Celebrating Individuality Through Music & Dance

A favorite dance from that day, the Robot!  Lesson Teach students musical terms and implementing them into everyday life Recommended Ages Pre-school to first grade Vocabulary Solo: a piece or a section of a piece of music played or sung featuring a single performer  Improvise: the creative activity of immediate (“in the …

Celebrating Diversity through Musical Instruments from Around the World

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Lesson Plan: Van Gogh’s Sunflowers for Preschoolers

Your Destination: Participate in museum-type observation and dialogue about Van Gogh’s Sunflowers painting and paint your own version in a directed lesson. Learn how colors and strokes can express feelings. Travel Kit:  large image of a Van Gogh Sunflowers painting Camille and the Sunflowers by Laurence Arnholt (or other children’s …

Music in Schools

Seikilos epitaph, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The Seikilos Epitaph When did music become a part of education? Music has been an important part of daily life for humans for thousands of years. African tribes have been performing songs and dances for hundreds of years, kept alive through aural tradition rather …

Music and Mindfulness through Art and Bookmaking

Making music provides unique opportunities for students to express their emotions. Often through music we realize how we are feeling and name those feelings. It also allows us to release emotions by making our own music, listening to it, or singing and dancing. For our Music, Mindfulness and Motion through …

Lesson Plan: Class Collage Color Wheel

Picture of classroom activity Your Destination: As a class, create a large-scale color wheel collage with pieces of construction paper.    Travel Kit: colored papers in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple scissors (optional) glue sticks large-scale (at least 24”x36”) drawing of blank color wheel on poster board, foam …