Social Science

War of 1812

Posted Aug 16, 2009 by Cassandra Schlievert

Students deepen their understanding of the political and emotional events of the War of 1812 through the music of Tchaikovsky. Students will learn how different instruments are used for expressing a mood and illustrating events in history. Students will write a response to the music that informs about their own understanding of both the instrumentation and the important events of history.

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GRADE LEVEL
6-8

SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Language Arts, Social Science

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TAGS
Biography, Geography, History, Tchaikovsky, War

Star Spangled Music as a Patriotic Symbol

Posted Aug 16, 2009 by Christina Gammel

Through the use of music, students will make connections with the historical events in Colonial America and Europe during the early 19th century. Using the music of Sousa and Tchaikovsky, students will understand how music can become a patriotic symbol and help depict historical events.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5

SUBJECT
Foreign Language, Performing Arts-Music, Social Science

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TAGS
America, Biography, Geography, History, Poetry, Reading, Tchaikovsky, War

Revolutionary Music

Posted Aug 16, 2009 by Ann Callan

Students will gain an understanding of music’s relationship to the American, French and Russian revolutions. Students will also gain knowledge that music has changed over the last 200 years as a result of a musical revolution.

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GRADE LEVEL
6-8

SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Social Science

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TAGS
America, Composer, Geography, History, Jazz, Stravinsky, Vocabulary, War

Prehistoric Music

Posted Aug 16, 2009 by Cherie Luck

This lesson shows students where rock music really began! Students will create musical instruments with objects from nature. Using their created instruments, students compose and perform a musical arrangement, while making connects with their knowledge of life during the Stone Age.

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GRADE LEVEL
6-8

SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Social Science

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TAGS
Art, Folk songs, History, Instruments, Percussion , Rhythm

Admirable Armonica Admirers

Posted Aug 16, 2009 by Mary Alice Hillman

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.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5 6-8

SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Social Science

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TAGS
Acoustics, History, Instruments, Physics, Pitch

Patriotism Through Fanfare

Posted Aug 15, 2009 by Bonnie Redfern

It’s a Fanfare! Almost every student has heard the fanfare at the beginning of an MGM production. Students will understand the basic elements of a fanfare, and the significant role fanfares have played in history as a means of communicating information and emotion

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GRADE LEVEL
PK-2

SUBJECT
Social Science

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TAGS
America, Copland, History

Copland: Life Then and Now

Posted Aug 15, 2009 by Bonnie Redfern

Copland, an American maverick, becomes a storyteller as he writes about life in the early years of America. His Appalachian Spring helps students understand how people, places and things change over time, while his musical sketch reinforces the six traits of writing.

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GRADE LEVEL
PK-2

SUBJECT
Language Arts, Performing Arts-Music, Social Science

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TAGS
America, Composer, Copland, Dance, History, Reading

Music Reflects History

Posted Aug 13, 2009 by Anita Ullner

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.

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GRADE LEVEL
6-8

SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Language Arts, Social Science

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TAGS
Composer, History, Reading, Sfskids.com, Vocabulary