Digital Learning Integration Strategy: 6-8 Copyright and Digital Citizenship

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Students explore copyright and intellectual property standards as they relate to music, music technology, and digital citizenship. Students will identify and apply their knowledge of copyright law and licensure to select appropriate licenses for an original work. Students then analyze copyrighted material and understand how to obtain appropriate permission to use the material.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Digital Learning Integration Strategy: K-2 Composer F.B.I.

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Students will use digital  research skills to Find Basic Information (F.B.I.) about a composer.  Through Classic for Kids: Composer Explorer, students will learn about a specific composer, or composers from a specific geographic area, culture, genre, or time period.

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Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Instructional Plan: Exploring Call and Response in Ghana

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The musical form call and response has roots in West Africa and acts as a form of communication and participation in music. In this lesson, students will participate in performance, composition, and listening activities on call and response form using music from Ghana.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Instructional Plan: Writing the Blues

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Students will explore the blues by listening and describing a blues piece, learning about the history of the blues, analyzing form, and collaborating to write lyrics utilizing blues lyric form.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Professional Learning: Education Resources from Virginia's Cultural and Historical Museums and Sites for Fine Arts Educators

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Educational resources provided by Virginia's history and cultural museums offer educators the opportunity to form deep classroom connections to Virginia history and culture.

Material Type: Lecture

Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Instructional Plan: Blues to Rock

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In this lesson, students will perform a 12-bar blues progression, improvise using a simple blues scale and create an original blues piece with lyrics in an AAB form. Students will discuss the background and history of where the blues originated, its early performers and the progression from blues to early forms of rock music.

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Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Digital Learning Integration Strategy: 3-5 Coding Music Composition

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Using predetermined musical elements, either rhythmic or melodic, students compose a “music composition code” in small groups. Laying the individual lines of “musical composition code” on the ground, students add directional arrows to direct performers to the next line of “code” to create a larger musical composition.

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Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Digital Learning Integration Strategy: K-2 Student Composer: Digital Composition with Music Notation Software

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With the guidance and collaboration of an educator, students explore music composition using digital music notation software. This digital tool allows students to easily compose with traditional music notation. Students have the ability to drag and drop notes and rhythms on the staff, and can easily make changes to their compositions. Students are able to hear their composition with playback features, and receive immediate feedback on their rhythmic and melodic choices.

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Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Digital Media Lesson Starter: Creating a Melody Through Digital Composition

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Students will use a digital composition tool to create a melody with specific parameters, based on grade level goals and standards. The teacher prepares a poem with a rhythm on one note, and students will create a melodic-variation to share with others.

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Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Instructional Plan: Beatboxing DJ

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This plan will allow students to explore and record basic beatboxing sounds. Students will then create a homemade “DJ Board” and use a Makey Makey to make their sounds come to life as they feel like a real DJ.

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Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Digital Learning Integration Strategy: K-2 Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra

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Through Carnegie Hall Listening Adventures, students participate in an interactive digital experience to learn instrument families and specific instruments of the orchestra. Using Benjamin Britten’s Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, students follow a safari theme to find instruments, listen for correct pitches, and classify instruments based on physical characteristics as well as sound.

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Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Digital Learning Integration Strategy: 3-5 Global Music Wonderings

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Students use a digital collaboration board to share their “wonderings” about the songs they are listening to in class. The teacher selects 3-4 songs from various cultures. Students add sticky notes to the collaboration board using appropriate music terminology, and share their musical preferences in a respectful manner. Students can have the ability to like or comment on each other’s posts and engage in meaningful conversations in small groups after sharing their wonderings digitally.

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Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Digital Media Lesson Starter: Uke Can Make People Listen

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Students need to know that their voice matters to this world and that they can create music that will enhance their community. This project is designed to allow students to engage in small groups to create an original piece of music.  It will comprise elements of composition, improvisation, music theory, musical notation, and performance while working within a group setting. Students will use a digital audio workstation to record, edit, and remix their song.

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Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Instructional Plan: What Color Is This Song?

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Students will explore facial expressions, connect emotions to colors, and use those colors to indicate the expressive qualities of music. Students will create a colored mosaic based on listening examples.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Instructional Plan: Exploring Simple Machines Through Song and Movement

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Students will learn a song about the seven simple machines. Students will collaborate to use three simple machines to create their own inventions. They will perform and demonstrate what their inventions will look like using body movements. Students will then have time to reflect on their inventions, how they can be used, and illustrate them on paper.

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Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Instructional Plan: Exploring Tempo with Ozobots

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Students will learn or review the concept of tempo and the appropriate music terminology associated with it. They will show understanding by discussing tempo changes in music, moving their bodies to different tempos, and coding Ozobots to move at different tempos.

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Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Instructional Plan: Music Room Studio

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The music room just became a working professional music studio and live performance venue, complete with a full complement of composers, performers, audio engineers, promoters, stage managers, and a stage crew! Students will work collaboratively to develop understandings of the many careers associated with the performing arts, while composing and premiering an original music work.

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Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Instructional Plan: Storytelling and Movement

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Students will develop listening skills and identify differences in forte and piano dynamics. The teacher will tell an imaginative story to accompany a piece of music such as, Haydn’s “Surprise Symphony.” Students will respond to music with movement, as they reenact the story.

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Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Instructional Plan: Guided Listening in the Instrumental Classroom

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This plan will provide the instructor with an outline and resources to direct students through a variety of listening exercises.  Students can use listening exercises to analyze music, identify important elements, and critique performances.

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Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Instructional Plan: Composition in the Instrumental Classroom

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This instructional plan will provide the instructor with the outline and resources to guide students in the composition of original music. Composition incorporates different aspects of music education including creativity, critical thinking, and the application of musical techniques. 

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: VDOE Fine Arts