Exploring Expressive Qualities in Music
(View Complete Item Description)Students explore expressive qualities in music through listening, singing, and moving.
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Students explore expressive qualities in music through listening, singing, and moving.
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Students brainstorm strategies to guide their listening as they describe and label music of different genres.
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Students create and perform melodic contours.
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Students explore healthy posture through storytelling and observation.
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Topic: Arts - Painting Aims:To learn about famous paintings and different styles of art.To collaborate on writing a painting description. Objectives:Define in loose terms what art is.Identify different types of paintings.Develop their art-related vocabulary.Extract specific information from a listening input.Formulate simple sentences in Passive Voice (Simple Present).Synthesize input to compose a painting description, by utilizing text-structure theory.Gain more experience in collaborating using web 2.0. tools (google docs)
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Resist Painting A Lesson Developed by Anna Alcalde Objectives: 1. To learn about the art method of resist 2. To create a painting using the art resist method 3. To use the art elements of line, color and negative and positive space to create art and manipulate art materials Audiences: This lesson would be appropriate for all ages—children to senior citizens.
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Painted Story Quilt (art + social studies; art + literature) Quilt-making spans multiple centuries and many different cultures. It’s an art form that can teach basic math skills, record history, recycle cast-off materials and encourage cooperative efforts within a group...just to name a few ideas! Artist and author Faith Ringgold is renowned for her painted story quilts. She surrounds her narrative paintings with a quilted fabric border, creating visual art that tells a story in color, texture and pattern. In this lesson, students select a story to illustrate — a book they’ve read or a story of their own to share — then paint a scene on fabric pieces using watersoluble pastels and watercolor paint. The remaining fabric is painted with complimenting colors and patterns to make a border, and glued when dry to a piece of felt. Students are encouraged to share swatches with one another, just as fabrics have been created and shared in quiltmaking for centuries. As an option, students define key shapes with embroidery stitches and add beads. Grade Levels K-12 Note: instructions and materials based on a class of 25 students. Adjust as needed.
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Explore the complex veils of color that form Mark Rothko's abstract paintings. To experiment on your own, take our online studio course Materials and Techniques of Postwar Abstract Painting. Created by The Museum of Modern Art.
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Learn about the drip-style painting techniques of one of America's most iconic and influential painters. Created by The Museum of Modern Art.
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In this module, students will investigate the topic of civil disobedience. The objective is to consider the facts, scenarios, and philosophies discussed in order to make an informed judgment on the issue. Upon completion of this module they will be able to answer the following question: Does civil disobedience qualify as part of a person's civic responsibility?
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On behalf of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), take this quiz to test your knowledge of the major events of World War II, from Normandy to Nagasaki.
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An overview of the Japanese Medieval period in which Shoguns ruled under the bakufu (shogunate) feudal system. Discussion of daimyo during the Kamakura and Muromachi/Ashikaga periods. Samurai and bushido.
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An overview of the Feudal System--the relationship of lords and vassals. Titles of nobility such as dukes, earls, counts, viscounts and barons. Homage and fealty.
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Students listen to a biography of Martin Luther King, Jr., view photographs of the March on Washington, and study King's use of imagery and allusion in his "I Have a Dream" speech.
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This website gives you the opportunity see the world through different people all over the world on a variety of topics. Watch videos, see lesson plans about global issues and looking at it from a lense of focus on 100 people.
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The following map analysis worksheet was designed and developed by the Education Staff of the National Archives and Records Administration. You may find this worksheet useful as you introduce students to maps as primary sources of historical, social and cultural information.
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In the paper-based Ancient Civilizations activity, students create their own civilization and see how it fares over the years based on choices they make for location, animals, plants and natural resources. Students create an artistic rendering of their civilization, trade resources between their civilizations and go to war with an unnamed enemy. This activity was inspired by Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond.
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The following map analysis worksheet was designed and developed by the Education Staff of the National Archives and Records Administration. You may find this worksheet useful as you introduce students to maps as primary sources of historical, social and cultural information.
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We live on the continent of North America in the country of the United States. There are 50 states in this great country and as citizens of the United States we should know what those states are. In this seminar you will learn the names and locations of all 50 states. Wow your friends and family with your geographical knowledge! Standards7.1.4.B Describe and locate places and regions as defined by physical and human features.
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This is a lesson plan to introduce the 5 Themes of Geography. Students will take notes on the 5 Themes and apply them to their school as a whole class. Students will have this example to refer back to when they eventually move on to applying the 5 Themes to where they live!
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