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Songs for Microsoft Word and for Gifted and Talented
The Oregon Trail Song
Sing this song to the old Gilligan's Island theme ("Now sit right back and you'll hear a tale..."). This song is a fun way to teach the following standards:
Why did settlers travel west on the Oregon Trail?
What hardships did the settlers face on the trail?
What was the Homestead Act?
How did towns grow along the trail?
Brain research tells us that songs are stored in long term memory-use the songs as a scaffold to allow students to access the important information you teach them, for the long t
Grades:
4th - 8th
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The Immigration Song
This song is sung to the tune of "I've Been Working on the Railroad" and teaches the following standards:
From what continent did most immigrants come to the U.S. in the 1800s?
What purpose did Ellis Island serve?
What kind of jobs did immigrants have?
What was life like for immigrants?
How did people like Jane Adams help the immigrants?
Learning the song will help your children have a long-term memory scaffold, on which to store and access anll the important points you teach them in your immigr
Grades:
4th - 8th
Types:
Learn the States and Capitals Through Song
This is a song I wrote to help students memorize the 50 States and Capitals. I didn't like the Anamaniacs version because it was so scattered over the map. I wrote it so it would go from the East to the West coast.
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
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Alexander the Great Song
Here is a song to teach about Alexander the Great, amazing conqueror and King of Macedonia.
The way I used this was to play an instrumental version of "Can't Stop the Feeling" by Justin Timberlake and then sing with it at the beginning of the lesson. I then asked my students what they already knew about Alexander the Great that was included in the song. Then, as we went through our lessons, learning more about him, we would pull the lyrics back up and highlight/circle parts we learned about and
Grades:
6th - 12th
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