Title
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Content Area
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Grade Level (s)
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Overview
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Mozart's
Musical Dice Game
by
John Gabriele
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Music
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6,7,8
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Students determine the sequence of measures in
Minuet form (ABA) by using prescribed measures
using a musical dice game.
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The Non-Objective Object
by
Dale A. Gregg
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Visual Art
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3
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Students will learn the concept of non-objective
art by exploring the works of Helen Frankenthaler
and producing non-objective works of their own
using tissue paper and colored pencils.
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Music Notation
by
Melissa Hair
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Visual
Art
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3,5
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Students will be acquainted with the note names
for the lines and the spaces in the treble
clef.
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Instrument Family
Recognition-Aural
by
Christopher Laret
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Music
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3
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Students will use sound picture matching program
on http://www.menc.org/guides/charguid/match/matgame1.htm
to show distinguishing visual and aural
characteristics of the orchestral families of
instruments.
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Quilt Design
by
Dede Tersteeg
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Visual
Arts
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8
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Three forty-minute lessons to design a
center-focused quilt.
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Clay Man
by
Jennifer Tsui
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Visual
Arts
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3
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The students will produce a puppet head that
displays their mastery of basic pinch pot
methods, using an example from a contemporary
Philadelphia artist (Jimmy Clarke) and a Native
American tradition.
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Renaissance Wind Instruments
by
Dyan White
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Music
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5
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Students will listen to examples of recorder
music from the Renaissance, and identify similar
instruments of the period based on sound production
and timbre.
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Color Mix: Primary and Secondary
Colors
by
Heidi Wirtner
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Visual
Arts
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3
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This lesson explores the mixing of colors
through the use of the color wheel. The
objectives of this lesson are to engage students in
how colors are created and in evaluating their
color mixes and the color mixes of
others.
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