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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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Games Around the World
Connect children to their peers around the world through versions of traditional games like tag, hopscotch, tic-tac-toe, and dominoes. This fun and engaging product includes 35 games from 23 different countries* for students to explore and compare all year long. Each game card includes clear instructions to prepare and play the game, its country of origin, and printables when necessary.Also included...a world map for locating the country of the game they will be playinga summary list for the ma
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1st - 4th
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Global Awareness STEM Challenges | STEM Activities
Expose your students to the world around them through these STEM challenges These STEM activities will teach students about diverse people doing every day jobs such as artists and architects from around the world. These STEM activities are perfect preschool centers or Kindergarten centers. The art center resource is great way to add rigor to your art projects. Students will be challenged to build famous landmarks and homes around the world. We will also teach them about different cultures and
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PreK - 6th
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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
Middle School African Drumming - FULL Year of Plans with Instrumental Tracks
Prepping for back to school? Engage every music student in the rich sounds of African drumming! From the djembe to the tubano and shakers, your students will explore the rhythms of the sub-Saharan continent. The bundle also provides students with a touch of African history and how the culture uses drumming and music to communicate emotion. This 37-chart African Drumming package offers a comprehensive collection of rhythm charts that will last you for an entire school year. These are appropriate
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Music Around the World Bundle - Activities | Drumming | Sub Plans
Read Across America with Diverse Books
During Read Across America, this is a time to explore books from across America that shows our diversity as a country. In this product it includes 10 books with different activities. Books included are:-The Word Collector (explaining powerful words)-Those Shoes (wants vs. needs)-What If... (creating something from everyday objects)-The Most Magnificent Thing (inventing one thing or coming up with one goal)-Stella Brings The Family (labeling your own family)-All Are Welcomed (writing about when y
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K - 3rd
Cinco de Mayo Activities - May Digital Escape Room - Mexico Celebration
Cinco de Mayo is an annual celebration held on May 5, commemorating the anniversary of Mexico's victory in a battle with France. This fun digital escape room is a great way to learn more about Mexican culture. Students learn Spanish vocabulary, facts about Mexico, and more.While attending a Cinco de Mayo celebration, you've lost your piñata. You purchased the piñata to break open with your friends. To get your piñata returned, you have to solve puzzles and problems to break open the locks. Digit
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2nd - 5th
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Ocean Animals Rhythm + Composition Cards in Spanish and English
Including both Spanish and English words and activities can help your students connect to other cultures and broaden their horizons. These rhythm cards are perfect for elementary music class. You can use them to compose, improvise, and dictate rhythms with your students. Pair with Hispanic folk songs, and use for Hispanic Heritage Month, Cinco de Mayo, or an time of year!This set includes 20 ocean animal rhythm cards-- each one associated with the name of an ocean animal. There are 20 cards in E
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3rd - 5th
Also included in: Hispanic Heritage Music Lessons for Elementary Music Digital + Printable
Project Based Learning - Native Americans | PBL | Build | Plans | Rubric
Exploring Native American soon? This project-based learning unit is filled with engaging activities and facts. The aim is to encourage students to explore the topic for an extended period.This unit is ideal for Native American Heritage month (November) or any time of the year. This PBL was “piloted” on a kindergarten class, but could be modified for pre-K level. It contains the following activities:KWL chart, Pocket chart picturesDrumbeats (syllables)
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K - 1st
"Your Name is a Song" Read Aloud, Rhythm Composing | Inclusive Music Lesson
Jamillah Thompkins-Bigelow wrote "Your Name is a Song" and Luisa Uribe illustrated beautiful accompanying pictures. It is available from Amazon and will be coming to book stores near you soon. These slides accompany this amazing book and can be used as a stand alone lesson or a Back to School activity. Knowing our students' names is vital to connecting with them. It shows we care, that they are known, and that their heritage & culture is celebrated!In addition to a read aloud of this boo
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Not Grade Specific
Also included in: Year Long Music Lessons & Curriculum for 1st Grade | 30% off
The Beatles: Musicians in the Spotlight
Finally… a MITS about … THE BEATLES !!!! This musical group changed the course of pop music as we know it! It‘s hard to imagine any current pop singer or songwriter that hasn’t been influenced by these 4 men. Wow!! A MITS on the group AND each of the members!UPDATED: Now includes links to video clips for the group and each member and 1 page editable worksheet for assessment.Music history is FUN and a great way for you to connect with your students! For many of us, teaching has become an online
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Not Grade Specific
Patriotic Song and Music Lesson Bundle: Orff, Kodaly, Choral Round, Mp3 Tracks
Patriotic songs and Music lessons will give you a wide variety of rhythm, melody, singing and playing opportunities during the Veterans Day holiday time. Perfect for K-6. Easy orff arrangements. Diverse learning applications and adaptable to many grade levels with Kodaly and Orff learning opportunities. Get the Patriotic Rhythm Patterns activity for FREE! TEACHING CONCEPTS: mi so la (do) Quarter notes Eighth notes Quarter restSixteenth NotesSing in a Round RESOURCE INCLUDES: Song Lyrics Mp3 Pr
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K - 6th
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Australia Aboriginal Flags activities BUNDLE | representing First Australians
With more than 30 different activities for kids, this Australian Aboriginal Flag activity BUNDLE will help you to create activities promoting a sense of community partnership a public commitment toward Reconciliation Australia. This packet contains activities to learn about the meaning and history of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags through hands-on experience. WHAT'S INSIDE:+ 1 picture of the Australian flag, Aboriginal flag and Torres Strait flag flying together.+ 3 sets of 6-pi
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PreK - 6th
Distance Learning | Unlock the Box: STEM Around the World
Unlock the Box: STEM Around the World is designed to teach global awareness through STEM build challenges, and inspire teamwork activities for your little engineers! Students will use their passport and travel journal as they travel around the world with Beetrice and use clues from her travel postcards to help unlock the mystery package. This product is a growing bundle meaning that I am in the process of adding lesson plans, images of the design challenges, and more travel destinations. Current
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PreK - 3rd
Chinese New Year & Chrome Music Lab Activity - Distance Learning
Hello fellow teachers! This lesson is a Google Slide presentation on Chinese New Years. Students will explore Chinese traditions and culture and then experiment with the pentatonic scale on Chrome Music Lab. This scale is common in traditional Chinese folk music.Slides are easily altered and easy to use with Google Classroom! I used this with my own students: Grades 1 - 6 and then let students share their compositions with the class.Lesson TargetsCompare and contrast students' own New Year tradi
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1st - 6th
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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
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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Wool, How is it made? From the animal to your house, clipart set
WoolFrom the animal to your houseset of 17 clipart images- color and black and whiteTeaching kids how things are made from the raw material to the finished project.This set is a high resolution 300 dpi PNG format with transparent backgrounds.Set includes:Angora goatAngora rabbitAlpacaSheepShearing a sheepwashing the woolimage with dirty, clean and spun woolhand cardersdrum carderspinning wheelupright loomball of wool with knitting needlesknitting some woolwool hatwool sockswool mittenswool sweat
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Not Grade Specific
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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Appropriate Joking A Social Emotional Lesson for Upper Elementary
Why is this Important?
We are all born with 8 basic emotions. These include anger, sadness, fear, joy, interest, surprise, disgust, shame. The rest of it, however, we have to learn as we go!
This year, I have a handful of jokesters in my classroom. We’re talking sweet, amazingly wonderful children who have the best intentions. However, it came to my attention recently that they have NO idea when an appropriate time for a joke is, or even what kinds of jokes are appropriate.
Let’s teach our
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3rd - 5th
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
A Song of Frutas: Music Accompaniment Lesson Plan
A Song of Frutas is a cute story about a little girl and her grandfather. She helps him to sell his Fruit from his stand and they make their own song using the fruit names to help sell more! This book lends itself perfectly to some awesome student compositions.Students will learn the pronunciations of the Fruit words in Spanish and decode their rhythm notations. Then as a whole class, small group or individuals; compose your own Fruit Call! Use these fruit sentences to play on the un-pitched
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1st - 5th
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Classical Composers - Schmillustrator's Clip Art Emporium
I write music with an exclamation point! - Richard Wagner
Use these character drawings to bring to life many of history's most renowned composers and their musical genius!
54 images - .png files
- (18) in color
- (18) in color with names underneath
- (18) in black and white
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- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Johannes Brahms
- Frederic Chopin
- Aaron Copland
- George Gershwin
- George Frideric Handel
- Joseph Haydn
- Felix Mendelssohn
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozar
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Not Grade Specific
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