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It's Spring, Mr. Vivaldi!

Posted May 05, 2011 by Kathy Davis

This lesson plan was developed for three- to five-year old developmentally delayed students. It is a very simplified study of the three movements of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons: Spring. The three movements demonstrate the tempos of allegro and largo, and provide opportunity for children to move in dance and play rhythm instruments to the music and the words of Vivaldi's sonnets. Varied art activities, nature walks and children's literature about spring and the weather are an integral part of the lesson.

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GRADE LEVEL
PK-2

SUBJECT
Language Arts, Life Science, Performing Arts-Music, Special education , Visual Arts

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TAGS
Art, Dance, Instruments, Rhythm, Tempo

Quilting Your Way through the Orchestra

Posted May 16, 2011 by Dana McBurney

Students will recognize the instruments of the orchestra from sight and sound by utilizing the www.sfskids.org website. They will compare the sounds of different instruments and learn to classify them into four families. Students will make their own fabric square to be sewn into a quilt that will be displayed in the classroom.

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GRADE LEVEL
PK-2 3-5

SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Visual Arts

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TAGS
Art, Brass, Instruments, Orchestra, Percussion , Sfskids.com, String , Woodwind

Duke Ellington and the Nutcracker Suite

Posted Jun 07, 2011 by Heidi Aarts Michels

Students will be introduced to the great jazz composer and band leader, Duke Ellington by listening to his re-composed, re-orchestrated version of Nutcracker Suite by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, following a previously taught thematic lesson about Tchaikovsky's classic. Students use there prior knowledge of musical concepts and the instrumentation of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite to recognize similar melodies in Ellington's work to that of Tchaikovsky. Share and Discuss > View Lesson Plan (PDF 0.1MB)

GRADE LEVEL
3-5 6-8

SUBJECT
Language Arts, Performing Arts-Music, Visual Arts

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TAGS
America, Brass, Instruments, Jazz, Melody, Orchestra, Tchaikovsky

Nature’s Adaptations Join Beethoven’s Ode to Joy Variations

Posted Jul 07, 2011 by Donna Natseway

Students will recognize and identify the sounds of different orchestral instruments; learn and use the tempo markings from the fourth movement of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9; research the similarities between adaptations in nature and variations in music/visual art; and create visual art which illustrates the connection among natural adaptations and music variations.

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GRADE LEVEL
9-12

SUBJECT
Language Arts, Visual Arts, Life Science

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TAGS
Animals, Beethoven, Instruments

Take a Walk with Beethoven

Posted Aug 01, 2011 by Janet Henderson

After studying the life of Ludwig van Beethoven, students will listen to, become familiar with, and identify distinguishing characteristics of Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, the "Pastoral". Selected landscape art will be explored and correlated with specific movements of the symphony. The sonnet, On Hearing a Symphony of Beethoven by Edna St. Vincent Millay, will be interpreted. Student poetry elicted by an imagninary walk in the meadow with Beethoven will be illusutrated with their art.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5

SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Language Arts, Visual Arts

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TAGS
Art, Beethoven, Poetry

Music and Early Man

Posted Aug 16, 2011 by Anita Ullner

When did music develop? What role did music play in pre-civilization? This lesson asks students to interact with the music and art of the hunters and gathers, and determine what role it played in their culture.

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GRADE LEVEL
6-8

SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Social Science, Visual Arts

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TAGS
Art, History, Instruments, Reading

Stravinsky: Our Words, Our Vision

Posted Aug 16, 2011 by Audra Peters

Students will engage with the music of Igor Stravinsky and write a cinquain poem to express their interpretation. Students will use different art mediums to draw their vision of his music.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5

SUBJECT
Language Arts, Technology, Visual Arts, Special education

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TAGS
Art, Poetry, Stravinsky

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