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
This interactive site shows how dots and tenuto ties change rhythmic values in standard time signatures. Audio examples clarify these points.
Interpret rhythm patternsdotted half notes in 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, and 6/8 meter signatures
Interpret rhythm patternsdotted half notes in 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, and 6/8 meter signatures
In this Science Update, students explore a computer system that lets people drive a piece of music just like driving a car. Science NetLinks provides a link to the audio file, the written transcript, and questions to engage students in discussion about the technical portions of this computer program. This lesson plan also provides links to a NY Times lesson that challenges students to consider the benefits of “disruptive†forms of technology and their influence in the classroom.
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.
This interactive game allows the listener to identify chords aurally. Customizable for classroom assessments and self practice. Very useful for musicians of all grade leves, vocalists or instrumentalists.
Students will become familiar with the cultural and historical implications of Early Jazz through listening to and analyzing music of the time while drawing conclusion upon visual, literary, and musical sources.
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.
Students will larn about a time in the past when three famous people- Igor Stravinsky, George Balanchine and John Ringling, Jr. - joined forces to create a ballet for ballerinas the size of battleships. Students will listen and move to Stravinsky's Circus Polka: For a Young Elephant, written for the ballet that featured fifty ballet dancers and fifty elephants. Students will hear the story, Ballet of the Elephants, and learn about the men who worked together to make it happen.
Students will learn to focus and listen to music and begin to recognize the musical elements of dynamics and tempo. Students will learn to discuss the emotions that music can portray and evoke with a writing activity to allow students to brainstorm ideas of what they hear.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of steady beat as they participate in this fast paced passing game. This lesson is designed to fulfill Standard #1 and #2 of the National Standards for Music: Singing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music; and Performing on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
Students will become familiar with the cultural and historical implications of the Swing Era through listening to and analyzing music of the time while drawing conclusion upon visual, literary, and musical sources.
This collection of activities is designed for exploring, listening to, and creating sounds from a wide variety of sources using the environment, the voice, the body, and instruments. Activity ideas are designed to accompany sound identification lessons from ages infant to sixth grade to aid in an increased understanding of how sounds are produced and organized.
Throughout history, the night sky has been the object of much speculation, investigation and imagination by scientists and mathematicians, as well as the subject for creations and compositions by musicians and visual artists. Mozart"Ÿs (12) "Variations on "žAh Vous Dirai-je Maman" and "The Starry Night" by Vincent Van Gogh will stimulate students"Ÿ interest in the art of the evening sky.
In this two-day lesson, students explore the ways in which the worlds of popular music and opera can work together to complement the other. Students work in small groups to analyze the plot, characters, setting and themes of a popular opera using a summary of that opera as a guide. Students then rewrite what they consider to be the opera's pivotal scene, placing the scene in a modern setting. Finally, students view and evaluate a filmed version of the opera, assessing how the various story elements of the opera are affected by being performed in the opera genre.
In this two-day lesson, students explore the ways in which the worlds of popular music and opera can work together to complement the other. Students work in small groups to analyze the plot, characters, setting and themes of a popular opera using a summary of that opera as a guide. Students then rewrite what they consider to be the opera's pivotal scene, placing the scene in a modern setting. Finally, students view and evaluate a filmed version of the opera, assessing how the various story elements of the opera are affected by being performed in the opera genre.
Students learn eight basic locomotor skills of walking, running, jumping, hopping, skipping, galloping, side sliding and leaping. The teacher teaches the difference between fast, medium, and slow movements while introducing the musical vocabulary for tempo: fast/presto, medium/moderato and slow/adagio. The students listen to the beat of a percussion instrument and determine if they should move fast, medium, or slow to match the tempo of the beat.
In this lesson plan, students will become familiar with the music of Rimsky-Korsakov in fullfillment of the National Standards for Music (listening to, analyzing, and describing music).
The teacher will divide the class into small groups. They will collaborate with each other as a group. Also, they will plan, design, and choose materials for their Power Point project. They will work a Folksong Project together at the school or online in Zoom meetings. The students will find one folksong from a different country other than USA.