This unit is designed to integrate the elements of landscape design and elements of music. Students in 3rd, 4th and 5th grade are asked to consider American landscapes as they learn how one musician, Aaron Copland, created music that is distinctly American - a musical American landscape.

In a series of two short lessons, your students will learn about the important contributions made by Duke Ellington to the field of jazz, and the creativity expressed in his music. As the students explore the language of the 1920s, connections will be drawn between popular expressions and the sounds created in jazz. Your students will create an original poem using these words and expressions. Finally, your students will have the opportunity to respond to a piece of Duke Ellington's music through the use of adjectives (or metaphors and similes).

While gaining exposure to a wide range of music "“ from classical to contemporary - students will understand that music and literature share a common language. Students will understand that hearing the language of music helps us to understand the language of literature.

Students listen to Vivaldi's The Four Season, Autumn, and describe emotion, tempo, and dynamics. Students engage kinesthetically as they move to the music and learn about the composer. Students learn the scientific reasons for fall leaves changing color. Students sing the poem "Little Leaves" to the tune of Twinkle, Twinkle and the tune of Row, Row, Row Your Boat. Students do a choral reading of "Colors of Fall." Students will collect real autumn leaves, then draw and paint them as their interpretation of Vivaldi's Autumn.

Students will use their understanding of narratives (character, plot, setting, beginning, middle, and end) to create their own descriptive stories inspired by the music of Vivaldi"™s Four Seasons, and his words to his Sonnets.

This lesson provides students an opportunity to use classical music to deepen their understanding of the Six Traits of Writing. Through listening and responding to music, the students make associations and draw conclusions that contribute to their ability to produce strong writing.

The four styles of music within the Mexican culture are the backdrop for this lesson which provides students an opportunity to create percussion instruments and recognize the difference while playing each style. Lucha Libre masks are also part of the culture and students gain a deeper understanding of it by creating their own masks

Every orchestra is made up of families "“ four to be exact. This lesson invites you to meet these wonderfully diverse families and the members who make up the voice we hear at the symphony.

Students will isten to and discuss a piece of music and develop a list of emotions inspired by the music. Using this list they will analyze the characters in a story and determine the character traits shown. The students will then listen to three different pieces of music and assign each piece to the character it would represent.

Students will understand that music can interpret movement as they focus on how the movement of animals may be best represented by music. Through their knowledge of tempo and dynamics, the instruments of the orchestra, and knowledge of the physical attributes of animals in the wild, students will create a short musical composition to interpret what they have learned about the movement of animals.

Students will become familiar with the form of Trepak (Russian Dance) and various combinations of locomotor and non-locomotor movements such as skipping, galloping, hopping, jumping, walking, bending, twisting, nodding, and swaying in time to music.

This is a collaborative lesson that integrates technology, language arts, and music. Through this collaborative unit, students completed several instructional activities including an introduction to the music and a deeper study of the story of The Magic Flute, reading of Mary Pope Osborne's Magic Tree House #41: Moonlight on the Magic Flute, creating a drawing of the Temple of Wisdom using a paint software tool, attending a production of The Magic Flute, and reflecting upon and analyzing the performance.

This lesson is designed to help students understand that Classical music can refer to music composed during a period in music history known as the Classical Period rather than the style of all symphonic music. The students will be given a brief overview of the Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Modern Periods of music. Next, students will learn about the lives of two famous composers of the Classical Period, Beethoven and Mozart. After listening to several selections by these two composers, the students will compare and contrast the composition styles of the two composers utilizing a Venn diagram.

Your students will astound you as they create a class performance piece using their words, accompanied by Mr. Copland"™s composition. Learning about this nation"™s twelfth president is fun when we combine music, writing, and performing to your lessons. Mix together a little Aaron Copland"™s Lincoln Portrait, with historical facts and opinions, books, videos and even the Gettysburg Address.

Students will understand that music communicates many things. Students will understand that music can be represented and expressed on paper through the use of line and color.

This lesson utilizes Classical and Disco music to teach about Beethoven's life while integrating many language arts standards at the same time. Music, art, and math were also incorporated into the theme unit. The main objective of this unit was to teach fact and opinion. There is no right or wrong answer to what makes music, music. It's a matter of opinion.

Music can help us learn about history! This lesson demonstrates to your students how music of the Baroque period reflects the importance of the institutions of State and Church, and the influence both had on the
work of each composer.

Using Beethoven's Symphony No. 5, students will discover how difficult it is to compose music with a hearing loss. Children will develop an understanding of overcoming disabilities and preserving through life's struggles.

Students will be able to demonstrate the difference in pitch and dynamics that can be produced on various intruments through vibrations.

This lesson introduces students to Babar, an elephant portrayed in the children's books by Jean de Brunhof. Students will listen to Francis Poulenc's musical composition of the same name, written to reflect the scenes in Jean de Brunhof's book. Students will gain an understanding of how powerful the use of simple rhythm instruments is in retelling the story. Students will also create visual works of art based on the sounds they hear in the audio performance.