Performing Arts-Music

Mozart and The Magic Flute

Posted Dec 21, 2010 by Cynthia Conn

This is a collaborative lesson that integrates technology, language arts, and music. It was implemented by the technology teacher, librarian, and the third grade classroom teachers.

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3-5
SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Language Arts, Technology
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Art, Composer, Literature, Story, Vocabulary
 
 
 

Learning Adjectives through the Duke

Posted Dec 21, 2010 by Rachel Belmon

The students will describe the life of Duke Ellington and his contributions to the field of jazz. The students will create "nick names" similar to jazz performers of the 1920's by using adjectives that describe themselves. The students will create an original poem using a variety of popular vocabulary from the 1920s as well as adjectives that describe a mood they feel from listening to the musical selection. The students will create an illustration to decorate an adjective word wall in the room.

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3-5
SUBJECT
Language Arts, Performing Arts-Music, Social Science, Visual Arts
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Composer, History, Jazz, Orchestra, Poetry, Vocabulary, Voice
 
 
 

Kindergarten Carnival!

Posted Dec 21, 2010 by Gael Reed

This is a series of lessons on Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns, and is the culmination of a science unit on animals. During the animal unit, students learned about the different ways animals move. As an extension to the concept of how animals move, they were introduced to the book that accompanies the music of Carnival of the Animals. Each day we read and listened to one selection from the book and CD. We discussed various musical elements such as dynamics, tempo, and orchestration.

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GRADE LEVEL
PK-2
SUBJECT
Language Arts, Performing Arts-Music, Performing Arts-Other, Science, Technology, Visual Arts
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Animals, Art, Composer, Dynamics, Instruments, Orchestra, Reading, Story, Tempo, Vocabulary
 
 
 

Introduction to the Orchestra

Posted Dec 21, 2010 by Gail Claus

Students will gain a basic knowledge of acoustics, the families of instruments in the orchestra, an instrument’s pitch range, and how sound is produced by an instrument.

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3-5 6-8
SUBJECT
Language Arts, Performing Arts-Music, Performing Arts-Other, Technology
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Acoustics, Brass, Composer, Concert, Dynamics, Instruments, Orchestra, Percussion , Pitch, String , Tempo, Vibrations , Vocabulary, Woodwind
 
 
 

Haunting Music for Hallowe'en

Posted Dec 21, 2010 by Christine Friend

Who are you? Where is your place in the world? These are questions that children (and adults) often ask themselves. This lesson draws parallels of self-discovery between composer Charles Ives's life story, as told in Gerstein’s What Charlie Heard, and the life of a lonely but dutiful scarecrow in Jane Yolen’s striking picture book, The Scarecrow’s Dance.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5 6-8
SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Language Arts
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Composer, Ives, Literature, Poetry, Reading, Voice
 
 
 

Grieg and Chopin: Day and Night

Posted Dec 21, 2010 by Kathy Davis

This integrated lesson uses Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46, first movement "Morning Mood," and Frederick Chopin’s Nocturne Op. 9, No. 2, to study day and night. As part of our science curriculum, we read and learned about day and night; routines at home and at school for day and night; and what animals are awake and asleep in the day and night.

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PK-2
SUBJECT
Language Arts, Performing Arts-Music, Performing Arts-Other, Science, Special education
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Art, Composer, Dance, Dynamics, Tempo, Vocabulary
 
 
 

Emotions in Music

Posted Dec 21, 2010 by Kate Sequeia

Music can portray and evoke emotions. What musical elements do you hear that make you feel a certain way? How does the composer use these elements to portray emotion? Students will listen to a musical selection and brainstorm the feelings it evokes, and then move into a writing activity about that emotion.

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GRADE LEVEL
PK-2 3-5
SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Social Science
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Beethoven, Copland, Dynamics, Instruments, Mahler, Orchestra, Sfskids.com, Stravinsky, Vocabulary
 
 
 

Earth Art and Vivaldi's Four Seasons

Posted Dec 21, 2010 by Kathleen Helleskov

After viewing the work of artist Andy Goldsworthy (e.g. Passages, Time and/or in the award-winning DVD Rivers and Tides), students explore the elements of visual art by creating Earth Art, using found natural objects, during at least two of the four seasons. Throughout the process, the works and the commentaries of the student artists are recorded with still and video photography. Using I-movie, a DVD is created, combining the Earth Art images with the corresponding seasonal music of Vivaldi's Four Seasons.

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GRADE LEVEL
All Levels
SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Visual Arts, Science
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Art, Composer, Dynamics, 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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3-5
SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Math
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Beethoven, Dynamics, Fractions, Tchaikovsky, Vocabulary
 
 
 

Compare and Contrast Movements of Beethoven's Symphony No. 3

Posted Dec 21, 2010 by Valerie Danels

Students will be able to compare, contrast and reinforce musical vocabulary while listening to, learning about, and analyzing the movements of Beethoven's Symphony No. 3.

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3-5
SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Language Arts
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String , Vocabulary, Voice, Woodwind
 
 
 
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