Subject: Social Emotional Learning
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Bystander Intervention: Making Spaces Safer for Everyone
What is Bystander Intervention and how does it make music spaces and other public gathering places more safe, accessible, and fun for everyone?
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Life Songs Scaffolded Resources
What other projects can students develop to showcase their Life Songs Interview?
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ChocQuibTown- Embracing Cultural Identity through Colombian Rap
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Intersectionality and Punk Music in the 2020s
What is intersectionality, and how do musicians in the Punk music scene navigate life at different intersections?
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Aguinaldos: Venezuelan Songs for the Holiday Season
What are Aguinaldos, and how do children in Venezuela celebrate the winter holiday season known as La Navidad?
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Steve Aoki and Growth Mindset
How can our brains be shaped by our mindset, and how has a growth mindset helped Steve Aoki become one of the most successful DJs and record producers in the world?
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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?
Trace It Back:
ChocQuibTown
Trace It Back:
LADAMA
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Learn Ciranda with LADAMA
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Learn Quitiplás with LADAMA
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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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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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What is Cultural Appropriation?
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What is Cultural Identity?
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“Alright” and the History of Black Protest Songs
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“Glory” and the Continuing Civil Rights Movement
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Going Viral
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Feeling the Vibrations
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“Here Comes the Sun”
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Supporting Sobriety in a Musical Community
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“Life is Beautiful” with Keb’ Mo’
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Supporting Sobriety in a Musical Community
Who are the Wharf Rats, and how do they exemplify the practices of sobriety, peer support, and community building within a musical fan culture?
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Who Is Camila Cabello?
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Celebrating Community With Poetry
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“Lean on Me”: Expressing Gratitude and Care with Music
How does Bill Withers’ “Lean on Me” express gratitude and the importance of mutual care?
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Science and Civics of the Flint Water Crisis
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Celebrating Community With Art
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Women’s Perspectives in Country and Tejano Music
How did female Country and Tejano artists approach the issues of feminism and Women’s Rights in the 20th and 21st century?
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The Teamwork Behind the Beatles (Elementary Version)
How did the input of manager Brian Epstein and record producer George Martin help The Beatles develop and refine skills that aided the band in presenting their music and personalities to a mass audience?
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Jerry Garcia, Addiction, and Intervention
How can you help someone struggling with addiction?
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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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The Original “Going Viral”
Could a musical group “go viral” before the internet?
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Art, Music, and the AIDS Epidemic
How did the LGTBQ+ community creatively respond to the AIDS crisis in the 1980s and 1990s, and protest government inaction in addressing the epidemic?
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9/11: Country Music Responds
How did Country musicians’ responses to the September 11th terrorist attacks speak to the feelings of some Americans after the tragedy?
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“Alright” and the History of Black Protest Songs
How have Black artists throughout the 20th century used music to speak about racial injustice in America?
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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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Celebrating Community with Art and Poetry (Elementary School Version)
What different types of communities exist, and how do the people in our communities impact us?
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The Leadership Skills of a Music Producer
How do successful music producers practice positive leadership skills?
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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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Negotiating Native Identity through Art, Poetry and Music
How have Native American musicians, poets, and visual artists negotiated their identity, and what role does physical space play in these negotiations?
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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?
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“See You Again”: How We Mourn with Music
How does music help us remember people we are close to, or those we have lost?
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“Here”: Managing Peer Pressure and Anxiety
In what ways does Alessia Cara’s “Here” defy popular music conventions, and what does the song say about peer pressure in youth culture?
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The Beatles, a New Kind of Star
How did The Beatles establish a new paradigm for the image of "the star," and how did that image support their global success?