Science

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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TAGS
Animals, Art, Composer, Dynamics, Instruments, Orchestra, Reading, Story, Tempo, Vocabulary

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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GRADE LEVEL
PK-2

SUBJECT
Language Arts, Performing Arts-Music, Performing Arts-Other, Science, Special education

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TAGS
Art, Composer, Dance, Dynamics, Tempo, 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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TAGS
Art, Composer, Dynamics, Tempo

Beethoven's Beloved Immortal - History or Mystery?

Posted Dec 21, 2010 by Christine Friend

Students will gain knowledge of the life and music of Ludwig van Beethoven. Within the study, students will be able to identify and use processes important to reconstructing and reinterpreting the past by using a variety of sources; providing, validating, and weighing evidence for claims; checking credibility of sources; and searching for causality, to seek to determine the identity of Beethoven’s Immortal Beloved.

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GRADE LEVEL
6-8

SUBJECT
Language Arts, Science

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TAGS
Beethoven, Composer, History, Literature, Reading, Voice

Autumn Leaves

Posted Dec 21, 2010 by Jini Maxwell

This lesson involves two genres of music: a classical composition, Concerto No. 3 in F major, Op. 8, RV 293, Autumn from Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi; and a jazz rendition of Autumn Leaves, by Joseph Kosma and lyrics by poet Jacques Prévert, performed by Wynton Marsalis. The children are given and bring background information about the fall season, particularly how leaves fall off of a tree or blow in the wind. The children engage in an activity where they can drop a leaf and watch it fall or blow.

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GRADE LEVEL
PK-2

SUBJECT
English Language Learner, Language Arts, Science, Visual Arts

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TAGS
Art, Brass, Composer, Instruments, Jazz, Vocabulary

Arcimboldo, Vivaldi and Healthy Foods Collage

Posted Dec 21, 2010 by Laurie Burghardt

This lesson focuses on the collage-like paintings of the Italian Mannerist painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo. The four paintings named after the seasons are La Primavera (Spring), L'Esate (Summer), L'Autunno (Autumn), and L'Inverno (Winter). This lesson integrates an art history lesson on Arcimboldo, a visual arts lesson on collage, a health lesson on healthy foods, and a classical music appreciation lesson on Antonio Vivaldi and his four violin concertos entitles The Four Seasons.

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GRADE LEVEL
All Levels

SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Social Science, Visual Arts, Science

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0

TAGS
Art, Composer

Adventures in Tempo

Posted Dec 21, 2010 by Carmen Cobler

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 of music. Students will use streamers and their bodies to show at what tempo each piece is played.

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GRADE LEVEL
PK-2

SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Language Arts, Science

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TAGS
Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Tempo

The Chemistry of Fireworks

Posted Apr 30, 2010 by Jana Jean

Students will listen to Music for the Royal Fireworks by George Frideric Handel (commissioned to celebrate the signed Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1749) and design a virtual fireworks display to accompany the music. Students will learn that the specific colors in a firework display are created when atoms of a particular element or a combination of elements are energized by the firework's heat. They will learn that the shape of the firework display is determined by the shape and structure of one particular component inside the firework shell.

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GRADE LEVEL
9-12

SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Visual Arts, Science

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Physics

Steel Vibrations

Posted Apr 30, 2010 by Scott Filleman

This lesson is designed to teach how sound is produced and how its qualities change depending on the medium through which vibrations pass. The students will be able to 1) identify parts of a sound (sine) wave: amplitude, frequency, phase, crest, and valley; 2) explain the difference between a pure tone and a sound with harmonics; and 3) explain how different musical instruments produce different qualities of sound (timbre).

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GRADE LEVEL
9-12

SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Science

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0

TAGS
Percussion , Physics, Vibrations

Leaves in the Key of Autumn

Posted Apr 30, 2010 by Adele Sato

Students listen to Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, 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.

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GRADE LEVEL
PK-2 3-5

SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Language Arts, Visual Arts, Science

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TAGS
Art, Dynamics, Poetry, Tempo