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Drawing to Music
How might visual artists use music as a tool for inspiration, and how might sound be reflected through art?
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Muddy Waters, the New Kid in Town
How did Muddy Waters’ music change after he moved to Chicago, and what does that say about the relationship between place and self-expression?
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Learning Rhythm through Gospel
How can Gospel music help students identify the musical concepts of beat, meter, backbeat, subdivision, and syncopation?
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Celebrating Community with Art and Poetry (High School Version)
What different types of communities exist, and how do the people in our communities impact us?
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Cleaning up the Plastic Beach (Elementary School Version)
What is plastic, how is it harmful for the environment, and how can it be used more responsibly?
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Designing an Electric Guitar with Shapes
How can shapes be used to design an electric guitar?
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The Science and Civics of the Flint Water Crisis (High School Version)
What is the Flint water crisis, and why did it occur?
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Beat Culture and the Grateful Dead
How did beat writers like Jack Kerouac influence the Grateful Dead’s music?
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Counterculture in the 1960s
How did the counterculture movement of the late 1960s challenge traditional American behaviors and values, and how did the Grateful Dead reflect these changing views of life and society?
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Jerry Garcia, Addiction, and Intervention
How can you help someone struggling with addiction?
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Deadheads and Reagan’s America in the 1980s
Who are the Deadheads and how did their lifestyle contrast with the conservative values promoted by President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s?
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Debating Cultural Appropriation
What is cultural appropriation, how does it affect Native American communities, and should it be regulated by law?