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8th grade problem solving music composition cultural activities
Music Escape Room - The Mystery @ Jazz Club - ALL DIGITAL! (Black History Month)
This Escape Room is an all-in-one lesson to teach your students about Jazz in a fun and engaging way. Simply share the google form link with students and they are ready to go! Students will search for answers on the internet as they learn about the topics below.7 puzzles cover the topics of:Jazz originating in the 1920s African American communitiesRagtime being a predecessor to JazzDixielandSwingBebop (Charlie Parker)Duke EllingtonBillie Holiday 3 challenges (more involved with multiple question
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5th - 8th
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Perspective Taking Comic Strip Distance Learning Growing Bundle!!
This Growing Bundle has my best selling comic strip conversations interactive activities. They are designed for distance learning and engaging children. Interactive comic strips are great for perspective taking, inferencing, and story analysis. Guided questions included!It works similarly to a wordless picture book, but a wordless video! Watch together, then have the child retell. Type their words onto the comic strip and watch the magic happen.Share your screen with your student and view the cu
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1st - 12th
Composer Research Poster Project & Presentation
This is designed to help students work together to discover and share information about the life, career, and music of a famous composer or musician!
This includes an example/sample layout of what the final project should look like, as well as headings students can cut and glue into their project. There is a group project grading rubric to hold the teammates accountable for their effort and quality of work. Designed for teams of three, but could be flexible. Directions for the project are i
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6th - 9th
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Opera History Presentation (BRIEF!) with an Oral Review, and a Written Quiz
This PowerPoint and the Assessments herein attempt to make learning about Opera History fun and interesting by engaging students with fun animation, colorful slides and read-along pages that can be printed or simply projected so you can read it aloud to the students, or they can read it aloud from a screen to each other.
It gives a very brief history of the beginning of opera, explains what Overture, Recitative and Arias are, talks a bit about basics of opera plots and voice parts. There is al
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5th - 12th
Design Your Own Home - Architecture Unit
Students learn the basic stages of designing a house, from planning to final design, in this two week unit. Critical thinking plays a large role in this activity. The unit has a strong emphasis on the preliminary planning stages of designing a home: spaces that are necessary vs. those that are amenities; defining public vs. private spaces; room locations and relationships; and working within a square footage budget. Just as an architect does, students will develop a preliminary floor plan, refin
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6th - 12th
Project Based Learning: Editable Cookbook Template in Google Slides
Wow your students (and their parents) with this interactive and completely editable cookbook template. The benefit of using this template is it's collaborative nature. Google slides is an amazing program that allows collaboration on a single document - meaning the whole class gets to take part. This product includes many different page templates as well as instructional slides on how to make any custom edits! We hope you enjoy :) What kind of skills will this build in my classroom? Writing and s
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3rd - 8th
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HUGE "Hamilton: an American Musical" Unit for Middle / High School General Music
This year, I am teaching an edited version of "Hamilton" to my 8th grade general music and wanted to share my 84 (!!!) worksheets with other music/drama teachers!
Included in this .pdf:
-Hamilton history worksheet
-Hamilton characters worksheet
-Listening Guides for most songs
-A sample letter to parents
You may copy and distribute any of the above to students. None of this is for commercial use.
Note: Music files are NOT included - you can purchase them from iTunes or Amazon. I recommend t
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
Logic Puzzles Human Geography
Extend your geography lesson plans with these 5 table logic puzzles geared for 5th to 7th grade students. Use these deductive reasoning logic puzzles as a jumping off point for extension ideas that explore:Factory Wage EarningsLiteracy RatesLife Expectancy and Population Densities. We've taken critical thinking activities to a whole new level by integrating content-area facts with fun brain teasers. Whether you need a time filler, a homework assignment, an activity for an early finisher, or an e
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3rd - 8th
Ukulele Unit for General Music
Ukulele has become incredibly popular In the past few years and for good reason; they're inexpensive, relatively easy to learn, and don't take up a ton of space. This unit was designed to help you and your students get started with the ukulele in a general music setting. This is the only material you will need! Students can use it at their own pace, or you can present each step to your class as you see fit. This product includes: History of the UkuleleAnatomy of the UkuleleInstrument CareHolding
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K - 12th
NO PREP! Get to Know Your World!--A Geography Mystery Centers Activity
Map reading can be a tricky skill to master but these geo mystery centers can help! The learning centers in this packet target important geography skills and concepts in an engaging format. Each center includes instructions to create a self-directed learning experience for your students. This set can be used as centers or stations for groups or individual students, or printed as a packet for small groups or individual assignment. Use it all at once or break it into pieces to introduce each regio
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4th - 9th
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month and $ benefit Puerto Rico! Bomba Y Plena!
This powerpoint is an instructional material to teach the cultural context, instruments and rhythms of Puerto RIcan Bomba Y Plena! Learn about the dances, the musical styles, the names of the instruments and the 3 different percussion parts! The parts in an of itself are not too complex, yet they are exciting and fun! They encourage collaboration, dancing and an overall great sense of community!
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Trouble at Bill Hunter Lake Park
Trouble at Bill Hunter Lake Park can be for grades 8 through 12. Evaluating whether a deer population exists. How many deer is too many and how many should we have? Consider and advocate for varying opinions on how an over abundant deer population should be managed during a simulated local Ministry Board of Directors meeting with locals and then vote. Town citizens are getting very frustrated and going to use their own methods of control if something is done about it. The local Ministry Board of
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Ethical and Moral Scenarios for Discussion
This activity includes five detailed, moral scenarios relevant to high school students across multiple disciplines. I usually employ it cooperatively: Each group is assigned one of the scenarios, and after each group's presentation of its choices, other groups have the opportunity to weigh in, but this product is also useful when employed individually. I have used this in conjunction with teaching the novel, Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad, but it is also appropriate as an introduction to an
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6th - 12th
Christmas Binary Code
Elevate your child's creativity and innovation with our enchanting Christmas-themed binary code book. It fosters problem-solving, computer understanding, vocabulary building, and artistic expression, making it the perfect gift for budding tech-savvy innovators. Watch their confidence grow as they decode, color, and expand their vocabulary from A to Z.What Benefits Do Kids Gain at the End of This Book?Christmas Vocabulary from A to Z:Discover a treasure trove of Christmas-themed words from A to Z
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3rd - 12th, Adult Education
An introduction to Germany Escape Room/ WebQuest
New Digital Version now availableTry it out here:https://view.genial.ly/5f04c16980f7af0d99101585A web-based activity to introduce students to German geography and culture and first German words. Unlike other webquests, students here use internet research to solve puzzles and codes while learning about Germany. It also does not require any printing as all answers are entered and checked in the webpage.Ideal activity at the beginning of a course in German language or European geography or as a fun
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Grades:
7th - 12th
Also included in:Â German Escape Rooms
Composer Time Capsule: George Gershwin
Discover the life and music of George Gershwin with his Composer Time Capsule! A fun and educational way for students to learn and review facts about the great composer, George Gershwin!This set includes 16 fact cards and 16 clue cards to help students remember what they learn. Each set also includes 4 ways to assess students knowledge, including a bonus Kahoot game. Plus, the set includes suggestions for physical objects to help you create your own time capsule to store your cards in. With his
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4th - 12th
Also included in:Â Composer Time Capsule Bundle Set 3
3 fun & Educational Mardi Gras Binary Coding Challenges for Kids
This wonderful book "Mardi Gras Binary Challenges"contains three exciting coding challenges, each designed at its own unique and different level of fun and learning. After conquering each level, children will gain a special skill to help them breeze through the next challenge. This approach ensures a deeper understanding and enhances their coding skills. Additionally, there is a guide to help children through every level, offering helpful tools to make their adventure a breezeEach challenge is c
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3rd - 12th, Adult Education
History of the DJ Unit - 7 Lessons with Games, Follow Along Worksheets, and More
Your students will love this "History of DJing" unit, which includes 40 slides of history, quick-writes, blookets, videos, and much more! This seven-lesson unit pairs extremely well with the YouDJ video lessons offered for free by Little Kids Rock. Begin the class with a history lesson, set your kids up with a new DJ skill using the LKR resource mentioned above, then finish the class with a blooket included in this unit. Don't forget to follow me for updates and freebies, and leave feedback so t
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6th - 12th
Music Genre Listening Assessment
This is designed to assess the students ability to listen to a piece of music and differentiate between different genres of music. The genres covered in this assessment are: jazz, country/western, opera, band, and classical. These titles combined with icons, make it possible to use this assessment with many different levels of reading comprehension.
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1st - 8th
Native American Navigation Unit | Communication through Rhythm & Drumming
This cross-curricular project Native American Navigation is a multi-week unit designed to be collaborative by connecting music to culture & history, and to require critical thinking skills. While many tribes and nations had signed, spoken, & drawn languages, music was an integral component for communication & celebration. To honor that, students will use music as their communication tool during this project.Students will:Compose 4 short rhythms for the cardinal directions (N, S, E,
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Grades:
4th - 10th
Also included in:Â Year Long Music Lessons & Curriculum for 4th Grade Bundle 30% off
Hanerot Halalu A song for Hanukkah
This music is an arrangement of a traditional Hanukkah song. It is a grade 2 concert band arrangement.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Percussion Conga lesson 5 for the music classroom How to play Salsa
Secrets of the drum is an education series that teaches how to create sounds on the conga and how to play more than 7 Caribbean and Latin American Music on the conga.Each lesson has music notation of each rhythm and its exercises, along with a YouTube video with a demonstration of the exercises. additionally each lesson has to playing tracks to practice the rhythms you are learning.Lastly, each lesson has a historical context, which should be incorporated into the lesson. All material is create
Grades:
6th - 12th
Percussion Conga lesson 4 for the music classroom How to play Bomba.
Secrets of the drum is an education series that teaches how to create sounds on the conga and how to play more than 7 Caribbean and Latin American Music on the conga.Each lesson has music notation of each rhythm and its exercises, along with a YouTube video with a demonstration of the exercises. additionally each lesson has to playing tracks to practice the rhythms you are learning.Lastly, each lesson has a historical context, which should be incorporated into the lesson. All material is create
Grades:
6th - 12th
Percussion Conga lesson 3 for the music classroom How to play Merengue
Each lesson has music notation of each rhythm and its exercises, along with a YouTube video with a demonstration of the exercises. additionally each lesson has to playing tracks to practice the rhythms you are learning.Lastly, each lesson has a historical context, which should be incorporated into the lesson. All material is created by Spark Music Program LLC.
Grades:
6th - 12th
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