Feast of Ideas Curriculum Bundle - Tour 2

Designed for elementary and middle school students, families will learn 22 composers by listening to their music, eating food from their country of origin, read books related to their life, and study science, artwork, literature, local history, American history, and world history that occurred in the composer’s lifetime.

Package includes Teacher Manual, Student Workbook, Time & Place Cards, and Book of Centuries.

Teacher Manual Includes

Music Lessons:

• listen to the composer's music
• learn basic details about the composer's life
• eat food from the composer's country of music
• listen or read a living book related to the composer
• put the composer in context of time and place through a Science, Literature, Art, Local History, American History, and World History that occurred during the composer's lifetime.
• learn about another culture in the world through playing a folk game from that country

Connect a scientific discovery, piece of art, published literature, and local/American/world history event to the composer’s lifetime each week.  Lessons include topic summaries, read alouds from living books, video links, activities, and worksheets for elementary and middle school students. 
Time & Place Cards and Student Workbooks are Recommended to use with this resource.

A great resource for a CO-OP looking for a Music or Art curriculum with added extension activities for parents to do throughout the week (Science, Literature, History).

Also a great resource for HOME SCHOOL PARENTS to use for Music/Art credits with excellent tie-ins to Fun Science and Art activities along with excellent Picture Book recommendations.

Students will love the music, the games, the food, the books, and the experiments, the art, and the codes.

Parents and Teachers will love the connections students are making, the simplicity of needing YouTube and a Library Card to complete 5 subjects in an easy and engaging way.

Student Manual includes:

The Student Workbook to accompany the Feast of Ideas Teachers Manual. There are 3 sections

• Music: doodle page or listening map, timeline/map/related subjects, time & place map
• Literature: copywork quotes by each composer and each author for students to trace, copy in print, or copy in cursive.
• History: braille decoding worksheet and coloring worksheet

Each student should have their own workbook.
Families can purchase one workbook and make copies for children within their household. Otherwise, each family should purchase their own workbook.

Time & Place Cards include:

Teacher Image Cards to accompany the Feast of Ideas Teacher Manual.
Each week contains the image used during the time & place section of the music lesson along with a simple descriptive sentence including the date of the event.

22 Composers, scientific discoveries, works of art, pieces of literature, local historical event, American history, and World history events starting in the Medieval Period and ending in the Post Modern Period.
Great resource for building a time line or Book of Centuries.

Book of Centuries includes:

Blank pages for a Book of Centuries starting at 6000BC and going up to 2020.

Mini images for Feast of Ideas time and place (music, science, art, literature, history) for students to cut and paste into a Book of Centuries or a timeline.