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Tempo and Dynamics Using Poetry and Music

Posted May 05, 2011 by Barbara Williams

Students will relate musical and poetic vocabulary. They will identify specific tempos and dynamics of musical excerpts from the San Francisco Symphony's Kids Website which correspond best to word pattern and meter of a chosen poem. Students will show understanding through reading/reciting their poem to appropriate background music.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5 6-8
SUBJECT
Language Arts, Performing Arts-Other
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TAGS
Dynamics, Poetry, Tempo
 
 
 

Biographical Slideshows

Posted May 05, 2011 by Sarah Fix

Students develop reading fluency and comprehension in nonfiction text as they learn about the period of time from post-Civil War to the 1930s. Students take notes and complete a finished project in the form of a slideshow to create art work, import pictures, and type text about the person they studied and music from a composer who lived during the same time period. The finished slideshow shares information and pictures about the person they studied, has transitions, and music from a famous composer.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5
SUBJECT
Language Arts, Technology
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America, Biography, History, Reading, War
 
 
 

BONG! DIDDLE! CRASH! Musical Onomatopoeia

Posted May 05, 2011 by Julie Silva

Students will learn about dynamics, tempo, acoustics and instruments in the music of Charles Ives. Students will be introduced to and learn about the literary term onomatopoeia, and how it can relate to the sounds composed by Ives in The Unanswered Question, Central Park in the Dark and Symphony No 4. Students will then relate the literary term to musical expression. Making the connection between literacy and music, students will create their own musical onomatopoeias using various media, such as watercolor, tempera paint, crayons, magazine text and markers.

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GRADE LEVEL
PK-2
SUBJECT
Language Arts, Performing Arts-Music, Visual Arts
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Acoustics, Art, Dynamics, Instruments, Ives, Tempo, Vocabulary
 
 
 

Comparing the Sounds of the North and South

Posted May 05, 2011 by Dolores Lopez

Students will listen to Civil War era music composed by nineteenth century composers from the North and from the South. The objective of this lesson will be for students to practice forming sentences which compare ideas using correlative conjunctions, coordinating conjunctions, and/or specialized prepositions (during, while, from, to). Students will describe both pieces of music. The teacher will create a Venn diagram using the students' descriptions. Students will connect ideas using sentence frames provided by the teacher.

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GRADE LEVEL
All Levels
SUBJECT
English Language Learner
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America, History
 
 
 

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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Art, Dance, Instruments, Rhythm, Tempo
 
 
 

Introduction to American Colonial Music and Dance

Posted May 06, 2011 by Helen Patten

Students examine the role of music and dance in the lives of early colonists. Students will begin to learn the steps to the Virginia Reel without any music. The dance is performed to many tunes. After listening to several selections, students discuss and choose one tune to which they will dance during the Fifth Grade Colonial Days Celebration. The discussion should show students' understanding of colonial life and culture and influences that shaped it.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5
SUBJECT
Social Science
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TAGS
America, Copland, Dance, History
 
 
 

Syncopation with Stravinsky's Rite of Spring

Posted May 16, 2011 by Nicole Dissinger

Students will learn and understand what syncopation is through physical activities relating to the human body. They will also learn a dance to a musical selection from Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.

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GRADE LEVEL
All Levels
SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Life Science, Performing Arts-Other
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Dance, Rhythm, Stravinsky
 
 
 

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

Great Gatsby's Jazz

Posted May 16, 2011 by Minu Dave

Students will understand the qualities of jazz and connect the music to The Great Gatsby, namely Fitzgerald’s writing style and his words. Students will also make a final determination whether jazz is a representation of social status and class.

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GRADE LEVEL
9-12
SUBJECT
Language Arts
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History, Jazz, Literature
 
 
 

Mood Music in Literature

Posted Jun 06, 2011 by Sara R. Stahl

Students will listen to musical selections on the San Francisco Symphony's Kids website. Students will be able to select musical selections that match the mood and tone of a literary piece through examples and explanation.

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GRADE LEVEL
6-8 9-12
SUBJECT
Language Arts
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Literature, Sfskids.com
 
 
 

Moods

Posted Jun 07, 2011 by Donna Boyes

Students will determine moods created by a piece of music and will analyze how the composer created the feelings. Students will determine the character traits/moods of story characters by analyzing the adjectives, adverbs, and verbs used by the author. Finally, students will determine which piece of music best represents the characters from a story.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5
SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Language Arts
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TAGS
Copland, Literature, Mahler, Reading, Stravinsky
 
 
 

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
 
 
 
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