Session 7A Music and SS - Do EITHER 7A OR 7B

Assignment Part 1 – EXPLORE the links below (and/or go out on the web and find your
own information and resources for making music part of teaching, teaching social
studies, teaching social studies and music, etc.) Obviously you do not have to read
all of this. However, I recommend you spend a couple of pleasant hours exploring.
Perhaps, sampling all sites for an overview first, and then going back to read a few
deeper and to answer the questions, would be a good approach. Then answer the focus
questions below. Post your responses in our Blackboard Discussion Board area (250 -
400 words). Please inform me of any issues with any of the links you discover as you go
through them – technology issues, irrelevant or inappropriate material, etc.

You’ll find the focus questions below the links!

LINKS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

• The Teachers Corner

http://www.theteacherscorner.net/lesson-plans/music/index.htm
• Soundpiper – Activities
http://www.soundpiper.com/mln/activities.htm
• Phil Tulga
http://www.philtulga.com/resources.html
• New Hampshire Public Television
http://www.nhptv.org/Kn/vs/musla2.htm

***Rock&Roll Hall of Fame

http://rockhall.com/education/
• Educational Cyber Playground
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Music/classres.html
• Scholastic Instructor
http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/instructor/Jan05_music.htm
• eHow
http://www.ehow.com/how_5042909_incorporate-music-classroom-activities.html
• PBS
http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/classroom/lesson_music.html
• SchoolTube
http://www.schooltube.com/video/16966/McCabes-Music-Video
+ http://www.schooltube.com/video/4976/Music-WJHS
+ http://www.schooltube.com/video/26860/Spring-Musical-Promo
+ http://www.schooltube.com/video/37961/Ippolito-Music-Video
(explore, enjoy, imagine...)
• Try a search for this type of material at Thinkfinity (I hope you are familiar with this
resource. It's a great one!)
http://www.thinkfinity.org/
Oh, here's one I found that I think models how all this can be brought together – Azucar!
http://americanhistory.si.edu/celiacruz/main.asp?lang=OOL333304564UWqWV )
another good one...
* http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/educators/lessons.aspx
• Kids.gov (some educational value for your tax dollars:)
http://www.kids.gov/6_8/6_8_art_music.shtml
• National Museum of American History
http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/subject_detail.cfm?key=32&colkey=23
MAKING MUSIC ONLINE (a small sampling)
• Jam Studio
http://www.jamstudio.com/Studio/index.htm
see the demo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8Oawi6GQDQ
• Garage Band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRns5Xxi0pM&feature=fvw
• Flexi Music
http://www.fleximusic.com/kidscomposer/overview.htm
• Virtual Keyboard
http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/music/piano/index.htm
• Edutopia (article) http://www.edutopia.org/virtual-music-production-reality

I'll throw one more in just because I love it so much :)

• Thai Elephant Orchestra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UMJ8qfw-4E

Focus Questions
• Which resource from the list above or from your own explorations did you find
to be the most interesting, informative, and inspiring – from the point of view of
informing your own understandings about teaching? Why?
• List 3 ways that you think music can be effectively brought into other curriculum
areas. Be as specific as you can in describing how this would actually work (or
give links to examples you find on the web)
• Give the link to a music resource you would like to bring into the classoom. How
would you use it with your students? How would you make it part of your
project?

Assignment Part 2 – Circle back to the Discussion Board later in the week, read
your classmates' posts, and post a comment, suggestion, or other relevant item
to one of their posts

Due - Sunday, July 24

FINAL PROJECT Installment #4
Begin to fill in the following sections of the Final Project Template: A – 7, and 10.
Assessment: Learning projects generally do not call for students to be assessed
traditionally (through quizzes, tests, and submission of essays designed to see what
they’ve learned) – assessment is tied to the product – what does the product reveal
about what’s been learned and how well? A rubric is the most common tool used to
support this.
As you get greater clarity about your project, be sure to go back and refine what you
filled in previously.
You may change and refine your work as often as you feel the need to as you
develop your final version that you will submit in week 10 of the course!
Use the Digital Drop Box in our course BlackBoard section to turn this in. Be sure
the title of your submission has your name and the Final Project Installment # so
that I can identify it.
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otherwise!
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