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Surprise! Fun with Food - A Lesson in Dynamics and Adjectives

Posted Dec 21, 2010 by Valerie Danels

Students will learn the dynamic levels in musical terms and learn about adjectives in Language Arts, specifically adjectives that describe what kind. Students will listen to Haydn's Symphony No. 94 in G Major, often referred to as the Surprise Symphony. Students will gather instruments found around the classroom, and sample quiet and noisy foods.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5

SUBJECT
Language Arts

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TAGS
Composer, Dynamics, Instruments, Orchestra, Vocabulary

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

The Rite of Spring and Fantasia

Posted Dec 21, 2010 by Karen Travis

Students will listen to Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, discuss what spring time means, and create a list of adjectives for the music. Then, they will watch the part of the Disney film Fantasia that re-interprets the same music. Students will add to their list of adjectives, retell the film's story, and compare the original music to the film's story. After listening again, and moving to the music, they will write and draw a response.

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GRADE LEVEL
PK-2

SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Language Arts

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TAGS
Composer, Dance, Story, Stravinsky, Vocabulary

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

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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TAGS
Dynamics, Reading, Tempo, Voice

Voice of the Fanfare

Posted Dec 21, 2010 by Cate Malone

Students will be able to describe elements and history of fanfare music. Students will compose an essay for an important person in the "voice" of a fanfare.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5

SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Language Arts

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TAGS
Copland, 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

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

A Fork is a Fork is a Fork ... Or is it?

Posted Feb 15, 2011 by Jana Jean

Ever see a glass tuning fork? Are some materials better suited to make tuning forks? Students will learn the history of the tuning fork and the latest technological advances. They will learn how a tuning fork works and why some materials are better suited to make tuning forks.

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GRADE LEVEL
6-8 9-12

SUBJECT
Science

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0

TAGS
Acoustics, Brass, Copland, Instruments, Physics, Pitch, Vibrations

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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0

TAGS
Art, Dynamics, 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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0

TAGS
Dance, Percussion , Tempo

Heritage Song

Posted Feb 15, 2011 by Debbie Perry

Students listen critically to two distinct compositions by composer Aaron Copland to help them connect with their own family's traditions and cultures. Through interviews, art and writing, students will gain a better understanding of their own heritage.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5 6-8 9-12

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

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TAGS
Art, Composer, Copland, Geography, History

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