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8th grade world history song microsofts
Vietnam War Music Activity
The following is an activity in which students explore various songs which were direct results and/or responses to the conflict in Vietnam. Students are provided with the lyrics to the following four songs:- "For What It's Worth by Buffalo Springfield- "Ohio" by Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young- "What's Going On" by Marvin Gaye- "Ballad of the Green Berets" by Staff Sergeant Barry SadlerInstructions are for the teacher to play the songs while the students listen to the songs and read the lyric
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Do we benefit from slavery today, as the North did in the 1800s?
This is a powerful lesson for students to see a modern connection to the past.Before this lesson, you should discuss with students how the North was complicit in slavery as much as the South was in the years prior to the Civil War. Northerners profited greatly off the backs of slave labor, whether they would have wanted to admit it or not. This lesson poses the question: Do we profit from slavery today?It uses multi-media clips about Nike and Apple as well as a song called "Are My Hands Clean"
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6th - 12th
Theme Song for each week of 7th grade history: includes lyrics-images-hyperlinks
Call it "Music Monday", "Time-for-beats Tuesday", "History-song Hump-day", "Theme-song Thursday", or "Fun Friday" and use a history-themed song once-a-week all year long to enhance learning.This download includes a 60-slide PowerPoint that matches 30 songs to topics studied in 7th grade social studies. Some songs are funny, others are serious, but all of them correspond to topics such as: The Roman Empire, Islam, Africa, China, Japan, Europe, Maya-Inca-Aztec, Renaissance, Reformation, Scientifi
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5th - 8th
Rasputin - Song Lyric Analysis
This song analysis activity is a fun way to learn about one of history's most interesting characters, Rasputin! This song describes Rasputin's life and reputation, and students can assess the historical accuracy for themselves!The document includes a link to an audio recording of the song, or you can show the music video if you want to give your students some laughs! The students can read along with the lyrics and then add their own analysis and answer the guided questions. You can also show
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6th - 12th
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Theme Song for each week of high school world history: includes lyrics-hyperlink
Call it "Music Monday", "Time-for-beats Tuesday", "History-song Hump-day", "Theme-song Thursday", or "Fun Friday" and use a history-themed song once-a-week all year long to enhance learning.This download includes a 65-slide PowerPoint that matches 32 songs to topics studied in a high school World History or Western Civilizations class. Some songs are funny, others are serious, but all of them correspond to topics such as: American, French, Latin American Revolutions, Spanish, British, Italian I
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8th - 12th
Geography — Radioactive: Chernobyl Story (Includes PowerPoint + Lesson Plan
Note: A zip file reader is needed to open the file. Most all computers have zip file readers.The Chernobyl explosion in Ukraine was one of the worst disasters in history. At the time Ukraine was under the Soviet Union's (U.S.S.R's) control. An enormous nuclear power plant was built in Ukraine. But something went wrong and reactor number four exploded sending poisonous radiation into the atmosphere causing destruction and danger to the people and environment. The U.S.S.R. did its best to cover up
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7th - 12th
Songs of the Enlightenment! Which Enlightenment Philosopher would sing it?
Students listen to songs be modern artists from Youtube, and try to figure out which philosopher's message goes along with the song!
Very fun, good way to incorporate music into the classroom and to change things up!
Each philosopher can only be used once, but students can build their case with enough evidence to support their choice. Some artists are easy, others are more on the line.
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6th - 9th
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Vietnam War PowerPoint and War-Era Songs
This 39-slide PowerPoint gives a very comprehensive overview of the 1960s and 1970s conflict.
It includes dozens of pictures, as well as information on the following topics:
Fact sheet overview, Ho Chi Minh, Cambodia, Nixon, anti-war demonstrations, and many songs. These songs include Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA" (with student questions), Creedance Clearwater Revival's "The Fortunate Son" (with student questions), "Ohio" by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, "For What it's Worth" by B
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
American Revolution Parody, Henry VIII Parody, and Parody Song Project
This is the perfect activity for the hands-on history class ready to flex their creative muscles. Students will see (and hopefully hear) a parody of Lady Gaga's "Paparazzi" and Bruno Mar's "When I Was Your Man". The first parody is about Henry VIII describing all of his problems with his six wives. The second parody is about a remorseful King George III singing about the loss of the 13 Colonies. This project works best for the teacher willing to sing the parodies, not just read them. Student
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6th - 12th
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A Deeper Look at The Banana Boat Song (Day-O), Harry Belafonte, 1956
This lesson uses a popular song as a text to encourage listening comprehension skills. Students will also engage critical thinking and writing skills, and develop perspective-taking and empathy.This lesson generates a fun and vibrant in-class conversation.Another highlight of this lesson is that it offers an opportunity to examine the concept of nonstandard English.  And, this song could fit in nicely with a unit on Labor relations and/or work songs.I include this song in a unit within my semes
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6th - 12th
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Parts of the Body - In Latin!
Introductory powerpoint with activities and labeling. Teach students 27 different parts of the body using images, song and English derivation.
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Lesson Plan
Head Shoulders Knees and Toes (in Latin!)
Introductory vocab slides for each body part.
English derived words associated with each body part.
Whole class activities for review and labeling the parts of the body.
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3rd - 12th
"Call me Middle East Song"- Call Me Maybe Parody of SW Asia GPS
What better way to teach Georgia's 7th Grade Social Studies Southwest Asia Region Standards than by turning them into a song every student will recognize! We all know music is far easier to memorize than specific facts and students love music!
This song is a parody of "Call me Maybe" by Carly Rae Jepsen that encompasses many of the Southwest Asia (Middle East) standards 7th graders are required to understand for the Georgia Milestones test.
My students had a blast learning this song in class a
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6th - 12th
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Hamilton the Musical Analysis
This lesson uses two songs from Hamilton the Musical. "The Battle of Yorktown" and "What comes next," are used to examine the final battle between American colonists and British troops. With lyrics attached, and analysis questions, all you need is a copy of both songs to play for students.
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5th - 12th
(Song Lyrics) History of Judaism Rap: Straight outta Canaan
I took the NWA song "Straight outta Compton" and made this. The song focuses on some key stories from Genesis and Exodus. Mostly: Abraham, Sarah, Noah, Hagar, and Moses.Here is a preview from the second verse...Straight outta Egypt, another prophet to deliverRamses’ slaves and a boy’s sent up riverHe became a prince raised in the palaceto the Israelites pharaoh had maliceBut watch out here's a son of the Levitesaccording to the records, he fightsSaw an Egyptian beating someone he knewbeatin' o
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Mulan Song and Chinese Poetry Analysis
Enhancement activity for showing of the Disney film Mulan and study of Chinese culture. Four handouts with glossaries and questions based on seven poetic works.
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6th - 11th
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World Religions Rap
This is a rap I created to the tune of "Ice Ice Baby" to help the students learn and memorize the basic founders and beliefs of each of the 6 world religions. Included are: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Hinduism.
Students can memorize and perform the raps in groups to help them learn the facts of each religion.
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5th - 12th
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Olympic National Anthem Project
As we head into the Winter Olympics, use this project to help students get more familiar with another country of the world.
The first half of this download is a TEMPLATE slide show. Make any changes you would like before you distribute - it is totally editable. Send a copy to each student through Google Classroom (or your management platform), and they have all the directions they need on their editable project. They can change backgrounds, add images and videos, and make it their own while sti
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5th - 8th
Hamilton Assignment
Students use the Hamilton musical as inspiration for an end of year history review. Sample included.
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5th - 12th
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Russian Revolution Rap
TWO SONGS HERE! This rap talks about the Romanov family, Rasputin, World War I,White Russians,Red Russians, Lenin, and Stalin
Also, this song goes with Gangsta's Paradise by Coolio. Use the instrumental beat off of Youtube.
There are two songs here about this. The first one is my own truly original version of the Russian Revolution. The second version is also my own version, but is based off the original song's (Gangsta Paradise) lyrics. I have a preview of the lyrics from the second ve
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Rap: World War II Timeline Rap
This rap puts in order many events of World War II as well as the dates. It will help your students remember when Hitler came to power, the Berlin Olympics, the Soviet Nazi Pact, Lend Lease, London Blitz, Normandy, Liberation of Paris, Iwo Jima, Hitler's suicide, and the dates of the major bombs.
I rapped it to an instrumental version of the Nas song If I Ruled the World.
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Vietnam War Songs Lyrics and Questions
In this assignment there are 4 popular songs written on the Vietnam War with questions to go along with these songs as well as all the lyrics. All you would need to do is download the actual songs. The students love this assignment, as it allows them to listen to songs from back in the 60's and 70's while learning about History. This can be used for any Middle School or High School class.
The following songs would need to be downloaded to play along with the assignment:
1. To Susan on the West
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6th - 11th
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The Greek Diety Ditty: Learn about the 12 Olympians
Greek Mythology Song
This is a song that I created a couple of years back for my students. It includes important things to remember about the 12 Olympians, plus three minor gods. Also, you don't have to be the best singer.
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3rd - 12th
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World War One WWI Narrative Song - Fresh Prince Theme Song Parody and Video
This song is a fun and clever way for your students to memorize some of the facts contained within the narrative of World War One. The song is set to the exact tune of the Fresh Prince of Bel Air theme song. Use a Youtube instrumental of the song to sing the lyrics over. A great way to engage all learners.Update: This purchase now includes a link to a music video in order to get a better feel for what the song should sound like. Feel free to have students sing over it.Attention! As with all of m
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7th - 12th
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"Africa" GPS Standards Parody of Let It Go from the movie Frozen
What better way to teach Georgia's 7th Grade Social Studies Africa Region Standards than by turning them into a song every student will recognize! We all know music is far easier to memorize than specific facts and students love music!
This song is a parody of "Let It Go" from the movie Frozen that encompasses many of the Africa standards 7th graders are required to understand for the Georgia Milestones test.
My students had a blast learning this song in class and it helped them remember key c
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6th - 12th
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