America

Romantic Pictures in America

Posted Dec 21, 2010 by Sonya Fergeson

Students will improve vocabulary and writing skills by writing a sensory/descriptive story utilizing elements of both art and music as their inspiration. Students will pay close attention to the six traits of writing - editing our first drafts and making improvements in ideas and content, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency and conventions. Students will demonstrate an understanding of general musical terminology.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5 6-8 9-12
SUBJECT
Language Arts, Performing Arts-Music, Performing Arts-Other, Social Science, Technology, Visual Arts
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America, Animals, Composer, Dynamics, Melody, Pitch, Rhythm, Tempo, Vocabulary, 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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America, Composer, Copland, Dynamics, History, Tempo
 
 
 

Adding Music to Oklahoma History

Posted Dec 21, 2010 by Tammy Chapman

Students will use the San Francisco Symphony's kids website - sfskids.org - to choose music that supports the events and people associated with the history of Oklahoma, such as Native Americans, explorers and exploration, Civil War, Trail of Tears, Land Run, and farmers and ranchers. Students will write two or three sentences to explain and support their selection of music. In small groups, students will create a statue or tableau depicting one of the events. Students will perform their statue or tableau for the class with their musical selection as a background.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5
SUBJECT
Language Arts, Social Science
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America, Composer, Dynamics, History, Instruments, Melody, Rhythm, Sfskids.com, Story, Tempo, Vocabulary
 
 
 

A Walk Back In Time with Copland

Posted Dec 21, 2010 by Lisa Cochrane

The lesson helps the students learn to compare and contrast their current life with the past. It is designed to help them learn to more thoughtfully listen to a composer's piece and write a descriptive paragraph of their interpretation.
 

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3-5
SUBJECT
Language Arts, Performing Arts-Music, Performing Arts-Other, Technology, Visual Arts
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America, Art, Composer, Copland, Dynamics, Geography, History, Reading, Tempo
 
 
 

Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring: A Myth is Born

Posted Apr 30, 2010 by Gail Claus

This lesson will contrast Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring (classical) and Stephane Furic's Crossing Brooklyn Ferry (jazz), and the role the poems Crossing Brooklyn Ferry by Walt Whitman and The Bridge by Hart Crane, bring to the music.

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GRADE LEVEL
6-8
SUBJECT
Language Arts, Performing Arts-Music, Social Science, Visual Arts
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America, Composer, Copland, Dance, Geography, History, Jazz, Literature, Poetry, Story
 
 
 

Landscape in Music and Art

Posted Apr 30, 2010 by Marcia Greenwood

This unit is designed to integrate the elements of landscape design and elements of music. Students in 3rd, 4th and 5th grade are asked to consider American landscapes as they learn how one musician, Aaron Copland, created music that is distinctly American - a musical American landscape. Teachers could certainly do one lesson from the unit and not the entire unit.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5
SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Visual Arts
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America, Art, Biography, Brass, Composer, Copland, Dynamics, History, Instruments, Orchestra, Percussion , Rhythm, String , Tempo, Woodwind
 
 
 

FDR's New Deal Programs

Posted Apr 30, 2010 by Pat Miller

Franklin Roosevelt introduced The New Deal to boost the economy that was shattered by the Wall Street Crash. Students will research the acts and agencies that were to help restore prosperity through expansive government intervention in the economy. Music integration will be in the following components: classical music for the video, poster of the biography of the composer and why he wrote the piece; and analysis of why students choose the classical piece for their video.

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GRADE LEVEL
6-8
SUBJECT
Social Science, Technology
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America, Beethoven, Berlioz, Biography, Composer, Copland, History, Ives, Mahler, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky
 
 
 

By the Great Horn Spoon!

Posted Apr 30, 2010 by Carolyn Roberts

Students will complete two language arts activities for this lesson. In the first activity, students use folk songs from the era of the California Gold Rush, which are introduced in the early chapters of By the Great Horn Spoon! by Sid Fleishman, to identify folk song motifs in the classical music of Antonín Dvořák. This will be explored by the students' creation of a labeled line drawing of one of Dvořák 's compositions.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5
SUBJECT
Language Arts, Performing Arts-Music
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America, Composer, Folk songs, History, Literature, Reading, Song
 
 
 

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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3-5
SUBJECT
Foreign Language, Performing Arts-Music, Social Science
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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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America, Composer, Geography, History, Jazz, Stravinsky, Vocabulary, War
 
 
 
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