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5th grade social studies song interactive whiteboards
The Story of Jamestown Powerpoint
This powerpoint summarizes the story of Jamestown, the first English colony. My students love reading along and clicking through the colorful pictures illustrating the story.
The words are lyrics to accompany the song Jamestown, Virginia by Classroom Classics, but the powerpoint can be used with or without the music.
Hope you enjoy!
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K - 6th
Music Showdown - Canadian Hit Songs
NEW: This is the project I use with my grade 5 arts education students in Saskatchewan. Applies to SK ED's Critical Responsive outcome 5.2 (Respond critically and creatively to a variety of pop culture expressions). Simply make a copy of the entire slide presentation, save it to your files under a new name and enjoy the hyperlinked activity! I let me students work in their sketchbooks while listening to these 16 classic Canadian tunes. After each paired showdown, students vote on the winner.
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4th - 7th
CHINESE NEW YEAR - GONG XI - Smartboard - Ti pitch, TimKa rhythm, Instruments
This 19 page interactive lesson covers the background behind Chinese New Year, offers colorful photos, interactive maps and explanations, as well as Dragon Dance Music and the song Gong Xi. RHYTHMS IN THE SONG ARE: ta, titi,and tim ka. MELODY IN THE SONG ARE: low la, low ti, do, re, mi, fa.
HERE IS WHAT YOU GET:
*BACKGROUND (9 pages) including colorful photos and explanations of the holiday.
**DRAGON DANCE MUSIC (2 pages) for both the younger children and older. The younger child's page has n
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K - 5th
Cowboy Tunes & Songs from the Westward Expansion - SMARTBOARD/NOTEBOOK ED.
It's finally here!! Mrs. Kuchta's Corner, An Elementary Music Wonderland presents to you this fantastic collection of famous historical American cowboy tunes and westward expansion songs that we all know and LOVE to sing. This collection is a GREAT addition to your elementary music classroom library and can also be a fantastic cross-curricular aide to add to any regular elementary classroom teacher's library as well to help supplement your American History units of study. Lyrics and melodic n
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K - 8th
BACH - Little Fugue in G Minor- Prepare/Present TAM TI- Smartfile- Interactive
Brought to you by Kodaly Music With Mrs Perry, this gem is perfect for preparing and presenting the rhythm Tam Ti. It is also VERY friendly to teaching the concept of a fugue. Read on to see what you get:
*14 pages of material
*Portrait of JS Bach
*Background information page about JS Bach
*Interactive maps showing where Bach was from
*Photos of contemporary organ, Baroque organ, Bach's church, original manuscript
*Prepare page for Tam Ti with interactive icons. Find the new long - short symbol
Grades:
4th - 6th
Teacher Created Explorer Songs
I have found that "singing the standards" really helps my kiddos remember all the things they need to know. They LOVE it! We make up movements together and sing them to start our history lesson each day. You can also use them to review for tests and as shared reading in your class.
South Carolina 4th grade Standards Covered:
Land bridge theory
Early Explorers
Inventions that helped the Age of Exploration
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3 Smartboard files with lyrics and my "voice" singing
3 Word document
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3rd - 5th
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TONGO ~ Polynesian Folk Song~ Timka~ Low so~ Pentatonic~SMARTboard
Brought to you by Kodaly Music with Mrs Perry, this fun 'echo' song is great for teaching low so or timka. Included are 10 pages that allow you to teach one or the other. Read on to see what you get with this purchase:
*BACKGROUND - The name "tongo" is explained, as is what a mangrove is, as well as it's importance.
*MAPS - There are 4 clickable maps that zoom in on the Solomon Islands, Polynesia, where this song is from. You can relocate the star to indicate your school's location.
*PREP
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3rd - 6th
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Learn the Continents & Oceans
This 5 page NOTEBOOK document for SMART boards is an excellent and proven way to teach and assess student knowledge of the Continents & Oceans. The file includes classification of the Continents & Oceans, labeling maps with Continents & Oceans, and Songs to help learn the Continents & Oceans, as well as assessments for knowing the Continents & Oceans that can be used on all levels of ability.
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Black History: The Reconstruction
Video Version: https://youtu.be/es719h0Wf8EMuch of the Southern United States was destroyed during the Civil war. Farms and plantations were burned down and their crops destroyed. Also, many people had Confederate money which was now worthless and the local governments were in disarray. The South needed to be rebuilt. The rebuilding of the South after the Civil War is called the Reconstruction. The Reconstruction lasted from 1865 to 1877. The purpose of the Reconstruction was to help the South b
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2nd - 6th
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Latino Culture: Latin America
Video version: https://youtu.be/EFo0VKfhj60Latin America is a region made up of Mexico, Central America, and South America. Some of the islands of the West Indies, in the Caribbean Sea, also are included. The area is known as Latin America because most people speak languages that came from Latin (the language of the ancient Romans). These languages include Spanish, Portuguese, and French.Many Latin Americans have a mixture of American Indian, European, and African ancestry. Most people speak Sp
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1st - 5th
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Black History: Harriet Tubman
Video Version: https://youtu.be/kHxfXlfXUJ8Harriet Tubman was an American abolitionist and political activist. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including family and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad. During the American Civil War, she served as an armed scout and spy for the Union Army. In her later years, Tubman was an activist in the movement
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2nd - 6th
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Black History: Beginnings of Slavery
Video version: https://youtu.be/XZR7ruZfifMMost groups that immigrate to the United States leave their homeland in search of a better life. African Americans are the only ethnic group whose ancestors were brought her against their will.White colonists bought them as if they were property. Then they transported them to the New World.Whether traded by enemy tribes or kidnapped by European raiders, Africans were herded into slave camps on the West coast of Africa starting in the 1500’s.
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2nd - 6th
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Black History: The Harlem Renaissance
Video version: https://youtu.be/lhER1OOpzVIThe Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual, social, and artistic explosion centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s. At the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement", named after The New Negro, a 1925 anthology edited by Alain Locke. The movement also included the new African-American cultural expressions across the urban areas in the Northeast and Midwest United States affected by the Great Migration, of which Harlem was t
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2nd - 6th
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Latino Culture: Panama
Video version: https://youtu.be/ptYZAtyCCHkAl tambor, al tambor, al tamborde la a- le -griaYo quiero que tu me llevesAl tambor de la a - le- griaPlay the drum, play the drumPlay the drum from PanamaC’mon let’s play the drumTum, tum, tum, la, la, la, la, laPanama is located in Central America. It is a narrow land bridge, or isthmus, connecting North and South America. Panama is slightly smaller than South Carolina.Their main language is Spanish.The national traditional dress for women is a long,
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1st - 5th
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Black History: Ida B Wells
Video Version: https://youtu.be/6v2OM7IkWNYIda Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931) was an American investigative journalist, educator, and an early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Over the course of a lifetime dedicated to combating prejudice and violence, and the fight for African-American equality, especially that of women, Wells arguably became the most famous black woma
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2nd - 6th
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Black History: James Weldon Johnson
Video version: https://youtu.be/F1i_1aQv-bMJames Weldon Johnson (June 17, 1871 – June 26, 1938) was an American writer and civil rightsactivist. He was married to civil rights activist Grace Nail Johnson. Johnson was a leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), where he started working in 1917. In 1920, he was the first African American to be chosen as executive secretary of the organization, effectively the operating officer. He served in that position fro
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2nd - 6th
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Ancient Egypt song about Tutankhamun
“Miss Minto’s Musical Moments”Over the past year during lockdown I’ve created 200 “Musical Moments” which I’ve made available to all schools nationwide here in the UK. I’m pleased to say they have been very popular with many thousands of downloads! They consist of 200 resources, each of which consists of links to brilliant YouTube videos on lots of different topics such as animals, countries, beatboxing, self esteem, history, Westerns and so many more. Lots of background information on the vario
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3rd - 6th
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Black History: Civil Rights
Video Version: https://youtu.be/enx5LQYqZ3YSong: We Shall Overcome Civil rights are basic rights that every citizen has under the laws of the government. In the United States the civil rights of each individual citizen are protected by the Constitution. Civil rights for every person means that regardless of gender, skin color, religion, nationality, age, disability, or religion, a person should not be discriminated against. Civil rights include the right to free speech, privacy, religion, assem
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Latino Culture: Mexico
Video Version: https://youtu.be/eulm-tV7llAEl ChocolateUno, dos, tres, ChoUno, dos, tres, COUno, dos, tres, LAUno, dos, tres,TeChocolate,Chocolate, bate, bate el ChocolateMexico is a land of extremes, with high mountains and deep canyons in the center of the country, sweeping deserts in the north, and dense rain forests in the south and east.Few nations on Earth support as many plant and animal species as Mexico does. Located partway between the Equator and the Arctic Circle, it is a refuge for
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1st - 5th
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Black History: African American Pioneers of Science
Video version: https://youtu.be/7DM8FMia0XgScientists, engineers, and inventors find the solutions to the world's problems. Learn about the work that these Black scientists and inventors have accomplished that make our lives better.George Washington CarverDorothy Johnson VaughanMark E DeanMae C JohnsonPercy L JulianSarah Breedlove WalkerGarrett MorganThurgood MarshalSarah Goode
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Black History: Jackie Robinson
Video version: https://youtu.be/u9X2luSBnJcJack Roosevelt Robinson was an American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball color line when he started at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947. When the Dodgers signed Robinson, they heralded the end of racial segregation in professional baseball that had relegated black players to the Negro leagues since the 1880s. Robinson w
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Latino Culture: Nicaragua
Video version: https://youtu.be/NDYFpvC1QF0Nicaragua is the largest and poorest country in Central America and is slightly bigger in area than New York State. The country is bordered by Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south.The British brought black slaves to Nicaragua to work on plantations in the 17th century. Many Nicaraguans are descendants of the slaves. The earliest settlers were probably related to the Maya and Aztec people of Mexico.The local people call themselves Nicas, bu
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Black History: Frederick Douglass
Video Version: https://youtu.be/2TJHOrDC-NAFrederick Douglass was born on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. His mother was a slave and when Frederick was born, he became a slave, too. Life as a slave was very difficult, especially for a child. He seldom saw his mother who died when he was ten years old. A few years later, he was sent to serve the Auld family in Baltimore. Around the age of twelve, his master's wife, Sophia Auld began to teach Frederick the alphabet. It was against the law
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Black History: The Fisk Jubilee Singers
Video version: https://youtu.be/TxhQxw_SDXMThe Fisk Jubilee Singers are an African-American a cappella ensemble, consisting of students at Fisk University. The first group was organized in 1871 to tour and raise funds for college. Their early repertoire consisted mostly of traditional spirituals, but included some songs by Stephen Foster. The original group toured along the Underground Railroad path in the United States, as well as performing in England and Europe. Later 19th-century groups als
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