Classroom Thunderstorm

Students create a class composition of a thunderstorm by exploring expressive qualities of crescendo/decrescendo and accelerando/ritardando

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Lesson Plan

Comparing Different Versions of a Known Song

Students create different versions of a known song and listen to contrasting recordings for musical differences and similarities.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Lesson Plan

Composing a Melody

Students compose and notate short melodies using their names.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Lesson Plan

Composing in Common Time

Students compose and notate short 4/4, 3/4, and 6/8 rhythms across multiple class periods.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Lesson Plan

Composing in Simple and Compound Meters

Students compose and notate short rhythms in 4/4, 3/4, and 6/8 meters across multiple class periods.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Lesson Plan

Counting on Art

In these lessons students will explore the paintings of Horace Pippin and Wayne Thiebaud and the mobiles of Alexander Calder to discover and practice math and visual art concepts. Background and biographical information about the work of art and artist, guided looking with class discussion, and activities with worksheets using mathematical formulas and studio art provide the framework for each lesson.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Lesson Plan

Creating and Performing Melodic Contour

Students create and perform melodic contours.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Lesson Plan

Creative Dance Handshake Dance

This template is meant to be a guide for Nebraska Physical Education Teachers when creating digital online lessons. Headings and/or topics not included in the lesson plan should be marked N/A.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson, Lesson Plan

Author: Sheri Cohen Vollmer

The Elements of Art

The goal of this unit is to introduce students to the basic elements of art (color, line, shape, form, and texture) and to show students how artists use these elements in different ways in their work. In the unit, students will answer questions as they look carefully at paintings and sculpture to identify the elements and analyze how they are used by different artists.

Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Lesson Plan, Unit of Study

Exploring Long and Short Rhythmic Patterns Through Movement and Composition

Students create movements to represent long and short rhythmic patterns and compose patterns using non-traditional notation.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Lesson Plan

Line Dancing the Kindergarten Way!

In this lesson students perform a line dance to reinforce story telling through movement.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

SEL-Music Unit: Who Are We Together? Communicating Emotions

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. 

Material Type: Lesson, Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy, Unit of Study

Authors: Barbara Soots, Washington OSPI OER Project, Cara Patrick, Tammy Bolen

MPIR - My Favorite Know

My Favortie kNOw is one of many Mathematically Productive Instructional Routines (MPIR). They are short (10ish minutes), daily exercises aimed at building number sense. This is one of six different MPIR covered in the Mathematically Productive Instructional Routines collection from the Washington Office of Public Instruction and the Washington Association of Educational Service Districts.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Authors: Barbara Soots, Washington OSPI OER Project, Washington OSPI Mathematics Department

Accidental Discoveries

This segment from Swift: Eyes through Time traces the history military officers and engineers discovering a strange phenomenon in the sky that astronomers now know are gamma-ray bursts.

Material Type: Lecture

Authors: NASA, PA Space Grant, WPSU

Acids and Bases: Cabbage Juice Indicator

In this video segment, the ZOOM cast demonstrates how to use cabbage juice to find out if a solution is an acid or a base.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Authors: National Science Foundation, WGBH Educational Foundation

Air Power: Making a Hovercraft

In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, cast members make their own hovercraft and demonstrate how the air leaking out of a balloon can make a plastic plate hover above a table.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Authors: National Science Foundation, WGBH Educational Foundation

An Alaska Native Community Helps Seals

This video from First Alaskans Institute spotlights the Alaska Native community of St. Paul and its hands-on commitment to care for the land and animals on which it depends.

Material Type: Lecture

Authors: National Science Foundation, WGBH Educational Foundation

Alaska Native Pilots

In this video adapted from Storyknife Productions, Alaska Native pilots share how they use traditional knowledge to read the landscape and predict the weather.

Material Type: Lecture

Authors: National Science Foundation, WGBH Educational Foundation

Animal Coverings

It takes a thick skin to withstand the hardships that life has to offer. This collection of images shows a variety of animals, each with a slightly different type of protective covering.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Diagram/Illustration

Authors: National Science Foundation, WGBH Educational Foundation

Animal Survival

Learn about the structure and function of living organisms by drawing an imaginary animal in the Take the Stage game show, ANIMAL SURVIVAL! Viewers become contestants on a game show and are challenged to draw an imaginary animal that could live and survive in either the desert, ocean, or the arctic tundra. When drawing the imaginary animal, the contestants write out two distinct structures and a function for each of the structures that help it survive. Learning Objective: Compare the structures and functions of different species that help them live and survive in a specific environment.

Material Type: Lesson