Tempo

The Tempo of Understanding

Posted Mar 10, 2011 by Cate Malone

This lesson compares the tempo of music to the tempo of reading. By having students learn about tempo through music, poems and movement, they will gain an understanding and be able to explain times when they should use a slower or faster tempo when reading.

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GRADE LEVEL
PK-2 3-5

SUBJECT
Language Arts

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TAGS
Reading, Tempo

How Steep is Your Tune?

Posted Mar 09, 2011 by Yolando Cato

In this adventure, students will observe the effect of two factors on a motion plot. They will walk at two different speeds, walk in two different directions, and walk to the tempo of two different classical music selections. The students will then deduce how the value of the slope of a line can be "seen" in its graph.

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GRADE LEVEL
6-8

SUBJECT
Math, Science

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TAGS
Dynamics, Physics, Tchaikovsky, Tempo, Vibrations

A Musical Visit with Babar

Posted Mar 09, 2011 by Janet Mulligan

This lesson will introduce students to Babar, an elephant portrayed in the children's books by Jean de Brunhof. Students will listen to Francis Poulenc's musical composition of the same name, written to reflect the scenes in Jean de Brunhof's book. Students will gain an understanding of how powerful the use of simple rhythm instruments is in retelling the story. Students will also create visual works of art based on the sounds they hear in the audio performance.

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GRADE LEVEL
PK-2

SUBJECT
Language Arts, Performing Arts-Music, Visual Arts

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TAGS
Animals, Art, Dynamics, Instruments, Rhythm, Story, Tempo

Finding the Tempo in Locomotor Movements

Posted Feb 15, 2011 by Tori Meredith

As students learn basic locomotor skills, this lesson will help them differentiate tempos. Students will learn to identify and match musical vocabulary for tempos - presto, moderato and adagio - with their locomotor movements through creative movement to music.

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GRADE LEVEL
PK-2

SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music

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TAGS
Dance, Percussion , Tempo

Four Seasons of a Deciduous Tree

Posted Feb 15, 2011 by Laura Knapp

While studying ecosystems, students will focus on the changes that occur in deiciduous forests throughout the seasons of the year. With that knowledge, students will listen to and analyze Vivaldi's The Four Seasons. As a culminating activity, students will use oil pastels to show what a dedicuous forest would like like during each season.

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GRADE LEVEL
PK-2 3-5

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

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TAGS
Art, Dynamics, Tempo

Poetry with Expression

Posted Feb 15, 2011 by Sarah Fix

Students will have a better understanding of how musical terms, dynamics and tempo, can apply to other disciplines. Students will use musical vocabulary to help determine how to read poems with greater voice and expression.

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GRADE LEVEL
All Levels

SUBJECT
Language Arts

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0

TAGS
Dynamics, Poetry, Reading, Tempo, Vocabulary, Voice

Washington Portrait

Posted Dec 21, 2010 by Leah Nellis

This cooperative improvisation between fifth and second grade students can be planned and performed in less than one hour, but preparation for the event should include several previous experiences including viewing the famous painting, Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Leutze, hearing the historical details from a variety of sources, engaging in student discussions of the events surround the planning and the Battle of Trenton and identifying targeted musical concepts.

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GRADE LEVEL
PK-2 3-5

SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music

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TAGS
Biography, Composer, Copland, Dynamics, History, Instruments, Tempo, Vocabulary, War

Visualizing Visualizing

Posted Dec 21, 2010 by Jordan Stephens

Students will develop visualization skills through literature and music, and understand the importance of visualization in reading and music.

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GRADE LEVEL
PK-2 3-5

SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Language Arts, Visual Arts

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0

TAGS
Dynamics, Reading, Tempo, Voice

The Sound of Oklahoma's History

Posted Dec 21, 2010 by Alice Pettit

After deep listening to Aaron Copland's Rodeo, Buckaroo Holiday, students will understand that music may add to and/or change the mood of written words, spoken words, or pictures for the listener or observer. They will also learn that music often tells its own story. Students will match historic photos to the music and learn to listen to music with open minds while visualizing what the music is depicting. Students used the photographs as models for their illustrations.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5

SUBJECT
Language Arts, Social Science, Technology, Visual Arts

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TAGS
Art, Copland, Dynamics, History, Reading, Story, Tempo

Tempo in Your Feet

Posted Dec 21, 2010 by Jessica Grant

Students will be able to name and describe the following tempo markings: adagio, andante, moderato, allegro, and presto. They will be able to move kinesthetically at each named tempo, and be able to identify the tempo of a piece of music they hear by moving to the rhythm.

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GRADE LEVEL
PK-2 3-5

SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music

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0

TAGS
Dynamics, Poetry, Rhythm, Sfskids.com, Tempo, Vocabulary