Teaching Music Across the Curriculum

Teaching Music Across the Curriculum By Valeaira Luppens, Greg Foreman Reproducible Book 93 pages For 2-6
This innovative music teaching tool supports students' learning needs while increasing critical and higher level thinking skills. By using the techniques in Teaching Music Across the Curriculum, music educators can create musical meaning while simultaneously reinforcing and supporting other curricula, such as communication arts, math, history, social studies and science.
These creative, fun and ready-to-teach lesson plans will build and increase students' musical skills. Students are provided with opportunities to create, analyze and perform music in enjoyable and challenging ways. Reproducible student pages are included. Teaching Music Across the Curriculum uses a winning combination of creative teaching strategies that connect students to materials, concepts, vocabulary, and ideas they're studying in their classrooms, while reinforcing the musical information that need to retain.Contents:Foreword National Standards for Music Education COMMUNICATION ARTS Another Word (Common Italian Terminology - tempo and dynamics)Amazing Acronyms Construction Zone Effectively Using Picture Books Jazzy Journaling Maelzel's Marvelous Metronome Musical Spelling Bee Oxymorons Tricky Anagrams Tech It! HISTORY 1732: Birth of Two "Fathers" Brahms' Story Starter Classical Classification! Gioacchino Rossinin Similes MATH Add It Up! Get Ready! Get Set! Go! Maestro Melody's Mysterious Notes Musical Math Mystery Box Rhythmic Requirements Sassy Sudoku Symphony Board Report Two Plus Two (Cards for Primary Grade Levels; Cards for Intermediate Grade Levels)Commercial Calculations SCIENCE Science Improvisations Tell Me Why! The Rainbow Race Shoebox Guitar