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I have bookmarked anything that I have found that might come to good use for teaching, music related or not.
MUS 212
July 8, 2008
Sharing - Color Songs/Poems
July 10, 2008
Sharing - Ways to integrate music into the classroom
Lesson Plan - Telling Time
Interactive Teaching Clock - Use to introduce and maybe practice with class, can show intervals & digital
Background - students need to already be able to count to 60, know fractions (1/2 & 1/4), and write out numbers (one, two)
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Terms - Hour, o'clock, minute hand, hour hand, colon
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How many big numbers are on the clock?
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Hour hand (short)-when the hour hand moves from one number to the next, one hour has passed. What can you do in an hour?
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Minute hand (long)- moves from one tick mark to the next, one minute
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After making clocks on worksheets, teach song and practice.
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Play human clock game (see #5 in lesson plan link)
- Have students practice writing time on worksheet
July 15, 2008
Sharing - M.U.S.I.C.
July 17, 2008
Sharing - PBSkids Jazz website
Lesson Plan - "Learning through the Duke" from PBSkids.org
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3 activities, Grades 2-4
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Integrates music, some history, language arts, visual art
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Learn about the 1920's and Jazz through Duke Ellington
Activity 1 - Write poems based on expressions learned/described after listening
to Duke Ellington's audio feature
http://www.redhotjazz.com/duke.html - uses RealPlayer (good resource for info on Duke also)
-listen to audio
-chart descriptions (sassy, etc.)
-explain meanings -
jazz slang.doc
-combine strings of words and write down fav. 3 (emphasize comb. by the Sounds of the words)
-play song while they use comb. words to write a poem
-share poems
July 22, 2008
Sharing - Music in Schools Today
July 24, 2008
Sharing - How-to-Videos Click on Categories, go to Music and explore diff. videos
- good website to introduce an instrument or other talent that you are not familiar with and couldn't teach yourself
- Also check out the Education category. It may have some new ideas for you.
- The "experts" are not just random people, they are handpicked by the editors of this website and do receive pay.
However, it's a good idea to still use your better judgement on what to use and what not to use.
July 29, 2008
Sharing - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame & Museum - has Teacher workshops, Lesson Plans online to integrate music
Additional Sharing - Kiddie Records Weekly - Classics songs from the 40's and 50's
FINAL LESSON -
Patterns of Life Lesson Plan.doc - Unit Lesson Plan from www.arts4learning.org
Seven activities to learn about Patterns - several use music
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Activity 1: Building Background - visual pattern of daily lives by drawing symbols
- Lesson goes through a Math activity, Music notation with math sentences activity, and 2 science activities
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Activity 5: Patterns of sounds in Poems
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Share poem and write on board
Yickity-yackity, yickity-yak,
the yak has a scriffily, scraffily back,
some yaks are brown yaks and some yaks are black,
yickity-yakity, yickity-yak.
Sniggildy-snaggildy, sniggildy-snag,
the yak is all covered with shiggildy-shag;
he walks with a ziggildy-zaggildy-zag,
sniggildy-snaggildy, sniggildy-snag.
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pass out instruments to use to keep time/rhythm of poem (repeat)
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mark/highlight to point out phonetic sounds of poem and discuss patterns
- Lesson goes through Activity 6 - pattern of a story
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Activity 7: Patterns of Movement
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in a circle - do the "wave"
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Each std. create own movement to be repeated (pat head, next student pat head and add mvmt, etc.)
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play music and students each create one or two mvmts
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partners teach eachother own movements
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back in circle, play music and combine std movements to music
Hey I just wanted to share this article about using music in the classroom in general, but also to expose the children to other cultures and sounds. Just another reason to use music in the classroom!
Mulitcultural Music in Early Childhood
MUS 110
June 19, 2008
Lesson #1
Music Basketball Lesson plan
Before playing the Basketball game:
1. Review note values and write notes on board
2. Play or sing a song students are familiar with
- Each student needs music sheet of song
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Sharing #1 - 8notes.com - Good website to get free sheet music of a variety of songs
for a variety of music categories and instruments.
"Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" - Click play to play song
Other versions are also available, just search around the website.
3. Have students identify the range of notes in particular song
"Does it just have half and whole notes, or others too....?"
"What is the measure of this song?"
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is it 3 beats, 4, 5?
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Write measure on board
4. Split students into groups and assign sections of the song to each group. Use the notes in
the sections assigned to them to write the math equations of notes onto construciton paper as intructed
in the lesson plan above.
June 24, 2008
Sharing #2
Ear Guitar - Steps to making an Ear Guitar (or I knew it as a telephone...)
- Connects to how you make sound vibrations and different pitches
Lesson Plan #2
Introducing Money - Math lesson to introduce money (penny, nickel, dime, and however far they
are able to go developmentally.)
1. Introduce each coin a day, and go over the differences and values of each (Write on board)
2. Teach the money rap (Shown in the lesson plan link above)
(Ex. "Well a Penny is one and a nickel is five", "Five pennies make a nickel")
Another option instead of the rap:
Money poems - may be easier for younger children for introducing money for the very first time
3. Sing rap together and then play Dice game with gameboard
4. If they are having trouble remembering values while playing the game, then the group
has to sing the rap to help them remember
June 26, 2008
Sharing #3 - Internet Safety
Net Smartz Kids - website that uses all kinds of activities to teach kids about internet safety
and learning about safely using technology
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Click on the " Tunes " section to pick out a song or musical activity to go along with internet safety lesson
Final Lesson Plan:
Program Music Listening Lesson
- Have students understand how music can be used to create ideas and pictures in a listener's mind.
Play example and guide discussion of imagry and mood that music envoked:
"The Carnival of the Animals" - The Swan
Then compare the first ex. to - The Elephant (click on MP3 file)
Pieces for Drawing activity:
1. Old MacDonald Had a Farm - by Leroy Anderson and the Boston Pops
2. Sandpaper Ballet - Leroy Anderson (same link as first song)
3. Wellington's Victory- The Battle - Beethoven
4. Rhapsody in Blue - Gershwin- performed by Alston with Orchestra
July 1, 2008 and July 3, 2008
Sharing #4 -
Niehs Sing Along Midis and Lyrics - http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/musicchild.htm
Sharing #5 -
Learning Latitude and Longitude in Social Studies
Sharing #6 -
The Magic School Bus Lesson Plan
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