Lively Limericks 3-6
Description
Use limericks to help students simultaneously explore language arts and music skills and understandings.
Money Time K-2
Description
Using rhythmical experiences in music, the students will explore numbers and their relationships. Every aspect of music can be described mathematically. An understanding of patterns, the ability to develop operations, reveal functions, and being able to move toward higher levels of abstractions, can be strengthened through parallel music study. Dividing beats and meters: patterns; and starting the same patterns at different times to create canons: developing operations will be explored in this lesson.
Moving with Mathematics 3-5
Description
These activities will allow students to explore the concepts of fractions, percentages, and decimals by creating dances using locomotor and nonlocomotor movements.
Music and Acoustics 3-5
Description
Through listening to, analyzing, describing, and composing original sound pieces, students will develop skills and understandings in science, mathematics, language arts, and music. Teamwork and creativity are necessary to create a rhythmic composition using cups that demonstrates understanding and identification of various sounds. Musical skills addressed include improvising, composing, listening, and playing.
Music Inspires Writing 3-5
Description
Using music as an impetus for creating original poetry and music, students will develop skills and understandings in language arts and music. Creative thinking, vocabulary development, and structural understanding are necessary to create poetry and music in a prescribed form. Musical skills addressed include improvising, composing, listening, and speaking.