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Other (performing arts) projects for Microsoft Word
Music Tells a Story: A Digital Music Composition Project
Have your students choose between 3 different digital composition projects. The students can also choose to do their project using any Loop-Based Digital Audio Workstation (ie. Soundtrap, Soundation, GarageBand) or using a video editor that has built in sounds (ie. WeVideo or iMovie).Projects include:*1 Minute Sound Story: Retell the events of a well-known story using only a soundtrack and sound effects. Your classmates will have to guess what the story is just by listening.*3 Ghosts: Create
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4th - 9th
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Song Exploder: Music Analysis and Podcast Creation | General Music Unit Project
This exciting unit project outline uses the format of the hit podcast series "Song Exploder" to help students explore modern music analysis and podcast creation! The 5-10 class period unit project gives students the opportunity to listen to and analyze modern music of their own choosing, ultimately creating a podcast episode based on their own song analysis!The 5 part outline walks students through the process of music analysis using guiding questions that helps scaffold in depth, well thought
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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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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Careers in Music Project
An interactive research project that encourages students to create and/or demonstrate. Students will choose a career from the provided list (or you can add your own) and research their career by finding the answers to the questions in the file. The students will then create a digital presentation (using any method you like i.e. Google Slides, Prezi, etc) that will teach the class about their chosen career. Finally, the students will create something or demonstrate something related to their c
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6th - 9th
US History Review: Rewriting "We Didn't Start the Fire"
Billy Joel's song "We Didn't Start the Fire" is a great song to review the Cold War era. Why not have your students rewrite the song to review all they have learned about US history? This file comes complete with lesson plan, student handout, song lyrics, grading rubric, and skill breakdown. All you will need is a copy of the song and a karaoke version of the song (not included for legal reasons!). This was originally written based on the South Carolina standards for 5th grade U.S. History,
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4th - 12th
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Pop Music Through the Decades
This is a research project where students work in groups to research the pop music of a specified decade. This is just an outline for the project - you can adjust to your needs. The original project uses Google Slides to be a collaborative digital project, but it is not necessary.
File includes the project directions, grading scale, and list of types of pop music by decade (including historical events)
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5th - 9th
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Musical Composer Research Paper
This Musical Composer Research Paper contains the following:
- Composer Biography Sheet
- Description & Checklist Page
- Bibliography Information
- List of Composers (17th - 21st Century Composers)
- Rubric
*This is a Microsoft Word document that is editable*
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6th - 12th
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Songwriting Project
This songwriting project sets your students up to write a complete song containing at least three verses and two choruses!This is a foolproof method to have lyrics for an original song written within the course of a week or two. Perfect for writing raps, ballads and more. Grading rubric included!
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7th - 10th
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Parody Song Project & Worksheet
This download will provide you with a Parody Song project and accompanying worksheet to do with your classes!You will be provided with clear directions, a grading rubric and guidelines for your students to be successful on this project! The accompanying worksheet will take some time before the project to get students accustomed to writing parody songs. The products are always fun to read and I hope you enjoy this as much as I do!
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5th - 8th
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Radio Station Broadcast
Grade 7 or 8 Music Lab unit that has worked very well for me. Kids are in groups of 4-5, and will develop a 30-minute broadcast that they will present to the class. Can focus on a year or a decade and will include music from the time period, as well as news, sports, traffic, weather and ads. Meeting every other day, this takes 3-4 weeks to complete.
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7th - 8th
GarageBand Lesson Plan- Moody Loops in Film
This lesson plan provides a hands-on exploration of the emotional impact of music in film through GarageBand's "Moody Loops" activity. Students will gain practical experience in selecting and arranging loops to convey specific moods associated with different film genres.
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: Music as a Powerful Storytelling Tool in Film and TV
Favorite Musician Project
This project is a great "get to know you" activity for your students, but may also serve as excellent sub material, given your students will have access to a computer. Students will answer questions regarding their favorite musicians/bands while applying research techniques to create a presentation for the class. This project instructs students to answer specific questions and include pictures to have an organized and visually appealing presentation about a musician of their choice. Due to the r
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6th - 9th
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Beach Boys' "Kokomo" Lesson Plan and Island Project (End-of-Year)
I have created a fun, yet educational lesson plan based on the Beach Boys' Kokomo song. This is a great lesson/project to do at the end of the year after testing or any time of year. The students research the different islands or cities on islands mentioned in the song and present in class or they can make a whole production of it.
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2nd - 4th
Leitmotif Project
A project for general music students about Leitmotif. In this project, students will create 2 characters and a basic story outline. Then, using BandLab (or Chrome Music Lab - your choice!) they will choose a sound to represent each character. They will compose a song using the 2 sounds for their 2 characters.
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4th - 12th
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Sampling & Remixing | Music Technology DAW Composition Project Outline
A perfect way to introduce students to the world of sampling, beat-making, audio engineering and electronic composition! This exciting project guides students in the process of compiling pre-recorded audio samples and reimagining those sounds into an original electronic music composition using a DAW of your choosing.The project can be completed using any DAW, and the document includes helpful tricks and tips for using the free platform BandLab to complete this project. This project spans roughly
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
Fun, Engaging & Educational 1950s Music Project!!
This Fun, Engaging & Educational 1950s Music Project comes with everything you need! Art/Music and History Collide!! This project includes:Student InstructionsA Basic & Easy to Follow RubricA Music Reference ListTeacher Instructions
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7th - 11th, Adult Education
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DSO Kids: Instrument Research Project
This activity is ideal for classrooms without access to many instruments, but available technology for each student. In this project, students are exploring a virtual symphony where they are able to select instruments, listen to them play solo, and with an orchestra, learn about the instrument's family, visual appearance, how the instrument is played, and more. After introducing this project, I give students about 2-3 days in class to work on their computer/laptop/tablet and fill out the 'Notes'
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5th - 12th
Modern Music Research Project
I give my students some time to read the short, 3 paragraph introduction I created on the first page of this unit. We then spend time discussing how the past 100 years and the development of music in the 1900s and beyond has been revolutionary, experimental and outstanding. I then turn to the next page and read with students the guidelines of this project.
In facilitating this unit, we spend 2-3 days gathering research in Research Packet (another purchase, listed under Modern Music Research Pr
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6th - 12th
Composer Projects - Movie Music Composers & In the Hall of the Mountain King
These projects are perfect to incorporate into your composers unit! After teaching your students about various composers, have them dive into these projects that require them to listen to classical music and learn about new composers.In this Composer Projects download, you will find two projects:1) Composers at the MoviesThis project will prompt students to learn about composers of the movies! So often, composer units center around the greats such as Bach, Mozart and Beethoven. But, so often, we
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5th - 8th
Meet the Orchestra
This is the orchestra unit I did with my third graders. The instrument families were color coded and the families were broken into four groups. I took three weeks to cover everything in the unit (since I see my students 1 day a week) and then at the end, I let the students arrange their "own orchestra" and they became the conductors. There is a description page linked at the beginning of the packet. Everything is in word and can be adjusted as needed. Please rate and leave comments below. Thanks
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2nd - 4th
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Composing Music With Visual Art | General Music Composition Unit Project
This exciting 10-15 class period unit project explores the connections between visual art and music through active listening, music analysis and music composition! The project uses Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition” as an example of how visual art can influence music composition. After selecting a movement of the piece, students listen, analyze, and draw connections between the music and visual art. To bring this compositional model into the 21st Century, students are able to choose the
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Script, Create & Edit a Music Video! | Music Technology DAW Project Outline
A guided Music Technology based project outline to help students create an original music video to an original music composition!Students begin by exploring a YouTube playlist of iconic music videos and analyzing the elements that make them memorable and exciting to the viewer. (Included in the resource is a YouTube playlist that can be expanded to fit any age or teaching need).Students are then guided to compose an original composition as the basis for the project. The composition portion of th
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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No Prep Sub Plan - Chorus Concert Project
A sub plan that is designed in a way that doesn't require a musical sub, but still allows your students to learn about the music for your upcoming concert!My students completed this project over the course of two 80-minute class periods. Feel free to edit the document to fit your needs!If your students get done early, I would suggest having alternate worksheets ready, such as crossword puzzles, mazes, sudokus, etc.Please email me at magicaldaymusic@gmail.com with any questions!
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6th - 10th
Song Unit from the Writings of Laura Ingles Wilder
This is a complete unit outline of all of the music in the Little House on the Prairie series written by Laura ingles Wilder. I have read all the books and gleaned the mentions of songs and music within. This unit gives the information of the song, where it is found and the history surrounding it. It's a delightful study!
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3rd - 6th
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