Students create movements to represent long and short rhythmic patterns and compose patterns using non-traditional notation.
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Students explore expressive qualities through various string techniques.
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Students use language and movement to explore accents in music.
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Intergenerational Stories A Lesson Developed and Contributed by Christine Hennig, MA, LMHP, ATR With a Link to Copyrighted Dick Blick Lesson Plan “Home Town Map” www.DickBlick.com Objectives (Elders): 1. To encourage reminiscence, which has been shown to be beneficial for elders 2. To increase feelings of self-worth by discovering that elders have interesting stories to tell about their lives 3. To increase feelings of self-worth by passing on their wisdom to young people 4. To brighten moods through contact with young people Objectives (Children): 1. To bring history lessons they may have learned in school to life through contact with people who have “lived it” 2. To encourage respect for elders by discovering what they have lived through and learned from their experiences 3. To increase tolerance for disability and aging Audiences: This is a project to complete with a small group of elderly people plus a small group of school-aged children. It is recommended that you have group facilitators for both the elders and the children (i.e., at least two—one for the elders and one for the children). Elders should be high-functioning and be able to tell their stories. Elders with mild dementia, but still good long-term memories, can be involved if there is extra staff or volunteers available to work one-on-one with them and the children to encourage and guide.
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Students explore and create rhythms through language and body percussion.
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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 explore first and second endings by singing and moving.
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Students identify musical form through movement.
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Students learn to identify tension and release within a piece of music.
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Students explore whispering, speaking, singing, and calling voices.
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Students read, perform, and compose four-beat rhythmic patterns.
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This unit by Northshore School District, Washington, contains four progressive lesson activities created for primary grades which connect Washington Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Standards 1, 4 and 5 with Washington Music Standards 1, 2 and 8 using the creating/responding processes to generate original songs and express personal feelings.
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Students explore relative pitch through listening and movement.
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Students will explore the various types of loops available in Scratch, by creating musical programs. The instructor presents a Scratch project with examples of short music loop scripts. Students examine the different types of loops used, and then build their own songs using the same kinds of loops and sounds. Students reflect on why programmers use loops and the benefits they offer. Loops— particularly nested loops—will be important in their final coding project at the end of the unit.
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With a behind the scenes look at the production of Mary Poppins, Jeromy Smith and Lyndy Franklin Smith, founders of the Lexington Theatre Company, describe their partnership, goals, and how they put a show together. Jeromy explains the factors that affect their choice of plays to perform. Lyndy details how a production comes together over the course of three weeks. The collegiate ensemble rehearses music and choreography in a four-day boot camp, then the professional actors join the cast. After almost two weeks of rehearsals, costume fittings, set design, and technical adjustments, the production is ready for opening night.
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Derrick Woods, the gallery teaching manager at Speed Art Museum in Louisville, shows how to play the game “How Art You Feeling?” The idea is to have students express what they’re feeling through art instead of words. Students are asked to do a “full systems check” to consider how they’re feeling beyond simple words like “fine” or “okay.” Students then create art to show these feelings and share their art with a partner, who describes what they see in the artwork. The game encourages students be thoughtful about expressing their feelings. It also helps them learn to consider their partner’s feelings. In the video, the two young women who are game partners discuss the feelings they were trying to express and find common elements in their drawings. The activity helps students develop social awareness and relationship skills.
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Learn about the fundamental connections between math and music, in four Acts: "Rhythm," "Frequency," "Harmony," and "Fractals." Concepts presented in the video documentary are reinforced by hands-on experiments using the Google Chrome Music Lab Experiments. Learn the instructional design process used in creation of The Majesty of Music and Math incorporating Universal Design for Learning and the methodology of assessing non-cognitive skills using a combination of gains in Experience Level, Depth of Knowledge, and Performance Quality.
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Learn about the fundamental connections between math and music, in four Acts: Rhythm, Frequency, Harmony and Fractals. Concepts presented in the video documentary are reinforced by hands-on experiments using the Google Chrome Music Lab Experiments.
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The City of Cincinnati, Ohio converted twenty blocks into a festival of art and light, showcasing projection mapping along with a number of other emerging media art forms. The goal was to create a public event celebrating the arts, culture, and creativity of the city in an atmosphere that promoted audience interaction with dynamic art. After watching this video, select one or more videos in the BLINK series for your class to watch to learn more about specific installations and the artists who created them.
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Anila Quayyum Agha’s installation Alhambra Nights was selected to be included in the City of Cincinnati’s BLINK festival. The event spanned twenty city blocks and included light, interactive art, and large-scale projection mapping. Inspired by Agha’s visit to the Alhambra and her efforts to connect traditional Islamic art and architecture with contemporary technology and Western audiences.
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