Source: Barney
Identify different kinds of musical instruments. Make a toilet paper tube kazoo, and play a song as a band.
Grade Level: PreK, K-2
Subjects: The Arts
Topics: Crafts. Music.
Resource Type: Lesson Plan
Source: Jazz
Describe the life of Duke Ellington and his contributions to the field of jazz, write an original poem using a variety of popular vocabulary from the 1920's and respond to Ellington's composition "Mood Indigo" by creating a painting.
Grade Level: K-2, 3-5
Subjects: Reading & Language Arts, The Arts
Topics: Writing: Composition. Music.
Resource Type: Lesson Plan
Source: George Shrinks
Learn how to play an instrument, and identify percussion instruments. Explore how bands and orchestras make unusual instruments from ordinary things, and create instruments for a class percussion band. (Section 3)
Grade Level: K-2
Subjects: The Arts
Topics: Music.
Resource Type: Lesson Plan
Source: American Masters
Read the works of Maurice Sendak, and write a class book based on one of Sendak's stories (K-2). Learn how Sendak's book, "Where the Wild Things Are," was turned into an opera, and produce an opera (6-8).
Grade Level: K-2, 6-8
Subjects: Reading & Language Arts, The Arts
Topics: Reading: Books & Stories. Writing: Composition. Literature: American. Music.
Resource Type: Lesson Plan
Source: Curious George
Understand, identify and create patterns to build basic math skills. Look for repeating patterns in everyday items, repeat and create sound and movement patterns and identify rules for various patterns.
Grade Level: K-2
Subjects: Math, The Arts
Topics: Patterns and Algebraic Thinking. Music.
Resource Type: Lesson Plan
Source: Jazz
Practice following a pattern in music, become familiar with the concept of beat in music, identify tempo in a music piece and play the beat on rhythm instruments at various speeds.
Grade Level: PreK, K-2
Subjects: The Arts
Topics: Music.
Resource Type: Lesson Plan
