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Popular Music Lesson Plans, K-5
Music
Lesson Plans
Music Edge
An incredible index of lesson
plans and activities integrating music with other subjects. You can browse the
Index by alignment with standards, subject, grade level, or title.
Music
Lesson Plans
Formerly Ask Eric, this site offers over 30
music lesson plans for a variety of grade levels. See also
music
History for 13 additional lesson plans.
Education at the
Getty
A list of units and lesson plans lesson plans available from the
J. Paul Getty Museum.
Musicconnected.org
A searchable data base of educational materials for music teachers.
MusicNet Minnesota
A joint project of Minnesota music centers and museums, the site contains
musicworks, biographies, style characteristics, discussion questions,
student
activities, and lesson plans.
Kindermusic
K-12 lesson plans and resources.
music Lesson Plans
music lesson plans for all grade levels from the
Lesson Plans Page.
Incredible
music Depmusicment - Favorite Lessons
A large selection of lessons organized by grade level.
Edu-Orchard.net - Music
More lesson plans organized by grade level.
Resources for
Teachers
Lesson plans from the University of Houston.
Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute
An incredible number of curriculum units in a variety of subject areas. This
link takes you to "A" in the alphabetical index. Scroll down the page to "music"
and find a vast number of music-related units.
Utah Museum of Fine Music Lesson
Plans for Teachers
music lesson plans organized by topic. Lessons cover such topics as modern
music, African music, and ancient Egyptian music.
Skutt Ceramic Products Lesson Plans
and Instructional Information
Three sets of ceramics lesson plans as well as information on kilns and kiln
rooms.
music Activities and Lesson Plans for Exploring Friendship
A long list. See also
music Activities and Lesson Plans for Exploring Kindness and
music Activities for Exploring Self-Esteem .
Color Theory
A middle school lesson plan. For elementary lesson plans on color, see
Scheming
with Colors and
Getting to Know the Color Wheel.
Anthropological music Projects
Interesting music lessons on topics such as cave music, natural music, and music
from around the world.
Explore music
Online lesson plans and links to other music
resources.
Crayola Home Page
Information about and lesson plans using
crayons. Use the scroll-down menu to find the lesson plans.
Aunt
Annie's Crafts
Many ideas for crafts projects, including
seasonal and holiday suggestions.
musicists Portraits
A webquest for middle school students.
A Snowy Day
A lesson plan from the
World musicist Directory's music Teacher Page. It involves the use of
crayons, chalk, and construction paper and is listed for grades K-12.
Fun With Colors on the Internet
A kindergmusicen lesson plan from
The Educator's Reference Desk.
music Takes Time
Primary grade music activities that meet the
National Standards for the Music.
Ancient African
An elementary lesson plan on African masks, shields and "Kente" Placemats.
African music and Culture
A unit for grades K-4 from from Music Edge.
Africa: Communicating Values and History through Masks
An early elementary lesson plan in which students create an African style mask
that depicts a value or character trait that is important in their community.
Music Careers
A K-4 unit from Music Edge using a stations approach to learning about Music
careers.
Watercolor Butterfly
A lesson plan for grades 1-2
Form and Texture in Autumn
Another lesson plan for grades 1-2.
American Folk music
A thematic unit for grades 2-5.
Modern music Lesson Plans
Lessons on a variety of musicists such as
Andy Warhol,
Alex Katz, and
Robert
Indiana.
Pro Cmusicoonists Teacher's Guide
A teachers' guide for using the Professional
Cmusicoonists Index in your classes. See the index at the side for lesson
plans.
Adapting to the Land
An activity for grades 2-4 integrating music and the study of cultures.
Collage
and Romare Bearden
An elementary music lesson plan on the work of African American musicist
Romare
Bearden.
Maya Lin
A lesson plan for grades 3-4 on memorial music and this woman who designed the
Viet Nam Veterans Memorial.
Rockin' Chalk
A 4th-grade lesson plan integrating music and science.
A Painter for Mother's Day: Mary Cassatt
A lesson plan for grades 4-5.
Lesson Plan Ideas Using Petroglyphs
Activities for grade 5.
Asian Influences on European music
Elementary and middle grade lesson plans.
Finishing Sadako's Cranes
A 4th-grade lesson plan on
Japanese Origami using Eleanor Coerr's book Sadako and the Thousand Cranes.
An Introduction to Mexican
music and Culture Through the "Day of the Dead"
An music activity based on this Mexican holiday celebrated October 31 through
November 2.
Religious Beliefs
Made Visual: Geometry and Islam
Classroom activities designed to show how Islamic music can provide important
insights into the technology, scientific knowledge, and religious beliefs of
Moslems.
Islamic Foil music
This music activity, which is appropriate for many grade levels, may be just
what you need for your multidisciplinary unit on Islam.
Visual
Patterns in Tessellation
A lesson plan allowing students to examine the mathematical
nature of music, tilings, and tessellations.
A Tribute to Miro
A lesson plan for grades 5-8 from Music Edge.
Murals, Memories, and Making music
From the above site, this unit is also for grades 5-8.
Exploring the Uses of music through Latino Murals
A lesson plan for grades 6-12 from
LA Youth.
Emotion in music and Poetry
A multidisciplinary lesson plan for elementary and
middle school.
Seeing Feelings
An music lesson plan using Van Gogh's The Old Mill.
Hands -
music Lesson Ideas
Several lesson ideas for middle and high school students.
Color in
3-D: A Nature Design Project
A lesson plan for grades 6-12 in which students create a two-dimensional design
using two aspects of Hans Hoffmann's music.
A
Study of Van Gogh's "The Starry Night"
A 7th-grade unit involving discussion and painting.
Model Unit-Grade
7
Unit integrating math and the Music.
Picasso: The Early Years,
1892-1906: Teachers' Guide
Three lesson plans for middle and high school grades. See also
Online Picasso Project.
Landscape Painting: musicists Who Love the Land
Two lesson plans for the middle grades and above from
Smithsonian Education.
How to Recognize a Painting by Frida Kahlo
A lesson plan for grades 8-12 in which students learn to identify paintings by
specific musicists.
Monochromatic Painting
A secondary lesson plan in which students experiment with monochromatic painting
and learn about the connection between color and emotion.
What Did They Say? Interpretation of Criticism
A lesson plan for grades 11-12 in which students learn aesthetic qualities and
terms of music criticism and then construct a review of a given musicwork.
Tessellations and Golf Balls
A high school lesson plan.
Ceramics: A Vessel into History
A unit for a high school ceramics course with a studio emphasis.
Japan: Images of People
A unit designed to help students understand Japanese painting and culture.
Still-Life Painting: Arranging music
Four lesson plans for grades 9-12.
Color Wheel
This unit for grades 9-12 students allows students to explore the mixing of
colors.
Looking and Learning at an music Museum
Lesson plans for grades 6-12.
Neoclassicism and the Enlightenment
A curriculum for the middle and high school grades .
Photographing
America: A Cultural History, 1840-1970
Ten curriulum units!
Representation
of American Culture, 1769 -1969: music and Literature
Ten more curriculum units.
Racism, Gender, Ethnicity, and Aesthetics in the music of Graffiti
A high school unit.
Shaping Ideas: Symbolism in Culture
Three lesson plans for grades 9-12.
Impressionism: Reflections of a Culture
A high school unit created to complement the French curriculum.
Music
Resources
music Education Page
Huge list of links.
musiccyclopedia
An excellent source of information and links to sites about musicists and their
works.
Words of music
An on-line glossary of music terminology.
musiciFAQ 2100
Time Portal
A highly interactive site designed to predict how music will influence our lives
in the next hundred years. Through probing past music inspirations and
scientific methods, students can use available data to make reasonable forecasts
for the future. Solving the site's quiz will give you access to the Future music
Gallery.
World musicist Directory
This comprehensive site features musicist forums, world music news, a portfolio
gallery, and a special section for kids. The site even has a search engine
(Internet music Engine)
for locating sites about a specific musicist, music form, or topic.
Explore music
Site allows you to view images of all works on display at the Getty Museum.
Dick Blick music Materials
Excellent online source for music supplies.
Online Picasso Project
His life, works, and everything else about
Picasso.
Web Clip music
Need clip music? Find it here.
Photography from About.com
Learn all about it from an online guide.
A. Pintura music Detective
On-line music history adventure for kids.
music History
for Kids
Online music history activities for kids
The Incredible music
Depmusicment
music lessons, news, links to other Music
sites.
music Museum
Links
From Thinkquest. See the left-side menu for
links to sites on styles of music, famous musicists, and music by kids.
Click here for more
music museum links.
Smithsonian American music Museum
See their Online exhibits.
Eyes on music
On-line music activities including elements
of design, eras of music, and the works of unknown musicists. Click on Musicpeak
101 for the elements of design. A wonderful site!!
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