Grade: All Ages

lesson:
Life Songs Scaffolded Resources

Grades: All Ages
Subjects: Art/Design, Social Emotional Learning

What other projects can students develop to showcase their Life Songs Interview?

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Miguel

Grades: All Ages
Subjects: General Music, Social Studies/History

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Bad Bunny

Grades: All Ages
Subjects: General Music

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Cardi B

Grades: All Ages
Subjects: General Music

Unit Plan:
Life Songs: Telling Your Story Through Music

Grades: All Ages, Elementary K-3, High, Middle
Subjects: Art/Design, Social Emotional Learning

Life Songs is an intergenerational media project organized into a four lesson unit plan. The unit concludes with students presenting their Life Songs Interview - a recorded interview led by the student with an adult who shares how music shaped their life. For classrooms without the ability to create and...

lesson:
Post-production: Editing and Finalizing Your Life Songs Interview

Grades: All Ages, Elementary 4-6, Elementary K-3, High, Middle
Subjects: CTE, Social Emotional Learning

How do you use editing to create a final media product?

lesson:
Production: Conducting Your Life Songs Interview

Grades: All Ages, Elementary 4-6, Elementary K-3, High, Middle
Subjects: CTE, General Music, Geography, Social Emotional Learning

How do you conduct and record an interview?

lesson:
Pre-production: Preparing for Your Life Songs Interview

Grades: All Ages, Elementary 4-6, Elementary K-3, High, Middle
Subjects: ELA, General Music, Social Emotional Learning

How do you prepare for a successful and insightful interview?

lesson:
Music Tells Our Story

Grades: All Ages, Elementary 4-6, Elementary K-3, High, Middle
Subjects: CTE, General Music, Social Emotional Learning

What role might music play in a person’s life, identity, and community?

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The Beatles

Grades: All Ages

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ChocQuibTown

Grades: All Ages, Elementary K-3, High, Middle
Subjects: General Music, Geography, Physical Education, Social Emotional Learning

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LADAMA

Grades: All Ages, Elementary K-3, High, Middle
Subjects: General Music, Geography, Physical Education, Social Emotional Learning

Student Edition:
Math with Jackson Browne

Grades: All Ages, Elementary K-3, Middle
Subjects: General Music, Math, STEAM

Student Edition:
What is Cultural Identity?

Grades: All Ages
Subjects: Art/Design, ELA, Social Emotional Learning, Social Studies/History

Student Edition:
Golden Age of Radio in the U.S.

Grades: All Ages
Subjects: ELA, Social Studies/History

Student Edition:
Music as a Window to the Past

Grades: All Ages
Subjects: ELA, General Music, Social Studies/History

Student Edition:
Designing Album Covers with Color Theory

Grades: All Ages
Subjects: Art/Design, General Music

Student Edition:
Rhythm as Representation of People and Place

Grades: All Ages
Subjects: General Music, Social Studies/History

Student Edition:
“Glory” and the Continuing Civil Rights Movement

Grades: All Ages
Subjects: ELA, General Music, Social Emotional Learning

Student Edition:
Going Viral

Grades: All Ages
Subjects: General Music, Social Emotional Learning, Social Studies/History

Student Edition:
“Life is Beautiful” with Keb’ Mo’

Grades: All Ages
Subjects: ELA, General Music, Social Emotional Learning, Social Studies/History

Student Edition:
Loudspeakers, PA Systems, and the “Wall of Sound”

Grades: All Ages
Subjects: General Music, STEAM

Student Edition:
“Lean on Me”: Expressing Gratitude and Care with Music

Grades: All Ages
Subjects: ELA, General Music, Social Emotional Learning

How does Bill Withers’ “Lean on Me” express gratitude and the importance of mutual care?

Student Edition:
Drawing To Music

Grades: All Ages
Subjects: Art/Design, General Music, Social Studies/History

Student Edition:
Design A Distortion Pedal

Grades: All Ages, High, Middle
Subjects: Art/Design, General Music, Social Studies/History

lesson:
“See You Again”: How We Mourn with Music

Grades: All Ages, AP/Honors/101, Elementary 4-6, High, Middle
Subjects: General Music, Social Emotional Learning

How does music help us remember people we are close to, or those we have lost?

lesson:
Heroes and Mortals in “Something Just Like This”

Grades: All Ages, AP/Honors/101, Elementary 4-6, High, Middle
Subjects: ELA

Who are the gods and superheroes referenced in “Something Just Like This,” and what are the connections between them?

lesson:
“Here”: Managing Peer Pressure and Anxiety

Grades: All Ages, Elementary 4-6, High, Middle
Subjects: General Music, Social Emotional Learning

In what ways does Alessia Cara’s “Here” defy popular music conventions, and what does the song say about peer pressure in youth culture?

lesson:
Sound Waves, Analog Synthesis and Popular Culture

Grades: All Ages, AP/Honors/101, Elementary 4-6, High, Middle
Subjects: CTE, General Music, Science, STEAM

How did synthesizers allow musicians to create new sounds and how did those sounds reflect American culture throughout the 20th century?

lesson:
The Beatles and American Segregation

Grades: All Ages, Elementary 4-6, High, Middle
Subjects: Social Studies/History

How did the Beatles take a stand against segregation while touring America? And what did it mean for popular music culture?

lesson:
The Evolution of Sound Recording

Grades: All Ages, High, Middle
Subjects: CTE, General Music, Science, STEAM

How did multitrack recording technologies enable musicians to create a form of music that could only be realized in the studio?

lesson:
Thematic Lesson: Love Songs

Grades: All Ages, AP/Honors/101, Elementary 4-6, Elementary K-3, High, Middle
Subjects: ELA, General Music, Social Studies/History

Why is the Pop song such a common medium for expressing feelings about love, and how do individual songs relate to their historical moments?