Make learning about Amelia Earhart, a high flying figure in Women's history and a STEM role model, engaging and educational with this investigation activity! Your students will try to crack the mystery of Amelia Earhart's tragic disappearance through a crime scene investigation case file activity that encourages historical and creative thinking. This resource makes history come to life!A visually engaging case file with comprehensive background readings on Amelia Earhart, her final flight, and
Your students will walk in the shoes of Elizabeth Cady Stanton as they learn about the Women's Suffrage movement and the trial of Susan B. Anthony. This scavenger hunt uses primary sources! What better way to learn about the past than to analyze historical photos and documents. Your students will use close reading skills, decoding, and teamwork to complete 7 different tasks with clues. This resource is similar to an escape room, but allows for more flexibility as it can span over the course of t
Take your students on a virtual field trip to learn about Mexican artist, Frida Kahlo. A great addition to your Women's History Month learning, your students will deepen their understanding of her life, artistic works, and contributions through this tour of her home and studio, La Casa Azul. This trip combines Google Earth™ 360° views, websites, informational text, video, and visuals, with everything set up in Google Slides and ready to go!This virtual field trip covers::: Who was Frida Kahlo?::
Oral tradition is essential to all societies. This is particularly important in societies where a large number people were not literate. The culture and traditions of most African civilizations was not carried on through a written language. The history and traditions of Africa were continued over the centuries, orally through storytellers and through performance by the entire village or tribe. The class will be divided in to groups of five or six who will write, design, and perform an Afric
Looking for an opera music activity? Take your students on a virtual field trip to the opera, and learn about opera around the world! This activity is a great way to expose your students to famous operas, productions, and singers.This Google Slides based resource features two digital choice boards with links to amazing videos, virtual tours, and online student-friendly sites. You can assign all of the blocks or allow students to choose what interests them. After students are finished exploring t
Let your students experience 6 musical careers by holding a job fair and letting them complete a project based on the career they chose! Start with the 20-slide presentation about 6 careers: music teacher, music therapist, music producer, performer, composer, and DJ. Next, display the posters for each job around the room and let students walk around while reading each poster. Place applications for each job near the posters. They can decide which one they want to apply for and begin filling out
A fun and interactive virtual tour through the eras of Taylor Swift! Dive head first, fearless into each album (including the most recent release of the Tortured Poets Department). Look back on Taylor's life throughout the years and learn more about this record-breaking artist! This no prep trip includes:supplemental handout (both in black & white or color)word search* Be sure to check out the video preview. NOTE: music clips are not available via the preview, but are available on the virtua
This is a game format that teaches students about the time period of 1959 - 1972. Included are entrepreneurial tasks, fun fate cards, a time line activity, and lots of good music.
Let your students explore 6 different musical careers by completing and presenting a project. Included careers are:DJComposerMusic TherapistMusic ProducerMusic TeacherPerformerDirections and templates are included to help students come up with a final product. Here is an idea of what each career will have to do:DJ: Create a playlist based on an event you are given (birthday party, Christmas party, graduation, school dance, sports store opening and wedding are included).**A "research packet" is i
This bundle includes 2 lessons on Women in the Civil War.Lesson 1: Job Fair In this historical dialogue activity, students will explore 13 different historical women who lived during the Civil War. Half the class will play interviewers seeking to fill important positions for the war effort while the other half will play women looking to get involved. Includes: 21 Characters including:Harriet Tubman Clara Barton Louisa May AlcottDorothea Dix and many more!8 InterviewersStudent worksheet Slides wi
Looking for a great way to incentivize your students in music class? Create a Rockstar Roll Call! This motivates students to reach for the goal of staying engaged and respectful in class. Everyone loves a positive email home and hearing their child made it on the Rockstar Roll Call list that week. Template has space for multiple grades over multiple weeks.
Perfect for end of the year in music class! Introduce six musical careers to your students in 4th through 7th grade by holding a mock job fair. Included careers are:DJComposerMusic TherapistMusic ProducerMusic TeacherPerformerYou will receive a poster with description and salary info for each career, as well as a unique application. All applications include one side that asks for standard job information: name, education, awards and honors, and references. This has been a great opportunity to ta
This is the SCRIPT ONLY that will allow you to create a Renaissance style FEASTE with your students. It is not only a great performance and cultural event for your students but we have done this annually with our students and regularly make $10,000.
Note: If you are interested in the planning packet as well, buy the FULL PACKET which includes a planning calendar and all the instructions for making your Feaste successful.
Having a hard time giving students pitch references with your piano through your video call platform? Try this out! Share your screen and sound.Hit present and click away for all the piano action!
In teaching I try to include more important women throughout history as a way to diversify my classroom and to reach out to my female students. This presentation is great way to teach about Helen Keller from 4th grade on up to 12th grade! It includes a brief presentation, student notes, videos, and a fun simulation activity for students to see what it would actually be like to live as Helen Keller!
This bundle has two great Rosa Parks resources that will keep your kids engaged.-Virtual escape the room-DIFFERENTIATED comprehension readings and quizzes
Explore the excitement of designing your very own unique instrument virtually! Using Microsoft Power Point, students design and build their own virtual music instrument. This power point introduces concepts of frequency, found sounds, rate, sampling, and inserting and using animations within power point to create a virtual instrument. After instrument building is complete, students use team work to collaborate on a performance by plugging their lap tops into speakers and playing with back gro
Whatever the Weather! Twelve original songs piggyback onto traditional tunes and include such weather as wind, humidity, different clouds, different rain, thunder and lightning, tornado, snow, rainbow, and sunshine. The water cycle is also included. Simple staging and costumes are suggested. Check out other musicals at Sing Ollie Sing!
I use this activity when I teach rhythm vs. beat. I teach the song/chant Engine, Engine Number 9 first. Then I print out these pages. The track page is one per student (or pair) and one train page each. I laminate all the pages and cut out the trains and paperclip them to the track page. Then I ask the students to go through and tell me if there are one or two sounds in a beat (one piece of track) and put the double or single train on that track.
Your US history class (grades 7 and up) becomes the Admissions Committee for the fictitious United States University, inducting its first Freshman class in 1840. Which movers and shakers of the day will be accepted? Your students will write Recommendation Letters for their candidates and then your whole class becomes the admissions committee. Rebels and radicals, businessmen, literary figures, soldiers and diplomats, inventors will all be present. There are only nine slots! Who will be admitted?
Al Citron folk song rhythm follow-along can be played online or in-person to students learning tam-ti or low so,. Sing along in a comfortable key or clap along with the colored dot. Solfege: s,s, d r m r dd s,s, dd s,s, d r m r dd s,s, ds, dm d.
Chemistry and the state of matter! These eleven songs were too advanced for my transitional kindergarten class but I still had fun writing them! But you might have fun incorporating them with my chemistry musical: Chemistry in Song - Water Matters!