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May 19th, 2009
Lesson Plans Overview

This section contains three lesson plans geared towards elementary school teachers, using national standards to teach music appreciation, harmonics, physics, rhythm and other concepts surrounding music.

Lesson Plans:

We’ve developed core tools around the concepts of chords, frequency, and rhythm in partnership with Indaba Music. These tools incorporated in the lesson plans can also be appreciated on their own! Feel free to check out these fun interactives below.

Learn about basic chord stucture:


Learn about frequency and how it manifests in sounds the sounds around us:


Learn about how rhythm can manifest itself in the environment:

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Michael Roberts -- June 24th, 2009 at 11:03 pm

What a great program! If you are a educator interested the intersection of MUSIC, MOVEMENT, IMPROVISATION, and ideas about how to develop creativity within children you will want to investigate Orff Schulwerk and it’s organizations. This program reveals more evidence about why music education is one of the most important programs within schools.

Ken Pendergrass -- July 2nd, 2009 at 7:46 pm

Cool widgets! Who created these? These are awesome. I will be blogging about this at http://musicisnotforinsects.com

What’s the deal with Twitter? Making some cool connections | Music Is Not for Insects -- July 3rd, 2009 at 2:41 pm

[...] Not only that, but I can see others who are interested in this fascinating show (with excellent lesson plan resources for music educators) and interact with them as well. As part of the live Q & A [...]

The Music Instinct « Christopher Amos -- July 9th, 2009 at 12:55 am

[...] components, social media tools, and integration with other websites. The site also includes a section for educators, where you’ll find three lesson plans that provide a framework for using video from the [...]

jaz -- January 13th, 2010 at 11:21 am

i love the frequency explorer

Taylor and cassie -- January 14th, 2010 at 11:18 am

wow we played on this forever
we love this!!!!!!
it’s soo cool!!
we made horror movie sound tracks!!!!!
soooooo cool
lol

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