Students play an identification game of hot and cold using their voices and dynamics.
In this lesson, students will listen to early music used in Appalachia community gatherings and a part of the Bristol Recordings. Students will play various songs, describe the music, and define why the music was used or performed in community gatherings or small groups. Students will also recognize local community events and how music is used to bring people together.
This lesson will cover topics related to the musical traditions of Appalachia, including genres like old-time, bluegrass, and ballad singing. The lesson will emphasize the evolution of recording technology from acoustical to electrical methods in the late 19th to early 20th centuries and the profound impact of recording technology on the preservation and dissemination of Appalachian music, shaping cultural landscapes worldwide.
The purpose of this document is to highlight standard nine of the 2020 Music Standards of Learning for elementary music. This standard in all grade levels relates connecting music content, skills, and processes to career options, college opportunities, and the 21st Century workplace. Teachers and curriculum specialists can use this document to plan a sequence of instruction for grades K-5 that prepares students for career, college, and workplace connections in music education.
This document provides a list of music-related career examples.
Students explore expressive qualities in music through listening, singing, and moving.
Students explore the sound, evolution, performance techniques, and culture of guitar-like instruments from around the world.
Students create movements to represent long and short rhythmic patterns and compose patterns using non-traditional notation.
Students explore phrases in poetry and in song.
Students explore steady beat and instruments of the percussion family.
Students explore expressive qualities through various string techniques.
Students listen to and describe sounds.
Students demonstrate the expressive quality of tempo through movement.
This document contains a sample list of fine arts careers by discipline, links and resources for exploring fine arts careers, and resources for workbased learning in fine arts courses.
Students explore healthy posture through storytelling and observation.
This is an unplugged activity in which students work in teams, "programming" a human-robot to find all the quarter notes. It can be used to teach/review music notes. The notes could be replaced with materials for any other subject to review math skills, history, even parts of sentences.
Students use language and movement to explore accents in music.
Students use samba rhythms and percussion to improvise in rondo form.
Students use their singing voices to take turns improvising and creating melodic phrases on a given theme.
Students will listen to and/or watch a video about differences across America, listen to or view Ray Charles’ rendition of “America the Beautiful” and then have a choice activity: composing a poem or illustrating verses.