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12 Days of Christmas
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Overview:

This is a fun and creative way to explore the 12 Days of Christmas. This lesson reinforces numerical order, repetition within a song, and group effort. It's also very cute to see the creative ways the students “become” the 12 Days of Christmas. Composition with instruments is also involved.

Subject:
Music
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Beacon Learning Center
Author:
Anissa Sanz
Date Added:
02/26/2019
The 20% of Beethoven
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Overview:

Understanding that musical themes are the same even if they are played in different styles can help students understand that numbers maintain their same value even if they appear in different forms.

Subject:
Music
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
San Francisco Symphony
Author:
Scott Nielson
Date Added:
02/26/2019
AB Form Through Movement
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5.0 stars
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Students will be able to effectively recognize and imitate AB binary form through movement.

Subject:
Music
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Teachers.Net
Author:
Meghan Webb
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Aaron Copland: Billy the Kid
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This integrated lesson, focusing on United States History, incorporates learning about the Wild West and the western outlaw Billy the Kid through the music of Aaron Copland. The lesson provides musical reflection and each movement of Copland’s ballet Billy the Kid work and opportunity to experience deep listening for the elements of Dynamics, Articulation, Rhythm and Tempo (DART).

Subject:
Music
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Unit of Study
Provider:
San Francisco Symphony
Author:
Gail Claus
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Aaron Copland in the Heartland
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3.0 stars
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Students will listen to Copland's Appalachian Spring while listening to a reading of Heartland by Diane Siebert. They will then write their own poems and create accompanying artwork.

Subject:
Music
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
San Francisco Symphony
Author:
Laura Knapp
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Admirable Armonica Admirers
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Students will discover how the love of music connected two important figures in world history: Benjamin Franklin, an American founding father, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, an Austrian composer. Additionally, students will begin to understand pitch, and how each note is calibrated to create its own unique sound.

Subject:
Music
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
San Francisco Symphony
Author:
Mary Alice Hillman
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Advanced Seventh Chords
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This lesson site moves into more advanced seventh chords, their construction and inversions. Audio and visual examples are given to reinforce instruction.

Subject:
Music
Material Type:
Interactive
Lesson
Student Guide
Provider:
musictheory.net
Author:
Ricci Adams
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Adventures in Tempo
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4.0 stars
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Students will discover the differences in musical tempo between fast and slow. Students will learn to use the
correct musical terms to describe the tempo of each piece. Students will use streamers and their bodies to
show at what tempo each piece is played.

Subject:
Music
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
San Francisco Symphony
Author:
Carmen Cobler
Date Added:
02/26/2019
An African Safari into Creativity
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Students will assign an orchestral instrument to an African animal, using characteristics which
they have in common. The students will write a cinquain poem and create a poster (collage) with their
African animal as the theme.

Subject:
Music
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Unit of Study
Provider:
San Francisco Symphony
Author:
Janet Rowland
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Agnus Dei - Penderecki
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In this activity, students will lesson to Penderecki's "Agnus Dei" in order to practice musical response and listening skills.

Subject:
Music
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Teachers.Net
Author:
Marybeth K. Millers
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Alexis de Tocqueville on the Tyranny of the Majority
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2.0 stars
Overview:

"Democracy in America" by Alexis de Tocqueville is one of the most influential books ever written about America. While historians have viewed "Democracy" as a rich source about the age of Andrew Jackson, Tocqueville was more of a political thinker than a historian. His "new political science" offers insights into the problematic issues faced by democratic society.

Subject:
American History
Material Type:
Lesson
Provider:
National Endowment for the Humanities
Provider Set:
EDSITEments
Date Added:
09/06/2019
All About Kinds of Notes and Rests
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Rating
5.0 stars
Overview:

This presentation goes through the following notes and rests:whole note and resthalf note and restquarter note and restbeamed eighth noteThe assessment at the end is identifying each note and rest and the number of counts each receives.

Subject:
Music
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Self Assessment
Author:
MARK PILSON
Date Added:
06/01/2020
Allo, Monsieur! French Canadian Children’s Songs  A Smithsonian Folkways Lesson
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This unit affords teachers with opportunities to lead children in active singing games and
dances from Quebec, Canada. These lessons will offer young singers and players an
opportunity to listen to, discuss, sing, play games, and create.

Subject:
Music
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Smithsonian Institution
Author:
Stephanie Trineer
Date Added:
02/26/2019
The American Five - Pentatonic scales in early American melodies
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Students will learn to recognize a five-tone scale. Students will sing or perform known American folksongs together in class. Advanced students will be able to identify all five pitches and even discern the actual pentatonic scale being used.

Subject:
Music
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
San Francisco Symphony
Author:
Michael Ogdon
Date Added:
02/26/2019
"America the Beautiful": Using Music and Art to Develop Vocabulary
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5.0 stars
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This lesson uses music and art in a vocabulary study of unfamiliar words from the song "America the Beautiful," increasing students' vocabulary while also increasing their knowledge of U.S. geography. A discussion to activate students' prior knowledge about sights and scenery throughout the United States is followed by a read-aloud and introduction to the song "America the Beautiful," which is then sung in each session of the lesson.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
ReadWriteThink
Author:
Renee Goularte
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Analysis of "Auld Lang Syne"
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This is a demonstration analysis of an excerpt of "Auld Lang Syne", breaking down chords and their progressions along the way. Visual and auditory examples are given. Extremely useful for advancing composition students and theory students.

Subject:
Music
Material Type:
Interactive
Provider:
musictheory.net
Author:
Ricci Adams
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Analysis of "Moonlight Sonata"
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This brief analysis of an excerpt of Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" shows the user Neapolitan Chords in action.

Subject:
Music
Material Type:
Lesson
Provider:
musictheory.net
Author:
Ricci Adams
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Analysis of "O Canada"
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This lesson site gives a breakdown analysis of an excerpt of "O Canada". This is a great visual and auditory example of how analysis is performed in music theory. Great for intermediate composition students and theorists.

Subject:
Music
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
musictheory.net
Author:
Ricci Adams
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Animal Poetry
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Students will generate descriptive language of several animals (with special focus on verbs), culminating in the writing of a poem about the animal of their choice. Use Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals as a stimulus prompt.

Subject:
Music
Material Type:
Unit of Study
Provider:
San Francisco Symphony
Author:
Jessica Grant
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Articulation Guide for Brass Instruments
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This fantastic case study breaks down articulation markings and types for brass instruments, and how they should be played according to some of the best brass players in the modern age. Very valuable information for advancing brass students.

Subject:
Music
Material Type:
Case Study
Provider:
University of Florida
Author:
Paul J. Greenstone
Date Added:
02/26/2019