This SMART Board lesson will help your beginning string students understand bowings and articulations. Topics covered include down bows, up bows, bow lifts, staccato, slur, hook, and accents (with appropriate musical symbols). The lesson includes an interactive section for students to improvise and explore these articulations as well as an interactive and collaborative chance to create a melody with their own articulations. The lesson concludes with a chance for students to synthesize these new