This lesson traces the long history of how African Americans have used music as a vehicle for communicating beliefs, aspirations, observations, joys, despair, resistance, and more across U.S. history.
The 24-hour-a-day music video programming of MTV gave musicians and their audiences a platform to fully explore the experience of sound and image. In this lesson, students will investigate the ways musicians used video before MTV, then consider how MTV changed the way artists have exploited the surprising territory where sound meets image.
The Preamble is the introduction to the United States Constitution, and it serves two central purposes. First, it states the source from which the Constitution derives its authority: the sovereign people of the United States. Second, it sets forth the ends that the Constitution and the government that it establishes are meant to serve.
A beginning course in music notation, rhythm and other music elements with tutorials, exercises, references and articles.
Always My Dad, written by Sharon Dennis Wyeth, illustrated by Raul Colon. In this feature book, a girl, who after her parents divorce doesn't see her father very often, frequently thinks about him and treasures the time they have together.
Bea and Mr. Jones, written and illustrated by Amy Schwartz. A kindergartener and her father change places for a day. Bea goes to work in an office and her father goes to school.
Summer, written by Jon Hirschi, illustrated by Thomas D. Mangelsen. Baby animals spend the summer growing, playing and learning from their parents.
Students explore a variety of rhythms from around the world.
This is an interactive, kindergarten Nearpod lesson tied to SEEd standard K.1.4. It guides students through information and activities about how to keep cool in the hot summer.
This resource is a student-ready, three-dimensional SEEd science lesson you can add to your Nearpod library. Many of the phenomena, text, and images come from UEN OER textbooks, Seedstorylines.org, ck12.org, and pixabay.com. Most videos are from youtube.com or pbslearningmedia.org. Many of the simulations were found at phet.colorado.edu, ck12.org, and pbslearningmedia.org. This lesson is unique to Nebo School District but was built with the help of many amazing ideas from teachers throughout Utah.
The beauty of cell animation is that it can make the implausible seem possible. So the spirits of the haunted wood and the bewitching transformations of Titania, Oberon and the innocent tradesman Bottom, come to life with a treatment that complements Shakespeare's spectacular imagery.
In this activity, you and your students will explore Elizabethan stage practices as the rustic yet enthusiastic amateur actors from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. While it's not necessary to teach Shakespeare's biography while studying his plays, sometimes opportunities to explore his world through his own eyes present themselves in his text. Students' new insights into the text will provide them with a deeper appreciation for Shakespeare’s world. This activity will take one or two class periods.
In this lesson. students will read statements from Black Lives Matter and watch a clip from CNN's Soundtracks to explore the significance of the movement and the music made in response to the issues they rally behind. Students will also analyze clips from the music videos of artists Kendrick Lamar and Beyonce Knowles-Carter to understand music's relation to the Black Lives Matter movement.
(Note: this lesson contains some profanity. Teacher discretion advised.)
Students will examine the lyrics and context surrounding three country songs related to the 9/11 attacks: Alan Jackson's "Where Were You When the World Stopped Turning?" Brooks and Dunn's "Only in America," and Toby Keith's "Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue." Through the lens of these songs, they consider ways Americans reacted to the tragedy of September 11th, and discuss whether some reactions might be more appropriate than others.
The video tutorial introduces students to the Soundzabound music library from Utah's Online Library.
In this video, Anthony takes us through the online tutorial series Ableton Educational and shows us how electronic synth melodies are created.
Students use pitch to explore the characters in a story.
In this video you will learn about sound basics including simple sound signal flow & useful software.
Learn all about he crazy and oustanding ways fathers in nature take care of their babies.
Celebrate the summer solstice with the Ogden Nature Center. Find out why some days are longer than others. With the help of a few live animal friends, discover how animals and plants, inlcuding us, adjust to the long days of summer.