Students explore and create rhythms through language and body percussion.
Students compose and notate short rhythms in 4/4, 3/4, and 6/8 meters across multiple class periods.
Students explore healthy posture through storytelling and observation.
Students play an identification game of hot and cold using their voices and dynamics.
Students sing and identify melodic contours.
Students explore phrases in poetry and in song.
This unit, developed by Northshore School District in Washington, contains four days of lessons where students engage with music from a variety of cultures and analyze how emotions are communicated through different styles of music. Students will make connections between showing emotions with their words, their bodies and with instruments and will perform instruments as an ensemble to communicate different emotions.
Students explore whispering, speaking, singing, and calling voices.
Through a sequence of activities using songs, creative movement, and picture books, students will learn about each others’ similarities and differences, gain an appreciation for cultural diversity, and identify ways that various social and cultural groups bring new ideas to society.
Students explore call and response songs through singing.
Students research, evaluate, and synthesize information about the Harlem Renaissance from varied resources, create an exhibit, and highlight connections across disciplines (i.e., art, music, and poetry) using a Venn diagram.
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.
How can we identify the tempo of music through movement? Students demonstrate the expressive quality of tempo through movement.
Students identify phrases in a known song and create new patterns of music.
The document provides overview information about the importance of arts education and its implementation in K12 schools.
Students create arrangements of a melody and listen to recordings contrasting in style and genre.
Students use their singing voices to take turns improvising and creating melodic phrases on a given theme.
Students perform and create rhythmic patterns using their bodies.
Students explore expressive qualities through various string techniques.
Students listen to and describe sounds.