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- Meter madness
- The students will identify 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4 time signatures. They will also identify the down-beat and begin to understand conducting patterns.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Music Education)
- By Alice Barlowe.
- Rhythm beginnings
- This lesson plan introduces the terms beat, steady beat, and tempo for the first day of rhythm work.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 Music Education)
- By Meg Anderson.
- Music reading railroad
- Students will learn to read quarter notes, rests and repeat signs using a traditional folk song.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Music Education)
- By Melissa Vincent.
- Shapely compositions
- Students will compose four measures of music using shapes to denote the quarter and eighth notes. The individual compositions are combined to make a longer piece of music that students enjoy playing on rhythm instruments.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Music Education)
- Instruments in action
- Students will demonstrate mastery of eight measures of four beats by speaking, moving and playing. They will classify instruments metals, woods, scrapers, ringers, shakers, etc.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 Music Education)
- By Jeanne Anderson.
- Rhythm stars
- This lesson will introduce the main components of rhythm: quarter, eighth, and sixteenth notes.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Music Education)
- By Laura Abernethy.
- "Eggs-tra" special sounds
- Students will identify, compare, and classify the sounds made by plastic eggs filled with rice, pebbles, and salt. They will graph the results of their discoveries. They will then compose and tape sound pieces illustrating dynamic levels they discovered. Finally they will construct their own "maraca" using plastic eggs.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 Music Education)
- By Sondra Edwards.
- Sound properties and careers in music
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 3.8
- This lesson for grade six uses a hands-on lab to help students understand key concepts in the properties of sound, and how they can be applied to careers in music.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Music Education and Science)
- By April Galloway and Christine Scott.Edited by Julie McCann.
- “Der Handschuh” by Friedrich Schiller
- Students will have the opportunity to explore the poem, “Der Handschuh,” through shared reading, shared writing, and phonemic strategies that lead to fluency and comprehension.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Second Languages)
- By Thomas Skinner.
- Dance of the times: African-American expression of jazz
- Explores jazz dance as a social dance form and a uniquely expressive art of African-American culture from the 1920's and 1930's. Students will learn about the complexity of African-American experiences that generated the dance and musical style. The activities develop students' understanding of jazz dance while integrating visual, audio, and kinesthetic learning styles.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Dance Arts Education)
- By Shelese Douglas.
- Rhythm, pattern, color, and texture in art and poetry
- In this lesson, students will discover the meaning of "rhythm," "patterns," "color," and "texture" through the performance and modeled analysis of a class "symphony." Students will also evaluate the impact of each element on the whole work and note personal reactions and connections to this art form. Students will then work in small groups to apply the same elements and personal evaluation and connections to a historical work of visual art. At the end of the lesson, students will reflect on ways these two experiences are similar.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Visual Arts Education and English Language Arts)
- By Carol Horne.
Resources on the web
- What's the beat?
- In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students use the average adult's number of heartbeats per minute to predict how many times the heart would beat during various lengths of time. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Mathematics)
- Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- The Electric Heart
- Learn about the human heart and its artificial counterpart with an interactive graphic, heart facts, conversations with the leading heart transplant surgeon, and more. Be sure to try your hand at heart transplant surgery in this online activity. (Learn more)
- Format: website/activity
- Provided by: PBS
- Franklin Institute Science Museum
- For over 176 years, The Franklin Institute has been as much a part of the Philadelphia landscape as the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall. This is the on-line version of the museum. (Learn more)
- Format: website/lesson plan
- Provided by: The Franklin Institute Science Museum
