firework display are created when atoms of a particular element or a combination of elements are energized by the firework's heat. They will learn that the shape of the firework display is determined by the shape and structure of one particular component inside the firework shell. They will discover that each component of a firework has a role in the timing, sound, and visual display that make up a firework, and how to coordinate the fireworks display with a musical tract.

Subject:
Arts Education
Music
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
San Francisco Symphony
Author:
Jana Jean
Date Added:
02/26/2019
"Cmon- Feel the Noise!
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How does someone who is deaf enjoy music? Can they hear it? Can they make it? Through exploring the life and music of Evelyn Glennie, students will understand that music is sound produced by vibrations. This understanding will allow them to create their own instrument out of objects and compose a musical score for presentation.

Subject:
Arts Education
Music
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
San Francisco Symphony
Author:
Heidi Doyle
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Communication: Learning the Basics through Music
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This lesson introduces basic communication skills by asking the following questions: "What does communication mean? What do good communicators do? Selections from Fanfare for the Common Man Fanfare for the Common Man by Aaron Copland and Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns will help us define musical terms and discover the answers to our questions.

Subject:
Arts Education
Music
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
San Francisco Symphony
Author:
Susan Power
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Communities: Orchestral Communities, Personal Communities
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Students will be able to relate the similarities and differences experienced by orchestra members and students of a first grade class as connected to the idea of the interdependence within a community. They will recognize that as members of a classroom community there are expectations for jobs, behavior, and intrinsic motivation to function to the best of the individual's ability. They will understand that a community within an orchestra has a similar construct to a classroom in that it is led by a conductor and that each person plays an important role within the playing of a piece, practicing their individual part, and colleague support.

Subject:
Arts Education
Music
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
San Francisco Symphony
Author:
Jeff McQueen
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Compare and Contrast Composers
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Students will create a visual representation of what they think about, or feel from the music of Copland and Stravinsky. After reading books from the series Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers, students will use a Venn diagram to compare and contrast the two composers, their music, and the time period in which they lived.

Subject:
Arts Education
Music
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
San Francisco Symphony
Author:
Stephanie LaPlante
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Compare and Contrast Movements of Beethoven's Symphony No. 3
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Students will reinforce skills of comparing and contrasting pieces of music and writing, practice musical vocabulary while listening to, learning about and analyzing the movements of Beethoven's Symphony No. 3.

Subject:
Arts Education
Music
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
San Francisco Symphony
Author:
Valerie Danels
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Composing the Canyon
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Students will create five artistic representations illustrating the five movements by Grofe's symphonic composition The Grand Canyon Suite. Students will be able to analyze and form generalizations about the interdependence of the art elements such as: color, texture, form, line, and space. Students will enhance their own emotional and cognitive development as a result of the classical music by translating this experience through creative expression.

Subject:
Arts Education
Music
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
San Francisco Symphony
Author:
Sara Stahl
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Composition in Letter and Song: Ode to Beethoven
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Students will be able to demonstrate the following: knowledge of Beethoven's life and music through a letter writing experience, understanding of musical terminology and vocabulary through listening and analysis of several Beethoven listening activities, and knowledge and understanding of how to compose a simple song.

Subject:
Arts Education
Music
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
San Francisco Symphony
Author:
Sonya Fergeson
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Cooperating Families, Cooperating Classrooms
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To accomplish goals, members of families must cooperate, just as members of the orchestra must cooperate to create beautiful music. Similarly, students in a classroom have similar constructs; everyone must do their best for themselves as well as for the good of the whole. This lesson helps students understand that an orchestra, a family, and a classroom must work together to accomplish great things.

Subject:
Arts Education
Music
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
San Francisco Symphony
Author:
Diane Immethun
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Copland: Life Then and Now
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Copland, an American maverick, becomes a storyteller as he writes about life in the early years of America. His Appalachian Spring helps students understand how people, places and things change over time, while his musical sketch reinforces the six traits of writing.

Subject:
Arts Education
Music
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
San Francisco Symphony
Author:
Bonnie Redfern
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Copland and Ellington
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Why do two composers from the same period of history compose different music? Students will gain an understanding of how culture and history influences music as they analyze and compare the music of Aaron Copland and Duke Ellington, and learn how these composers used special sounds to enhance their music.

Subject:
Arts Education
Music
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
San Francisco Symphony
Author:
Sherrie Matic
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Creating with Tempo and Dynamics
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This lesson uses Aaron Copland's Billy the Kid as a stimulus for creative thinking. The students will listen to Copland's Billy the Kid, listening for changes in tempo and dynamics. Then the students will create an abstract painting, and describe the tempo and dynamics they heard in a written composition.

Subject:
Arts Education
Music
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
San Francisco Symphony
Author:
Janet Rowland
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Dear Mr. Copland and Mr. Ellington
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After gaining familiarity with the lives and music of Aaron Copland and Duke Ellington, students are asked to write a letter to these composers, expressing an understanding of how the history and culture of one"™s life can be reflected in a composer"™s music. Students also create a bio-poem to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of the composer"™s thoughts and feelings about his life and music.

Subject:
Arts Education
Music
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
San Francisco Symphony
Author:
Sonja Rivera
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Does the Music Add Up?
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Students are introduced to equivalent fractions. Then, students make and use equivalent fraction/musical note tablets to assist them in adding fractions with like and unlike denominators

Subject:
Arts Education
Music
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
San Francisco Symphony
Author:
Alice Pettit
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Duke Ellington and the Nutcracker Suite
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Students will be introduced to the great jazz composer and band leader, Duke Ellington by listening to his re-composed and re-orchestrated version of Nutcracker Suite by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Students will be passively introduced to the music of Duke Ellington with the goal that students recognize similar melodies in his work to those of Tchaikovsky. Students will learn about jazz instruments and connections will be made to literature, social studies, music and writing.

Subject:
Arts Education
Music
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
San Francisco Symphony
Author:
Heidi Aarts Michels
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Earth Art and Vivaldi's Four Seasons
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Students use found objects from nature to explore the elements of art and express the unique quality of a season. In like manner, students learn that musical composers can use the elements of music to express the contrasting moods of each season. Students use such visual aids to enhance the work of Vivaldi's Four Seasons with technology such as I-movie or DVD Maker.

Subject:
Arts Education
Music
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
San Francisco Symphony
Author:
Kathleen Helleskov
Date Added:
02/26/2019