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6th grade critical thinking short stories songs
Figurative Speech Through Music: Red by Taylor Swift
All students love music, so why not integrate figurative speech with popular music? This lesson has students listen to or watch the Taylor Swift performance of her song "Red" while searching for similes and metaphors in figurative language. This lesson is engaging and helps students understand what inferencing and figurative speech is. Students will analyze the inferences of the lyrics. A student sheet and an answer key is provided. This can be a whole class or literacy center activity. This
PENTATONIX: A Capella Singing Sensation! - PowerPoint Presentation w/ Quiz
Get to know Pentatonix, the five member a cappella group that's taking the world by storm! This PowerPoint presentation is packed with information on the group, from their beginnings to their current successes. Plus, there's a 10 question quiz at the end to test your students' knowledge. Whether you're a fan of Pentatonix or not, this presentation is sure to entertain! Topics Covered:HistoryKey TermsQuotesTimelineQuizWhat's included in the package:* Pentatonix PPTX* Pentatonix Show PPSX* Pentato
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4th - 12th
Pop Songs: Music Appreciation Prompts
Use these pop song writing prompts to help kids tune in to the songs they listen to daily. What songs do we appreciate and why?
Uses: writing in music class, critical thinking, creative writing, lyric study, close reading, brain breaks, fun stuff, sub plans
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32 critical thinking song writing prompts - color
32 critical thinking song writing prompts - black and white
2 posters - color
1 song question sheet - color
1 song question sheet - black and white
2 writing papers featuring BP
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4th - 7th
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Language Arts Activity: Using YOUTUBE Music Videos to Teach the Elements of Plot
The students are shown five popular music videos on YOUTUBE. While watching the videos they make notes. After watching, they work together to answer questions concerning the elements of plot in each video. Then individually, each student charts the elements of plot in one of the five videos.
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6th - 9th
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Pop Songs with lessons - mindfulness, social justice, courage, kindness
#classroom community: These powerful pop songs support any kindness and bullying prevention programs you have in place. Powerful lyrics help kids deal with bullies and stress. Songs promote tolerance of others, friendship and teamwork, and healthy self esteem. They inspire critical thinking and creative writing! BP social skills songs make a perfect addition to your classroom playlist!LYRICS INCLUDED. 11 also have simple lesson plans.General ed teachers: Use these songs for close reading and lyr
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4th - 8th
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Special Olympics - We're All Alike .... We're All Different
Special Olympics activities for every child to learn how we are all alike even though we are all different and special. A great way to educate children on differences.Can be adapted to many age and learning levels.
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1st - 6th
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MUSIC & MATH - What Does A Dot Do? - Lesson Plan, Song, Worksheet, ORFF Arrgmt.
*** $3.00 ***Overview:This product challenges students to use their critical thinking skills to determine the values of notes as it relates to different time signatures. They must be knowledgeable of fractions. The purpose of the dot in music is discussed and applied. A great tool to use for curriculum integration!Materials included:• Lesson Plan with Essential Standards & Objectives• Original Song: What Does A Dot Do?• Student Worksheet• Answer Guide• Orff Arrangement contains conductor s
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3rd - 6th
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18 Song Tale Posters with Lyrics on the Back!
The songs in this file can be found in the First Steps in Music curriculum by John F. Feierabend. The point for including SongTales (folk songs that tell a story) into a lesson is for the teacher to perform the song for the class with a good tone while expressing the intent of the song. These songs should be memorized when performing. However, if you're new to the First Steps curriculum or have a student teacher, this can be a great resource to use as "training wheels" until memorization is achi
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PreK - 8th
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Peace Song - empathetic to all - timely and powerful
This powerful and timely peace song - penned in Jerusalem years ago - encourages empathy for not only all those suffering in the Israeli Palestinian struggle, but for anyone praying for peace in their own world. 'Enough' has a long history of touching the hearts the of students, gently leading them to a more tolerant point of view. It is a huge student, parent, and teacher favorite - our second most popular song.General ed teachers: Use this song to enhance any bullying prevention and social ski
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5th - 9th
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Ants: A Lesson on Point-of-View and Biodiversity
How to Create a Nature-Centered View of the Universe Copyright Betty J. White, aka Compass Rose, 2024 Includes:*An original short story by the popular science author, Betty J. White.*A historical perspective of the total solar eclipse from an ant’s point of view.*Illustrations.*Themes: the importance of biodiversity and the role biodiversity plays in the three R’s…recycling, reusing, and restoring.*What is “anthropocentrism”? Point of discussion: How does our culture help form our views ab
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5th - 8th
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20 Music Matching Games with Themes & Wall Posters
This packet has 20 different music matching games I call "Mood Matchings" which I have used in Pre-K through 6th grade classrooms throughout the entire school year. Each activity has its own specific instructions included on the document, but the general steps involve the teacher placing the posters for that activity around the room on different walls. The class stands in the center of the room. The teacher plays the first song on the playlist (every track is linked to a YouTube video of the tra
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PreK - 8th
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Word Problem Attack Strategy--Close Reading Approach to Math Problems
Use the step-by-step word problem attack song, “dance,” printable, and task cards by Teaching's a Joy to teach your students to solve problems--once and for all. This is Math Rescue for students in third, fourth, and fifth grades.I've used this song and dance approach successfully with an incredibly diverse population of students for many, many years with amazing success. My students look forward to problem-solving sessions! Set includes answers on each card (upside down and in fine print).
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3rd - 6th
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Critical Thinking in the Music Classroom {Fifth Grade}
Need strategies to promote critical thinking in your Fifth Grade music room? Want to encourage 21st century learning? This set includes:*Discussion starters: Several questions are included for each of the following concepts: 6/8 meter, tam-ti (dotted quarter/ eighth), 6/8 rhythms, ti, and low ti, as well as a page of questions for various topics, such as the science of sound and theme and variations. The sheets are formatted so that you can check off the questions as you use them in your lessons
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5th - 6th
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Also included in: Critical Thinking in the Music Classroom {Bundled Set}
Make a difference interactive notebook with song: community building
#classroomcommunity: This colorful team building unit inspires kids to make a difference and help save the world! It leads to critical thinking, supports healthy self esteem, kind attitudes, and includes an inspiring song.
"We can save the world with a little more lovin'..."
Einstein song lyrics inspire kids to work as a team. Kids love this one! Einstein is very #growth mindset.
Standards covered: ELA Literature 2 & 3, ELA Speaking and Listening 1, ELA Writing 3 & 4.
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4th - 7th
Propaganda and Media Literacy Complete Unit and Group Project
This is a complete mini-unit on specific Propaganda techniques and ways to spot them in media and advertising. Students see examples, discuss questions with a partner, write down their ideas, and take guided notes. Included in this package:Complete presentation "Lesson 1: How to Spot Fake News"Complete presentation "Lesson 2: Propaganda Techniques"Printable Student Guided Notes for Lesson 2 presentationSong lyrics: "Can't Trust This Source Yet" (to the tune of "Can't Stop the Feeling" by Justin
Grades:
6th - 12th
Holiday Song Lyric Analysis
Engage your students during the trickiest of seasons through these creative units of study! Your 4th-8th grade students will have opportunities to build reading, writing, critical thinking, speaking and listening skills through this compilation of resources.These units of study include: ♪copies of song lyrics for student and teacher use♪Sketch to stretch invitations♪Vocabulary enrichment activities♪Building Background nonfiction reading and written responses♪Student writing prompts♪Text dependen
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4th - 8th
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Exploring Theme Using Music
This activity is a fun one and is easily adaptable to fit your student's music tastes, your music tastes, or any particular story that you are working on.
It includes:
-Organizer explaining how to identify Theme
-Blank organizer that you can use for your own purposes
-Five songs that you can analyze
1. Man Who Can't Be Moved- The Script
2. Innocent- Taylor Swift
3. Yellow- Cold Play
4. Bad Day- Daniel Powter
5. Running Around in My Dreams- Tyrone Wells
Remember yo
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6th - 10th
Fake News gossip classroom community song, lesson, lyrics
This poetic and timely bully busting song covers important territory. Lyric lesson; gossip and false information shared freely can cause great damage. What happens when a third party gets in between two friends with a negative point of view?
Verse two takes the message to a universal level. It addresses alternative facts - nowadays also known as "fake news." Should we really believe everything we read or hear without carefully considering the source?
Song lyrics are based on the quote "Barn's
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4th - 9th
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Battle of Yorktown Song Analysis and WebQuest from the musical Hamilton
Students will analyze the Hamilton song "The World Turned Upside Down" to learn more about the key figures and details of the Battle of Yorktown. What it Includes:- Background Biography research- Description of battle- Photo analysis of the battle - Song lyrics and questions - It is in the form of a "webquest" where students have a link to the song and other websites that give them information to complete the activity. The final page, students use their knowledge to create a newspaper article ab
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6th - 11th
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Social Awareness Pop Song
This haunting mean girls prevention song reminds students it's our differences that make us special. Why bully and judge? Let's celebrate and honor our differences.
This special song makes a PERFECT addition to any classroom playlist!
Listen to a sample of the studio recording in our PREVIEW.
General ed teachers:
Writing prompt, playlist, to support any anti bullying and social skills lessons and program already in place in your classroom, to spark meaningful classroom discussions, to send
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4th - 12th
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Poems and lyrics classroom community unit with song: poetry
Three poetry forms, posters, prompting teapot cards, and a highly imaginative Teapot song encourage students to explore poetry, the universe, friendships, and social conflicts at an entirely new level. Nursery rhymes, cleverly presented, encourage critical thinking, creative writing, and kinder interpersonal behavior with peers.
Use this amazing poetry unit and song to dig deep and keep kids fascinated! Help kids catch on that poetry can rock :-)
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Teacher directions
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4th - 6th
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Cosmo Kid Song
The Cosmo Kid Song is about global citizenship and our common human dignity regardless of race, class, gender, ability, appearance and so on. It encourages positive self-esteem based on universal human dignity as opposed to social ranking based on positionality (power, place, race, class, gender, ability…) This song further encourages critical thinking, kindness and open-minded wonder. A sense of belonging and community on an expanding scale can come from seeing yourself as a unique individ
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PreK - 8th, Staff
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Story 'We're Going on a Treasure Hunt' - PDF and PowerPoint
Inspired by the story “We’re going on a bear hunt”, KaPa ESL takes children on a treasure hunt. Let’s swim across the ocean, through a forest, through a cave, over a bridge, and see what we’ll discover. This PDF and PowerPoint complement our set of 3 lesson plans called "Pirates, Shapes, Food & More - ESL Lesson Plans", available on our TPT store ‘KaPa ESL – Lesson Plans for Young Learners’.
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PreK - 6th
Lyric Analysis Template
Lyric Analysis Template for Middle School (-ish) age students.Structured similarly to Book Report Template, this simple form offers introspective challenge and encourages critical thinking by having student(s) review the song(s) they are listening to and/or learning alongside their instrument practice.
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5th - 8th
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