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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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GRADE LEVEL
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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GRADE LEVEL
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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GRADE LEVEL
PK-2

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

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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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Art, Composer, Dynamics, Tempo

Beethoven's Sixth Symphony and the Expression of Feeling through the Arts

Posted Dec 21, 2010 by Kathleen Helleskov

After exploring nature and country life through literature, poetry, visual art, science and social science, young children will explore feelings about nature by responding with movement to Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Opus 68, known as Pastoral Symphony, or Recollections of Country Life. By listening to the words of Beethoven (from documented source materials), students will become familiar with his feelings and his desire to express these feelings through his Symphony No. 6.

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GRADE LEVEL
PK-2

SUBJECT
English Language Learner, Language Arts, Life Science, Performing Arts-Music, Performing Arts-Other, Social Science, Visual Arts

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Beethoven, Composer, Dance, Dynamics, Geography, History, Instruments, Literature, Melody, Rhythm, Vocabulary, Voice

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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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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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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Art, Composer