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.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
Students use appropriate technology to enrich understanding of music, musicians and composers of music literature being studied. Students can create a research product such as write program notes or create a podcast.
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Using a digital recording platform, create a short video or audio recording to send to a neighboring school of something students have been working on. Issue a challenge to the other school to send a video or audio recording in return. Students provide feedback to others, and practice performance and audience etiquette on a digital platform.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
Students explore copyright and intellectual property standards as they relate to music, music technology, and digital citizenship. Students research copyright laws, investigate the trends of copyright throughout history, and make connections to how copyright laws impact music as a creator, performer and consumer. Students can also collaborate to propose their own “Copyright Act'' for the future based on current trends and predictions for future technology.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
Students use video/audio recording software to review and critique the performance and practice of their peers. Students provide feedback to one another, building community while demonstrating an understanding of music performance, technique, terminology, and technology.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
This plan will introduce choral students to the basics of aural dictation using solfege. Students will apply knowledge of solfege and counting to dictation skills. Students will find success through the application of solfege by discovering why and how it impacts them as independent musicians.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This plan guides students through an investigation of cross-disciplinary connections between music, dance, visual art, and creative writing within the context of choral repertoire.
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This lesson introduces students to composition through the application of rhythms being used in daily sight-reading and/or repertoire. Students will notate and perform short rhythmic/melodic examples individually and in pairs and groups.
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Students will use creativity, critical thinking skills, and collaboration to develop and produce podcasts that inform and educate listeners on various musical topics.
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The teacher will lead students through a sequence of vocal exercises, highlighting major categories in order to deepen intent on specific skill development. Using your own favorite vocal warm-up exercises, encourage students to consider the benefits and intentions behind each warm-up exercise. Students will engage their creative process in generating new warm-up exercises to share with their peers.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This instructional plan teaches young students how to demonstrate leadership in a chamber music setting. This outline can be used to develop efficient rehearsal strategies with the proper resources for younger students to have consistent, meaningful rehearsals in the classroom with minimal teacher assistance.
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This plan will introduce students to a clear and consistent method for practicing and performing sight reading. Students will evaluate and assess sight reading of their peers and gain experience in listening and error detection.
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This nine-week unit builds music literacy skills and supports connections to outside content. It is intended to co-exist with the secondary choral classroom and strengthen music literacy skills. Students will engage in small groups to collaboratively write a song together. Students will use melodic, harmonic, and aural skills to identify chord progressions, hear and sing melody lines over chord progressions, write lyrics, and sing together in unison and harmony. Students may also use accompanying instruments during this project.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
In this lesson, students will learn to watch and listen critically to choral music performances.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Using teacher-suggested resources, students will select music from appropriate and credible digital sources to plan a concert for a performing ensemble.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
What did colonists do for fun in 18th century Virginia? Let us explore the music and dance of Colonial Virginia and why they were so important to know. What happens when we take those 18th century dance moves and combine them with the trending moves today? Let us find out!
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Students will learn and perform a backing track as an ensemble, then improvise over that ensemble-recorded backing track.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
This plan will introduce beginning choral students to the basics of sight reading using solfege. Students will find success through the application of solfege by understanding why and how it impacts them as independent musicians.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
In this video, a Virginia music educator shares three coral warm-ups highlighting Standard 13 in the Technique and Application strand of the 2020 Music Standards. These warm-ups provide a foundation of aural skills that can built upon later in the lesson, and throughout the year in songwriting and connections to essential skills necessary for success in music.
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This plan identifies six key elements of musicality for singers. Students will apply each principle to their current choral repertoire to improve and develop musicality.
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