Math

Musical Polygons

Posted Jul 06, 2011 by Scott Nielsen

Drawing upon prior knowledge of polygons - their attributes and area - students will understand that music has a pulse which can be counted and related to geometric shapes.

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GRADE LEVEL
6-8
SUBJECT
Language Arts, Math
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TAGS
Beethoven, Copland, Rhythm, Tempo
 
 
 

Rational Mozart

Posted Jul 06, 2011 by Grace Rhee

Students will become familiar with the value of each musical note from a whole note to a 16th note and be able to write out their value in terms of fractions, decimals and percents. They will convert between fractions, decimals and percents and be able to state the relationship between them.

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GRADE LEVEL
6-8
SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Math
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TAGS
Rhythm
 
 
 

Time Signatures and Multiplication

Posted May 04, 2011 by Erika Charlebois

Students will practice time signatures and multiplication by recording rhythms in measures with different time signatures and reporting how many counts are in a song.

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GRADE LEVEL
PK-2
SUBJECT
Math
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Rhythm
 
 
 

How Steep is Your Tune?

Posted Mar 09, 2011 by Yolando Cato

In this adventure, students will observe the effect of two factors on a motion plot. They will walk at two different speeds, walk in two different directions, and walk to the tempo of two different classical music selections. The students will then deduce how the value of the slope of a line can be "seen" in its graph.

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GRADE LEVEL
6-8
SUBJECT
Math, Science
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TAGS
Dynamics, Physics, Tchaikovsky, Tempo, Vibrations
 
 
 

Stravinsky, Munch, Vivaldi, Monet and Albers

Posted Dec 21, 2010 by Laurie Burghardt

Compare and contrast Stravinsky's Rite of Spring to Vivaldi's Four Seasons, La Primavera (Spring). Pair the music of Stravinsky with the art of Edvard Munch. Pair the music of Vivaldi with the art of Claude Monet. Discuss the similarities and differences. Discuss Josef Albers’ Homage to the Square entitled “The High Spring”. Discuss how color and mood are connected. Create a color square in the style of Josef Albers to represent the pairings of Stravinsky & Munch and the pairing of Vivaldi & Monet.

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GRADE LEVEL
All Levels
SUBJECT
English Language Learner, Language Arts, Math, Performing Arts-Music, Science, Visual Arts
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TAGS
Art, Composer, Literature, Story, Stravinsky, Voice
 
 
 

Quilt Making and Copland's Rodeo

Posted Dec 21, 2010 by Nancy Potts

Students will listen to Rodeo, Saturday Night Waltz by Copland, and discuss the dynamics and tempo of the composition. They will understand why quilt making was very important in pioneer life.

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GRADE LEVEL
PK-2 3-5 6-8
SUBJECT
Math, Performing Arts-Music, Social Science
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TAGS
America, Composer, Copland, Dynamics, History, Tempo
 
 
 

Music: It’s a Matter of Opinion

Posted Dec 21, 2010 by Stefanie Perkins-DeMoulin

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 is to teach fact and opinion. There is no right or wrong answer to what makes music, music. It's a matter of opinion.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5
SUBJECT
English Language Learner, Language Arts, Math, Performing Arts-Music, Visual Arts
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0
TAGS
Beethoven, Composer, Dynamics, Fractions, Tempo
 
 
 

Does the Music Add Up?

Posted Dec 21, 2010 by Alice Pettit

Students will understand the relationship between musical notes and fractional parts. They will become familiar with the concept of equivalent fractions. They will understand the importance of finding common denominators prior to adding fractions.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5
SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Math
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TAGS
Beethoven, Dynamics, Fractions, Tchaikovsky, Vocabulary
 
 
 

A Carnival of Animals and Children

Posted Dec 21, 2010 by Kathy Davis

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.
 

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GRADE LEVEL
PK-2
SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Language Arts, Math, Special education
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TAGS
Animals, Art, Dance, Instruments
 
 
 

Graphing Beethoven's Emotions

Posted Apr 30, 2010 by Tammy Chapman

Students will discuss emotion words. They will look up synonyms for emotion words. They will then listen to the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and discuss the emotions they hear. Discussion about instrument families and dynamics will take place to help students decide why the song gives certain emotions. After several times listening to the music students will create a graph of the emotions they hear in the music.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5
SUBJECT
Language Arts, Math
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0
TAGS
Beethoven, Dynamics, Instruments, Sfskids.com, Vocabulary
 
 
 
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