Grade: Elementary K-3
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ChocQuibTown- Embracing Cultural Identity through Colombian Rap
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What is a Mӧbius Strip?
What is a Mӧbius strip, how do you create one, and what can it represent?
Unit Plan:
Life Songs: Telling Your Story Through Music
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...
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Post-production: Editing and Finalizing Your Life Songs Interview
How do you use editing to create a final media product?
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Production: Conducting Your Life Songs Interview
How do you conduct and record an interview?
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Pre-production: Preparing for Your Life Songs Interview
How do you prepare for a successful and insightful interview?
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What Makes a Great Front Person in Music?
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Music Tells Our Story
What role might music play in a person’s life, identity, and community?
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Creating a Personal Logo
How can a logo help communicate a person or group’s unique personality?
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Using Algebraic Expressions to Calculate Touring Costs
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Using Data to Analyze an Artist’s Success
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Using Algebraic Expressions to Analyze Concert Schedules
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Using Ratios to Identify Social Media Engagement
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Using Graphing to Analyze Music Industry Data
Trace It Back:
ChocQuibTown
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LADAMA
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Learn Ciranda with LADAMA
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Rap Like ChocQuibTown with LADAMA
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Learn Quitiplás with LADAMA
Unit Plan:
LADAMA: Movement, Music, and Community in South America
LADAMA: Movement, Music, and Community in South America introduces students to the music, dance, and culture of South America in an interactive way. Through four lessons, students learn to sing, dance, and perform the traditional rhythms of selected musical styles in Colombia, Venezuela, and Brazil. In addition, they play games...
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Learn Joropo with LADAMA
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Learn Cumbia with LADAMA
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Joropo: Music Inspired by Nature from the High Plains of Venezuela
What is Joropo, and how is it inspired by nature?
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ChocQuibTown: Embracing Cultural Identity through Colombian Rap
How can the music of ChocQuibTown, from the Pacific Coast of Colombia, help students express and celebrate their cultural identity through Rap?
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Quitiplás: Deep Listening and Rhythm Building with Afro-Venezuelan Bamboo Drums From Barlovento
What is Quitiplás, how does it incorporate the natural world, and how is it an example of polyrhythm?
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Ciranda: The Brazilian Music and Dance that Creates Community
What is Ciranda, and how can group singing and dancing help us feel like a part of a community?
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Colombian Cumbia: African, Indigenous, and Spanish Roots of Rhythm
What is Cumbia, and how do you play its traditional rhythms?
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Dolores Huerta: Labor Leader
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Math with Jackson Browne
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Math with Beyoncé
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The Stonewall Riots in the Fight for Equality
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Feeling the Vibrations
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The Birth of Hippie Culture
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“Here Comes the Sun”
Trace It Back:
Mitski
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Math with the Grateful Dead
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The Roots of Surf Sound
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Who Is Camila Cabello?
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Who Is Ritchie Valens?
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Cleaning Up the Plastic Beach
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The Latin Rhythms of “Despacito”
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Celebrating Community With Art
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Design An Electric Guitar With Shapes
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Feeling the Vibrations
How did the Grateful Dead make their concerts more accessible to the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) community?
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Exploring Shapes in Pablo Picasso’s “Guitar, Sheet Music, and Glass”
What shapes did Pablo Picasso use to create his piece Guitar, Sheet Music, and Glass and how can similar shapes be used to create other instruments?
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Designing an Electric Guitar with Shapes
How can shapes be used to design an electric guitar?
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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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Thematic Lesson: Love Songs
Why is the Pop song such a common medium for expressing feelings about love, and how do individual songs relate to their historical moments?
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How to Study Rock and Roll
How can teachers help students analyze and understand Rock and Roll?